National Republican., 1882-09-29
THAT COMET AGAIN,
Tho Recent Narrow Escape OF the Earth
biblical VigUa.

To the Editor OF THE REPuBLIcAN;
Ihe recent narrow escape OF the planet Earth
Is by no means subject for hlppant comment by
the uninltiated Astronomers. like their prede-
ccssor the soothsayors and astrologers Of tho an
cient Babylon Earth, are at their very best only
guessers. Their beautiful science is not old
enough, and never will be, to determine with pre-
cision an orbitular ollipse. If the Earth's orbit
was so gradually parnbolical to vary in twenty
nVe years from 95000,000 to 9l 100000 of miles,
there are no means at hand TO determine whether
we are 100000 OF miles nearer the sun, or that
astronomers have committed every small error T"
In computing the elements Of her orbit"
wIiEN THE COMET OF 1913"
came then so near the earth as to startle torres
trials with the danger of Its ENHANCEMENT In our
atmosphere 1t was thought to be "Diola's como',"
with periodicity of 15O years. This would have
brought II back in A. D. 1897 But, with n confls-
ing 9bliylousness ofnl that scientific planetarIans
might have demanded of its cosine and arc, 1t
rushed into our view In 1880, when its perlodicity
was calculated as thirty seven years, which would
nave brought II bnck in a. d. 1910 But May IL,
iSS2, II was discovered during total eclipse OF
the SUM- visible in Egypt, not far from the corona
Of the sun, and only four months Afterwards II
again comes before us like roaring lion, planet
ing about seeking whom he may devour." While
the movements Of a known living being are sufli-
ciently within computable limits to Approximate
calculated orbit, yet il voliton bo considered
among its elements" its returns to. any given
locality are by no means within tho
RANGE OF HUMAN PREscIENcE,
although within the sphere of human +" observa-
ton" If the migrations of hocks of birds, or
swnrms of insects, should come within the ele.
ments of study, their vo'itions, regulated by cl-
matte vicissitudes, bee )me so irregular as TO de-
PEND on matters impossible TO prOgnosticate with
accuracy. To calculate the elements of an orbit,
nature of the "wanderer." 1t is not enough 10
say that a comet consists Of q nucleus, coma and
tai, nor that It Is not sold nor that It may be
olehant, or other gas, or that It's pcriodcity de-
pends upon its regular ellptical orbit. The orbits
Of all the planets, as well as comets, known or un-
known to man, may revolvc in parabnas. gradual
or acuc, and the sun may be fed with fnggot-
| worlds to keep his fires glowing. The :" sun may
have been an electric lamp existing before tho
aggregation OF pondorablcS gave him tho pnbulum
for his concentiic spheres. He may have thus be-
| come material object after
THE LIGHT WAS FIRST CREATED.
The nebulm may be the inexhauslible supply from
which the planets are originated; first MS gaseous,
next becoming aqueous, next silt, next land and
water first the abode of fishes next of fishes and
saurians, next as the abode OF fishes, saurans and
mammals, and last of man as the lord of them ALL
The vastness of the subject neccssitaes other hy-
pothcses. This solar system may have prim ord
tally consisted of planets, not one of which now
su rvives outside the incandescenccs of the sun.
The planets now revolving around him may, in
congener of spheres of which tho hydrogen en-
veiope, consisting of the lightcst, is the upper
most or outer apsis so each planet may be destined
TO evaporate from solar center the incandescent
spheres, which her cremation necessitates, sur
rounding her with the fiery vo rLices of her own
yoti,i5aton: The sun himself, may be the ag-
minus of their spiral orbits and the spots on her
disc may be the ,oblique view of the fiery en-.
velopes of incandescent worlds resting against
each other. Thus science may have
UNwITTISGLY DISCOVERED HE'LL
Helion, the sun, is doubtless the basis of our
word hell the Anglo-Saxon "hell' being COW
| cred place The sun has been an object of wor-
ship ana intense curiosity to the ancients as well
| as the moderns. That wonderful thing, the spec
troscope, has discovered to us the existence IN the
| of tho metals 90 II, La
| found in our planet, howbet there IN an incan-
descent state, and the same metht ds of study re-
hXed stars and planets. lnfusoria have been
| found in metcorites, which have'visited us from
Venus doubtless. or from Mercury" per-
| haps). The scientists are at fault. They have
| been long troubled in view of the horrors which
are revealed In their long Investigated "god of
| day" They strive to conceal their apprehen-
sions from each other and from the world. But
ii their lucubrations are to be received then the
mission of Christ is IA logical necessity, or some
| fire which awaits this world and its wicked in
ha5itans hal, In few months the dragon of fire
gos the SOLAR ssem ShSh we 20 Ta5 ihs
He will insert himself into the meteoric sphere
expand by heat to enormous volume, and ex.
teorItes within the belt of which he will have
thus penetrated. These meteorites
| WILL FALL UPON THE EARTH
like red hot hail, wounding those who are exposed,
and falling TO the earth mingled with blood
| focks Of birds will thus be precipitaied to the
ground, and many men and other animals will
| be grievously wounded. This catastrophe is
| described by the greatest astronomer who ever
| lived in Revelations viii, Z, as the first trump.
2. The next stage will be that the valleys will be
| filed up, including that deep one now filled by
the ocean, with the hot hail l-stones, causing the
sea and the waves to roar or boil up, destroying
the living things in the sea-lRev. viii s. 0, Sec
| ond trump)
| 8. The evaporation thus produced will cause the
earth to be surrounded with an dpsis of CLOUDS"
| (Rev j, y, which will distl apsintainc rain with
the effects upon the rivers aud fountains of water
described in Rev, viii, 10, IL. Third trump.
4. The evaporation and the cometc mass, as
well the approximation of the earth to the sun
moon, and stars, with the effect described in Rev.
Citations, viii, II.
5. The "angel" described in the last verse of
the same chapter is OF course the comet himself or
Apollyon, the destroyer, described in the first
| eleven verses of the ninth chapter of the same
divine work, US the "arSt teo I" produced by the
| fifth trump
| 8. The second resurrection is described as the
| effect of the sixth trump. The demon-ocusts
| after having obsessed the wicked for period OF
one and half centuries in the first wo, will re-
sumo their bodies, us explained by our Lord in
| Matthew xii 43, "A.
These trumps will occupy period of one thou
| sand years during which time the millennial
reign of Christ with his saints will be celebrated
| in the New Jerusalem. The first resurrection with
the translation of the remnant of Gods people Is
very near at hand Even science predicts that.
within this century, which has but eighteen years
| to run, the grand "crash" is to expected. Even
So come quickly, Lord Jesusl 4.
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Was She Poisoned?