Article November 14, 1959 Issue

"GOD IS EVERYWHERE"

[Of Special Interest to Children]

GEORGE W. LEDBETTER

A Few years ago, before space travel was so generally discussed, Betty, Frank, and Tommy were riding with their parents one winter evening. The stars looked as though they were nearly close enough to touch.

One of the children asked how far away the stars really were. It was explained to them that the distance was very great, many billions of miles.

The children then asked how long it would take to get to the nearest star if they could go in a rocket ship traveling five thousand miles an hour. It turned out that this would take five hundred and seventy-eight thousand years.

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