philosophy is admitted by the religious mind, it can no longer say that-- “Far above the sun, and stars, and skies, In realms of endless light and love, My Father’s mansion lies.” [45] Cruden’s Concordance, article “Heaven.” The modern theoretical astronomy affirms that the Moon is a solid opaque, non-luminous body; that it is, in fact, nothing less than a material world. It has even been mapped out into continents, islands, seas, lakes, volcanoes, &c., &c. The nature of its atmosphere and character of its productions and possible inhabitants have been discussed with as much freedom as though our philosophers were quite as familiar with it as they are with the different objects and localities upon Earth. The light, too, with which the Moon so beautifully illuminates the firmament is declared to be only borrowed--to be only the light of the Sun intercepted and reflected upon the Earth. These doctrines are not only opposed by a formidable array of well-ascertained facts (as given in previous sections), but they are totally denied by the scriptures. The Sun and Moon and Stars are never referred to as worlds, but simply as _lights_ to rule alternately in the firmament. _Genesis_ i., 14, 16--“And God said let there be _lights_ in the firmament of the Heaven to divide the day from the night. * * * And God made two _great lights_--the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.” _Psalm_ cxxxvi., 7, 9--“O give thanks to Him that made _great lights_: the Sun to rule by day, the Moon and Stars to rule by night.” _Jeremiah_, xxxi., 35--“The Sun is given for a light by day, and the ordinances of the Moon and of the Stars for a light by night.” _Ezekiel_, xxxii., 7, 8--“I will cover the Sun with a cloud; and the Moon shall not give _her light_.” “All the bright lights of Heaven will I make dark over thee.” _Psalm_ cxlviii., 3--“Praise him Sun and Moon, praise him all ye Stars of light.” _Isaiah_ xiii., 10--“The Sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the Moon shall not cause _her_ light to shine.” _Matthew_ xxiv., 29--“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light.” _Isaiah_ ix., 19, 20--“The Sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the _Moon give light_ unto thee. * * Thy Sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy Moon withdraw itself.” _Psalm_ cxxxvi., 7 to 9--“To him that made great lights, the Sun to rule by day, the Moon and Stars to rule by night.” _Job_ xxv., 5--“Behold even to the Moon, and _it_ shineth not.” _Ecclesiastes_ xii., 2--“While the Sun, or the light, or the Moon, or the Stars be not darkened.” _Isaiah_ xxx., 26--“The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun; and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold.” _Deuteronomy_ xxxiii., 14--“And for the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun, and for the precious things put forth by the Moon.”