In regard to the stars termed nebulæ, their density is millions of times less than that of air, and no creatures we know of could live in them.

In regard to the fixed stars, supposed to be suns, if this supposition be admitted, then they will no more be inhabited than our sun.

It is, however, a mere gratuitous assumption that the fixed stars are the suns of systems like our own. Many are double, many variable, many multiple; and it is impossible to imagine how any of these can have a system of planets revolving round them. One thing is quite certain, that they bear very little analogy to our sun, and all that is known about them is mere conjecture.

§ 1.-OBJECTIONS TO THE NON-PLURALITY OF WORLDS ANSWERED.

be asked.

It may be asked, Why is Jupiter attended What may with its four beautiful moons, and Saturn with its luminous ring, if they have no inhabitants to be benefited thereby?

We ask in reply, Why is the moon attended The reply. by the earth as a satellite? and why was the earth without the present races of inhabitants till 6000 years ago?

It is no more derogatory to God to make What else. Jupiter void of inhabitants, than to make Jupiter's four moons so. It is no more derogatory to God to make Mars, Venus, and Mercury planets and planets only, than to make our moon a satellite to our earth, and nothing better.

If again it be thought presumptuous to 2nd objeclimit the race of man, and all the higher orders tion what. of animals to our globe, we reply again, that Revelation distinctly recognizes something unique and peculiar in the history of man.

Adam was made a federal head of a certain How so. race; Jesus Christ came from heaven to this earth, to redeem this very race; and unless it

can be shown that the son of God visited the other 38 planets, was born in them, dwelt on them, and died on the cross in them, it is certain that our earth is honoured above all other planets, and has a speciality which extends not to the rest.

It is quite a mistake to think man "a thing of nought:" (1.) He was originally made in the likeness of God; and being thus made, God breathed into his nostrils the "breath of life." (2.) Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took not on Him the nature of angels, but the form and nature of man, and in that form was exalted to the right hand of God, where he still reigns, as God-man, blessed for evermore. (3.) The human body is called "the Temple of the Holy Ghost;" and if the Temple of God, surely it is no inconsiderate trifle. (4.) Redeemed man, sanctified and glorified, takes a higher position in heaven than even the angels. (5.) Redeemed man, sanctified, and militant, has angels for his ministering servants. To these arguments others might be added, to show that man is accounted by Deity worthy of great honour; and though frail and feeble, is nevertheless, the mightiest work of God.

Finis.