their entreaties. When they found that I had power to leave them
instantly, they besought me to remain for a few last words.
"Shall we not see you again?" affectingly asked the astronomer.
I told them that I expected to spend eternity in the kingdom of our God
who made all the stars and worlds, and holds each in its respective
place. "If you are pure in heart to Him," I continued, "there can be no
doubt but that we shall see one another again in that happy celestial
center where our eyes will be our telescopes, where our pure hearts will
assent to the Fatherhood of God, and where our souls will be quickened
at the universal fountain of Love."
CHAPTER V.
Beautiful Saturn.
A delightfully busy world next met my gaze. Saturn, supreme in love,
with its mysterious rings and its eight moons, now held my attention and
won my admiration.
This world is almost as large as Jupiter, and its soil is more fertile.
The inhabitants resemble us in physical appearance, except that they are
twice our size.
Like Jupiter, it is enveloped in thick semi-liquid clouds which are
never at rest. This changing atmosphere causes continual friction of
particles, and this serves to produce sufficient heat to counteract the
frigid blasts that would otherwise freeze out the whole planet. These
atmospheric conditions attracted my attention to a great degree. I
estimated as best I could, and ascertained that Saturn receives as much
heat from this peculiar atmosphere as our Earth receives from the Sun.
As I found it on Jupiter, so I found it here. The human eye is so
constructed that it seems to have more than an X-ray power, for it can
look through this atmosphere as readily as we can peer through ours.
The air of Saturn, being so thick, contains much natural nourishment,
and the inhabitants are sustained largely by breathing. This reminded me
of the manner in which our fish flourish in the waters of our globe.
Marvelous indeed are the possibilities of life. I now had before me new
problems to solve, for natural laws have but a limited expression in our
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