Dreams about a Star 109

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“ All the stars are other worlds,” said
the child at last. ‘But that one is the
most wonderful of them all. Shall I tell
you about it ?”

“JT thought you-had promised,” said the
Visitor, gravely. .

“Well, of course you know that all the
worlds were not made at the same time.
God sat in His own place, and looked
down upon the earth, watching it. Some-
times, when He had been thinking a long
while, the people walking down here on
the dark nights, when the moon was not
up, would see a star appear in the sky quite
suddenly, and then they knew He had
made another world. Perhaps there are
still new stars that come, but the sky is
very full, and so I have never seen a new
star come, though I have often watched.
~ You only see when judgment day comes
for one of the worlds up there, and a star
falls like a wax match that you throw
away.”

‘“By-the-bye, Doris,” said the Visitor,