Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-21

is now bare rock in the sea, where
fishermen spread their nets. Two
thousand years ago,-according to his
tory and tradition-Greenland was o |
fertile country, supporting a large |
population and Iceland was covered
with a dense forest of birch and fir
but the Gulf stream, by filing the bot
tom of the ocean with minute particles
of sand, brought from southern seas,
has turned that great current of warm
water, eastward /; leaving Greenland
and Iceland in the frozen waters of the
north, and almost uninhabitable.
From these facts, we become cogniz-
ant of continuous change; it settles
down into our minds, that very far
back in time, there was a very differ
ent condition of things, and that far
down the vista of the future there may
be, in fact will be, vast changes
and from what we know, let us as i'm
the language of the Psalmist, "Get
wisdom, get understanding, and forget
it not" After all this it may be
thought to be IL great step from what
we know of GOD, and the changes pro-
duced by His laws, to try and follow
out Ills steps in the creation of our
universe, and more especially of our
world yet such is often done, and it
does more good to try and follow the
Omnipqtent, end obey His command,
as given us by the ipsgirsd words of
Solomon, when he says,-HWisGom is
the principal thing, therefore get wis
dom; and with all thy gettipgs, get
understanding"
AS we turn our telescope into the re-
gion of space, we see of course ipnunl-
cradle stars not visible to the naked
eye, but never do we see the outside
limit of space. If it is limited, we can
not see where. If it is not, we cannot
comprehend how it can be without
limit. Beyond the utmost limit of
telescope vision, COP only knows
what is there but as the telescope has
shown us innumerable stars beyond
the ken of mortal eye, SO, could we
improve our instruments, or look with
the eye of GOD, we have every reason
to suppose that we should still see
cluster upon cluster of worlds. Amid
| those clusters of stars, in open spaces,
we sometimes find luminous fields.
They are where a system of worlds
might be expected yet it is simply lu-
minosity, or fire mist. In other words,
it is chaos. In other places we see
amid this mist aggregations, or points
of greater density, which La Place con-
sidered the nucleus of coming worlds.
In Others, there was q division into
rings. We see in our system the planet
Saturn surrounded by rings, dense
enough to reflect light, and to cast a
shadow, yet not dense enough to blot
out the light of a bright star beyond,
though they much obscure such. These
may break up into additional satel-
lites for Saturn, and the fire mist may
be new systems in process of creation,
and it is supposed they are.
LA Places theory explained with
diagrams)
This supposes the fire mist to be va
ported material, from heat, and the
worlds, or suns first formed would be
extremely hot. Our sun is so now.
Our earth is cool outside, but if this
theory is true, it cannot be cool inside.
So we are living upon the cooled sur
face of an intensely hot globe. Let us
see if reason is on our side in this.
Prominent among the facts that 90 to
show that the interior of our earth is
hot as represented, is that wherever
we descend beneath it's surface to any
considerable depth, we find a regular
increase of temperature, the mean rate
of increase being one degree for every
90 feet. With this regular increase, it
would become red hot at q depth of IL
miles, and at the depth of 80 miles ev-
erything would be hot enough to melt,
and become liquid, if it was not for the
lMmense pressure upon it, which must
render it dense and hard, although in
tensely hot and thus it goes on to-
wards the centre, not perhaps with
regular increase, as the hot material,
pressed so closely together, may con-
duct heat as metals do electricity, and
consequently not have an increased
rate towards the centre. In connec-
ton with this, as additional proof,
come boiling springs, and numerous
VOLCANOES, ejecting lava, which is melt
ed rock thus seemingly making the
testimony conclusive. But be it as it
may in creation, it is a tangible fact,
that we are sailing through the region
of space with immense velocity some
have thought without a pilot, and
that we should be dashed into the face
of some comet or other stroller in space
and sometimes there has been dread,
to some, OF such catastrophe. But
they forgot that there was power to
guide as well as create, and that our
world with its living freight is safe in
His hands.
But we live on wonderful planet
1t is not mere agglomeration ofrocks
and mountains, seas and lakes, as by
the telescope we see in Mars, but here
as ON no other planet, we can look into