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To the reflective mind it must alwaj'S be a matter of muchwonder and astonishment, why there should be so muchopposition to the clear statements of the Almighty, in those
things that Me, of His infinite condescension, has beenpleased to reveal to His creature, Man. The reason would
assuredl}- be, the desperately evil condition of the humanheart.
Had there been m revelation given, and had man beenleft to hianelf, it is frightful to contemplate the utter chaos
in which the human race would now be ; but thanks be unto
the Divine Father, Who has not left us in doubt, but has
clearly revealed his purpose.? and intentions concerning us
and the world generally.
He has given to us Flis laws ;reve.alsd to us His Creation, His Redemption, and His
sanctification ; and described to us His unspeakable love
for the whole of His creatures.
As regards Creation and that which he clearly sets forth,it strikes one as simply marvellous how finite man has ven­tured to set aside His statement of facts and substituted
fables ; and all this has been done, not by ignorant men, butby those esteemed as men of learning and repute, and allunder the name of science. Does this not remind us of theApostle’s warning respecting “ vain babblings, and opposi­tions of science falsely so called ” ?
God has been careful to “ teach man knowledge,” andhas spoken of the Earth, which He formed, some five hundred
tiines, and yet has not given us the most remote idea of theworld being a sphere in motion.
Scientific Astronomy ignores the multitudes of Scripture
passages to which we might refer, and would appear toconsider the Word of God as quite unworthy of consideration.
In place of the simple and clear facts put before us by
God Himself, we are asked to relinquish all that, together
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close our Bibles for good, and henceforth ignore Him bothas Creator and Redeemer of our race, and set up man as
our leader, teacher, and guide !
The clear utterances of the Divine Book are, however, in
harmony with our senses and reason, and the more we study
it, the more we find it so. “ God called the dry land earth ;and the gathering together of the waters called he seas ;and God saw that it was good.”— Gen. i. 9, 10.
“ Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of anything that is in heaven A BO V E, or thatis in the earth B E N E A T H , or that is in the waters U N D E R
the earth.” —Ex. xx. 4.
“ The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; theworld, and they that dwell therein : For he hath founded itupon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” — Ps.
xxiv. 1,2.
“ To him that stretcheth out the earth above the waters.
•Ps. cxxxvi. “ The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down,
and hasteth to his place where he arose.” — hccl. i. 5.
The sun, moon, and stars are stated to be made fo r theworld. “ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmamentof the heaven, to divide the day from the n i g h t ; and letthem be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years :and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, togive light upon the earth : and it was so. And God madeTW O great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and thelesser light to rule the night ; the stars also. And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon theearth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it
was good.”— Gen. i. 14-r/.
When we try to realize the statements and figures given
by astronomers regarding the bulk and magnitude of theheavenly bodies, and their distances, we are simply amazedand find it impossible to reconcile their statements with thedefinite language of the Bible, which, b)' the way, has been
truly said by another, to be the “ best book on astronom)'
the world has ever seen.”“ For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. '1 hyfaithfulness, is unto all generations ; thou hast E S T A B L I.S H E I)
the earth, and it standeth. They continue this day accordin£i to thv ordinances : for all are thy servants.” — Ps. cxix.

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89-91. The Scriptures teach that the sun, moon, and stars
have motion, but nowhere do they suggest that the world
we inhabit has an)-.
If modern astronomical science be true, then how are we tounderstand such passages as Isaiah Ix. 19, 20 ; Rev. vi. 1214, xxi. 2, 3, and many others ?
Regarding Rev. vi. 12-14, the late Rev. Thomas Scott,comments thus ; “ the civil and religious state of the world,
attended with vast commotions of every kind. The ‘ extreme
blackness of the s u n ’ and ‘ the moon becoming blood,’
denote the extinction, with horror and bloodshed, of themore exalted and conspicuous persons, such as emperors
and their chief ministers, officers, and nobles : the falling ‘ oi
the stars’ was emblematical of the degradation, or death of theillustrious in great numbers, such as magistrates and sena­
tors.” I need quote no more ! When will men believe that
the Lord says what He means, and means what He has said.
Brighton.
MAJ.-GEN. E. ARM STRONG.
[Commentators too often make the Word of God of none
effect by their traditions.— Ed.^

AN A F T E R N O O N AND E V E N IN G W IT H T H E
E D IT R E S S O F T H E E A R T H :By a Christian Obser\-er in London b)’ day andnight, known as The M an About Town.
On Sunday, June 8th, the following announcement wasposted outside Christ Church, Peckham, Free ProtestantChurch of England (Rev. J. McMillan, Incum bent):— “ Lady
Blount, D .V ., will give an address ; subject— “ Bible Cosmog­
ony. Chairman : The Right Re\^ James Martin, D .D ., L L .D .,supported by Bishop Mac Laglen, Archbishop Stevens,” &c.
In the body of the church were many w'ell-known friends,
and a good company of strangers. The meeting was com­menced by the singing of the well-known hymn, “ O God,
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Martin. The chainnan then read the first chapter of Genesis— commenting upon its historical grandeur—and, in intro­
ducing to the audience Lady Blount, said that he had heardof her in the literary world, also had experienced great plea­
sure in reading some of her writings, and he felt sure the\would say at the close of the meeting they had listened to
one who had mastered the great subject of “ Biblical Cos­
mogony.” He had therefore great pleasure in calling upon
her ladyship to deliver the address.
Lady Blount—after expressing, in well chosen words, thejoy she felt in being present—at once (like a great masterbuilder) commenced to lay her foundations, all the namesof the stones being taken from the Eternal Armoury, “ The
Word of the Living Father, God.” Some of the stones
given being so upheld as to receive the admiration of allprivileged to hear the address, which proved the Earth tohave immovable foundations as follows :— “ The pillarsof the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world uponthem.” — I Sam. ii. 8.
“ Yea, mine hand hath laid thefoundation of the earth ” —Isa. xlviii. 13. “ He hath founded
the earth upon her bases that it should not be removed forever.”— Ps. civ. 5. “ Thou hast established the earth, and it
abideth.” — Ps. c.xix. 90. “ He hath founded it upon the seas,and established it upon the floods.” — Ps. xxivi 2.
“ Theworld also is established that it cannot be moved.”— Ps.
xci. t, & xcvi. 10. “ Where wast thou when I laid the foun­dations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding,who determined the measures thereof if thou knowest ?—or,who stretched the line upon it ? Whereupon were thesockets made to sink ?—or, who laid the corner-stone there­o f ?”— [oh xxxviii. 4-6. “Thou, Lord, in the beginning hastlaid the foundation of the earth.”— Heh. i. 10.
I'rom these Scriptures the unbiased enquirer and believer
in God’s Word cannot but take it for granted that the Earthhas foundations, yet the question arises ; To what are thesefoundations fixed ? For there is no stability in water bywhich the Earth could be firmly held. To this query herlad\-ship answered that the Bible does not sa>- that the Earlli
is fixed to the waters, or seas, but that it is founded upon(or over) them, which, from other Scriptures previously men­tioned, is known to be ppsitively true. In Ex. xx. 4, andDetit. V. 8, we read of “ the water under the earth.”

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The noted “ Parallax ” had said that “ the Earth was likea huge floatin:;- island, buoyed up by the waters, and held
in its place by long spurs of land shooting into the icy
barriers of the southern circumference.”
Lady Blount dealt very beautifully with other passages
than those quoted, going on to say that the human mind
utterly fails in attempting to solve the great problem of God’s
greatness. It becomes lost like a little child in a pathlessdesert ; but this fact offers no reason for accepting any theory
which is not in accord with God’s Word, and there isnothino- to justify the argument of “ accommodation,” usedby some, especially by scientific parsons, that “ of course God
knew that the world goes round the sun,” notwithstanding
the statement in the Bible that the sun goes round it.
Such prevarication as this, her ladyship said, appeared toher to be nothing less than making a liar of Him of whom
it is written ; “ It is impossible tor God to lie,” i^Heb. vi. 18.)and it requires to be treated with the contempt that it de­serves, seeing that it is a slander upon the character of theHoly God to insinuate that He would thus lend Himself tosuch a Jesuitical and, at the same time, useless deception.
This conclusion brought with it the obvious deduction that
“ we cannot serve two masters ; we cannot believe that the
Bible and modern astronomy are both true—for the teachingof the one is diametrically opposed to the other.” Even
Thomas Paine clearly saw this years ago, when he wrote in
The Age of Reason : “ Two opposing beliefs cannot be held
toii-ether in the same mind ; he who thinks he can believeboth has thought very little o f either!'
As Gcd so distinctly declares that of old He “ laid thefoundations of the earth,” {Ps. cii. 5), do not let us be so
sinful and foolish as to say that He did n o t ! Only shameand confusion of face can be expected to follow those who
defiantly reject the revealed Word of the Only True andLiving God for the contradictory theories of dying men.
Her ladyship went on to say that no waters could possibly
exist “ u n d e r” and form the chief part of a revolving planet ;but waters do exist under the Earth ; therefore the Earthis not a revolving planet.
The lecturer then dealt with the Law of Perspective. Thislaw meets us on e\'er)’ hand.
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for instance, on a straig ht road we observe a row of lamps,
which are all of the same size, we shall find that, from ourstandpoint, their height will gradually diminish as we looktoward the further end ; but, if we ourselves approach tothat end, the nearer we get to it the higher propDrtionately
will the lamps appear. It is the same law which makes thehills sink to the horizon as the observer recedes, which ex­plains how the ship's hull disappears in the offing ; but when
the sea is undisturbed b\^ waves the hull can be restored tosight, by the aid of a good telescope, b n g after it has dis­appeared from the naked eye, thus proving that the ship
has not gone down behind the water)' hill of a convex globe,
but is still sailing on the level of a plane sea.
Lady Blount concluded a ver)' earnest address by saj'ing
that truth undivided was more essential to all men thanmerely a part of it ; but men had departed from the glorious
truth of Creation. Of course there was such a thing as true
science ; yet anything which contradicted the Bible, whether
it be labelled science, or whatever it may be called, must be
false.
The modern scientist and the present-day atheist
both contradict the Word of the Living Father— God—when
they deny the writing of God through Moses ; for Moses
was the mouthpiece of the Deity.
The discussion which followed the address was sustainedby Dr. ILiughton, Ph. D., The Most Rev. Dr. Stevens, Abp.
and Pat., and several others, including the Rev. Dr. deLearey of the Established Church.
It was the best meeting of the season, much interest beint
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This is an excellent subject whereby to utterly disprove
the possibility of the Earth being the globe that Geographersand so-called .Scientists have demonstrated it to be, with,or b}' means of their ridiculous and badly constructed
diagrams.
The verv first feature that strikes a critical person on

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looking at a diagram by an upholder of the globular system,
is that the diagram is wrongly constructed, and theargument based upon it—both is, and must be totally op­
posed to sense and reason.
Indeed, so utterly and marvel­
lously astray are these Scientists in their attempts at
Geometrical diagrams of the very simplest and commonest
order, that one might fairly argue that they had never studied
practical Geometry.
Of course some of these individuals are called “ astrono­mers ” and “ scientists,” and have big titles such as “ sir,”and even “ lord,” tacked to their names, but this last piti­
ful feature only shews what a miserable use has been hitherto
made of the peerage.
There is, however, Balm in Gilead, or the promise of someto come— in that only a few days ago the London Press had
an article on the piercing scrutiny which His Majesty King
Edward the VII., intended in future to exert in the directionof individuals recommended for a Peerage ! Good ! Thisis encouraging, and I earnestly hope that Ilis Majesty willl
look closely into Geometrical figures and their printed lines,
and examine all that is presented as sense and reason.
In fact it stands to reason that there is no reason why a]jerson should affect to be possessed of mental superiority—
which his promotion to the peerage would infer—-if, as theresult of a piercing scrutiny, it is found that his diagrams are
miserable pretences and his arguments totally deficient ineither sense or reason. We have had enough Peerages of
the Lord Astronomer kind, and the Education of the future
can well be spared any more, purely conjectural. Sir Barts, or
profoundly telescopic Milords.
And now to return more directly to the subject-matter inhand—can signalling b\- Heliograph be conducted on a
Globe ? I sa}’, without a shadow of hesitation, that such athing is totally impossible and never has been thus conducted,
and never will, or can be ! And in support of my assertion,
I advance a diagram which con not be gainsaid, or explainedawa)' truthfully and in keeping with sense and reason.
And of Diagrams I may as well say at once, that diagrams
representing cuts of the Earth as a globe, are perforce too
small, that a scale of elevations cannot be obtained ; and al­so it happens fortunately that the loss of the scale is of no

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importance. In that which we have to deal with are directions
as lines of sight, and these can be perfectly portrayed anddescribed without a correct scientific and artistic scale.
The latter would call for a figure on a four foot diameter,
and is thus totally out of the question for ordinary bookpublication.
l.uckily, directions are all that we require to enable us
to discuss this crucial subject, and I may point out that my at­tention has been drawn to it, by a supposed, and I may evenadd, assumed criticism on Mr. Winship’s Rook, “ Zetetic
Cosmogony.”I have not up tothe present read Zetetic Cosiuogony. But I
have done better. I have myself written up the subjects,
or some of them, which it sets forth, and undertakes tochampion. These manuscripts of mine are hidden away inthe mysterious hiding-places of some thirty years ago—but
though I cannot immediately lay my hands on them, or refer
to my then written investigations, I can nevertheless wellremember the results I arrived at, and these results appear
to me to tally exceeding well with the peeps into Mr. W in­
ship’s book, which a chapter in the last issue of The Earthpermits me to indulge.
This chapter is signed “ Engineer.” W hy or how it isthat people cannot sign their own names to their articles, isto me, one of the social problems of the age we live in ! It
is not that they need the necessary vanit}-, because it is plain
to be seen that they possess a perennial spring of the latter—■but probably they think their articles so crushing and so
forcible, and so cruelly critical, that the extra ponderosity of
their overwhelming name, or names, is not required to utter­
ly' obliterate the person or book they, (as they supi^ose),
graciously deign to notice, and pass as an allowed addition
to the currant literature of the moment.
Perhaps it is that this kind of critic has a secret silent
passive pleasure in not revealing the sword which slaughters
the unslayable, but to him, butterfly author. Well, perhaps
this is it, and perhaps “ E n g in e er” will have a kindred glee
in not having revealed himself so far.
W'hat is he kindenough to say of Mr. Winship and his (I am confident) cleverbook Zetetic Cosmogony- Well, he commences in the usual
style with a heavy apologetic statement that he has “no idea or
wish to depreciate the said work,” but at page 6 he finds Mr.

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Winship all astray about “ Spectrum Analysis,” and saysthat he has quite forgotten certain dark lines between thecolours, and that these dark lines are what denote the various
metals or substances composing the light under obsen-ation.
Now this, I am confident, is a bold speculative venture on
the part of “ Engineer,” which has cropped up in his ow'nmind, or else is that mysterious speculative system which
is so profusely scattered over the books of Professors on
Spectrum Analysis.
I happen to agree entirely with Mr. W'inship.
I found as the result of my investigation, firstly, that any
light answers, and that a farthing tallow dip does duty
wonderfully well for the sun.
Being myself a little startled at the above discovery, I
progressed to a second discovery, which is very disastrous toProfessors on this subject of Spectrum Analysis—and thissecond discovery consists in finding that the numerous
colours produced do really proceed from the prism itself, andneither from the sun nor from the dutiful tallow' dip.
Now prism’s vary in amount and depth of colour, butalmost any clear substance will answer the purpose sufflcientl)’.
For instance, the ordinary glass rests used on dinner tables
for large or carving forks and knives, make excellent prisms,
and will, with a little manoeuvring, reflect all the colours of
the rainbow ; and beyond these colours I do not believe inany others, except such as are artificially contrived by vari­
ous positions of several prisms.
I believe spectrum analysis to be a mere childish amuse­ment, and that the colours do not point to any metals as
forming the component parts of the sun or the farthing dip
either. Pray what metal is the tallow dip made of? I ask
the Professor in his dark-room— in w'hich his lectures were
mostly given, as w'ell as I remember. What connection
could there be betu'een a dark-room and sunlight } And
how dare he say that the colours thrown on the screen by
the mere prism itself can be used to determine what metals
exist in the sun ? How absurd and childish ! Then again,
the dark room is totally against sunlight, and it finally ap­
pears that the light really made use of by this unblushing
Professor in his highly scientific lectures, was in reality anelectric lamp : thus the Professor argued that the light of
his lamp w'as the same as sunlight, and further, that thelO

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colours—which as a mere matter of course proceeded fromthe prism—represented the scientific dissection of the lightitself.
I wonder that he did not take out a patent formaking primitive metals from farthing dips and electric
lamps ! I forgot to record which colour came from gold, or
how we were to know if diamonds existed in the sun.
Wonderful professor—and dark in more senses than one washis darkened cell at the Polytechnic.
It is to be hoped that His Majesty will cast a most pene­
trating glance at professors of this t> pe before he bestows
peerages on them, and that nice little solatium of, say, aneat ^100,000 apiece.
And now to advance further and more directl}- towards
the diagrams by “ Engineer,” and which I find printed at
page 205 in The Earth for June (our June, too, of 1902)
our amazing frosty June of snow, and even ice—well, well,perhaps the diagram has done it. Who can tell ? But June
and the diagram go hand in hand as being extraordinary.
Now this diagram—which the Ed. can reprint— pretends
to prove that signalling by Heliograph is quite feasible ona globe, and the diagram itself is no doubt by “ Engineer,as he calls it his own sketch at page 205, line 6.
Firstly to touch on the word “ sketch."
This word exactly hits off ever>- astronomical or globular
diagram that I have ever encountered.
They are sketches
pure and simple, a real scale being out of the question as
aforesaid.
But just for that reason “ Engineer ” should not have ven­tured upon distances which are \-ery misleading.
Forinstance the curve marked i 83 miles is really much nearer
2,000 miles, while the elevation A E would be more like
700 miles than 7,418 feet ; and though these features hardly
interefere with the diagram, one way or the other, still it
remains that they do exhibit the balance or want of balanceof “ Engineer ” himself
And now, what does he say?
Well, speaking of thecurvature of 183 miles, he terms it the sea level, and if it
represents all ocean no doubt such would be the case on a
globe, but in the very next line he says that it would berather less. This is certainly extraordinary, and shows wantof mental balance. Clearly the distance of 183 miles cannot
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is the genuine language of the globite, and the books ofprofessor after professor are full of contradictions of thisnature, and which they (the professors) seem to regard
as the proper thing.
And now to proceed once more— or try to at least—for
probably “ E n gineer” will not allow me to get far.
Well, speaking of the elevation A E, he says that the ej^eof a person looking towards B would strike the horizon at
105 miles at the point D, and on his sketch— I should think
it is a sketch indeed—he has really made one critical remark.
Now considering that the curve marked 183 miles is reallynearer 2,000 miles, it is quite plain that such a petty distanceas 105 miles could not be represented at all on the diagram.
.Secondly “ Engineer ” has no justification for such a dis­
tance as 105 miles, nor yet for the one of 81 miles. The
distances would of course depend upon how far apart theelevations marked A and D really are. He calls the distance
183 miles as the curve, and he clearly imagines that astraight shot from A to D must of course be less than the
curve, and on the strength of this he allows himself to ram­
ble through a lot of useless figures, and arrives at the con­clusion that the distance should be modified to 105 miles!
Sad—very sad !
A glance at my diagram will show that the only straightshot possible between the two stations is arrived at bygiving the second prominence, marked BD on my diagram,much more elevation up to C than the first AG, and thatthe straight line AC, connecting the two elevations, is inreality longer than the curve GJ5 of m}- decently correct
diagram.
Moreover, the line J'C in mj- diagram marks the groundhorizon of the elevated observer at A, and below that line
it is not possible for him to see at all. The consequence isthat he could not possibly signal by heliograph to an ob­
server at D on the elevation BD, because he cannot see
through the ground horizon,■a.mX thus con\-eniently look down,
as it were, to the station D.
Also the horizon of a person at A always forms a rightangle with his line of elevation. Every field surveyor knows
this, or will see the truth of it after a trifling reflection.
■Strictly speaking, an observer at A has a sky horizon
also, in addition to his terrestrial or ground horizon, andI2

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^13this is shown in the dotted line at right angles to AE, but
in that the observer may look down, instead of looking
horizontally into the far distanee, so he may look toward C
as his lowest, and below that he cannot by any possibility see.
Thus signalling by heliograph on a globe is shown to beutterly and totally impossible from two such stations as A
and D, whilst the extension of B D up to C and throughthe dotted continuation will measure close on 5,000 miles,
and this enormous distance renders the possibility of sig­
nalling from A to the extended elevation BC, or simply C,
impracticable.
This diagram is also useful as shewing that even wirelesstelegraphy could not be conducted between the two stations
A and D, but only from A to C some 9,000 miles—andwireless telegraphy is conducted at very great distances—and in itself proves that the Earth is not a globe, such as is
generally received.
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Recently the bookish community in this country havebeen again wailing about the time not being far distant whenthe mass of literature sent in will overwhelm the space which
can be allotted to it at the British Museum.
Up to the present the authorities appear to be at a loss
what to do in the matter, thongh a suggestion from a mereplebeian is treated with the usual lofty disdain, especially as
one of the most darling idols of modern thought would
receive such a staggering blow that irreparable ruin would
be the fate of the world’s most curious curiosity.
Nevertheless, the suggestion is here made public property,
notwithstanding its being ignored by the powers that be,
and such a man as the late Right Hon. W. E. Gladstonesome years ago, when this same book trouble was being
lamented upon by that gentleman, who evidently had theconfidence to be a most verbose talker on minor things, but
appeared very timorous of idol smashing, or other heroicachievements.

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The suggestion advanced was that a perfectly unbiased
committee should be formed of men of all grades of thought,
including the late John Hampden and one other well-known
pianist, which committee should have full powers to go
through the library of the British Museum, and get together
all the modern works which have been written on, or havethe “ Newtonian T h e o r y ” of the world being a globe as abase. This selection would necessarily include tons of books
on such absurd theoretical subjects as Universal Gravitation,
Atomic Origins, Evolution, Geology, Astronomy, Pluralities
of Worlds, and other wonderful phantasies too numerous tomention ; then after mature unbiassed cogitation, these books
should be removed to a warehouse in some deer forest orother depopulated stretch of country, or to avoid any moretrouble it would be advisable to ship and throw them over­board in Mid-Atlantic.
By such a remedy many miles of valuable bookshelf room
would become available, to store for many years books ofreal and lasting value.
The rubbish being cleared out it would be the duty ofthe servants of the public not to receive any more in the
future.
You’ll admit the plan is very simple and not costly, butwhether the powers that be have the courage to order it tobe carried out, is another matter. Perhaps in deference tothe dear professors, and the scholastic clique, it would bethought preferable to buy back more of the land from theadjoining ducal estate at an exorbitant price so as to enlarge
the building ; this, doubtless, would lie very agreeable tohis grace, but decidedly against the monetary and intellec­
tual interests of the public, and the principles of
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The Round World formed the heading of the Rector of
Bressingham’s letter in The Rock, on April 19th of last year,
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heading ; Are Jesuits Outlaws in E ngland? My letter was the
beginning of the correspondence leading up to the libel casejust concluded.
I contend that I was correct in arguing that Jesuits are
outlaws in England ; but was the Rev. W. C. Badger equallycorrect as a Church of England Protestant, if he took the
Bible for his guide ?
With some show of learning Mr. Badger challenges any
Hebrew professor to contradict his “ round w orld” readingof the Bible. He quotes Proverbs viii. 27 ; “ When He pre­pared the heavens I was there, when He set a compass or
the circle on the face of deep.” Dr. Taylor gives the meaningof Proverbs viii. 27 thus : “ He hath cast it into a circularform.” Job xxii. 14 : “ He walketh in the circuit of heaven.”
Isaiah xl. 22 ; “ He sitteth upon the circle of the earth.”
However far the Rector of Bressingham can “ tw ist” theHebrew in one or two passages to convey the idea of theearth being of a ball-like form, it is quite evident that thewhole tenor of Scripture is opposed to the hypothesis of
the Earth being globular in shape, and is dead against the
fabulous foundation on which the Copernican temple ofmysteries is reared.
“Ninety-five millions of miles ! ” What does this distance
represent? To represent the Sun and Earth on a uniform
scale of one-sixteenth of an inch to i ,000 miles would require
paper about 980 feet in diameter, with the Sun in the centre
about 3-ft. 4-in. in diameter, and the Earth ^-in. in diameter,
travelling round the Sun about 490 feet distant. Picture
the Earth on this small scale, with the Sun at a distance of
490 feet direct above its centre ! What difference would
there be in the direct rays of the sun if it was ^-inch northor south of its direct centre line ?
Leaving the suppositions of bookmen, and coming down
to plain every-day common sense ;— “ Is it possible to picture
oneself travelling in a train 60 miles per hour and to fancy
the train to be stationary? In the best equipped steamshipcan any passenger lose sight of the sensation occasioned by
the steamer forging ahead ? ” Yet we are asked to deny theevidence of our senses, which asserts that the Earth is prac­
tically stationary, though it is travelling 65,000 miles anhour through the air, making a journey of 1,560,000 milesin 24 hours, besides a daily “ turning over.”

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How the oceans could shoot through the air at this im­mense speed I could never comprehend, and, w’hen a Bible
student at College, I said to my tutor; “ If the Earth is a
globular body, moving round the Sun at the terrific speed
astronomers assert, then Joshua made a blunder when hecommanded the Sun to stand still—for he should have com­manded the Earth to stand still ; but we are told that the
shadow of the Sun went back lo degrees.” My tutor toldme I must not argue in this strain, and that I was to leav^ethe class-room—which I did ; but I had to appear “ on the
carpet,” and a stop was put to the exercise of my “ private
judgment,” the result being that for years I looked uponthis phase of study as a subject outside of my comprehension,
though I felt assured that if the globular theory is correctthen the divinely inspired prophets didn't know what they
were saying.
I am informed that it is possible to investigate the distanceof the Sun from the Earth by practical architectural measure­ment on the triangular principle, and three different latitudes
are suggested :— (i) Cape Valetta, 2,153 miles north of theequator; (2) Mount Carmel—where the prophets of Baal
were confounded— 1,971 miles north of the equator; (3)Cape Town, 2,036 miles south of the equator. The experi­
ment could be tried at each of these three places on the
21st of March or September—using a square (similar to abuilder’s square) ; let one side of it be about 6 feet long,the other 5 f e e t ; the 6 feet side to be raised perpendicular
at 12 o’clock ; the shadow of the 6 feet would be about 4
feet long {i.e., at 2,000 miles distant from the perpendicular
position of the Sun). The difference in the distance of the
Sun in the three places would not vary but a few miles.
The practical proofs that the Sun is not 5,000 miles distantfrom the Earth would require a special article.
Globular Theory advocates teach that the sea is convex 8
inches to one mile. It must then (say some people) be 240
inches (20 feet) in 30 miles, or else 4.000 miles rise would
not be gained in 12,500 miles.
The above paragraph is somewhat erroneous on the glob­ular hypothesis. As a matter of fact the sea must be similar
to the following figures :— starting with 8 inches to the mile,in two miles there would be at least 20 inches rise ; in fivemiles 4 feet rise ; in ten miles 20 f e e t ; in twenty miles 80

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17feet rise ; in thirty miles 120 feet rise, not one way only,Dut every way.
“ If the earth and sea were a globe, where should we findthe level horizon ? ”
When a ship has disappeared to the naked eye, or below
the horizon, as reported, if the investigator looks after itwith a telescope he will behold it cutting its way throughthe waves ; but a misty day proves that the telescope will
not penetrate w'ater, which it must do if the roundness ofthe sea hides the ship from the vision of the beholder, when
it appears to him as sinking below the horizon. The optical
illusion arises from the sight being restricted to a certain
distance, though the globular advocates inform the enquirerthat the convexity in the distance of fifty miles is not sufficient
to be discernible—and, at the same time, they say a person
cannot see a ship beyond 14 or 16 miles out to sea, because
the sea’s roundness hides it from view.
In respect to certain passages in the Bible apparently
favouring the globular hypothesis, I have learnt that some
Hebrew and Greek terms may be “ twisted ” to mean almost
anything. This was palpable to me when I was constructing
a skeleton Greek Lexicon for the late Rev. Castle Cleary.
In scores of cases “ The Sabbath ” is falsely rendered “ TheFirst Day of the Week.”
But I have gone beyond the space allowed me for thisarticle—and I must conclude, at any rate for the present.
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One would think that the sad and terrible disaster in theW est Indies, of last month (May), needed our deepest
sympathy, and that none, however “ learned,” would havebeen so inhuman as to have made such a calamity an oc­
casion for an ostentatious display of Phantasmal Science ;but su;h has been the case as the following “ Geological
Section of the West In d ie s” plainly and irrefutably proves.
If it is intended to prove the Earth a globe it is a miserable

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failure ; the so-called coast is curved, but the sea-line above
is a straight line ! I take it from the Birntinghavi Weekly
Mercury, Maj- 17th.

Now, don’t you think it is time you honestly and candidly
owned up to the truth, and publicly confessed that yourscience so-called is only the outcome of a vain imagination,and that you have given t ’n e “ Scriptures of Truth ” the lie
long enough ?
Well, however that may be, this I know, for God hasrecorded it in His Unchangeable and Inflexibly Holy Word,
that E V E R Y idle word men speak they shall give an ac­
count thereof in the Day of Judgment,— “ For by thy words
thou shalt be justified or condemned.”—M att. xii. 3 6 , 3 7 ,So you see, gentlemen, the matter is not done with here,
but your teaching, whether true or false— and as it is antiscriptural it istrue—will be Z E T E T IC A L L Y I N V E S T I ­G A TED and you will receive a righteous reward for thethings done in the body, whether they be good or bad(2 Cor. V. 10 ).
We heartily thank you for this unquestionable proof thatthe world is not a globe of land and water surrounded by“ the air we breathe,” which is surrounded by “ e th e r ” which
is surrounded by “ illimitable space.”
It must be evident to the most simple reader that as thescience of Modern Astronomy, by its doctrine of “ illimit­
able space,” does away with heaven it does away with God’sThrone (see Isa. Ixvi. i), and in consequence with God
H im self; hence its origin is infidel and therefore Satanic.
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In the diagram, the volcano at the left-hand corner is
Antigua, the next Guadeloupe, next Dominica, next Mar­tinique, next St. Lucia, next St. Vincent. Barbadoes is
between the last two in the distance, on the “ water line.”
The “ water line ” looks very level, horizontal, straight,
flat. Ah ! perhaps this is the production of a telephoto­graphic lens and camera. If so, it has “ recorded in an
unviislakable vianner” that Mr. H. Yule’s so-called experi­
ment on the Old Bedford Lex'el was, to say the least, an“ optical delusion.”
W hat have the members of the Glasgow British Association
to say to this absolutely contradictory evidence ?
But look where the globe has gone to ! Absolutely buried
beneath the three elements—air, water, and Hre! And so
the poor globe is buried at last beyond all recovery, andthe “ flat earth ” and horizontal water line are on the top.
Oh ! but I see that is only the “ Earth’s Solid Core.” Buttell us ye savants— if ye can ; yes, ij —why does your “ crustof the earth,” and the water resting on the earth’s crust,
not partake of the contour of the solid core ?
The core is surrounded with molten matter.
Thank you. That’s very learned—very high—the pro­duction no doubt of a “ mighty intellect.” But as all heatedbodies, whatever may be the source of their heat, cool downfrom the outside, how comes it about, in the name of commonsense, that your globe has got a ‘‘solid corc ” ? Don’t
you see that the molten matter is in the wrong place ?

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If Genesis is n^t to be relied upon, in its description ofCreation, how shall we tiust Exodus ? If the Old Testament
is not true, what will become of the New ? If the Creator,
through His servants, the prophets, has not correctly de­scribed His Works, how can we trust him for our salvation ?
As the great Teacher, who came from God, himself declared ;“ If ye believe not his (Moses) writings, how shall ye be­lieve my words ? ” They stand or fall together. Our Lordsays so ; and every logical and candid mind must see it isso. We are prepared to accept the conclusion ; for we feel
sure that no fact in nature is contrary to Bible teaching.
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PSALM X IX .

PSALM XLX.
A n A ddress by L ady B lo unt.

Reprinted from the Wimbledon Gazette.
This is one of the beautiful Psahns of David, and one
which, according to the heading, he dedicated to the Chief
Musician, probably to be set to music so that it might besung in the service of the Temple.
It begins with the contemplation of God’s creative works,
and then leads on the mind to consider the moral law andrighteousness. The consideration of this Psalm will well
repay our earnest attention, and may we, while we consider it, be endued with the same spirit as the writer had when
composing it.
VV’e are first invited to a consideration ofT H E C R E A T IO N ,VAand the Psalmist at once launches out into the midst of
the subject with the simple yet magnificent declaration:“ The heavens declare th e glory of God.” The Psalmist hadin his early years led the life of a shepherd, and, as such,
had watched the sun rise majestically over the eastern hills,
culminating in the south, and finally setting in glorious
effulgence in the west. By night, as he stood on the hillslopes, he had watched the stars come forth one by one,when the sun was setting, as though the)' \\ ere timid))- pop­
ping out to see if the light of day had fled.
Thus we may perceive how God revealed Mis Works unto
His sen'ants of old, and* instructed them according to His
Will, and how H e inspired them to leave us the books of
Nature and Revelation.
The sweet Psalmist of Israel was taught of God— not only
through inspiration, but even as we all may learn, throughobservation. And as he gazed up at the arched canopy ofthe heavens, constellation after constellation came forth anddisplayed itself—shining jewels in the purity of the easternsky, until the whole heavens seemed to be ablaze with jew­
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come forth with unerring precision night after night andattribute their presence or their motions to chance, or whatin the scientific jargon schools has been called “ the fortu­
itous concourse of atoms.” W ho ever saw a fortuitous (oraccidental, casual) concourse of atoms arrange themselvesin order into any organized shape whatsoever ? Nobody.
No such infidel or unreasoning thoughts capped the mindof the Psalmist. As he watched the heavens he sought for
traces (or footsteps) of mechanism, design, and intelligencein their creation, and in the fulness of his heart he wor­
shipped the power and intelligence which had made all thesethings.
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There is a God, and no one can give a satisfactory ac­
count of the universe by leaving out God. Yet the so-called“ scientists” of the day try to explain the universe
God ! .No wonder then that they have gone astray, andhave given accounts of the universe, its origin and formation,
which I am free to say neither harmonize with the known
facts of Nature nor agree with Bible teaching.
But moreof these discrepancies as we go on.
“ The heavens declare the glory.” The glory of God isseen in that vast superstructure above our heads which iscalled the firmament.
According to the Word of God,the firmament was made on the second day of Creation
for the express purpose of supporting the waters which
are above the firmament, and dividing them from thewaters which are below the firmament. This is clearly statedin the first chapter of Genesis, verses six and seven, which
read as follows :— “ And God said let there be a firmamentin the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters fromthe waters. And God made the firmament,” which is de­scribed as “ something stretched out and spread, like acurtain, tent, or canopy,” and divided the w'aters which wereabove the firmament : and it was so.” Now let us take theWord of God before the word of man, and let us believe
the Bible rather than what is called “ science.” And God
Himself, speaking solemnly before His people Israel, when
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ation—heaven above, earth below, and water under theearth. It is written in Ex. xx. 4: “ Thou shalt not makeunto thyself any graven image, or the likeness of anythingthat is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, orthat is in the water under the earth.”
It is befitting these perilous times to ponder upon thisCommandment. It is imperative. And let us pray that we
may not fall under the heinous sin of idolatry. Let us strive
to shun it in every shape, form, or even semblance, for it
appears to be a fearful and inexcusable sin in God’s sight.
W e are not only called upon to shun idolatry, not only tocondemn it, but we should do our best to annihilate it !
It is written even respecting the evil habit of swearing, that
if a man hear the voice of swearing, if he do not utter it,then shall he bear his iniquity.- And that iniquity is beinga zvitness to evil of any kind, without putting the foot upon
it and condemning it. Yet some think little of swearing !
Let us be warned against idolatry, as it is very strictly for­bidden by the Lord God Jehovah, the Creator of heavenand earth.
If psrchance the warning note had been raised when thisevil first crept into the heart and centre of the Church of
England, it might have been quenched.
Let us flee also
from idols within our hearts.
To return to the subject:— “ Heaven above, earth beneath,and water under the earth.” The majority of human beings
do not even affect to believe this.
The Apostle says, “ Ifany man speak let him speak as the oracles of God.” It
is not the business of the preacher to preach “ science” topreach politics, to preach current topics of the day, but to“ preach the Word.” Hence I believe that if the heavens
declare the glory of God, they must be those heavens which
the Psalmist saw and believed in, and which led him toGod, and not the heavens of modern astronomy and of“ science falsely so-called.” T he stars, according to Moses,
were not made until the fourth day of Creation ; and thenthey are merely called “ lights,” and lesser lights than thesun or the moon, made to give light upon the earth. And
they do so. These lights, in silent solemnity and beauty,
spoke their message to the shepherd of Israel as he watchednight by night. And their teaching and influence were notconfined to Judrea, for he says, “ Their line [margin, ‘rule’]

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is gone out through all the earth.” As the Creator firstintended them they are “ for signs and for seasons and fordays and for years.”
There is something very fascinating in the study of thestars, and eminent men in the Church, who have made them
their study, have gone so far as to say that not only Cre­
ation’s Story may be read in their “ voice,” but that thevery story of Redemption itself may be traced by the signs,
constellations, and ancient nomenclature.
The Psalmist, meditating upon the beauty of the heavenly
hosts, as he reclines, and watches them, upon the slopes of
his native hills, sees the sun rise in majesty and splendour,and gives us his idea— probably under the inspiration of God.
“ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his
circuit unto the ends of i t : and there is nothing hid fromthe heat thereof” This passage plainly proves that accord­
ing to the Word of God it is the sun which moves roundthe earth and not the earth which moves about the sun.
This agrees with observation and the facts of Nature. For
no scientist has ever given the world a single proof that theearth moves—not one ! It is all assumption. But of thesethings I can give more proof if desired. After describing
how the sun goes forth in his circuit, lighting up in turnevery portion of the habitable earth, he rises to a higher
theme.
He sees in the phj'sical forces of the sun a symbol of
the natural forces of God’s Law. As there is nothing hiddenfrom the sun, from some measure of its light and heat as it
journeys round the world, so the Law of the Lord is allembracing and covers all men’s actions and thoughts. God
gave his Law on Sinai,
It was written on two tables ofstone, and it embraces all man’s duty to God, and, in thesecond place, all man’s duty to his fellow man. There were
ten Comj/mndments, but one Law. And as the light andheat of the sun is penetrating, and necessary to the existenceof mankind, so these ten Commandments were far-reaching,reaching everywhere to men’s thoughts and actions, and as
Paul says of the Word of God, “ piercing even to the di­viding asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints andmarrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of theheart.” “ The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting thesoul.”(to be continued. D .V.)

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ALEXANDER“ Lift up your gates,” “ give way Sheol,” shall yet be said,
And death, a vanquished foe, shall fall, for ever dead !
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M’INNES.

Mr. Alexander M’In ties, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow,
who had been a tutor in that city for thirty years, passed
away on June i6th, after a short illness, from cardiac
weakness. Born in 1833, he becamc Queen’s Scholar, andattended the Normal Training College from 1853 to 1855,
taking a head master’s certificate in 1862. He held thisposition in the Caledonian School, Liverpool for some years.
He was also a member of Gilmorehill University Council.
He coached many hundreds of professional gentlemen now
practising in Glasgow, England, and the Colonies. Twosons and six daughters mourn their loss.

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“ In Christ shall all be made alive” for aye,—Thus said the Lord, through Paul and through Isaiah,—
When death itself is slain, and prostrate : they.
The dead, shall rise, redeemed through the Messiah.

The Angel Michael bore a message from the Lord,
That Adam, though he die, shall live again ;For death shall yet be conquered by the Word—Its captives borne to Paradise, in train.
Jesus— once slain— alone hath life. He lives
To bring a deathless reign. Behold ! ’tis Life He gives.

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We are assured that every reader of The Earth will deeply
sympathize with our dear and highly esteemed friend andcontributor, Mrs. F. Horne, upon whom death’s cold hand
has quite recently dealt a two-fold blow, and she now mourns
the loss, not only of her much beloved brother, the mostRev. William Garden Cowie, D.D., Bishop of Auckland andPrimate of New Zealand, but also that of her husband’s
brother.
Mrs. Horne and her notable brother were born of parents
who were distinguished for beauty of person, mental talents,and eminent lineage. The primate was born in Scotland,
but the family removed in his early years to England, where
he was educated.
His father, dying at an early age, left his mother to bringup a large family, five of whom were sons, who all became
distinguished men. This fact may have come to passthrough the force of an uncommon combination of gentleness,
strength, and energy which controlled the sway, and in­fluence of their wonderful mother—Mrs. Cowie.
Bishop Cowie was born in 1831, and was educated at Eton
and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, of which foundation he was ascholar. He won Latin and English essay prizes at hiscollege, and in 1854 v»?as placed second in the First Classof the old “ Civil Law Classes.” He remained for a shorttime in Cambridge, being admitted to Deacon’s Orders in
1854, and licensed to the curacy of St. Clement’s, Cambridge.

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He was ordained priest in 1855, and accepted the curacy ofMoulton, Suffolk, his wife, whom he married in i 869, being
a daughter of Dr. Webber of that place. In 1857 he wasappointed a chaplain to the forces in India, and ser\-ed withLord Clyde’s army at the capture of Lucknow in 1858, forwhich he received a medal and clasp. He was present withthe division under Sir Robert Walpole at the battles ofAllygunge, Rooyah, and Bareilly. He joined the column ofthe late Sir Neville Chamberlain in the Afghan campaign ot
1863, being present at the storming of Lalloo by Sir John
Garvock, and again receiving a medal and clasp. In 1863
he was chaplain to the camp of the Viceroy of India, and in1864 he served Bishop Cotton, the Primate of India, as his
resident and examining chaplain. In 1865 he was chaplain
at Kashmir, where he interested himself actively in the Mis­
sions of the Church Missionary Society. H e then returned
to England, and was then appointed by Bishop Lonsdale ofLichfield in 1867 to the rectory of Stafford. In that year
] 3ishop G. A. Selwyn came home to attend the Lambeth
Conference, and on the death of Bishop Lonsdale the see ofLichfield was pressed upon him. Bishop Selwyn returned
for a short time to New Zealand to take farewell of thescene of his heroic labours, and Mr. Cowie was nominated as
his successor in 1869. Since 1841, when the diocese of
New Zealand was separated from Australia, Sehv>-n had borne
the title of “ Bishop of New Zealand ; ” but in the interval
six additional sees had been created, and Mr. Cowie now
became the first Bishop of Auckland, Mis career as a mili­tary chaplain and the active service he had seen had pre[)ared
him for the vigorous exertions required of him in New Zea­land, where for over thirty years he was an energetic Dio­cesan. Bishop Selwyn had secured something in the wayof endowment for the bishopric, and the diocese was con­siderably assisted by the S.P.G. ; but owing to the presence
within his borders of the workers of the C.M.S. among theMaories, the Bishop was also in frequent intercourse with
Salisbury Square. Dr. Cowie was visitor and go\-ernor of
St. John’s College, Auckland, and was appointed Fellow of
the University of New Zealand in 1880. H e became Pri­
mate of New Zealand in 1895, and he visited this countr\in 1897 for the Diamond Jubilee and the last Lambeth
Conference, receiving on that occasion the hon.irary degreeof D.D. from the University of Oxford. He was the authorof Notes on the Temples o f K ashm ir and of A Visit to
Norfolk Island.
We know not whether Dr. Cowie was in harmony withourselves in his beliefs, regarding the Earth and other things,
but that he was a beloved brother of such an earnest sup­porter of Truth, and so noble, clever, and dear personal
friend as is Mrs. Horne, is sufficient to make his life accountdear to us . And to all who love righteousness and mercy
having learnt in Jesus’ Name to “ weep with them that weep,”
there is a further reason for interest, viz. ; our dear friend
and helper in the work says, “ I could recount incidents in
my brother’s life which would form stirring examples toothers.”Many columns could be written on the subject of the late
Primate’s life, but as long reports have appeared in man)'well-known papers we will close this notice by quoting thewords of Mr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand: “ He
was one of my dearest friends. The last letter I had before
leaving New Zealand was from him, asking me to see someof his friends in England, and to give his love to Lord
Roberts. Everyone should read the remarkable interview inRoberts’ Forty Years in India, between the Commander-inChief and the late Primate of New Zealand before Candahar.
Me was a man of fine physique, and great influence alikewith white men and Maories. He was an excellent organizer
and ruled his diocese and province wisel)'. His loss to the
Church of New Zealand will be^ a very great one.”Lightis but darkness to the eveo^ that’s blind,’
And Wisdom’s folly to the vacant mind.
Knowledge, if not with Truth conjoined and wedded.
Sinks men in mire, and leaves them there embedded.
The supernatural with its dazzling dower.
Is not divine from every source and power ;P’or as in Pharaoh’s court—’tis now as then—Miraculous powers flow in evil men.
But Light is Light if born of heaven’s pure ra)'.
And Wisdom Truth if born of heaven’s day.

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Knowledge of Good and Ev'il will increase ;The Good shall live, but Sin and Death shall ccase :Then supernatural power Divine will reign,
To bless the world through every source and vein.
E. A. M. B.

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M i d d l e t o n ’s a tte m p te d
DIMENSIONS OF THE EARTH•J 'puuiif-jny

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E V E N IN G :B y Lady Blount.
“ For wliat is your life? it is even a vapour, lliat appearetli for alittle time, and then vanishetli
Jam es iv. 14.
Only a grain on Tim e's vast shore,
A speck, or a particle, nothing more !
Then passing life’s “ sp a n ” or allottedday,
Man returns once more to his motherclav ;In the evening,
In the evening.
In the evening of life’s day.
Only a drop from the mighty tide,
Where oceans,and seas, and gulfs divide;
Toss’d for a moment on life’s girt shore,
T ojoin tlie great deep as indays ofyore.
In the evening.
In the evening,liorne hack with the tide away.
Only an atom here on earth,
A mite,yet perchance of intrinsic worth;•\n animate being endowed with Mind,
Unmeasured its power o’er a world
purblind,
In the evening,in the evening.
From earth’s thraldom shall pass away
Onlv a germ of knowledge keen.
As “ folly” and “ madness” the million
deem !
Sluuined l)y tlie worldly are they who
aspire—Through faith in the Christ believing
T ruth’s fireIn the evening.
In the evening,
Shall burn with a brighter ray !
Only an inlUience sweet, a dream.
From an occultsource,or a spirit stream;
A telephone link with a hidden land.
Conjoining the seen with the unseen
strand ;Till the evening,

Till the evening,
W hen the night shall have pass’d aw'ay.
[ “ For there shall be no night there.” —Rev. xxi. 2 5 ; xxii. o.]Only God’s Word in its unseen cotnvse.
Rules N ature’s laws with miraculous
force,
Joy telling, grief quelling, borne downfrom above !
Eternal for e v e r! Divine, sacred Love !
In the evening.
In the evening.
It shall reign with a perfect sway !
Only an lUterance may waken a chord.
Unsheath from its scabbard theassassin’s cold sword.
Raise malice that’s dorm ant, and yet
unstirr’d.
Till hatred more fearful if long deferr’i l ;In tlie evening.
In the evening,
W ith vengeance shall have its I'lay.
Only a small voice, a pow’r untold.
May shake an empire unbrib’d by gold ;Will shatter to atoms, and re-unite.
And arouse the nations to see “ TheL ig h t! ”
In the evening.
In the evening.
W hen the sun sets on mortal sway.
Only a seedling, will raise a tree.
Vet a germ ever'a^ting it may be ;Only sweet knowledge, through Christ
that’s true.
Will survive—more lasting than oak oryew.
In the evening.
In the evening,O f the great Resurrection Day.
[ “ And at eventide it shall be light.” —Zah. xiv. 7.]

Copt o f
Good Hopt,

Cape Ham,'E X P L A N A T IO N .

The distance!; on (his chart are those fo u n d hy themodern steamship.
Dim ensions mean the compass w ithin which the whole
E a r th lies.
T h is dimension is much sm aller than one iw u ld suppose.

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D O U BT^The latitudes are out as much as 30 degrees on the
China side, and countries thought tropical are really
A rctic in consequence.
This has been explained in '■^The E a r th " M agazine,
fo r the months o f March and M ay, 1902.
The Great Secret o f the E a rth lies in the G u lf o f
Pichili, which is quite 3 0 degrees out o f the Globe's
Latitude. Rivers in the G nlf o f Pichili freeze S O L I Dfrom November to March.
This severity o f climate upsets the Globe's Latitudes,
and allows o f a reasonable Ground Plan o f the E arth.
The Longitudes are fa ir ly representative.
I am,
E. E. MIDDLETON.
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God willing, we intend to publish regularly,
as soon as possible, a Supplement to “ The
Earth ” w ith each issue. It w ill deal w ith
TRUTH UNDIVIDED according to our belief,
w ith a controversial column.

A

DEFENCEO F P H IL O S O l'H IC
Bv "'Reclariole."

DOUBT:{continued from Vol. II., p. i8;).
‘‘ Tims the whole mighty mass of rock, stratified and uiistratified, has been made to float upon the unfathomableI

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waters, yet as securely fixed as a ship in a IJ\-erpool dock.
The bases of the earth are so sunk as to make it immove­able for ever. Man is challenged to tell how. ' Upon what
are its bases s u n k ? ’— fob xxxviii. ‘ He founded the earth
on its bases ; it is not moved for ever and e\'er.’— Ps. civ. 5.
Now, why can an iron ship float, though that metal is seventimes hea\ ier than water ? Because, chiefly of the shape.
But the heaviest rock is only three times the weight of water.
Then consider the tremendous buo\'ancy of the ocean caus­
ing some substances to float on the surface, and others tosink only to a certain depth.
The earth, its density de­creasing from the fjundation rock upwards to the soil of thesurface, is sunk to a depth several miles in the sea, yet so as
to have a dry surface, and shores on a level with the sur­rounding waters. It consists of four continents of an irreg­
ular and somewhat triangular shape, stretching out from thecentral north, thousands of miles towards the icy barriers of
the far south, against which winds and waves rage in vain.
The continents are connected by sub-marine rocky beds,
varj-ing in depth, whilst the Arctic and Antarctic oceans
are found to be unfathomable.
“ The flood, as we have seen, was caused by the openingof the netting of heaven and the fountains of the abyss.
The heaven or sky ‘ is an expanse for the clouds, strong as
molten mirror.’— foh xxxvii. i 8 ; and was made on the second
day of creation to separate the waters above from the waters
below. ‘ Hast thou come to the springs of the s e a ? ’ asks
God—xxxviii. 16. It was formerly the opinion of Christian
writers that these springs or fountains are in the central
north, confined by the impenetrable walls of ice, which werebroken down at the flood. However, when Noah had entered
the ark, from heaven and the ab>'ss rushed the waters to ful­
fil God’s purpose to destroy the earth with its inhabitants.
Hence, the rending of rocks, the shattering of hills, thebreaking up of the earth’s strata, the piling of mass upon
mass, wherein were buried animals and plants to be dug up
many centuries afterwards. All lands were filled with the"wreck of the old world—a terrible warning to all future ages
against the commission of unrighteousness.
“ And, let it be noted that the petrifaction of fossils is not
surprising seeing that the earth was wholly sunk under thewaters for a whole year. Even geologists confess that the

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degree of petrifaction is no proof of the antiquity of a fossil.
‘ T he mere amount of change, then, which the fossil has
undergone, is not by any means a proof of the length oftime that has elapsed since it was buried in the earth ; asthat amount depends so largely on the nature of the material
in which it was entombed, and on the circumstances whichhave since surrounded it.’—Jukes, p. 190.
“ Then what was the origin of the rocks, indeed of theentire earth
Aqueous, according to Genesis \. i, 2. ‘ In
the beginning of God’s framing the heavens and the earth,
the earth was in loose atoms and empty.’ (Hebrew.) Where
were the loose atoms.? In the abyss of waters ; and God on
the third day of creation consolidated all into rocks, strati­
fied and unstratified, causing the land to appear.
“ But, why is man not found as a fossil embedded among
the rocks as are the animals.? The answer is not difficult.
Before the flood man was not so prolific as now. During
the 1656 years of the old world there were, according toMoses, only ten generations counting from Adam to Noah ;and Noah during 600 years had only three sons. However,let us reckon approximately the antedeluvian population,
allowing 8 children to each couple. 1st generation, 2 ; 2ndgeneration, 8 ; 3rd generation, 32 ; 4th generation, 128 ; 5th
generation, 512; 6th generation, 2,048 ; 7th generation,
8,192; 8th generation, 32,768; 9th generation, 131,072;
JOth generation, 524,288, The sum is 699,050; and thewhole human population before the flood might not amountto one-sixth of the population of London. Be it rememberedthat mankind in the old world dwelt in Asiatic Turkey,
speaking the same language, and it was not till after Noah’s
death that the dispersion from Babel, over the earth, took
place. Asiatic Turkey contains at present fifteen million
human beings, and there only could fossilized man be found.
To what extent, if at all, has that countr}- been geologicalljexamined.”e a r t h ’s

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The Ed. does not necessarily endorse statements made under the headings o f “ 'J'he
Earth's Obseri’atory,'' Letters, etc., unless signed Ed. The Earth.

“ SIG N A LS FROM XL\RS.— it will lie remembered tli:il a ye ,r or iwo ago
great interest was aroused by the announcement that Mars was making signals
to the earth. The idea seized hold of the popular im agination, and writers offiction began to introduce the inhabitants of other planets into their romances.
The astronomers, however, with the exception of those who had observed theso-called signals, were rather sceptical about the whole thing. Even in thevery biggest telesco]ies .Mars is by no means a large object, and signals fromit would have to be on a tremendous scale in order to he observed on the earth.
It is now announced that what was taken for a signal was merely a cloud passing
rapidly over a part of the pU net’s surface which is believed to be an immense
tract of vegetation. We shall thus have to wait a little longer for authentic
messages from Mars.” —People's Friend, May 26, 1902, Dundee, Scotland.
From W. A TK IN SO N .
In answer to F. E. W ., regarding “ degrees,” we believe personally that thecontinents and islands of the P^arth are situated “ upon the seas” and at distances
relatively as generally described ( / ’i. xxiv. 1-2).—[E d.]
The Equator may form a smaller circle.
The lower mere secta.'ianisni is sunk, the higher C h a r it y , or true ChristianLove will rise.

A FAMOUS I’EN D U l.U .M .—The French Covernment has decided lo inslal
at the I’antlieon, Paris, the famous pendulum by which Foucault in 1857 de­monstrated the rotation of the earth.
The Government of Paris once decided to measure, in a manner, a quadrant,or half the meridian from pole lo pole, for the purpose of obtaining theirstandard of measuring the metre, liut they found afterwards they were wrong.
Vet they stick to the metre.
They may slick to Foucault’s pendulum, butneither he nor they have proved the rotation of the earth by it.
I note thep.aragraph in the paper is followed by the heading “ Scottish Bulls
the editor
might have put a similar heading lo the paragraph quoted, viz. : French B u lls !

(lo /)/ rontilined D .V .)“ It often happens that the univers;tl belief of one age of m ankind—a belief
from whicli no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius andcourage, could at that lim e be free—becomes to a subsequent age so palpablean absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how su ;h a thing canever have appe.ired credible.” —JO H N STU A RT M ILL.

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NOM D E PL U M E S .—W e quite agree with Mr, M iddleton on this point,
unless there is a very good reason for w itholding persona! identity. It would
probably cause persecution from high quarters and loss of employment and living.
7'his is ihe case iviih some o f our coniributors.—[E d .]EA P^TH ’S O BSERV A TO RY .

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the R ight Rev. J. M artin, D .D ., in the chair.
T he discussion was sustainedby Dr. Ilaughton, P.U r., the Most Rev. D r. Stevens, Abp. and Pat., andseveral others, including a minister of the I^stablished Church, whose name wewere unable to catch.
It was stated to be the best attended m eeting of theseason. Much interest being evinced, the lueeting was considerably extended
in time, and reluctantly closed.'’—Isliirg/oit D aily Express,
fune 12, 1902.
[Personally we think warfare is wrong. — Ed.J

SU N SPO T S AN D A S T R O N O M Y : A L o c a i . S t u d e n t ’s C o n t e n t i o n s . —Sir Norman Lockyer, the astronomer, has informed ns tliat the great sun spotof February, 1892, had an area of five thousand millions of square miles, andassuming Sir Norm an’s affirmation to be invested with the credentials of exact
science, we would like to ask him how the great luminary is incapable of il­
lum inating, at any one tim e, the circumference of our comparatively small
eartli ? We all of us know that our world is 8,000 miles in diameter, with acircumference of twenty-four thousand miles, and consequently no son spot
can exceed the circumference of the earth. W e would therefore ve ture to pointout to Sir Norman Lockyer that as a m atter of scientific observation, the greatorb of light has, during a million years, never illuminated more than ninety
degrees of the earth’s circumference, leaving the other two hundred and seventy
degrees of the level surface of the earth in the nocturnal darkness of the night.
W hen, in our northern hemisphere, it is noon in London it is m idnight in theneighbourhood of Sydney, in the southern hemisphere, which would conclu­
sively appear to destroy the legendary dimensions of celestial sun spots.
We have recently finished our own personal study of rJie phenomena of theheavens.. And we can tlierefore point out to Sir Norman Lockyer (1) that the
sun’s diam eter is not more than two hiindred and ten miles, (2) that its altitude
above the earth does not exceed one thousand miles, (3) that the daily velocityof the sun does not exceed five hundred miles an hour, (4> and, lastly, thatthe daily orbital circumference of the sun’s path in the heavens is limiteil to
tvvelve thousand geographical miles.
WM. M. r)A \ lD SO X .

“ The Earth, a m onthly mnga^ine o f sense am) science edited by Lady lilim nt,
will be found interesting.
It is the organ of the Universal Zetetic Society,and is published with the object of proving that the earth is flat.”— The Jexvish
WorU, June LS, Ut02.

On Sunday last, June Sth, the Free I’rotestant Church of England held aThanksgiving Service for the cessation of war, and the estalilishment of Peacebetween the Boers and the Britons, at C hrist Church, Peckham, of which tlieRev. J. McMillan is the m uch'respected incumbent. The episcopate was well
represented by Bishops Marlin and McLaglen, and Archbishop Stevens, all ofwhom, with the Incumbent, took part in the service. There was some excellent
music on the occasion by Mrs. Martin, Misses M artin, Miss McMillan, andothers, whose names we were not fortunate enough to get, forming an efficientchoir, accompanied by an able organist. The church looked very bright andcheerful, and the attendance was good, some coming from a distance, despite
the rain and cold and general uncertainty of the weather. After all the ad ­dresses, the jubilant hymns, and inspiring anthem s had been given, and the
National Anthem sung, the service was closed by the Archbishop giving theBenediction. In the afternoon preceding the Thanksgiving Service, an able
lecture was given by Lady Blount, the subject being “ Hililical Cosmogoi\v,”'

I>.\NGU AGE.— In Herbert Spencer's E/rst JVi/ifipies will be found a defini­tion of Evolution, thus ;— “ KvoUition is a change from an indefinite incoherent
homogeneity, to a coherent heretogeneity, through continuous difi'eventiations
and integrations.” This appears to be a super-eminent method of obscuration
by language, for the obfuscation of the whimsical nonsensicality of so-called
Elem entary Science. Mr. Kirkm an has freely translated the above Spencerian
definition, thu? :— “ Evolution is a change from a no-how-ish untalkaboiitable
all alikeness, to a some-how-ish and in-general-talkaboutable not-all-alikeness,through continuous soinething-else-ifications.” So evolutionists can now makea clioice. T h at they find satisfaction and have joy in either is v'ery doubtful to
C .\T O .

The following cutting is taken from The Express, and indicates a kind of
nervous apprehension th at there m.iy l>e a doubt after all in their conclusions.
“ T he Paris public are displaying great curiosity over tlie Foucault pendulum,
which is to be shown next week at the Pantheon. T he two em inent scientists,
MM. Berget and Camille Flammarion, are now conducting experiments withthe pendulum, which by its movements proves the rotation of the earth. The
pjndulam is a ball of lead weighing 561bs., and the wire to which it is attachedis a specially made fine piano siring, just short of 210ft. in length—the longest
piano wire ever drawn. The oscillation lasts eight seconds in either direction—sixteen seconds in all -and the pendulum apparently displaces itself in the o p ­posite direction to the movement of the earth’s rotation. The pendulum alfords
the most magnificent lesson in astronomy that has ever been given to the public.”
U seems to me that these scientific experivtiemers proclaim rather too much.
I thought this question was settled, at least our school books tell us so. Afterall they have only got as far as “ apparently.” Why don’t they hang one fromthe Eifl'el Tower, if it is length of swing they require ? It is quite time thesescientific men came to some conclusion ; their m inds seem to swing about inthe same leisurely way as the pendulum , resulting in the same delightful
uncertainty.—F. N.

LETTERS.
Melbourne.
To the Ed. of The Earth -from A SEA CA PTA IN .
I tried to get the length of cable from Perth to Adel.aide from the Telegraph
Master at Albany. T he T elegraph H andbook was not out for the y e a r; hecould not give it m ', bu! .advisjd me to write to the Manager of the Cable Com-

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K A R T Il'S O l'.SER V A TO R V ,p;iny, Perth, which I did, and enclosed a stamp, but have received no reply y e t:that is a month ago. If they intended to give the in ‘'ormatii)n asked I woiiUlhave received it hefore this.
I received all T/ie Earths which you sent me,
and I found them very interesting. I have no doubt the deg?,. of long, areshorter as you go South from the E q 'ia to r; for instance ; from Cape Otway, iii
Lat. 38 deg. 55 m. S s ., Long. 143 deg. SOmin. E ., to Breaksea Island near
Albany, W est Australia, Lat. 35 deg. 0 m. 5 s., Long. 118 deg. 3 m. E ast, thecourse and direction by Mercator is N 85 deg. E ., distance 1242 miles, whichhas proved without a doubt if the degrees of Long.were say (iO miles to a degree,which means 1527 miles against 1227 miles—the degree being 47'9 miles by
N ones’ E pitom e—ships would be doing a greater speed than they do, and which
would surely have been noticed before this. 1 read that article in The E a rth —“ N ithsdale”—proving the degrees of longitude were not the same as laid down,
and the way the Admiralty charts are drawn account for a lot of shi]j wrecks,
which I do not think is true. If you have an up-to-date chart of a place, anda good chronometer you can make the land in clear weather to an hour. I have
had the misfortune to lose my ship three weeks back on the coast of
w hi;h is indifterently surveyed, and was exonerated hy the Marine Board.

7, W aring Sti-eet, Belfast. Jan, 28, J902.
To the E ditor of The E arth.— I am a great admirer of your spirited Magazine,
7'he E arth, as well as a subscriber, and if }'oa think the encl<jsed vvortli)' of aplace in your publication, 1 shall thank you ; it is but another proof (if one were
wanted) that the Earth is not a globe.

T IIK -E A R T U '.S ' O IW ERVATORV ,IT a house, or a continuation of houses be erected, no m atter what the distance,
the two end walls or gables will not be parallel. The same effect follows ina single house—the walls are not parallel. Tell an architect that his walls are
not liarallel—I do not kiipw what he m ight do, hut I know what he would xa)'.
The iiricklayer piits ui) his w alls plunib (perpendicular)—no doubt about this—and if plumb on a' cir.;le or globe, the walls cannot be parallel.
But, as amatter o f fact, ths walls are partxUel, therefore the E nrth is nol a s;lohe.^ (l’roo(
No. 101).

■C. \V. A SIIK R , G.E.

T.ie College, .\rnewny Sireet, llorseferry Road, S.W. ' ‘
To the Ed. of The E a rth .—Vou may be interested to, hear. I achlressed aletter to N ature on the subject of the tides.
My letter was promptly returned ,with the Ivlitor’s compliments and regrets tliat lack of space, &c. As I con­sidered my letter deserved better treatm ent I despatched it to Lord Kelvin for
his opinion thereon. His lordship has returned me no rejily, not even.-sending
me back my letter to Nature, for whicli I enclosed a stamped envelope. Now
I argue that had I been wrong in my contention it would have been an easy
method for Lord Kelvin to have said so, and retained a character for kindcourtesy. But what is to be said of his silence ? As my contention is simple,
I enclose an account of the points of my attack, which you can use if you thinkproper. I will not trouble about the rising of the tide on the side of the earth
away from the m oon—the current theory for which strikes, me as .utterlx- impo.ssible. But let A represent the earth and B
the moon.
Then there is said to be the.force .
of gravitation to the earth’.? cen re and gravita­
tion to the moon’s centre. . The.se two forces
oppose one another, an(l by cons'Sij'iience thewater at C i.s said to be* subject to these twoforces. The eartli’s gravitation must have more
power on t h e ‘Water for these reasons.:. (I) its
greater size ; (.2)' its greater density : (3) its conliguily to the water, whereas the moon’s in-A¥

If a perpendicular be lot fall from .A. a-; ])Toditced, it will pass througli (hecentre.
If another |ierpendicular he let fall from B, it also will pass throughthe centre ; both perp-'ndiculars will meet at C. These lines tberefm-e are notliarallel.

l*'or our unbiased opinion of .Korcshanity ki.tully sec
A Glimpse at KoresJianity, by Lady ] 51ount, in 7 /tt’ Earik—No.s 6 and 7, p
Cellular Ctntnoi^ony, b)- the late
William Bathgate- of,Liverpool, in The E arth—No.s 8 and
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I give his letter and the astronomer’s reply just as they are
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Bad health has prevented me attending to thismatter earlier, except so far as to answer the letter of the
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W E ST E R N AU STRA LIA .
I’roni the Government Astronomer,
To Dr. J. LANG DON ,Acting Medical Officer, Katanning.

D ear Sir,
I know there are still a few persons who profess to believe that
the E arth is a plane and stationary, whilst the sun revolves round it,
but I did not know th at any of them had printed such utter rubbish
as in the pamphlet you so kindly sent me. This is the first of their
publications I have seen and I am much obliged to you for it. I
suppose some of them have written som ething a trifle more plausible
than The M idnight Sun, and it would interest me to see a reallyplausible explanation of their tl eory. As to The M idnight Sun,
the author has not the slightest idea of modern theories, etJ., eg. : inlii.s diagram on page 7. As a fact the sun at its farthest north de-