Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-25
HApes AT LAST LOCATED.
Claims of P..rson That It Is Fifty-two
Miles Beneath the Earth's Surface.

Claims OF b PArsOn That It Is Fifty-twO
Miles Beneath the Earth's Surface.
Hell is jugs fifty.two miles straight
| down from Chieago or any other place on
| the earth's surface"
Such is the startling theory of the Rev.
| c. A. A. Taylor, the travelling agent Cor
the Florida African Methodist Episcopal
conference. DIR. Taylor has become we'll
known as a firm believer in literal hades
and the theory that the sun do move"
The preacher is full blooded negro, with
a massive forehead and an intelligent cast
of features. He has travelled extensively
in America and Europe, and he has taken
several degrees in this country well as
abroad. He is spirited talker and pos
sesses much of the eloquence for which
orators of his race are noted.
Eyes, sir" he said to a reporter, 81 have
measured the distance to hell scientifically
and find that it is just fifty-two miles
straight down. | can bottom hell with the
Bible and sustain it with science. The
Bible tells time and again that hell is
down. l could quote text after text to
prove that. Now, we find by submarine
excavations that the nearer the center of
the earth we 90 the higher is the tempera-
ture. have figured it out carefully and
find it is just fifty-two miles TO where the
IllolJeH sed DtSiHS. HdJ IS NELL Oh
canoes prove the Bible to be correct in this
regard"
What is in this lake of fire?"
"The devil and his angels There are
many earthquakes and upheavals of the
earth which prove that the old dragon is
foaming with rage and clanking his chains
beneath us. do not think that the wick
ed are yet there. They probably won't go
until the Judgment day."
You are also a believer in the Jasper
theory that the sun do move, are you not"
Most emphaticaliy l am. | can prove it
by the Bible and science. There are almost
iunumerable texts which prove that the
sun moves. When the sun was command
ed to stand still, it must have been NOV
ing. When it was ordered to go back 10
dogs. it must have moved. If heavenly
authority is TO be discredited, then the
Bible is not and should not be an accepts.-
BILE book. Job speaks of the lengths of the
earth, and in another place the Bible speaks
of the four corners of the earth. The earth
is great plain and the sun comes up and
goes down"
wi here does the sun stay at night?'
81 do not know, but will find out be-
fore | am through"
How do you explain the circumnaviga
ton of the globe?"
Il don't believe there is any such thing
The ships simply sail around the horizon.
There is no such thing rs sailing up globe
and down a globe. The mariners compass
is tempered with on q voyage. Its so
called variations are regulated by man to
meet his own ideas. In this way the ships
sail around the horizon when it is thought
they go east or west. If mariners would
let the compass alone and follow its needle
without meddling they would come 10 the
edge of the earth"
What sort of place is the edge?"
Il don't know, but do know that the
earth is fiat, else the waters would all run
out of the ponds, rivers and seas. The
River Nile does not fall a foot in $50 miles
of its Cow "
IF the earth is fiat, how do you account
for the tidesr"
Very easily. They are caused by the
evaporation of the water. Rising and fall.
ing the shifting water causes the tides
There are many things which do not yet
understand, but which shall know some
time believe am divinely commissioned
to revolutionize science and bring it into
harmony with the Bible The north pole
has never been discovered. / believe thai
when it is, a great deal of mystery which
now curtails my researches will be cleared
up. think the key to many of the most
difficult physical problems lies at the north
pole, and when that is found | do not
think / shall be longer at loss to under
stand where the sun goes nights. Chi
cago News.