The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1874-07-23
Science and the Bible.

'Vu'i' ~'Ht!tIOI tiaCCS Ih CIiC pR leStt-
ment of scientiic' knowledge, ~.-an22
knowledge Of the winds and ocean, c.ur-
rents the Professor replied Us follows
Yes, knowledge tic. m6M correct and
valuable. "CansG thoa binl the sweet in:
fucncc of the Pioiaicss - 1t is curious
fact that tho revelations of science have
led astronomers Of our own day to the
discovery of the dead centre of motion
around which comets sweep and planets
whirl, but that 1t, with its splendid rctinuc
of worlds and satellites is revolving through
the realms OF space at the rate Of millions
Of miles per year, and in obedience to
some influence situated exactly in the d.
rection of Alcyone, one of the Plciadcs.
We do not know how far or in the im-
mcnsitios of space that centre Of revolving
cycles and cpicyclcs may be, nor have our
oldest observers or incest instruments been
enabled to show us how far off III the skies
that beautiful cluster Of stars is hung,
whose influence man can never bind
In this question alone, and the new answer
to it, are Involved the whole recognition
and exposition Of the whole theory Of gray
itation.
"Scicnce taught that the world was round;
but potcntatcs pronounced the belief he
retical, Notwithstanding the Psa!mist,
while apostrophisng the works Of crea"
ton in one Of his sublime moments Of in
spiration, when the prophets spoke rs they
were moved, had called it the "round
world" and made it rejoice.
You rccollect when Gallleo was in
prison, pump maker came to him with
his difficulties because his pump would not
lift water higher than thirty-two feet. The
old philosopher thought it was because
the air would not III it up any higher,
but the hand Q! persecution was upon him,
and he was afraid 10 say the air had any
weight. Nov had ne looked to the sci
once Of TIE Bible, he would have discov-
cred that tie perfect mar Of an" moved
by reTpn mad proclaimed the fact
! tlous'.ds "a Gears before "iTe makcih.
the weightAl 3hes winds" Job is yerE
Ie-..r rs,4--A-i,-,s=,-,4t,.--<h.s@ ~
tifc lore. Ti4 prosecutors of the old as
tronomer would have been wiser and fag
more just, had they paid more attention
to this wonderful book s.; for there they
would have learned thai ITc tretchcth oot
the North over the empty space. ana
hangc;h the earth upon nothing There
i. another proof that Job was familiar with
the laws Of grayitation; f,r he knew how
tie world is held in its place And. as
for the empty space in the sky Sir John
IIerschel has been sounding The hea'ens
with his powerful telescope, and suasing
the stars, and where do You think he finds
the most barren spot-the empty space
of the sky? in the North, precisely
where job told BiIdad the Shuttle. the
empty place was stretched out 1t is there
where comets mos. delight to roam and
hide themselves III emptiness
Il pass by the history of the creation
as it is written on the tablet oi the rock
ard in the bool, orrevcIaton, because the
question has been discussed 50 much and
50 often that you are, 10 doubt, familiar
with the whole subject. In both the cI-
der Of creation i, the same sirst the plan
ei to afford su,tenIncc, and then the AM
mql> The chief POINT Of apparent differ
cncc being rs to the duration oI the peri
od between tue evening and mornin@,
4 thousand years arc a. one day and
the Mosaic account affords evidence Itself.
that the term day. as there used. is MT
,ha, which comprchonIS only twenty tonr
hours. II was day that had is evenings
and mornings before the sun was n.aJc.
Il will, however, before proceeding ANY
farther. ask rnrdon Tor myu;ionin-a rule