Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-02-10

that the volcanic action Of the moon had
more to contend with, and therefore
although the volcanoes are large, they
may not have eXerted so great a force
Here we have picture representing the
moon without an atmosphere, and this,
it may be generally stated, represents
the future Of our own earth. The moon
probably represents the future of our
own earth at distance of time of TWEEN
ty-fve million Of years; so not only in
the first place have we not sufficient
time for these changes to occur, but our
emotions are also satisfied, so far as they
are affected by the painful thOught'that
when the old age Of the earth shall come
it will cease as the abode of life by the
reflection that ourselves and thousands
after us to the remotest bounds Of gener-
tions, will still have ample time and am
pie room to remain on the carth's sur
face.
Let us pause to consider some of the
the stars in this regard. Many of them
are too old and many too young to sus-
tain life on their surfaces, but that they
were formed for some purpose beyond
that Of being useful TO this particular
planet there is no doubt. A study Of
the heavens seems to tell us that all life
should occupy all space and all time, and
not be crowcd into ono portion of time
or one portion of space. SO think we
may look at the heavens, with the thous-
and Of stars to be seen with the naked
eye, and hold this thought. There you
have G,0OO suns, each brother of our
own sun, though many belong to higher
orders, and we may believe they have
thousands of orbs circling around them
which are the abodcs of life. And if
each one has but single world in its
system as the abode Of life, we have then
thousands of inhabited worlds similar,
perhaps, to our own.
In one single polar map here shown
there are 3ll 900 stars, all to be seen by
a small telescope, and by one of Her.
schel's telescopes 10000, ,000 stars would
have been brought into view in the same
section of the armament. We here find
in the depths of space the worlds that
will take the place Of those already
known to us, But after all there still
remains the thought that each planet Is
tending toward death, and though the
periods of time IRE 80 vast that they seem
like eternity, the dying ont Of the larger
Of those suns appear to us Ike the death
Of the universe itself. But take such an
orb as Sirius, which is a thousand times
larger than the sun, and after his death
all the smaller OrG3 will have died, but
can we escape the thought chat there
will remain others 10 take their places:
II seems to me we cannot, If we rcmcin-
her how thoroughly we have been de-
CtNVu III VIC IUNl' W. lHONSll wv
earth the center of the universe; then
that solar system was everything, then
that sy5t'm lCcame but one in galaxy
Of stars, and in turn the galaxy Of stars
has been lost in the inhnitudc Of siars.--
So may It not be In regard to time and
space as II Is In regard to matter; that
time Is one of many formations of the
universe, that there are higher orders so
much grsndcr IN form that very miracles
Of time in regard TO them are like the
suns and planets we see. There Is n
lower order that wander through spHcc
In which all the waste energies Of suns
our own includcd--arc continually being
poured; they may he In turn rcvlying
the next lower order of the universe,
aud may II not well be that we IN turn
may receive from the higher orders
something of their wnstc energy sc mat
instead of death we may rather undergo
n continual interchange by various or
dcrs of the universe, which shall he car
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