Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-01-08

suns. Bus what O simple declarJtion Four
words are enough to- desribe L., but Oh,
what does il meant IL means that the tiny
ray which gladdens onr eyes, os il SHOT from
some twnkiing star as IL trembles on the
easement, is a miniature sunbeam and the
faint and feeble glow which sometimes, like
a tiny, transparent veil covers the fair face
Of natute, is itself woven OF the scattered
glory of a thousand suns. And yet Il is on
ly starlight after all How awful must DO
their distance Some Of these bodies are
SO remote that the light which left tLem be-
fore the human race began-buiOre God in
sublime seii-counsel said ; " Let us make
man, and breathe into his Dostrils the
breath of lte,' and man became o living
soul. Oh, lotg before that came the light
which is scrutiniaed by the TELESCOPES of TO-
day from some OF those bodies aud / am
seeing it actually as | see your faces Oh,
what q little bit Of record Of past eternity
is unrolled to be read in time. If this bo
so, what would happen If we could look
rom the other end ? Could We be away
back there and look down here we might
see, if we had suficien; power and skill, q
Wis bic record OF much or very much OF all
that has taken place here. How interest,"
ing to think that the visible record OF what
took place in old geological times, flying far
hit huo htb you NlIhb ltdCutu lub sun re-
giUns, even with the full velocity Of light,
may yet be read The author of a little
work called "The Stars AVID the Earth"
has brought out that idea very beautifully,
and carried it just az far as IL will bear
and it is all beautifully presented. But not
bit of Il, when he takes a single step fur
ther and says: "1hus we may get some
idea of the might of of the Divine Omnis-
cience." Poor man Such fact give an
idea Of Divine Omniscience Is not the
fact immensely mOre infinite than any
mere visible indication OF il And does it.
give the first blush Of an idea OF the enor-
nous penetrating omuiscience which ex-
tends down to the roots of character, away
down in the mind of man, and knows what
he is going to do, what he is going to think,
and extends far of, and is acquainted with
all our ways. Oh, no it does not give the
first blush Of an ides. [Applause.l Now,
come TO notice another interesting matter
in regard to the fixed stars. They occnr in
pairs, all through the heavens, two aud two.
Now, II sometimes happens, and it might
very reasonably indeed, that one Is right be-
hiud another. But If this should take place
all over the sky, that stars should be seen
two by two, that would not seem to be the
result of the merest cOllocation. Accord
ingly, some time before he died, Sir vii.
ham H~rscLel---the truupeteT of the "unn-
gariau Guards" who afterwards 'wIote hJs
naua in the Leayens" as has been said the
illustrous astronomer aud remarkable as a
man-noliced this curious arrangcment.-
lie also began TO notice whether the times
OF stars were changed, hoping that genera
tions after him would make out something
with regard To them. In 46 years or SO,
one Of these circuits was accompiishcd.-
So in great many other instances. They
turn around Que another, or rather around
a common point between them, sun around
sun, and form constellation like planet.
aud its satellites. We can see very much
of them, bat the spectroscOpe is going to
tell more, probably. What is very, very
beautiful, is that they appear colored often.
A star, which seen by the bare eye is white,
when scrutiuized with the Telescope is made
OF rose color, or green. One Ol the most
most beautiful Of jecis in the heavens is two.
stars, one yellow, the other blue but to-
tho naked eye, 10y a proper angling of the
colols, they all appear white. on, why
this beautiful arrangement? | can only
ask the question at the present time. Tho
greatest poetic Imagination almost ever eN-
ercised, that Of Milton, never conceived
anything more sublimely magnificent in tho
Instruction of the Angel to Adam than is
found in these dainty scenes, these parti-
coored gems in the coronet which sur
rounds the dark brow of night.