p. 9 | Magnitude of Creation by Dr. R. W. Hamilton

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 27.

Magnitude of Creation

By Dr. R. W. Hamilton

What are the few worlds which sweep with us about the same source of life and light? Massive, ponderous in themselves; some of them immensely larger than our own, running wider revolutions, and drawing after them brighter trains. But even this one solar family, recognizing and claiming members in the outskirts of space,—it is as nothing to what the eye can command, nothing to the VISIBLE. What constellations are thrown over the firmament in all the profusion of beauty and magnificence! And when the unaided sense has roamed to its utmost ken, and gazed to its utmost strength, it may call the instruments of science to its assistance; and it shall look out on ampler territories, and take hold of larger notices. Now we leave our nook. We speak in no terms of exaggeration when we describe what we see as BEDS and FLOORS and CLOUDS of stars. As we pierce the awful altitudes, we ascend to new wonders. Apertures constantly open, and we are just suffered a glimpse into them. Heaven spreads above heaven; new arrangements stand revealed; and celestial bodies, in shapes hitherto undeveloped, flame as at the portal of the eternal throne to guard its access and proclaim its terribleness. Yet, even there, are proofs that discovery has not closed its researches; still avenue verges from avenue, and height rises into height. And, after all, this is but the outer court of "His high and holy place." —Dr. R. W. Hamilton.