The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-19
Theological Astronomy.

| THE BIRTH OF CHRIST COINCIDENT WITH
| THE COMPLETION OF A SOLAR CYCLE.
/ The celebrated astronomer, d. f.
Lande. makes the tropical year consist
OF 365 days, hours 43 minutes, 4S sec
OndS.
This | believe to be correct, because
it is the only valuation | have ever
seen given from which a perfect solar
cycle can be found, and l believe all
Gods works are perfect. claim to
have discovered, with the above value
OF the tropical year, perfect solar
cycle consisting of $500 years, without
a fractional remainder, the first year of
the second cycle being precisely the
same as the first year of the first cycle;
the first after leap-year, the day of the
month, the day of the week, and the
position OF the equinox, being the same
in the second cycle as in the first, with
out fractional remainder.
There is no point between the first
and last year of the cycle of $500 years
at which the cycle can be made to syn
chronize with the Christian era; but the
last year of the cycle corresponds to
b. G. ,, common era, which is the year
in which Christ was born. The Domn-
lean letters are inhexible; they can
neither be coaXed nor bribed out of the
proper channel; they are also infallible,
If correctly employed; in applying
them to the cycle, the first letter of the
alphabet Cay must be made to repre-
sent the first year of the cycle, and, as
the letters are arranged for the Julian
calendar, the first day of the cycle must
be Sunday, the LIST day of January; and,
as the first year of the cycle is the first
alter leap-year, the fourth year OF the
cycle must be leap-year and have two
Dominica letters.
The excess of Julian over tropical
time amounts to seven days in 900
years, without a fractional remainder;
hence there should be seven leap-days
omitted in each 900 years, thus making
seven cycles in 900 years; but, as these
consist of 12S Al years each, and as
thu leap-day cannot be omitted except
in a leap-year, the omissions must be
male so as to give l2S years in each of
the first six cycles, and 1872 years to the
seventh. This would give forty-nine
procession cycles to $500 years; say
seven procession cycles to one equinOc-
t al cyc.e of 900 years, and seven
equinoctial cycles to one grand and
perfect solar cycle of $500 years.
Each year in which the leap-day is
omitted must be limited to one Domin-
icai letter; all leap-years proper must
have two letters each. BY computing
according to the position of the equi-
nox at the meridian of Rome, the last
omission of the leap-day in the grand
cycle falls due in B. G. ID; but by COM
putting according to the meridian of
Jerusalem-at and near which Christ
cOnSummated His mission to this
world the omission of the last leap
day in the cycle fell due in B. G.. ),
common era, the same year in which
Christ was born. To me this seems an
extra ordinary and most wonderful
coincidence not accidental, but verify
providential.
And what a grand, perfect and beau
tiful division of time! Seven days to
the week: seven procession cycles, six
of which consisting of 128 years each,
emblematical of the six secular days of
the week, and the seventh consisting of
1872 years, emblematical of the holy
Sabbath; seven equinoctial cycles of 900
years each, mathematical of the seven
Sabbatical years; and one grand and
perfect solar cycle of $500 years, the
last year of which ushers into this world
a wonderful child; He grows to man.
hood, claims to be the Son of God, |
heals the sick, raises the dead to life, |
commands the winds and waves and |
they obey Him; His claim is acknowI-
edged, and nearly nineteen hundred |
years afterwards He is acknowledged and |
adOred in every part of the world as
the Savior of mankind.
1t seems strange that any intelligent /
person could suppose that a Being
possessed of power and wisdom suffi- /
Gent to create the sun and the world, ,
and to establish such q perfect system !
in the division of time. should lack the |
power to create man also, and give him
a soul; and as the sun is made to regu-
late the seasons and the division of .
time, so the soul should regulate and .
be responsible for the actions of man.
If a man was evolved from the orang-
the oraug-Outang from the
and the monkey from proto-
plaSm. and we were obliged to pay
homage to the first cause of our being,
we should have TO PROSTATE ourselves
before an Oyster.-NOGh Lee, tn ". Y.
Observer.