The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-04-12
SCIENCE OF REVELATION.

| LII hhuIJ VI tuo Outcu Ctuios NdfF, uo'
favored the public with his opinions on sci
ence and revelation from which we make
the following beautiful extract
'It is q curious fact that the revelations oi
science have led astronomers of our own day
10 the discovery that the sun 10 not the dead
center of motion, around which comets
sweep and planets whirl but that it, with
lis splendid retinue Of worlds and satellites
is revolving through the realms Of space, a
The ratio OF millions Of miles in a year. and
In obedience 10 some influence situated pre-
cisely in the direction of the star of Alcyon,
one Of The Pleiades. We do not know how
far off in The iinmensities of space that re
volying cyclee and epicyclss may be; MOI
have our Oldest observers or incest insiru.
ments been able TO tell us how far of in The
skies that beautiful cluster of stars is hung,
whose influence man can never bind. In
this question alone, and the answer to il is
involved both the recognition and exposition
OF the whole theory of gravitatiou.
Science taught that the world was round
but po,entales pronounced the belief bereti-
cal, Notwithstanding the Psalmisi, while a.
postrephizing the works Of creation in one
of his sublime moods of aspiration, when
prophets spaks as they were moved, had
called The world the Ground world,n and
bade il rejoice.
You recoect when Gallileo was 10 PRISON,
pump maker came TO him with his diff
culiies because his pump would not lifl wa.
ter higher than 90 feet. The old philoso-
pher thought Il was becarse the atmosphere
would not press The water up any higher;
but the hand of prosecution was upon him !;
and he was afraid 10 say the air had weight.
Now had he looked 10 the science Of the
Bible, be would have discovered iha, the
"pertect" man of Uz, moved by revelation,
had proclaimed the fac, thousands of years
before. He makelh the weight for the
wind" Job is very learned, and his speech
es abound in scientific love. The persecu-
tors Of the old astronomer would have been
wiser, and far more just, had they paid more
attention 10 this wonderful Book, for there
they would have learned that "He stretch.
eik the North over the empty place, and
bangelh The earth upon nothing"
Here is another proof that Job was fami-
lar with the laws of gravitaton, for he knew
how the world was held in its place land for
"ihe empty place" ir the sky, Sir john Her.
schel has been securing the heavens with
his powerful telescope, and guaging the stars
and whe re do you think he finds The most
barren parl-the empty place-of the sky
10 the North precisely where JOB told Bill.
dad, the Shuhte, the empty place was
stretched out. l. is there where comets
most delight 10 roam, and hide themselves
in emptiness.
pass by the history OF creation as il is
written on the tablet of the rock and in the
Book of Revelation, because the question
has been discussed so much and so often
that you, no doubt, are familiar with the
whole subiect In both The order Of creation
is The same first the plants TO afford sus-
ienance: and then the animals. the chief point
Of apparent difference being as TO the dura-
lion Of the period betwsen the "eyening and
the morning" "a thousand years is as one
day." and the Mosaic account affords evil
dence itself ,hallhe term day, as there used,
is rot that which eomprehends our twenty
four hours. 1t was day that had its even
ing and morning before the sun was made.
will, however, before proceeding farther,
ask pardon for mentioning rule of conduct
which have adopted, in order 10 make pro-
gress with these physical researches which
have occupied so much of my time and so
many Of my thoughts, and that rule is, ns8-
er 10 forget who is the Author of the great
volume which nature spreads out before us,
and always to remember that the same Be-
ing is also the Author of the Book which
Revelation holds up 10 us and ihough the
two works are entirely different, thei, records
are equally true, and when they bear upon
the same point, as now and then they do, il
is impossible that they should contradict
each other, as il is that eithe or should contra
dict itself. II tie Two cannot be teconciled,
the fault is ours, and is because in our blind.
ness and weakness we have not been able
10 Interpret Alright either the one or tue 9TH
or, or both.
Solomon, in single verse, describes the
circulation of the atmosphere as actual OBJ.
serva,on Is now showing it TO be. That it
has i,s laws, and Is obedient TO ordet as the
heavenly host in their movement, we infer
from the fact announced by him, and which
contains the essence Of volumes written BY
other men, "All the rivers run into ,be sea !;
yet the sea is.uot full; unto the place from
whence The rivers come, thither they return
again"
To investigate the laws which govern the
wild winds and rule the sea, is one of the
most profitable and beautiful occupations
that man, an improving, progressive man,
can have. Decked with stars as The sky is,
the field of astronomy affords no subjects OF
contemplation more ennobling, more sub
lime, or more profitable than those which
we may find in the air and IN the sea. When
we regard them from certain points of view
they present the appearance of wayward
,hings, obedient 10 40 law, but tickle in their
movements, and subject only 10 chance.
Yet when we 60 as truth.loving knowl-
edoe.seek ing explorers, and knock at their