Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-08

l general to make his lecture as interesting as possible and in order to help him to do so he had prepared some maps and appliances that would more clearly demonstrate what he said.
 Over this announcement great cur iosity and interest was manifested. It was the talk of the town and when the appointed time arrived the town hall was filled to overflowing. The preach CT went upon the platform with a great round ball looking thing. It was covered with white paper and on it was black spots, some of them larg- CT and some of them smaller and a great many little black dots.
 After making an earnest prayer, he went on to say that the sun was a great central body, so much larger than this earth. that to take small homeopathic pill and compare it with the largest cannon ball ever made and then add a- hundred times more to the cannon ball and it would be fair comparison. To this announcement, the deacon looked white with astonish- ment and most all the brothers and sisters looking sheered as though they were afraid the good parson was going crazy. And then he went on to say that the earth belonged to a family of planets and was among the smallest of them all That one of the planets was fourteen hundred times larger than the earth, and that some of the planets had moons, and one of them had seven moons and that no one knew how many fixed stars there were i; that there were millions of them and the stronger the magnifying glass, the more stars were seen, and that each of these stars was sun to other great planetary systems too small for us to see; and then he took his globe and explained it on the globe. He then went on to say that the sun to our planetary system was great station ary body as were the stars to other similar constellations, and that by at traction of cohesion these bodies were kept together and by attractions of gravitation they were kept whirlihg round and round on each others axis and at the same time were going round these great centre attractions or suns in eternal space.
 The deacon and all the audience seemed kinder dazed and did not seem to know what the parson was driving at. Then he took ball and long string to it, whirled it around aud around and then explained that this was the way the earth revolved around the sun and that the string that held the ball from flying off at right angles when he whirled it kept the earth in like way in the same re- lation to the sun by attraction of gravitation.
 At this point iis the lecture the dea- con sprung to his feet and said for his part, he had heardlthe scriptures dis credited and truth Slaughtered as long as he could quietly sit without enter ing his protest. The good man seeing the deacon in such rage, quietly sat down and the deacon went on to say that one of the first lessons he learned in the sacred book was when tine Lord commanded the sun to stand still un- til Joshua and his hosts won great battle, and my friends, in the face of this great and gndying truth, this man, this wolf in shsep's clothing has had the impudence, the blasphemous gall, to stand up before you and say the sun is great fixed body and does not move. My friends, his argument is so ridiculous, i would not notice it. were it not for itsblasphemy He has shown you globe and maps and has talked great deal of mysterious non sense, but if I had a tin pan filled with water, 1 could demonstrate by tipping just little how the water would pour out, then how much soon CT the waters of the rivers and lakes would spill out if the earth was turn ing over in space at a speed faster than a railroad train was ever known to run.
 He Said when he went to school, the teacher was especially examined on this question and that his father would have as soon have employed s foaming mad dog to teach school as z man who taught round geography that flat geography was good enougf for his father and flat geography wa' good enough for him. Then he calico
 for vote as to whether the parsor
 should go on with his lecture or no
 and it was voted that he should stop, by quite majority.
 At this stage of the proceedings ,, Bob Cummings jumped up and sait | that he should like to say word anC they all cooled down to hear wha : Bob had to say. He said he had nev CT taken much part iI this churcf business but that right was right and h. was man enough to stand up and sa. so; that he knew it was unpopular bu that he was for round geography botl by inheritance and conviction ant that he did not intend to see the par son kicked out of town for being bray
 enough to stand by a great truth evel : if he had to pay his salary alone; anC 7 then a dozen or more spoke up am ! said 'go it Bob, we will stand with yol
 even if we have to give up our liquo t and such things in order to support tn parson."
 That night two church societies wer r formed. Bob and his friends employ
 ed the old parson and when the Ina t went around, dollars were put in 1T T stead of cents; in short time 5 beautiful church was built and tn Il steeple was covered all over with some II thing that shined like gold and ther u was an organ put in that made mor U noise than four hundred lowing cow n Meanwhile the deacon and his friend u were not idle; they secured tn services of a minister who was soun ~ ~ on fiat geography.
 U A meeting was at once called an l' the minister when called upon to e! Il plain his views upon this vital que 'r ton said that flat geography was bre
 in his bone, that it was part of h c. flesh and that his blood filtered thrOug le1 it. That any so called minister of u 'd gospel who did not endorse flat ge n graphy was thorn in the side of u IS Christian religion far more destru ie tive than the heretics Ton Paine It Bob Ingersoll. At these noble wore er the meeting went fairly wild with jo ld He was employed at once. He W. s- given salary double what the Oth