midnight
Tradition may well have dropped the thought from Adam downwards , that the stars may some day be our thrones . We know their several vastness , and can guess their glory : verily a mighty meed for miserable services on earth , to find a just ambition gladdened with the rule of spheres , to which Terra is a point ; while that same ambition is sanctified and legalized by ruling as vicegerent of Jehovah . Is this unlikely , or unworthy of our high vocation , our immortality , and nearness unto , nay communion with God ? The idea is only suggested : let a man muse at midnight , and look up at the heavens hanging over all ; let him see , with Rosse and Herschell , that , multiply power as you will , unexhausted still and inexhaustible appear the myriads of worlds unknown . Yea , there is space enow for infinite reward ; yea , let every grain of sand on every shore be gathered , and more innumerable yet appear that galaxy of spheres . Let us think that night looks down upon us here , with the million eyes of heaven . And for some focus of them all , some spot where God himself enthroned receives the homage of all crowns , and the worship of all creature service , what is there unreasonable in suggesting for a place some such an one as is instanced below ?