Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-04-09

manded the morning since thy day, and
caused the day-spring TO know its
place ?" This alludes to the uniform
revolution Of the earth upon its axis.
The amount Of time it requires to make
q revolution is absolutely unchanged.
Prof M. said he had verified this
again and again, but for it we would
not have any fixed element of time by
which we might determine the revolu-
tinna of any of the planets. 1.-THE earth
should quicken it's revolution, the water
Of the ocean, and various bodies. would
accumulate near the equator. Finally,
the centrifugal force would be SO great
that evrything would fly off from the
earth. But long before this point
were reached our globe would cease
to be habitable. ~ T. i,tad tql, st,,.;stqs.
Prof NJ, proceeded then to speak of
the influence ofthe atmosphere in keep
ing the rising sun from bursting upon
us in all its brillianc!yi:: Then there
comes another question, which has
never been answered "Where is the
way wherelight dwelleth?" We know
that there is 5 medium through which
light comes, but what the cause is
which produces. the undulation, who
can tell? lfyou do not give to this me-
dium specific number Of undulations
within an inch Of space, for instance
lyon do not have light at all. On the
right hand, or on the left, it will be
utter darkness. After reading the 2lst
verse, the lecturer alluded to the i'm.
mense periods of time which it took for
light to come from the fixed stars to
the earth, and explained how the space
penetrating powers of the telescope
were determined. He said that he had
scene stars so distant that it must have
required hundreds Of thousands OF
years for light to have come from them
10 this earth. More than this. Were
those stars themselves blotted from ex-
istence, it would take hundreds OF
thousands of years for Us to become
aware Of the fact, for the stream OF
light pouring from them would not be
exhausted until long after its fountain
had been destroyed. "Canst thou bind
the sweet influence of the .Pleiades p
TO the ancicnts. this beautiful cluster
announced the coming Of the Spring
and the question propounded is, car
you hold back the coming of this sea
son? God has bound their sweet inau
ence, for they no longer tell Of the
coming of spring; and the same hand
has loosed the bands Of Orion. The
place Of the vernal Equinox is not fixed
BY calculating back, it is found thai
the Pleiades occupied nearly the same
lplace with the Equinox ahout the time
the Be TX Of Job was written. 'a @2"z:
The last inquiry alluded to was con
tained in the SD verse, 'Knowest tho,
|the ordinances Of heaven? Canst tho,
set the dominion thereof in the earth 2
1t is not pretended t,;at any OF thes,
Questions reveal any. new facts in sci
lence, but it would have been supposed
Ut one time that thov could; never hav,
been, answered. Suppose it had beel
asked, caiist thoa weigh the suh as il
a balance and tell precisely its magni
tude :? This has been done. If God ha,
said of the Polar Star, .'When yonde
point of light. which has guided you
fathers for generations across the des
ert shall change its place, then my com
mandments shall fail, sit would hav
been supposed from the similitude
that the Divine DEGREES were eterna
but the point toward which the earth
axis is directed is very different fror
what it was two thousand years ag.
No such comparisons as these wer
made in the Bible. In conclusiot
Prof NJ. said he had been amazed a
he studied Gods Word, to see no,
accurately its language accorded in e,
. cry particular with the later revelation
E of science.-M y. Times. '