Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-01-27

dy, inherent light of the planet shin
ing through the cloud envelope? A
satellite crossing the disk appeared as
dark as it's shadow cast by the sun on
that disk-auother argument for in
herert light in the planet. The satel-
lite as well as the planet got light from
the sun. Why should it be darker
than the planet, unless the planet had
other light? The belts and markings
showed no sign of being influenced by
the sun, remaining unchanged for an
entire revolution, minding neither
sunset, sunrise, night, mol noon. All
these things showed the action of q
force from within the planet ITSELF -
Saturn and Jupiter were not yet fit to
be inhabited. Millions of years must
first elapse, as milliuels had elapsed
since Mars was habitable. But the
satellites of Jupiter and Saturn would
seem to be very well fitted to be abe des
Of animal life. The largest satellite of
Saturn was bigger than Mercury. and
the least had 5000, 900 square miles of
surface. The relative distances of the
satellites of Jupiter from their centre
were 4. Z, 10. and l6. The relative dis
tances from the sun of Mercury, Venus,
Earth, aud Mars wefe f, g., 10, IS
Saturn was a miniature of the solar
system with its eight planets. and its
| rings corresponded TO the Zodical light
or To the zone of asteroids. When
| viewing the works of the Almighty 1t
might be weakness, but we wished TO
see the design. The fault was not in
this desire, but in surprising that we
actually saw the true design. There
was much that was difficult Of expla-
nation concerning the satellites of Ju-
piter and Saturn, aad the rings of Sat
urn were very hard to understand -
| Brewster thought the satellites made
up 20 Saturn for the deficient light of
the sun. But they could supply only
l-l6 the light we get from the moon.-
The satellites were useless To the plan
cts, but the planets were not useless to
| the satellites. 70 the nearest satellite
Jupiter appeared as large as 400 full
moons, and if his rLddy cOlOrs were
due Ia heat the supply of heat was by
no means Insignificant, being as much
as we should get from disk of retl-hOt
! ron whose apparel size WAS 400 times
that of the full moon. This brought
! the question of life in other worlds I'M
! der new aspect. There had been TWO
theories-one that animal life existed
only on the earth, and the other that
all the planets and stars were inhdbi-
ted. The intermediate theory was that
al any given time only Il small proper
ton of the planets and stars was H.
habited. And yet this supposes that
millions and millions of planets out of
| the millions and millions and millions
are at the minute so inhabited 80 we
would get over the difficulties of the
| two views. 1t was painful TO think
that the earth was alone and incredi-
! bile that all the stars and suns were
peopled. The Almighty" Mr., Proc
tor concluded, has ali space and all
time TO deal with, and we may truly
address the God of the Universe as the
God of Life and Light, saying with
the poet
God Of the grass AID Of ihr rose,
| Soul of the sparrow and the bee,
| The mighty tide OF being flows
Through countless channels, Lord, to thee,
| IT leaps to life Ill grass and flowers,
Through every grade nj being runs,
| It's glories shine from radiant towers
| And Come O IS from and