“He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.” (+Jeremiah.+) Godfrey was a kind of gentleman visitor, free to work or not as he chose. His work had been done in being the means of providing the net, and he was enjoying a well-earned repose after the assiduous toil of the past two years. At the same time he could not be idle and had insisted on taking his share of work, to which he devoted himself with all his energies, and after some hours of close application he found himself with a little time to spare and was strolling about promiscuously, glancing at anything and everything, when he came upon the chief geologist, Raymond Sorrel, who was looking out of a window intently watching the ‘flames’ which were shooting past them with a terrific roar and, knowing he was always ready to talk on his pet subject, and was never so happy as when he had a good listener who would not interrupt, Godfrey thought he could not do better than spend an hour or so with the great man whose knowledge was so profound, and obtain some information on certain subjects about which he had thought very little, so he sauntered up and casually remarked, “I fear most of my bacilli would get frizzled in that furnace, Sorrel.” “Without doubt, Spenser!” responded Sorrel, smiling. “I do not suppose you ever thought to rear fire-proof-spinning insects, any more than I imagined it would ever be my good fortune to come to the sun—even now I can scarcely realise it!” “I am ashamed to say I am almost ignorant of astronomical matters and everything else except my grubs and electricity—my _métier_ is _really_ electricity, but fate placed me amongst grubs, so I suppose I shall be with them as long as I live, and they’ll be with me after, unless we get cremated here—and until I made my first voyage for the Jovian bug with my friends, I scarcely knew one star from another.” “We cannot be everything,” replied Sorrel, laughing. “I knew little about natural history till you explained to me the habits of those most interesting creatures to which we owe our presence here and our safety from that!” and he pointed outside. “What an awful sight it is!” said Godfrey. “It makes one realise what a wonderful and holy thing creation is.” “Indeed it does! and the Bible, despite the attacks made on it, still stands true in its references to science.” “Really!” responded Godfrey; “it seems to be a growing belief that the Bible story of creation is merely fanciful; very poetic, but untenable when faced with scientific research.” “You mean that science and theology are at variance?” “Certainly!” replied Godfrey; “such is the acknowledged belief nowadays.”