They all go in the same direction, from east to west. We have seen this plainly. It is not a journeying of some stars one way, and some stars another way. It is one great sweep of the whole heavens from the east of the world toward the west of the world. And the reason of this is that our Earth spins or whirls _from the west to the east_. That is what makes the Sun and the Stars all seem to rise in the east and set in the west. In the morning, when you get up early, and look towards the east, you are gazing at that part of the sky towards which you are travelling. The Sun is not coming to meet you, but you are going to meet him. This solid world on which you stand is whirling like a big teetotum, carrying you round in his direction. So presently you see him seem to creep up over the horizon. And by-and-by, at mid-day, the moving surface of the Earth has carried you on almost underneath him. And later in the evening, as you are still whirled on toward the east, you leave the Sun behind you, in the west. But still he goes on rising to other parts of the world, as country after country spins round into his light. At night it is the same thing over again. Each star that rises only _seems_ to rise, because we on the Earth’s surface are whirled round towards that part of the sky in which the star always shines. Then we pass on, and leave that star behind, as we left the Sun; and we say that it has set. But the Sun and the Star have not moved. It is _we_ who have moved; not they. So when we think of the Earth as a whole we have to picture her, not only as a large solid globe floating in the sky, but as a spinning globe, ever turning round and round like a top or a teetotum. It is this whirling movement of the Earth which gives us _Day_ and _Night_. For, as our Earth floats and spins, one side of her is always turned toward the Sun, and is in daylight; the other side is turned away from the Sun, and is in darkness. Each land and ocean in turn comes towards the Sun in the east and passes onward, leaving the Sun in the west. And around, on all sides, is the great Sky, which sometimes we name “Space,” and which sometimes we call “The Heavens.” In that Sky float all the Worlds and all the Stars, as well as our Earth and our Moon and Sun. And in that sky is GOD himself. HE made the Sky, the Sun and the Moon and the Earth, the Planets and the Stars; and HE is everywhere, around and amidst and in them all. Wherever in the boundless reaches of Space we may wander in thought, we shall never find a spot where God himself is not. QUESTIONS. 1. Where are Stars in the day-time? In the sky: only we cannot see them. 2. Could a man travel round the world from America or England as fast as a Star travels? No: he would have to go round the whole world in twenty-four hours. 3. Do the Stars really journey round the world? They only seem to do so. 4. But the Sun rises and sets, does he not? He seems to do so. It is really our Earth that moves.