Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-04

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ror some time past devoices equally |
Of science and religion have made a .
conjecture Ia regard to the locality OF .
heaven and a short editorial iu the News /.
which appeared upwards Of a year ago
under the title OF "Whcte is Heaven
revived old theories In the writer's
mind and aroused deep desire to re-
ply to the ideas in question. The latter
were the train OF suggestions that
followed In the wake Of ierschels aud
Mardlers supposed discoveries OF the
centre and circumference of the Milky
Way or the material universe. HcBchcl
believed that be- had asccrlaiucd the form
assumed by our stupcnd0ui galaxy and
Mardler believed that he had found t.
centre in Alcyonc. the bright star 10 is
that sweet ssterhooi, the Pleiades. 10
was candidly asserted boy many that %
the universe had circumference and 70
centre could, indeed, be designated, the
latter must he the seat or throne OF that
majestic Being whose omniscienec anG
competence stretched to the uttcrmost
bounds in supervision and coa,rol, Ia
supreme love and comprehension.
Not many years ago. IN one OF our
| Utah towns. a little woman, whose lack
/ Of opportunities Tor culture aud Cluga-
ton had been partially compensated by
passionate love for books aud q per.
severing interest in them. had been de.
| lighted 10 a point almost beyond en-.
| thusilsm by alghtiug upon TINS dis
| Cuycty Of Mardlefs. \ star map had
bv some lucky accident fallen into her
hands and night after night shiycring un.
| der the brilliant points Of q January sky
she traced the glorious consultations
by its aid. There was mo- telescope, NO
philosopher 10 assist her but the text
books studied by day aud the blue
scroll 10y night revealed mJvcls to her
exalted fancy and @ sad period was %
when Diana came 20 obscure the inter.
esting panorama with her tender rays
| the solar system with Dos wonderful
completely was first studied aud then
followed an examination Of what is
known OF believed Of the sldcrcll
heavens with its marvellous revelations
OF volume, distance, velocity and com.
pick relations, rs beautiful order OF
systems, clusters, ucDulae and ISLAND
| uuivcfses" and-thu Ctmax--M afdlcf's
discovery that all these combinations ul
worlds upon worlds, as numerous A. the
sands upon the sea shore, as intricate
aud may as the catacombs get rs per
feet and harmonious rs the hand OF -
God could make II, were al revolving
around Alcyonc as the central. Tue
little group which we know as the
Plciadcs became indeed a sacred, q
wonderful. an honotcd rc,nuc to her
mind. The proofs were apparently all
that could be asked tor: the argument
was admirable, the demonstration was.
To say the least, remarkably Co-inCIden-
tai.
But our young, solitary student was a
mother aud following closely upon her
studies OF the nigh,.sky, there came %
time when She no longer stood watch
INK for the rising Of tie bright tenants
OF the distant heavens Vega, Arcurus
Aldebann, BetelgeuN, Drnebola. Cor
Carroll, nay AIcyuue, herself had lost
their vaccinations. THIS humble, ob
| sgufr, insignificant earth held sufficient
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anxious feelings. Nlth.u the humble
, home q little sufferer lay yanly calling
[, i1r relief from untold agouies and tue
10 mother heart had forgotten all the mai,
3D. este pagtaniry of heaven in iis anxiety
ed Tor one little life upon carh. Sad
~ and drc1ry were the days and nights
that passed err the spirit OF the
/. lite sufferer took is light The
frantic mother rushed alone from the
ia chamber Of death aud stood out there
D, in the shadow looking qugsuOnngly up
> At the bright studded cauOpysiu, Ing out
AlCyonc Had her little one taken us
" Nght to that distant wuHd' Did that
D. brilliant point, whose little ray flying
Is Ut an incuuCoWable velocity repairing a
D. period Of five hundred ana thirty-styru
& yeats to reach Us, contain the future
I. eternal home OF that bugut spirit that
!. had lust taken its hight nom earlu'
IA Boa ucr agonizrd and wondering mind
. ran the words She had So lately read
: 1T YOU would know Ills glory, eaImmt
81" the uterminau G. range OF suns and sys'
TENS that exist loo space within the Milky
10 Way Multiply the hundred millions o
ID stars which belong to our own 'slant
Is universe by The thousands vi iHus,
~ astral systems that exist iu space within
ll Inc range hl INlIlNN NlAlhNi hAA Altl
Id YOU may luTm some idea OF the iuun
+, ludrOl HIS kiugdum, .ur 10. these lr,
but part of lils ways Examine th,
scale on which the universe Is built
. comprehend, % you can, the vast dlmen
90 sion Of our sun, stretch outward through
be- his system from planet 20 planet au,
I circum CrIbu the whole within the ina
D. mensr circumference of Neptune orbit
ID | This is but single uuIt ont Of the my
r RAIDS OF similar systems. Take M
d. wings OF light and flash with imprluou
speed day and night and month an,
wear, ill youth suJl. wear away an,
middle age s gone and the extremes
limit OF human ute has been attained
% count every pulse. and az each, spec,
D" ON your way bundled thousand mile.
o. and VIXEN q hundred year, have rolled
DE- by. look out, and behold The thronpin
" mtuluu5 ol blazing suns are sull afUun
rr YOU. each separated from the other %,
b. such "a distance that Iu this journey OF
century YOU have only leU halt scor
behind YOU. s. feeling OF utter despa
and desulation seemed TO master mel
l Hrrunug mind was overwhelmed b
"a. thoughts of the iuHnltuIg OF God an
srlcg and creation ana her bfeaku
boz heart cred ouJ Is shelJy sobbing on IA
az GROUND. "Ny uuuua my darling, tho
on an lost loryyyT Tor never can my $40
nf stained soul pursue thine awful Hight /
AIgyouyI / .HHU wander and be lo