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man that the earth oemapieg a plaec Of great im-
portance in God '3 plan and purposes and that in his
due time every creature in heaven and in earth will
be brought into one grand harmonious whole or unity.
To this effect tho inspired witnes of Jehovah wrote :
"Having made known unto us the mystery Of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath pur-
posed in himself : that in thc dispensation of the ful-
ness Of he might gather together in one all things
in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are
on earth; even in him. ' '—Eph. I : 9, 10.
The eonstellation the seven stars forming the
Pleiades appears to be the crowning center around
which the known systems of the planets revolve even
as our gun's planets Obey the sun and travel in their
respective orbits. It has been suggested, and with
mueh weight, that one Of the stars of that group
the dwelling-place Of Jehovth and the place of the
highest heavens ; that it is the place to whieh the in-
spired writer referred when ho said: ' 'Hear thou
from thy dwellingplaee, even from heaven ' ' (2 Chron.
6: 21) ; and that it is the place to which Job referred
When under inspiration hc wrote: "Canst thou bind
the sweet influences Of Pleiadß, or the bands Of
Orion 88 : 31.
The constellation of the Pleiades is a small ono com-
pared with others which scientific instruments dig-
close to the wondering eyes of man. But the greatn ess
in size Of Other Stars or planets is small when com-
pared with the Pleiades in importance, because the
Pleiades ig the plaec of the eternal throne Of God
For a like reason the varioug groups Of stars, greater
in size than the planet earth, must in the eyeg of
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