The vast and varied factors in nature's problems of eternal destiny point to our sun and earth as a present existing and unending reality. Nature builds up, tears down, and reproduces her organic forms on the surface of planetary globes, but she does not destroy her great sun magnets and world magnets in the same manner, as many of our scientists think. There is a great difference in the powers and functions of suns and planets and the creeping things on their surfaces. Suns and planets, after they have attained their matured and balanced powers, are immortal, and creating, enduring and perfected organisms; and, like man in his immortal spirit, they have attained to eternal life, and neither death nor ruin can ever come near them. Suns and worlds in their electric energy have the powers of creation, and as the creator is always superior to the created, they should not be judged alike. Therefore the changing and transitory nature of many things on the earth's surface is no proof that such will be the earth's destiny. On the contrary, every ligament of force and power in this electric universe is pledged to secure the continued and endless duration of our sun and solar system, including our earth. And timorous humanity should no longer shrink in horror at its prospective wreck and ruin. May the truth prevail and man's mind be freed from the horrors, of an anticipated destruction of the sun and earth, and the optimistic joy of imperishable life and love here, and in the all-glorious sun hereafter brighten the terrestrial existence of humanity. All hail! thou life-giving sun! Sweep on and ever while the cycles roll Thou wandering orb of luminous sod! Thou blazing banner of the mighty God! From Creation's center to its farthest pole, Speed on and on in thy unknown track; But the hand that send thee can draw thee back, And teach thee the way when thy footsteps stray, As He doth the wanderer. Like a silent thought from Creation wrought, Thou speakest a language weird and strange Of the breadth of space and the speed of change, And the wondrous dream that the ages taught; That from star to star and from sun to sun The soul shall pass while the cycles run Renewed in its youth, gleaning wisdom and truth, God's wisest wanderer. The living shall die, and the dead shall live, And the mystery deepens on every hand, And the worlds shall stay, and the soul shall stand, And a lesson of truth shall all things give. And a mystic touch hath a world to a world And the banners of God are ever unfurled In creation's face teaching truth and grace To the wanderer. CHAPTER XVI ARE ALL SUNS AND WORLDS INHABITED?