140 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE
"And now, changing again the direction of the
telescope,webringittobearontheMilkyWay,that
faint, mysterious river of light, which streams all
across the midnight sky. Pointing thetelescope to
the edge of the Milky Way, and moving it slowly
across its breadth, and then in the direction of its
length, we see thatit reallyconsists of miUions of
minute stars closely crowded together, along with
largerstarsand starclusters. And the Milky Way
thus traversing the sky goes completely round the
world, crossingthesouthernhemisphere, andreturn-
ingagain to thenorthern, in avast ring-like form,
madeup ofcloselycompacted starsandstarclusters
alltheway.
"Wehavespokenofstarcataloguesandstarmaps
representing thousands of stars, but here are mil-
lions! It has been reckoned that the highest tele-
scopic powerbrings into viewno less than fiftyor
sixty millions of stars, and photographyhas oflate
enormously increasedthenumber known toexistby
revealingmultitudesof starstoo fainttobedetected
evenbythemostpowerfultelescope."
—"CreationCen-
teredinChrist,"pages40^-412.
"Wider and wider fields are ever openingbefore
thehuman gaze. Vasterand vasteruniversedepths
areeversought into. Andstill, boundless fieldsbe-
yond,unfathomabledepthsbelow,rewardtheutmost
effortsofwhichmaniscapable. Manydifferentcom-
putations havebeen made from time to time, as to
the probable number of the stars, bright and dim,
whichmayliewithinthegraspofthemostpowerful