Immensity of Creation

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1874

Immensity of Creation.

SOME astronomers have computed that there are not less than 75,000,000 suns in the universe. The fixed stars are all suns, having, like our sun, numerous planets revolving around them. The solar system, or that to which we belong, has about thirty planets, primary and secondary, belonging to it. The circular field of space which it occupies, is in diameter 3600 millions of miles, and that which it controls much greater. The sun which is nearest neighbor to ours, is called Sirius, distant from our sun about 852,000,000 of miles. Now, if all the fixed stars are as distant from each other as Sirius is from our sun, or if our solar system be the average magnitude, of all the 75 millions of suns, what imagination can grasp the immensity of creation! Who can survey a plantation containing 75 millions of circular fields, each ten millions of miles in diameter? Such, however, is one of the plantations of Him who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand—meted out heaven with a span—comprehended the dust in a measure—and weighed out the mountains in scales, and hills in a balance—He who, sitting upon the orbit of the earth, stretches out heaven as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Nations to him are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; and yet, overwhelming thought! he says, “Though I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also will I dwell who is of an humble and contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.”—Christian Almanac.