Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-06-19

than from any discrepancy between sci
eoce and the Bible. OF course cannot
enter into full and complete explanations.
for that would require several lectures to
clucidate what little have thus far worked
out. and am fully persuaded that have
many grand fields still uneXplored. l
shall therefore give an isolated illustration.
by way of Introducing what l consider the
only key for unlocking the mysteries Of the
Bible.
TIE MILLENNIUM.
The ancient shepherds were the first to
observe the move mcnts OF the heavenly
bodies. and to discover that they all had
their orbits within belt bat l6 deg. wide.
This belt they divided into II equal parts.
giving to each the name of some animal by
way of distinguishing one part from a.
other. They called this belt Zodiac. :
which signifies "a circle of animals. In
the days of Moses the vernal equinox oc-
Cured when the sun entered the sign Tau
rus. the bull. and as this was period Of
rejoicing for having escaped the evils Of
winter, the bull, OK. COW. etc., were held
sacred by them, and are to this day. But
Moses. by calculating the procession of the
equinoctal points. predicted the time when
the vernal equinox would occur in the sign
Aries. Git now ccurs i'll about deg. of
the sign Pisces, but our astronomers. like
the old fogy Egyptions. refuse to make any
change.) and anticipate that event by sub
itt,.ing the male lamb in place Of the
bali. Hence the lteral Specification of The
passover-whcn Taurus should pass over
the eouinoctial and give place to Aries.
When Taurus was upon the equinoctal.
the summer sol stice occurred in the sign
Leo, the lion. when the sun gained lis
create t northern drciination. being % deg
30 min. north of the eqninocial. from
whence it returned, crossing the equinoc-
tial In the s"n Scor,.io. and continuing its
course southelly. again halted in Aquar
les. % leg. 80 min. south of the equinoc
tial, and turning north completed its appar
cut revolution in Taurus. in the mouth o.
March, which was the first month in the
year.
Subsequently it was discovered that th'
declnation OF the sun, both north ant
south, was gradually diminishing. ct l.
now a little less than % deg. Is mir.
Surprising that this diminusion Of declina
ton would always continue, Cor rather tina
it would continue until the axis OF tn
earth came to perpendicular with t.
Main of its orbit and tn Ell decline III an op
posite direction. although this position wa
then unknown. and have used noder
terms in order to explain their understand
ing of the matter.) they at once set to wor
to ascertain how long it would be befor
the sun would pass through the heavens
parallel to the equinoc,ial, without dech
nation north in the summer ami south u
the winter. According to the best calcu
lations they could make, it would requir
144,0OO years, and then for the next thou
sand years the sun woald continue nearl.
parallel to the cquinoctial. after which
would decline south at that :ason OF til
yearit had formerly declined north, AM
north where it had formerly been south
When this time came, then Aries, TIT
lamb, and Leo. the lion. should lie dow
together onahe equinoctial.
Here l wish to remark that am onl
explaining the origin and literal meanin!
of the scriptures. That the words have al
so typical and spiritual Specification, d
not deny. And this applies to almost ev
ery sentence in the Bible. The putting G
anew wine into old bottles" had a deepl
significant literal meaning. because th
bottles were made from the skins Of AM
mails. and the fermentation Of new win
would burst the old bottles. Hence, ar
not dealing with the spiritual signiiicatior
but aiming to show that the B:b.e writers
in some things at least. were more fam
lar with science than many of their pedln
tic revilers of the present day. But to X
sumo.
Granting that God Inspired the writer
of the Bible to pen the spiritual truth
which it contains. II Is evident that he di
not inspire them with Knowledge of SC
ence, He endowed man with the abht
70 learn science. and then left hi,n to hi
own choice. to study or not This is 81
parent from the fact inat inc ahe'e'i's sal
posed the sun performed daily 'revolutio
around the earth, and an annual revolutlo
through the heavens. And now to explai
their error In snpposing that the sun wo,Il
continue to lose It's declination until it Re
yolyed through the heavens parallel to til
eQuinoctisl.
Ifyou spin top obllquely to the surfae
an which It runs. its upper end will G,
rate, making small circle in the air. Jus
=. A. oarth n spinS Obli0uei