The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-05-17
THE SUN no MOVE"


TIE REV. JOHN JASPER DEMoLIsuEs
TIE CoPERNICAN SYSTEM BEFORE A
WAsHINGToN AUDIENCE.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond,
had an audience of about two hundred peo.
pie at Lincoln Hall last evening to listen to
his lecture on "Thc Rotation 81 the Sun"
Most Of the audience were white people.
THE LECTURER
took the platform at s o'clock lie is al
most coal black, about five feet ten inches
in height, Of muscular frame and jaw, has a
partly bald head and face covered with
short black beard and mustachc. He was
dressed in black, with a white nccktio and
pair Of new shoes. His years are about
43. The chain to his watch got loose from
the upper button hole of his vest, when he
became excited in his discourse, and dang,
led wildly around his stomach as he rushed
from one side of the stage to the other
His delivery is good, though somewhat fast,
and he sometimes mouths his words. His
dialect is marked. His voice is clear and
sharp, and runs at times into the sing song
OF the camp meeting or revival, and the
eyes, all ~ "Good, ah" Of the converted
darkey When speaking quietly and evenly
he keeps his left hand on his hip, the arm
akimbo, and saws the air with his right
When excited, however, he charges about
and gesticulates rapidly with both hands,
throws back his head and INDUCES in one
or two lines of some old-fashioncd hymn,
the better to illustrate his meaning and i'm
press upon his hearers what he has to say
TIE HYMN.
He commenced by saying that his usual
custom was to begin his lecture with a
hymn, but, us he saw there was no choir
present. he would "line" out few verses
and ask the audience to ';jine" him. He
read three verses Of the hymn ''The Heav-
ings declare thy glory, Lord" and after
singing one or two lines by himself, reading
them separately, he was joined by the col
ored people in the audience.
BROTHER JASPER A BIBLE INTERPRETER
He began his lecture by saying that he
| was no grammaran, and had never been to
school in his life. If any of the audience
expected grammar from him they would be
mistaken, but they would get instead scrip
tural truth and sound argument based on
the Bible; 1t was owing to the grace of
God that he had "arrove" at what he had
"arrove' at. 81 come" he said, "bcfo' YOU
to prove bofo' | lef you, that the sun do
move" The first part of his discourse, he
said, might be ''scattering," until he eot to
the land OF Canaan, but ''whcn does oct
to Canaan, l certainly will prove dat the sun
do move" lie then gave
AN ACCOUNT OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC 7:
how Abraham was about to dagger" Issac,
when the angel called out 'holI on Abro.
ham, thy faith arc tried, thy lc7e are known,
go dar III de bushes and get dat ram what
nave got his horns tangled, and sacrifice
HIM" For de Lord was man of war.
L. e~vn IN .L~ sa~o s.p,HG 49,.
Israeli captivity in Egypt and ''Phariar's"
wlckcdness, and the doings of Moses and
"Aarlon" who were sent by the Lord 'to tell
Pharlar to let my people go" The Lord
wanted his people to go, for he was man
Of war. The plaques were next described
When the lice came, Phariar said to Moses,
lake the lice away anu I'll let 'cm 90 !;
and the Lord took 'em away, but Phariar
wouldn't let his people go" Then came
the flight Of the children of Israel and
'Pharar' following them, he having "soli.
cited SIX hundred chariots, with captains
and coloncls to command them" and "the
troops on horseback and the infants On foot
ing" Then the passage of the Red Sea
by Israel and the destruction of "Phariar."
the Lord having sent his angel 10 take the
wheels from his chaff6ts; ~for def.oofd was
man OF war" After some more skrmsh.
ing, he came to
TIE BATTLE OF THE IsRAELITEs WITH
THE GIBEONITES,
when Joshua cried unto the Lord that he
had not time to whip his enemies ss the
sun was going down, and was t6ia to com
mand the-sun to stand still; xhdtfe sun
stood still and the moon stayed until the
people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. "lf the sun don't move what
was the use Of Joshua commanding it to
stand still? Why didn't he tell the earth
to stand still, if that was the one that
moved - Our fathers believed in the
Bible, and, he said, we should accept theif'
belief The Bible is recognized through
out the land. Every witness in court is
sworn upon it to tell the truth. 1t is "a
divinely inspired volume, and is to be be-
lleved above all other books, or the words
and scientific doctrines of all men. Turn
to the Psalms" said the lecturer, and YOU
will find, 'From the rising of the sun until
the going down Of the same the Lords