The morning call., 1893-02-21
HEAVEN ON THE MAP.
1t Is Said to Be Located on One of the
Suns of the Pleiades.

1t has remained for a Baptist preacher
named l.. l.. Read of Hackensack, N. Y,
on the four hundredth anniversary of the
great discoveries of Christopher Columbus,
to retire that great mans name to compare
tive oblivion. Columbus discovered only
the tail end of continent. a few coral
reefs, skirtDga hemisphere. Read has dis
covered not a reef, not a continent, or
hemisphere, or new world even, but
heaven, and bel claims to be able to
almost name the geographical bounda-
ries of this celestial realm. He has
not found heaven through the celebrated
''SymmeS Hole" nor yet on any part of the
earths surface. 1t is not on the moon, nor
yet on any Of the planets of the solar sys
TEN. 1t is just as far away as it is possible
for him to locate it, namely. on the star AL
cyone, the most conspicuous of the c0nstel-
lati0n Pleiades. so many millions of miles
away that the distance is reckoned not tn
commonplace nautical or terrestrial terms,
but in terms OF the velocity of light.
A writer in speaking OF this tremendous
locality suggests that if in an attempt to de-
termine it the radius of the earth's orbit is
taken as a unit of measurement which Is
SO. 600. 600 miles, it would fail to give an ade-
quate idea of the tremendous space between
things terrestrial and things celesti The
ituUeuIdte UelSuD0TS Ol alCyODt are ASleT-
Ope, Taygeta, PleiOne, Atlas, Electra and
Merope. which stars will no doubt be used
to shelter the overflow when Alcyone drops
into the Malthusian state.
1t will be remembered that Cincinnati's
able professor of astronomy has spent
months OF his time with his telescope CROP
ing around among the stars in search of the
celestial realm. but his discoveries were not
satisfactory. Moreover. he didn't have q
thus saith the Lord" back OF him, as has
this Hackensaek divine. His ideas were
based on theory, Rev. Mr.. Reads on what
/ Know" OF course, DR.. Read has been
unable with his telescope to catch a glimpse
of the spiritual beings fitting hither and
thither on Alcyone. How could they be
visible to mortal eye? The reverend dis
coverer says:
while every one is aware that the earth
revOlves around the sun, G0t every one is
aware that our entire solar system Is in mo-
ton. Sir William Hersehel was the first to
call attention 10 this fact 100 years ago.
Since then noted astronomers have clearly
demonstrated and measured this movement
In The constellation Hercules is star
known by the Greek letter ri, toward
which our sun, with all its attendant plan
cts, is speeding at the rate of SO. $50, 0O0
miles year, or about sixteen miles second
Now, the distance of the star 81 Cygni
has been found to be nine light years a
light year being 63. 900 times the distance of
the earth from the sun, or 5.859, COO CO., 900
miles. The Pole Star system is 46 light
years distant, the Pleiades 700 and the neb-
ua IN the constellation of Andromeda
100000 1t Is, OF course, we'll known that
all OF the stars, excepting the planets In our
own system. are suns, shining by their own
light, and comparable in magnitude with
our own sun. The light of some of these
suns has been measured. That of Sirius is
90 times brighter than our own sun, Of
Vega 344 times, of Arcturus SIC times and
of Alcyone II. QUO times"
The Baptist preacher insisto that Alcyone
Is the center OF the universe, about W hitch
our solar system revoives once in q, OOO 600
years. According to his discoveries, ac-
cording to what he knows, 18,e00OOO suns
and 1000 such ornaments as ours revolye
about Alcyone and heaven. what them"
he concludes, could be more fitting than
that here, at the center OF gravity and
motion. should be the throne of the king.
the eternal. invisible and only one God?
According to the teachings of the scrip
lures, in Ephesians Tvs. it is said
that Christ assembled far above all the
DEMONSTRATING 10 the three heavens
recognized by the Hebrews. To the upper
most of these, Paul declares, Christ went.
and the statement would point that Christ
assembled to this central orb, which is far
above ALL"
With heaven at last substantially located,
and with it satisfactorily demonstrated by
Professor st. George Miyart that perpetual
picnic is going to be engaged in in
heavens antithess. there is no further use
Tor speculative ideas. The theoretical is
snpplanted by the practical All aboard for
Alcyone!