is 324 times as large as the sun, and so are many other stars. Now, the
most distant star in the largest telescope cannot be at the edge of the
universe. Why? It must be in the middle. It must be balanced by exactly
as much attraction on one side as another. There must be, above, below,
beyond that star, the same stupendous array of worlds, and each
relatively outer star, aye, even the star on the farther side of that
outer star, must in its turn, be held in the same magnificent and awful
suspension. So forever. We actually have Infinity forced on our reason.
Eternity is the correlative and co-existent necessity of infinity.
Infinity, Eternity, Immortality, become the solemn Trinity confronting
the physical as well as the spiritual world! God has even ordained that,
when you move your hand, you affect the farthest of His worlds. Can you
not grasp the idea that, in reason, the universe is boundless? Why,
then, in reason, shall it not be our infinite pleasure to study God's
plans forever? I know of no greater pleasure which I could conceive.
Those who ask for evidences,