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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
instruments, to be nineteen thousand

million miles away; but the pole-star system is

fifteen times as remote, or two hundred and

eighty-five thousand million miles; and it

shines with a luster equal to that of eighty-six

of our suns; others are still larger, as, for

instance, Vega, which emits the light of three

hundred and forty-four of our suns; Capella,

four hundred and thirty; Arcturus, five

hundred and sixteen; and so on, till at last we

reach the great star Alcyone, in the

constellation of the Pleiades, which floods the

celestial spaces with a brilliancy twelve

thousand times that of the ponderous orb

which lights and controls our solar system!

Why, then, does it not appear more luminous

to us? — Ah! its distance is twenty-five million

diameters of the earth’s orbit; and the latter is

one hundred and ninety million miles! Figures