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be raised.
A vast meteorc display would be seen,
as all the meteors and aeroltes belong
ing to the comet would fall to the earth,
following their nucleus, the comet Inc
lava bursting out of the rent In the
earth's crust would burn everything IL
reached The terrible earthquake caused
by the collision would cause the earth to
tremble.
What an earthquake must there have
been when the Rocky mountains of the
North and the Andes of the South arose,
and split the globe from pole to pole!
Yet we are told that the coming catas-
trophe when the earth will be burst by
the comets will exceed. that awful event;
when the hot lava will burst out. the coal,
coal oil and sulphurus gases fill the air
as dense cloud putting out the light or
the sun, moon and stars.
.And the fifth angel sounded and saw
a star fall from heaven unto the earth,
and to him was given the key Of the bot
tomless pit penetrated the crust of the
earth) and there arose q smoke out of the
pit as the smoke of great furnace, and
the sun and the air were darkened by
reason of the smoke of the pit" Rev.,
9-1-2)
The center Of the attraction that had
held the meteors in her train. having
passed into the earth, the earth would
become the center of attraction, and the
meteors that were following the comets,
and coming in an opposition Il to the
course of the earth, would all fall on the
earth, especially on that part of the earth
distant from where the comet had en-
tered
The change of motion that must occur
when the earth meets the comets would
cause the earth to fall toward the sun,
from the loss of tangential motion, for
time but it would ultimately recover its
orbit and even extend beyond It,
Prof. Newcomb says: every time two
meteors come into collision they would
lose velocity and therefore If the mass Is
sufficient to hold them from flying through
space they would fall rapidly toward a
common center"
Our earth would fall toward the sun,
according to this law, and the Increase
of heat would be intolerable in some
parts.
The relation of the planets of the whole
system will be violently disturbed The
laws that bind celestial bodies in their
orbits will be deranged. <-s
The comets entering the earth in the
northern hemisphere would change the
earths center of gravity and change the
polarity of the earth.
The sun, moon and the consultations
that now arise in the East and set in the
West will then arise in what Is now South
and set in the North
The whole topography Of the earth will
be changed; the mountains settling down,
the whole surface of the earth will be-
come vast plain.
The oceans will be obliterated: there
will be no sea, but on account Of the ex-
banded surface the oceans will become in
land salt lakes.
The great heat from the collision will
cause the evaporation of the oceans and
the world will be enveloped in a sea Of
vapor as at the beginning.
Geology teaches us that at the first
there was an envelope of mist or vapor
that surrounded the whole earth.
We need not pursue this part of our
subject further. The scripture declares
plainly what will happen, and science in
dorses the scriptures, in regard to the
awful seismic and telluric phenomena
that will occur.
But the earth will not be destroyed; all
parts will suffer from the commissions,
but the part upon which the comets Will
fall will suffer most.
About one-third of the earth will be de-
stroyed.
Rut the earth will come out of these
commissions and will become more beau
tiful than ever and be fully peopled.
The prophet declares that after these
awful calamltleS lneTe VIII Slhi NC AiaH-
kind living.
"For the new heavens and the new
earth which ] will make shall remain be-
fore me, saith the Lord. so your seed and
your name shall remain" isaiah, GS-2
and 65-17)
The question between the pre-millener-
jans and the ost-millenarians is simply
q theological dispute that has no place in
this article.
1t will be seen that we have confined
ourselves to the plain predictions OF
scrinture and compared them with we'll
known physical laws and the discoveries
of eminent astronomers, and have proved,
first. that the world will be DESTROYED
and second, that it will be by COLLISION
with comets.
By science. that the orbits OF the COM
cts leading the November meteors Is COM
ing "head on almost in our path. and
by scripture. the result of the collision
will be as predicted by the Bible ana
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