File:Hill and city. Mount Zion (1872) (14779889542).jpg

Identifier: hillcitymountzio01melc (find matches)
Title: Hill and city. Mount Zion ..
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Melcher, Josiah F. (from old catalog)
Subjects:
Publisher: Bloomington, Ill.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
inous or dark bodies, theybeing all formed of the same mass. But this is not the case.—The sun being formed of different materials from the planets,and the planets different in every respect from each other, alsoof the satellites ; showing that they are not formed of the samemass. Neither had they ever any connection with each other,because they do not partake of the same elements—not even themoon with the earth. And as the glory of one star differs fromanother, and those nebulseous masses are the same everywhere,the structure of the heavens had nothing to do with it, only toreveal the invisible star, while the great angles of their rude out-lines alone, unfolds the vast extent of the starry heavens. Godhas ordained the power of nebulseous reflection to portions of thedistant heavens to render the stars visible, while other portionsjoining that are equally set with stars is not seen, even with themost powerful telescope, except conspicuous stars whose light isnot limited by space.
Text Appearing After Image:
66 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. For a limited illustration, let figure 16 represent the starry heavens : thecentre, or light part, shows that portion of it in which the solar system moves,and the stars within the circle the visible heavens; and on the outside, theinvisible, except the nebulaeous portions, whose distance cannot be conceived,or the vast extent of their magnitude. The dart T shows a single nebulaeousangle of the heavens relative extent. V V shows the same nebulaeous mass,the long and short way, as seen from the earth in one form only, togetherwith other nebulaeous portions that hold their boundless domain beyondknown space. Laplace talked like a good man as the most of astronomersare, but he ought to have thought more of God like David, than he did of in-fidels, SECOND ILLUSTRATION OF THE GRADES OF THEEARTH. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.—And of what? Of such things, and by such means as is beyondthe comprehension of man. God forming it by the mighty handof

Note About Images