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SOCIETY FOR TH E
RESTORATION AND EX TEN SIO N OF
BIBLICAL COSMOGRAPHY.

A SHORT ADDRESS.
I t is most clesirable that some organised
Society or Institution should be formed to en­
courage a more general study and ventilation ofthis deej)ly importaiit subject. The question is,whether we choose to be a nation of intelligent
and thinking men, or merely dupes and slavesto the mystical delusions of 200 years ago.
There can be no nobler subject entertained byman. I t is the truest philosophy; and ignoranceof it is simply degradation and serfdom.
There are some hundreds of intelligent andeducated men who are just waiting for somecombined movement upon the subject; a few
more are required to join them, and to occupy
a position now usurped by the impostor andpretender.
Sympathisers with this proposal will pleasecommunicate with the Author. Young men
seeking a profession will do well to entertain it.
Loudon 'Priiited by J. COOK & SONS, 68-TO, Mary S t, Hoxton St., N.
1877.

Mant/ skaU investigate, and knowledge shall increase."'■--------P.

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J ote 4 th , 1894.

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L a d ie s a n d Q e n t l e m e s ,~"f

T ruth is great and must prevail, so th at all who are luiught, led,or persuaded to coatend for the impossible, mast 90oi«>r or later
knuckle down to the pos»ifcl», tha inevitable, and the true. Man’s
nature,~since the fall, is so constituted that imposture has more holdon his intellectual faculties than tru th ; and that which is false canattain much more ready and universal acceptance than th it which is
tr u e ; thus a lie, once made to fit, can get round the world whiletruih
j l l isiU putting XLO
its boots yjixm
on.
I t has been thus with modern astronomy, which is considered by
all the educated and learned, to be Sach a certain, settled and 'intellectual science, that they are disgusted wiih the least hint that
this boasted science is founded on a scanty and baseless foundation ;but the tru th will out, and if any man wishes to be wise, even in thethings of this world, he must be willing to c'^mmence fool, that he may
be wise. Prince BismarcV, said, ‘- I ha7BTWBy9‘’^!Rieavoured toleam new things, and when I have hsd, as a consequence, to correct
an earlier opinion, I have done it at once, and I am very proud tohave done so. A Portsmouth tradesman, said, when spoken to on
the subject of astronomy, “ I am quite satisfied about it, and if I am
wrong, I have no desire to be put right.”
A.n American writersays, “ The man who does not care to learn if his decision is rightor wrong, is not half a man.” This is a lamentable state of mind on
any matter, but on the subject ot astronomy is very inconsiderate.
Supp:ife D r. Cousins, for inatsnce, were to tell’'y o u th at your heart
was the breathing apparatus of your system, and the lungs, th» organ
th a t propelled the blood through your veins, you would think he wasa long way from beiag an eminent Portsmouth physician; andii

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d a u n tle s s a s tb o n o m t.
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rightly too, for no medical man oonld understand the human frame
if hia knowledge of physiology held such a baseless theory. I t ig
precisely the same -with the science of astronomy; no astronomer canbe correct with the polenoe, unless he understands fully the relative
and active positions of the sun and the e a rth ; the sun Wnf? theanima mundi, the soul and heart of the universe. I t matters not howmany lines, angles, pretty wheels, and cat sticks they may draw,
nor how wonderfully they may seem to magnify,' calculate andexaggerate the distances and magnitudes of the heavenly bodies ; ifthey reckon on a revolving earth, and simply a, staring sun, all isnoai ofIB
wrong.
They maketfie —
merS'tool
mojie their
ineir boasted knowledge tne
mere
'tool
gness, not the natural or
nr sublime
ouMf"-- science—=---- of astronomy.
astonishingness,'Much w in oe tlie surprise to most readers to leam th at all modem
measurements of the heavenly bodies, is based upon the resTilts of'experiments, th a t really mean the p5o898r position, and toss up ofa halfpenny. Mr. Bichard Proctor—the great modem astronomer,
tells us, “ Anyone c a ^ f f l l i ow many times its own diameter the sun
is removed from us. Take a circular ~disc an inch in diameter, a
halfpenny for instance, and see how far it must be placed to exactly
hide the sun, the distance will be found to be rather more than 107
inches, so th a t the sun like the halfpenny which hides his face, mustbe rather more than 107 its own diameter from u s ; so th at the
supposed distance o f ^ , 000,000 miles rests, prohatum est, upon the♦peculiar position of one halfpenny. W hatever the halfpenny should
happen to reveal, th at decides and regulates the magnitudes, dis­
tances and calculations of all the rest of the heavenly bodies, ad
infinitum, to the world’s end. For he says. ‘‘W e are so constituted as
to seek after knowledge ; and knowledge about the celestial orbs i^
interesting to us, quite apart from the use of such knowledge innavigation and surveying. I t is easy to show th at the determinationof the sun’s distance is a matter full of interest, for on our estimate of
the sun'TZistcmee^ depend our ideas as to the scale, not only o f the solar
system, but the whole visihU universe. The size of the sun,_its neflps,
and therefore its might, the scale of those wonderful operations which
we know to be taking place upon, within, and around the sun, allthese revelations, as -----well as
as ourour estimate
estimate ofof thethe earth’s
earth’s relation
relation andand^-- - iniix
tiJC solar
importancein thethesolar system,
dciwnfl absolutely----j directly■’ on theimportancesystem, depend
and
estimate we form
_ distance.
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kjuuu
uemg m>rm oiof tnethe ssun's
Such being
thee case, iliis
ihis
nrnblAm of dmensional---- 1 astronomy,^ e i n g in point of fact the cardinal problem
it cannot b u t be thought that, great as were ITie trouBle and expense—sometimes reaching a quarter of a million of money—of the expedi­tions sent out to observe the transit of Venus of 187i, they weredevoted to an altogether worthy cause—To establish and vindi­cate the gigantic fabrications given out for an educated and trained
youth as well as the public to swallow as the pure and undeniable resultsof a toss up of a single halfpenny; some have ridiculed the bun, what
about the halfpenny! Well, sure enough, astronomical falsities arelike the proverbial lawyer's lies, they are official, therefore current.

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As long as they are o£Scial, cannonised, stamped by government,
and printed by authority, they may be iMed by the bushel; but you
must not indulge in them personally *df singly; if chUdren do,their parents will be angry, their schoolmaster will cane t h ^ , theirgoverned will stand them on the form, their minister wifi denounce
them, if adults,T roinIhe pulpit as black sheep, for others to beaware o f ; and some ministers will thunder against Jacob’s deception,
yet coolly allow their scStfol dhUdren to be taught the greatest decep­
tion and lies of the age, in geography.
“ ■ ' ■'——
Science ought to be a collection of truths, but the astronomers
and geologists have made it a collection of lies. We cannot verify
as tru th that which is not of itselfTBBISpTItSW^ true. Nor are thescriptures a ladder we can kick away with regard to the science of
jaature. any more than the science of the soul.
Everyone'iS' ooasidered now-a-days behind the times, and the age, who does notbelieve in the results of the halfpenny. B ut there are some pheno­mena of nature which suggest false ideas, there are manifold ways
in which eur senses may deceive us unless their evidence is carefully
cross-examined; it strikes us th at this halfpenny requires a great dealof cross-examination. W e tried it ourselves and could hide tlie sun
a t 37 inches, that would make a lot of difference all round, from(jrreenwich to Venus, and from the transit of Venus to the sun
who never budges an inch for the greatest astronomer, or the most. costly coin of the realm. N ot even Sir William Pink’s Christmas
calciilatious would make the slightest difference to Phcebus, who
simply avenges all mistakes bv still travelling and shining. I t
would be difficult to say which was the most ridiculous problem ;the H i i ^ a . notion of the earth restin g 'o n the hadk o f t o elephant,or the British notion of the distance of the sun resting on the top
side of a lialfpenny, but doubtless the Hindoo’s is the most beautiful
and n a tu ral; but S ij William Pink places undoubted reliance on
results from the top ol a HaJtpenny, as witness the first paragraph in
his Christmas address sf 1893, which commences, “ Ladies andGentlemen, some astronomers a few weeks since, held a meeting, witha profound lover of the heavenly bodies in the chair, for the purposeof demonstrating that the earth is not round, and does not revolve,
bu t is somewhat of the shape of a wedding cake, with figures on the
top and sugar representing the everlasting snows, glaciers and frozen. arctic regions. These learned men had the temerity to attest thatthe sun revolves round the earth, so th a t the sun must travel 270
millions of miles in 24 hours, or over 11 millions of miles each hour.
W ell if this assertion was true, we are afraid we would not get any
seasons, and Christmas addresses would not be required ; or perhaps,
all the inhabitants may w ant to burrow in the huge plum cake.
However, as the season has arrived, notwithstanding all these
opinions, we again resume the pleasing duty of addressing you.”
The sun is a concentrated body of light, heat, and attraction;

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not an expanded substance at a ll; its actual distance less than 6,000
miles.
The worthy Alderman makes a mistake when he says, “ th a t weheld a meeting for the purpose of demonetrating th at the earth is notround,” we thoroughly helieye it is round, like a tahle, or like acircular wedding cake, but not globular, like an orange, nor a sphe­roid. Then astronomers could not afford such a luxury as sugar tu
represent the everlasting snows, pure white w.'jdditig did th a t; theiceberg represented by grocer’s soda, which “■Bet
Slullius” wasunaware was to be found at the North Pole. Then Sir William says
we had the temerity to a-sert that “ the smm revolves rownd the earth ; ”
we only had the temerity to assert that which the glorious sun has
had the temerity to perform for the last 6,000 years.
And even
Mr. Bicbard Prnntnr. the late great astronomer, details very g ra ­phically “ the ratliw a y of the sun.”If the sun. has its daily,
monthly, and yearly pathway round the heavens, the earth can haveno •pathway round the 4««, th a t phenomena would be entirely ob­
noxious to the economy of nature, where nothing is arranged bu t on thebasis i>f philoi-ophioal necessity. Consequently He who made bothheaven and earth always proclaims the sun the traveller—never tSiee a rth ; so we render unto all their dues. W e ean assure the knight ofShire that it is only necessary for the Bun to travel in a spiral path, 15
miles per minute, 15 degrees every hour from east to west, altering
its position northward or southward about one degree a day and i.ll
is done by its constant journeys through the twelve signs of ttie
zodiac, the belt of the sky, which if he refers to K eith, on the
Globes, p»ge 4, he wiU find mapped out for each munth in the year,
which movement- alone, and constantly, regulates tbe seasonn, which
produces in regular order the Christmas fruits he secures for his cus­
tomers and which he acknowledges in his next paragraph was pro­
duced by tbe extraordinary warmth of the sun.

piPerhaps the address was commenced in the middle of the d<iywhen it was time for the t.fteraoou nap, and we imagine, therefore tbe■ pen dropping on the desk and a rcspiie is had in dreamland, and lo !
' one of the Alderman’s fields n n y produce next year a roili.ai ot
J pumpkins, that will produoa a mUlion of threepenny-bits from his■ millions of customers, who siirrouud him millions of times d u 'in g thu• year, from all parts of the known-world; and lo ! in the middle of! the field, one bumper pumpkin grows to the representation of thei sun, that may go to the Drill Shed iu November, and win a fireti class prize; won’t th a t be sjo'id luok! He is astonished at the dream.
■ ‘‘ I t does not m atter what ih -se fellows said at the Albert ttall. I ’ve
seen it all in a dream ; talk about the sun not being larger than theearth, why it had to travel 270 iiiillions of miles in i i hours, it must
' burst iisunder soon, and if my sunny pumpkin burst, all the juice
would run out, then niy prize w >uld be lost a t the show.” “ Oh, oh,oh, t will never have th'i,t! ” B at there, we will believe the whole­

DAU N T L ES S ASTRONOMY.

sale grocer understands the evolutions and revolutions of tea, cheese,and bacon, much better than the sun, moon and stars, so grant a freepardon for all astronomical blunders.
If the earth, therefore, remains in the same situation while
the Bun revolves round it, its mass must be much greater than th atof the sun, for it is contrary to the laws of nature fora heavy body to revolve round a light one as its cientreof motion.
The fact is, there is no doubt th at our Creator
has worked upon the number ten, in the creation; ten divide§.,ihe
allotted period of the 'worlBTs present era, ff,'ODO; ’ ten divides tlie
Millenium, 1,000 years, to be spent by the Redeemed of all nationsin heaven, not on earth, as is usually reported; ten divides thejubilee and the captivity; the life of m an; the plagues of E gypt ;tbe kings, and the horns of A ntichrist; also the ten days of perse­
cution. Now the earth is at l ^ t , ten thousand miles in diameter, ‘^ 'k c y c l
not eight thousand 7 enough Tias not been allowed for the south pole,the circumference of which no ship approaches within 2,000m iles; while the centre of the earth is the north pole, immediately
under the north star, the centre of the heavens, which never varies ito
pusiiion. The President of tbe (JeogrHphical Society stated a t thePortland H all, on one occasion, that, “ Tropical vegetation had beenfound as far north as Disco ; if found any farther north, they would
have to change the p ^ e n t accepted theory of the shape of the earth.”
The sun is got
than one tenth the diameter of the earth, nor morethan 6,000 miles distan t; everything else in proportion; and every­
thing is within ten thousand miles of us, so that the redeemed often
are permitted to hear the songs of heaven before they reach there.
“ W hat beautiful singing of birds I hear,” said a doctor as he wasdying in St. George’s Square. “ Open the windows and doors, andlet me hear th at beautiful music,” said another dying saint in Sultan
Boad, Landport.
Eclipses are never occa«ioned by the earth’s intervention, or theywould not be recorded three times out of four “ invisible at Green­
wich.” They are entirely associated with, ruled by, and dependent on
the heavenly bodies. When a planet crosses the sun, it is a black
disc ; eclipses are easily and correctly predicted by the Metonic a^atem, not at Greenwich, b u ^th o se able to compile the NauticM
Almanack for Greenwich. Tfi^Chaldeans had the celebrated Metonic
style of 19 years, and could calculate eclipses for hundreds of years inadvance. A n eclipse has been known to occur while both luminaries
have been aBove the horizon, so the earth was entirely left out.
The nuron ha« also a spiral motion 12 times faster than the sun
through zomac stars ; all agree it is the nearest of heavenly bodies.
Then now ridiculous to state th at the uem’est stai- is 100 times moredistant than the sun.—Gen. Drayson.

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W ith regard to the ocean it ie most certainly a level-, several gentle­
men th at have been to sea all their Uvea, attest the same. “ As level
as the road,” said one to me ; also experienced by the authorities thathave had years of experience a t the Dockyard Semaphore.
Aocean is absurd in theory, ridiculous in imagination, andneverm ia an "existence. The same phenomena th at occurs with aship outward or homeward bound, would occur on the plains of theOrinico. which are level for 1.000 miles. Would anyone 3ecIaTe th e "level plam tolae globular because the pole of a van might be seen
first, owing entirely to laws of perspective and angular vision. Thishas been tested in our own experience with an opera-glaes. If theearth revolved 120 times swifter than a cannon ball, no engine would
keep the metals, as nolIiin'g'lRll reinain on the drum of the shaft,unless it is spUced on. The life of no living creature would be worth
five minutes’ purchase after it had started one revolution. The lawsof gravitation is a myth, a vain imagination, and a scientific toad­stool. A light is never made larger than the place to be enlightened.
A room is never taken round the light, but the light round the room.
A light is B£ver placed far distant, but aa near as possible.
Allmatter is inert and motionless, so we are not a set of leap frogs,
leaping about on Newton’s merry-go-round, but stately men andwomen walking on a stable and fixed earth. Thus we cannot do
without railways, by reckoning so many jumps to each place, as wewant it, and it comes round, or we might be able to reckon—
Three jumps to London, four jumps to Kent,
E ight jumps to Birmingham, and back again in Tent.
W ith regard to navigation, an artificial globe is never taken to
sea to sail by, but always supei£ciiLl charts as fiat as the surface ofthe sea ; one of the greatest Uglitihiouses just opened is fully visible atthe distance of 300 i ^ e s . ITavigators always take the sun, never theearth; and they use tables compiled 200 years ago, and handed tothem by pagans 200 years before that.
How much more simple
would navigation be if the dictates of nature were accurately andfully followed. Captain Parry and several of his officers on ascending
high land in the vioBSSXfVF^e north ^ l e , repeatedly saw for g4hours together the sun describing a ^ c l e upon ^ e sq]j..^m horizon,a spiral motion.
And the moon, which has charge of the tides.
Captain P arry says, ‘ ■had tiie appearance of following the sun roundthe horizon.” Nature can be watched and tested, and notheories can long survive attack. “ T ruth is great and must prevail.”
N .B .—I t cannot be too emphatically impressed on the reader’s atten­
tion th at the ea^rth hsa nothing whatever to do with regulating or
causing the sea^ns, no more than a guard’s van has to do withsup^ym 'g the locomotive power for a railway train. The mandate
at tiie creation was, let TTmrnf—the heavenly bodies—be for seasons,&c.
let IT—the earth—be for seasons. W hen Job was asked
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or loose the bands of Orion, w hat was meant was, canst thou pre vent the return of either spring or winter f For the term Pleiades
referred to certain stars or constellations denoting spring, and Orionto certain others denoting winter, aa was well understood by thepeople in the East. Mazzaroth is the Chaldean name for Zodiac..
So the Creator acknowlSJtged" ffie" direct cause of the seasons, andall His works praise H im and are sought out by all them th at havepleasure therein.
See the rising hills ’neath yonder azure sky,
And under spreading w oo^ the sloping valleys lie.
Yours faithfully,
Fratton, Portsmouth.

E B EN EZER BREACH.