he is a great dark globe, as you may clearly see on some days, even through the dazzling brilliance of the light with which he is surrounded. At certain times there are openings in the light, through which his dark nucleus may be seen, like a black kernel in a bright covering. These openings are called the "spots" in the sun. Learned men have

even been able to discover that the dark nucleus weighs 355,000 times more than our earth.

But you will ask, perhaps (and this brings me to our second question), Whence came the light at first, if the sun were then only a dark globe? Ah, dear children, have you not often seen that there can be both light and heat without the sun? When you walk about the streets at night, or when you go into one of our large shops brilliantly lighted with gas, whence comes the light then? It is not from the sun. He is hid behind the mountains and has disappeared below the horizon.

God can give light without the sun, and we must suppose that during the first three days of creation he had caused the light to come from other sources, as it was only on the

fourth day that he commanded it to gather around the surface of this immense globe, round which our earth has never ceased to turn, and which God has given us for our great "light."

Before concluding, I would entreat you to admire the account given by Moses of this wonderful creation. Nothing can show more clearly the divine inspiration of the Bible, for what merely human historian would have ever dreamed of telling us that the light appeared three periods before the sun ? Would any merely human historian have told us that trees, plants, and herbs sprang up, grew, and bore fruit long before the sun shone on the world?

Well, I must tell you further, that in our day all geologists and botanists, who examine what is found in the coal mines (which are the remains of the forests of the old world), have discovered plants, trees, and seeds so gigantic, that all have agreed that these pines, palms, and giant ferns, are such as could not have grown under the light of our present sun, even in warm climates, and certainly not in the climates where they are