THE following interesting facts regarding the arrangement of our solar system, are found in Rev. David Nelson's book entitled "Cause and cure of Infidelity:"— Young reader, there are certain first principles which you must understand and keep in memory, before you can profit by certain pleasing information. You are aware that the author of an almanac must know much of the sun, and moon, and other worlds, which you do not. He tells you of an eclipse many months or years before it takes place. He tells you to a minute when it will begin, how much of the sun or moon will be darkened, and when it will cease, etc. The reason he can do this is, he has looked through a telescope, and has found out the distance of the sun and of the moon, how large they are, etc. Astronomers can see through those glasses worlds which we cannot see with the naked eye; and they have discovered many facts concerning distant worlds, which seem strange to those who have not read, or who have not looked through the telescope. These are the astronomical facts which you are desired to mark attentively:— 1. Our sun is many thousand times larger than the world we walk on. 2. Our earth flies entirely around the sun in one enormous circular sweep, once every year. 3. There are some worlds much nearer to our sun than we are, and flying around it. We will notice them one by one, beginning with the nearest. First, there is a world smaller than our earth, a beautiful little world, which flies around the sun at the distance of almost forty millions of miles. This is much nearer the sun than we are. Astronomers have chosen to name this little world Mercury. It has no moon. It does not need one; because it is so close to the sun that it has many times the light and heat which we enjoy. Secondly, if you will come some twenty millions of miles farther from the sun, you will pass another beautiful world just about the size of the one we live on. It is the same that we see so often and call the evening star. Astronomers have named it Venus. It is more than sixty millions of miles from the sun. Although this is a great distance, yet it is nearer the sun than we are, and has more light without a moon than we have with one. It does not need a moon, and it has none. Thirdly, the next world we come to is our earth. We are third in order from the sun, and ninety-five millions of miles from that luminary. We have a moon, and it is of great service to us. Fourthly [passing over several smaller planets], if we pass on from the sun, almost four hundred millions of miles beyond where we are, we reach a world as large as fifteen hundred of our earth. This has been named Jupiter—almost five hundred millions of miles from the sun. It must need a moon indeed. It has four. But according to the laws of attraction, and the principles of astronomy, four large or serviceable moons would drag a world like ours to fearful ruin. The remedy is in the size of Jupiter. This world, with so many moons, is so large and ponderous, that it moves on unwaveringly. Some have avowed, and with reason on their side, that at a distance so enormous, even four moons cannot make up the want, and afford a supply of comforts such as we enjoy. Others answer, that the nights of that world are never long. Each side of that cold planet is exposed to the face of the sun every four or five hours. Fifthly, if we go from the sun nine hundred millions of miles, we come to a stupendous world, as large as a thousand of this; it has seven moons, and other contrivances are plainly visible, which make up for want of light and heat that would be felt without them. Sixthly, go from the sun eighteen hundred millions of miles, and we find a large and beautiful planet. Six moons have been seen, and how many more may be there, which distance renders invisible to us, we are unable to say. Also, what additional plans and arrangements are there furnishing a bountiful supply of heat and light, our short telescopes will not enable us to determine. Now, reader, do you believe all this happened by chance, or did an all-wise Providence purposely order it. Those who do not believe in God tell us it is all the result of chance; but the truth is, it is the handiwork of the great and good Creator. Chance never made a grain of sand, or a living insect, much less the many worlds, with their regular movements and millions of inhabitants.