CONCLUSIVE AND CONCLUDING ARGUMENT.

The Sun is held by all Philosophers and Astronomers to be the central pivot of the solar system, and the loadstone power of attraction, which governs, steadies, and controls all its surrounding planet-worlds in their orbits. So great is its power of attraction, that a counter-balancing force was necessary to keep the machinery of Nature in order. This force is produced by the attracting power of the various planet-worlds, placed in proper positions in surrounding space, and thus furnishing the centrifugal, to counterbalance the centripetal force ascribed to the Sun, by which means our earth, and the other planets, are kept whirling in their elliptical orbits, and thus each prevented from being drawn by the superior centripetal or attracting power of that globe into certain destruction by the fires of the Sun.

This is the hypothesis, we believe, of every Philosopher and Astronomer of the present day.

Now let us examine this hypothesis, and see if it does not foreshadow and sustain our own.

In the first place, it is true that the "loadstone power of attraction" is there: but it is within what all denominate the Sun, and by this the surrounding planets are controlled. But this power is not the Sun. For what all denominate the Sun, is that which gives out light and heat. The Sun is fire, heat, and brightness or light. Fire, or heat, is ethereal; has no such power of attraction: but on the contrary, is repelling and dissipating. There is no solid substance in fire; it is an invisible agency—save when it is concentrated. It would be an unreasonable hypothesis to conclude that the fires of the Sun were fed on combustible material. The Sun may have been just the same as it is now, for untold billions of years—possibly from all eternity—and God, by His Word has revealed the fact that it will continue forever—even as long as His throne. Hence, if produced by combustion, its material would be constantly wasting away, and, as Prof. Olmsted says, "the products of combustion would obscure its light." Therefore, as there is no tangible source, and all agree that God Himself was, and still is its source, we hold that our hypothesis, that it is a fixed volume of Photospheric-ethereal, or spirit-fire, is correct. That it is one of Jehovah's attributes; ever existing and performing its offices in creative and enduring Nature; never increasing nor diminishing.

Now, this being the only reasonable, and—as we believe—correct hypothesis, of the origin, nature, and element of the Sun—the Sun being the brightness we see in looking at it—where and what is the loadstone power of attraction, which reaches out millions of miles into space, and controls vast worlds, steadying each in its own orbital path, while they are flying round at the rate of from fifty thousand, to one hundred thousand miles an hour? We think the answer plain, and that all can comprehend it. This Earth is a solid body, and all such possess, within themselves, the power of attraction. Therefore, the laws of Nature reveal the fact to us, that the great central and controlling power of attraction attributed to the Sun, is the vast Inner Globe we have been contemplating; a globe, or world, more than a million times the size of this Earth. Leading Astronomers have agreed on the existence of such a body within; and far separated—by a non-luminous atmosphere or void—from the outer photosphere of ethereal fire. That globe we hold is—beyond a doubt—the "HEAVENLY WORLD" spoken of throughout the Holy Scriptures, and is the final and eternal home of the righteous.

We see wisdom displayed, and find law and order in every thing we comprehend which pertains to God and Nature. Phenomena, which for long ages were mysteries, are now, through the lights of science, being fully comprehended and made plain to all. And, by reasoning from analogy, new arts and sciences are comprehended, while each additional light gained flashes upon some other hidden mystery, and reveals in it nothing but law and order, in all its arrangements.

The progress made of late in the arts and sciences is wonderful indeed; yet this is only the progress of the mind of man, and the enlightenment of his intellect. And we believe that the next decade of years will develop facts which might startle the minds of the wisest of to-day to contemplate.

That vast world—surrounded by the Sun—controls this Earth and its other surrounding planets. From that world, and Sun—in its offices—we derive every blessing while on Earth, and we cannot doubt but that when we find our future, IT WILL BE THERE. The righteous to dwell within where, we have shown you, the Sun does not or cannot shine; but where the glory of God is the light of the holy place, and yet we have the evidence that one of the offices of the Sun will be the punishment of the wicked who cannot enter that Heavenly World.

"Whoso is wise will observe these things." Psalms, cvii.