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 was and  always  will  be; that  He  never  had  a beginning and  never  will  have  an  end.”

''Q. Where  is  God? ''

''A. God  is  everywhere. ''

The ubiquity  and  omnipotence  of  God  are  displayed in  the  wonders  of  creation. Consider, first of all,  the  immense  size  of  the  heavenly  bodies. Our earth is  certainly  a huge  globe;  it  is  more  than 10,000 miles  in  circumference. An express  train, running at  the  rate  of  20  miles  an  hour,  would  take three weeks  to  form  the  circuit  of  the  earth. The sun is  a far  larger  sphere; its  diameter  is  more  than a hundred times  greater  than  the  diameter  of  the earth. The sun  would  make  a million  and  a half  of such  globes  as  our  earth. And yet  there  are  other orbs in  comparison  with  which  our  sun  is  a mere grain of  sand.

Furthermore, let  us  consider  the  enormous  distance of the  heavenly  bodies. It is  computed  that  our  earth is 92,000,000  miles  distant  from  the  sun. A cannonball, fired from  the  earth,  would,  provided  it  traveled all the  way  at  the  same  rate  of  speed,  take  25  years to reach  the  sun. Light, which  travels  186,000  miles in a second,  takes  eight  minutes  to  traverse  the  distance that  separates  our  earth  from  the  sun. There are some  stars,  the  light  of  which  does  not  reach  us for  years,  or  even  centuries. The light  of  the  polar star takes  60  years  on  its  way  to  our  earth.

The space  of  the  universe  is  inconceivably  vast.