The human beings on the rings are not able to watch their neighbors in space, having no instruments to carry their vision beyond the boundaries of their own peculiar abodes.

The most picturesque sight of all the Solar System is seen as you stand on Saturn, and watch the rings and the eight moons chasing one another in the heavens above you.

The inhabitants of this beautiful world believe that the soul of each God-adorer at death passes out into the spirit life on the rings where it will continue in a blissful existence until the final judgment.

The religious life of Saturn is officially controlled by men.  There are many creeds, each with its own devoted followers.  The leading church of this world was not organized until seven thousand years after religious life took a distinctive form.  Then a man named Trique, who was a shrewd student of the times, after a careful study of the weaknesses found in existing religious bodies, and after amassing enormous wealth in business, founded a new church on a neat, practical business plan which may thus be briefly described in terms and figures of our own language.

Trique had a fortune of two hundred millions which, by investment, netted him twenty millions annually.  These net earnings he used to establish his new denomination.  He commenced operations simultaneously at the capitol of each of the four governments of Saturn, and at each place built two magnificent churches, costing one million dollars apiece.  It took over three years of our time to build these eight churches.  Before one year had expired he had started fifty other churches in the centers of Saturn’s population.  These churches averaged in cost three hundred thousand dollars each.  Thus the plan continued, ever starting new structures until all Saturn was decorated with the churches of Trique, even village edifices costing from ten to twenty-five thousand dollars.  So much for the mere outward part of the church which anybody might create if he had recourse to such enormous wealth.

Before Trique commenced any one of his buildings, he canvassed the whole community for charter members of his church.  These were composed of two classes, spiritual and connected.  This canvassing was done by the finest scholars that Trique could employ.  Each one was supposed to be the pastor of the community he canvassed.  The conditions of the charter membership were easy to meet.  All that was required for connected membership was a good moral life and a lip confession of the faith.

On account of the superior advantages offered by the Trique church it grew steadily from the beginning.  I will here append a few characteristics of the organization: 

1.  The church takes care of all its members during sickness, furnishing a physician and all necessary medicines free of charge.  The church owns drug stores and graduates its own physicians.

2.  The church has its own salaried undertakers, and defrays all funeral expenses.