Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-21

seven days, as well as annual chronology
by the Christian era, and established
new philosophers invention, called from
its chief linear standard the metrical
system of weights and measures"
DECIMAL SYSTEM OF TINE.
These Wild revoluuonisss matched
| their decimal system OF measures by
decimal system of time, making a year
| Of ten months; but the year soon righted
itself again TO twelve. They flung aside
| the God-made week Of seven days, and
| substituted q man-made week Of ten.
! From the beginning God hallowed the
| seventh day, uniting this perfect number
in various ways through nature-in the
| seven rainbow colors, i'm the seven musi-
cal tones, in the seven-year locusts, and
| all through the wonderful laws of life
of insects, reptiles, birds, and mans
own, from the milk teeth Of his child
hood to the threescore years and ten.
| The French found nine days work too
much, and the natural law of God, whom
they had defed. forced the tired nation
back to the week OF seven days. teach
ing them what they would have known
IL they had not rejected Christ-that the
Sabbath was made for man.
They flung aside the Christian era TO
date from the French revolution. French
immigration dwindled; Christian COM
merce expanded, extending the use of the
Christian era throughout the business
world. even to heather countries and the
French. I'm order to be up to date, again
date their letters from the birth of
Christ.
They fixed up a metric system Of me-
trology. whose only good feature is its
decimal division. feature not peculiar
TO the French system nor original with
It, and i go61 feature which is incom-
plete for human beings who every day do |
things by halves and quarters instead |
OF tenths. as witness our own decimal |
money, which could not remain dimes and |
dollars. but had to Intervene quarters |
and halves.
The astronomer Herschel says $50 |
long as the human mind remains mathe-
matical IL will prefer a diameter to a cir
conference" The French unmathemati-
cally took curved line as their basis
for measuring straight ones. They took
a small arc Of the earth running through
Paris. a hundred years ago, when they
took IT, the earth was thought TO be
round at the equator; science now declares
Il 10 be irregularly ellipsoidaL Then they
thought the earth's meridians all equal;
science now says no two probably are.
If the out-of-date scientists Of hundred
years ago blundered I'm basing straight
measure upon a curve. and then made
a second mistake in measuring the curve,
will advanced scientists a hundred years
hence be satisfied 10 search for natures |
truths with this false Standard II not,
can the United States afford to adopt il?
The ark of Noah. the tabernacle in the
the ark of the covenant, all
the sacred vessels. the holy Of HOLES, and
the entire temple were constructed
upon a perfect neurology. The ark
Of Noah equalled 10000 arks OF
the covenant the holy of holes,
a perfect cube. equaled 10000 arks
Of the covenant. divided by 81 the mean 4
density of the earth, thus linking these
measures with this God-given
Earth The standing of the divine me-
trology is the sacred cubit. In his DIS
sertation on Cubits." Sir Isaac Newton n
pointed out the existence Of a sacred
md a profane system of neurology. and
although Sir Isaac Newton's words We're ]
almost worshipped by his countrymen {
lpon all other subjects, his most earnest I
conclusions in neurology were simply set J
Il naught, and the editors of our English J
Bibles did not hesitate to so on printing !
n their commentaries the British equi- 7
-alents. not Of the Hebrew measures. but ]
hose OF Egypt and Babylon. because !
nore easily determined. .
PYRAMID OF GIZEH. Q
In shane the simplest, in size the ,
lrgest. in time the oldest of all earthly
with four sides exactly =
acing north. south east, and west;
pon fifteen acres Of leveled SOLID rock. v
lands the great Pyramid OF Gizeh; in II
egypt. but not Of Egypt. for just beneath
the present Egyptians measure off their V
Vile rice-lands with the old Coptic POT a
nch cubit of the ancient. idolatrous ,
'haraohs. This measure applies TO the q
vramid leaves it as dumb as the Sphinx. n
ut the sacred cubit of % inches through II
,e awe-inspiring interpretations wrung a
y Piozzi Smyth and others. from the ex- e.
"a measurements OF its silent stones. ir
rms one of the seven wonders OF the p
1cient world into the one great Won
r. of the modern. There are 36.52t.2
yramid inches in the perimeter OF the
mare base. This equals the days in
e wear S65; 2i2: or 3e5 days. hours, 4S
inutes. lS seconds. The number OF
ches I'm the two diagonals OF the base ~
25S.g7: the number Of years in the III
ecession Of the equinoxes. Until 1874 IN
. sun's distance was reckoned at % ,OOo,- as
miles. From the transit OF Venus an
that year Il was calculated by some an
o. eco 600 miles; by others, as 100000. ge
10 pvramid rises nine inches for an
cry ten advanced toward the centre. tn
, summit points TO the sun. II the TO
,hes in its height are multiplied by ten wi
the ninth power, IL gives 9l,S40.00D dis
hes. or the average number OF miles tai
the latest calculated distance OF the no
n. Leading TO the centre of the pyra-
d Is a grand gallery. having seven th'
erlapping courses OF stone. Indicating air
: week. At the end OF this gallery is In