Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-09
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Y geology is found the only scientific
, vtiushces ot the great gcatacly snis
Milleh nave repeatedly and suddenly de-
stroyed animal and vegetable ne
lhese evidences are indisputnble and
constitute positive proof bat IN the
measurement Of time by years. we have
no knowledge as To when these events
occurred. They are separated By un
known periods that may have EXTEND
ca over 10000 or i000, 600 years.
roruons OF the Jewish scriptures. or
histories, especially the book OF Job
certainly have reference TO the last
OF ihese great catastrophes.
we nave absolutely no data on which
10 base theory as to a periodic re-
currenoe OF these overwhelming cstas-
trophies and therefore 1t Is an idle
past time, fad, sometimes q mischIev-
Gus ana almost criminal craze, that
induces prediction that the end OF
the world Is near.
Great earth disturbances must come
from without and not from its interior.
we Know that the moon causes tides
IN ocean waters, that comets are
caught and firmly held in the web
IKE forces Of the planets and that the
sun drags from the depth of unknown
space the incipient and growing worlds.
Niotf W thtlI lIlCNou win the MOrldS
surrounding elements, these incipient
worlds are changed Into what we call
comets. and that these comets strike
the earth.
Small comets are called meteors. and
when the substances Of which they are
composed reach the earth they are
called aerolites. Certain swarms OF
meteors are encountered by the earth
In August and November OF each year,
and every thirty-three years the great
meteoric showers occur.
The 1895 comet VIII come near the
ecrth, but IT is dying world. a
disintegrating comet. and may have.
by this time, expanded into small frag-
ments.
There is an Interchangeable law in
the universe To which al things must
conform or be destroyed. Whoever stu
dies the astronomy OF our solar sys-
tenn must readily see that our sun
earth and other major planets are In
exact harmony with the universal ply
slcal laws and therefore eternal exist
ence OF these bodies Is assured.
Instead of our globe being destroyed
all the evidences Indicate that II will
live and grow forever and In tim,
| become a great sun, the center OF q
great solar system.
A third cause Of the end OF the world
or rather the destruction OF the hu.
man race and other animal life, is re-
ceiving more attention recently.
The earth grows more rapidly at It's
! equator than near the poles because OF
coral and vegetable growths and be-
cause the earth's rotation sends the
waters and debris toward the equator
From all these causes the earth Il
about twenty-seven miles grenter II
diameter through Its equator thar
through Its poles This cannot alway'
continue In order to perpetuate tn,
rotundity Of the earth Its poles and
equator have, no doubt, often changed
when these changes come the fountain,
of the great deep are broken UP, tn,
oceans change their beds, continents
along the new equator become the bot
toms of seas and oceans.
In the acrimony OF nature In worl,
building animal life necessarily be
comes almost extinct and new specie
are developed by the new environ
ments