valuable as a relic of the great astronomer, worth but a few shillings, so far as its optinance is concerned.

smallest telescope which opticians sell for , when turned upon certain parts of the galreveal a scene of wonder which is calculated least thoughtful mind with a sense of the iner and wisdom of the Almighty. Countless into view, as the telescope is swayed by the ation athwart the rich regions of the galaxy. e are stars of all orders of brightness, from ch (seen with the telescope) resemble in luster g glories of the firmament, down to tiny points nly caught by momentary twinklings. Every arrangement is seen.

e the stars are scattered as over the skies at ere they cluster in groups, as though drawn by some irresistible power; in one region they Form sprays of stars, like diamonds sprinkled leaves; elsewhere they lie in streams and coronets and loops and festoons.

are varieties of color wanting to render the hore wonderful and more beautiful. Many of which crowd upon the view are red, orange, w. Among them are groups of two and three (multiple stars, as they are called), amongst ue, and green, and lilac, and purple stars apning the most charming contrast to the ruddy w orbs near which they are commonly seen.

t it is when we consider what it is that we are ntemplating that the true meaning of the scene ned, that the true lesson taught by the star

reveals it be the mightiest yet mad with all other telescopes that star v is a sun like our own.

7. It is a mighty mass, capable attraction the motion of worlds like fellow-planets, circling in their state it. It is an orb instinct with life, (if aglow with fiery energy, pouring out plies of life and power to these world engine, working out the purpose of it is a giant heart, whose pulsation whence myriad forms of life derive

8. What, then, must be our thoug thousands and thousands of stars, all and many probably far surpassing him ing in stately progress across the telesc The mind sinks appalled before the an the display. As we gaze at the wond nite significance is found in the word Psalmist: "When I consider the heat Thy hands, the sun and stars which T what is man that Thou art mindful of of man that Thou regardest him?"

9. It has been said that with the which the Herschels have surveyed heaven, twenty millions of stars are v telescopes do not penetrate to the li system.

10. In certain parts of the Milky W Herschel not only failed to penetrate with his gauging telescope, though the

es in width; but even when he brought into great forty-foot telescope, with its mirror four s, he still saw that cloudy light which speaks pths as yet unfathomed. Nay, the giant teleLord Rosse has utterly failed to penetrate the space which surrounds us on all sides.

ad even this is not all. These efforts to resolve y into its component stars have been applied to of the Milky Way which, there is now reason -, are relatively near to us. But in the survey eavens with powerful telescopes, streams of ght have been seen, so faint as to convey the finite distance, and no telescope yet made by shown the separate stars which doubtless conese almost evanescent star regions.

e are thus brought into the presence of star mysterious to ourselves as the star clouds of y were to the astronomers of old times. After ng, by means of the telescope, to depths exmillions of times the distance of the sun, inconthough that distance is, we find ourselves still ed by the same mysteries as when we first Around us and before us there are still the tar depths, and the only certain lesson we can to have learned is, that those depths are and er remain unfathomable.

e Milky Way, or belt of ro-ta/tion, the turning of a body on ole in the heavens on a its axis.

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gaugʻing (gāj'-), measuring.
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Galilei (Italian pronunciation, gä-le-lā'o gä-le-la'e), a famous onomer, born in 1564, and died in 1612. He made a telescope

g shorter the short green grass,
a hedge of sumach and sassafras,
bluebirds twittering all around, -
good painter, you can't paint sound!) -

ese, and the house where I was born,
and little, and black and old,
children, many as it can hold,
t the windows, open wide,—
Is and shoulders clear outside,
fair young faces all ablush:

rhaps you may have seen, some day,
ses crowding the selfsame way,
of a wilding wayside bush.

sten closer. When you have done

With woods and cornfields and grazing herds,

lady, the loveliest ever the sun

ked down upon, you must paint for me: if I only could make you see

e clear blue eyes, the tender smile, sovereign sweetness, the gentle grace, woman's soul and the angel's face hat are beaming on me all the while, I need not speak these foolish words: et one word tells you all I would say,is my mother: you will agree hat all the rest may be thrown away.