p. 35 | Eternity by A. C. H.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1863

Eternity.

By A. C. H.

THE following I saw in the Michigan Educational Journal several years ago. A. C. H.

Suppose a cylinder to extend from Sirius—the nearest fixed star, which is 200,000,000 miles from us—to the sun; suppose the cylinder to be closely wound with fine wire; suppose an insect to wind its way around that cylinder from the sun up to Sirius; suppose he then takes a particle of dust and winds his way upon the wire around the cylinder till he reaches the sun, and then drops it; suppose he returns again upon his weary journey up to Sirius, and gets another particle and fetches it down to the sun and drops it, and so continues winding his way up and down that long cylinder until the star is all removed. Look up to the dial of eternity and the shadow has not passed one moment.