The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-21
FORMATION OF THE WORLD.
Subject Of Rev. y. J. MncGouldriek's
Scholarly Lecture Ht the College HILL.

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Scholarly Lecture Ht tho College HILL.
Before the members of Branch 81,
Catholic Mutual benefit association,
and Il large audience of women, Rev.
lD. ]. MacGouldrick. 3. j., president Of
st. Thomas college. delivered lecture
last evening at College hall on the SUBJ
ject OF the formation OF the world.
He said that the sun Is the parent
of the planetary system. Before crea-
ton all was nOthingness and vapor.
The sun formed out of the coalition of
vapors and gases and became one uni
versal mass of incandescence that be-
gan revolving with incalculable rapid
ity. The sun Is molten and enveloped
In a gaseous atmosphere. Scientists
have proven that 1t Is not a solid, be-
cause the spots at the equator re-
volve more swiftly than do those at
the poles. The rapldity of the revolu
tlon of the surface of the sun decreases
as 1t goes from the equator to either
pole.
Father MacGouldrick, by way of H.
lustration, told his hearers to take n
foot ball. for instance, revolve 1t on
It's axis. and If line of spots We're
drawn from the top to the bottom like
a meridian. these spots would come to
view at the same moment with each
revolution. With the sun the spots at
the equator revolve quicker because
there Is greater incandescence than at
the poies.
Thrown orr by the Sun.
1t kept on revolving and threw off
Jupiter, then Saturn, Uranus. Mercury
and so on with all the planets that are
now known. The earth was one of the
globes of incandescence thrown off into
space from the sun. 1t did not fly
away and keen on flying. It's separa-
tion from the sun that is its centri-
fugo, fnrce would have confirmed on
,ntnato,v hnt for the con nterartinr in.
amamce of tha centrinetaI force exer-
n,,oa h,. IVA o.har ,ianats rha aort,
we MaS nrao,,ito "a, , t,nm heinr r.tardaS hv ths
ntban ~ 49, =, ,,,os ba,5 IN nI,cs ho-
o.ne, . tia, ~ u.s., ~ a ,han, ava ra,,,,,,od
| through space in a circle around the
sun. The fr;gidity of the atmospheric
vapors in time conduced to form q
| crust upon the earth's surface.
The first theory of creation was that
God made everything as 1t now exists.
The speaker held that the sun will go
| on throwing off incandescent globes
that will go to form new planets. and
these new planets will throw off globes
of their own as the process Is now oc-
curing with all planets, until event
ualIy in the future creation will dry up
and he spent.
The sneaker talked on the tempera-
ture Of the earth at some length: he
said that volcanic er,iptions. geysers
hot snrinrs metal mines. salt mines
and artesian wells go to prove that the
interior of the earth Ia a molten mass.
The Temperature rises one degree ey.
ery several hundred feet in depth dur.
ing the first mile and the ratio Is in
creased every succeeding mile. In
Warsaw. Poland. the thousands of in
habitants of the subterranean cities
where salt mining is carried on shows
from acquired fact that the tempera.
tire of the mines Is almost unbearable
compared with the Temperature at the
surface of the earth.
froo' INC I"''" ~ No' So'u'
The heat decreases as one ascends up
ward and vice versa. The oscillations
of the earth's crust gives further proof
that the earth Is not solid, thai
the crust just rests on the molten
mass and moves sometimes Ike
an Iceberg under which the tide OF tht
Outflowing river acts. The mountain
chains and the depressions In the sur
face are regarded as stlll furtner proo