“The image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”
--Col. 1:15

Nothing is so fascinating as the mysterious, and for this reason the mind of man is ever striving to get away from the commonplace. All progress is the result of reading out beyond the known to the unknown, for we instinctively feel that the known is only a small fraction of the unknown presented to our senses. When Newton observed an apple fall to the ground, the mystery of gravitation was on the eve of being solved. He might have treated the incident as had countless millions of the earth’s inhabitants before his birth, but he did not, and hence we not only know that apples fall, but we know why they fall.

The appearance and disappearance of the stars was a mystery, so long as men believed they were stuck like pins in a pin-cushion in a solid body of blue sky, but the mystery vanished when it was learned that the stars were like our earth, revolving in space, and supported as is our planet, not upon pillars like the floor of a building, but upon

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