Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-20
TRIES TO PROVE
THE EARTH IS FLAT
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II moro speculation, The Creator "
surely wiser than the orenturei ANA the
"Wlsdom ol the Wofld ~ loollshneh
with God
ACCEPTS JOB,
Rejecting therefore, us "foollshnoss
the teachings OF astronomy wherever
they conflict win the affirmation OF
Holy writ, Indy BlOunt accepts win.
out any reservation Jobs description of
the Ornament ~ "strong ana nv mol
ten looking glass Even ~ the dome
of s. Pauls cathedral is made Of Holl1
material" sho says, no the trmlment
IN a folid uNpanFp above our heads, "
n Woro not solid II would not be- able
10 support the great weight of water
above the armament The dome OF the
houyens, which N mndo Of solid mat
ter. III couCoye towards Nv, ~ that the
sun, stars ana moon can move around
and above the earth freely, being borne
around w their respective orbits by
the subtle matter which fills the solid
space Within the dome ~ the heavens
at lp not unlikely" she adds nalvoly,
THAT the mlrror.like quality of the
Ornament causes sceptionl scientists 10
Imagine lhnt they can, with tholr
Rhs9otpocr into what they call space,
which lhoy, ln contradiction 10 inspired
writ, assert Ia be boundlosa,'
liENOiNE DAILY
According 10 Lady Blounts us,rOno'
my the sun, moon aud planets All lc'
VolNo daily nc comparatively short dla-
tancoH around ana above the onrth IN
spiral orbits approaching moro or less
closely to exact cirClos, These motions
are an attributed 10 "tho crcling cure
rents Of the ether which lll the space
between the Nat dlsc.shapod earth ana
the solid dome that oyorlays II Ike
dish cover as these electro magnetic
currents have different rates of mo-
ton" mys Lady lilount tho various
heavenly bodies ARC carried dally
around the earth IN different times
pOmo In less ana others IN more than "a
hours That hnlf the earth " IN dark
ness while the other half has HIGHT IN
attributed TO the small siao Of the
sun which N insufficient 10 illuminate
the whole surface nt once,
II NJ against the assumption" NJ
they call H. Of scientists that the earth
II a Rlobe that the Notollcs wage Their
Wlfosl night 10 support their con.
icnllon that II " u plane they do not
depend on Bible cosnpgOny alone,
They declare they can prove II by facts
which can easily be tested, II can be
demonstrated, they contend. that wa
ter w everywhere level and does not
follow the alleged curvature OF tho
earth, Between Welney Bridge and
Bedford Bridge, ON the Bedford canal
IN n stretch OF water six miles long,
Professor Proctor, the noted aatronom-
en-, once said ~ with the eye few
inches from the surface Of the Bedford
canal an object close to the water xix
miles distant from the observer can bc
soon there munlfostly would be some.
thing wrong with the accepted theory"
CAMERA CLAIMS.
Indy Blount asserts that she has
proved, ana proved by the camera, that
this siS miles OF water IN absolutely
level and consequently, "the army OF
Hetelcs are hight IN their contention
that the world Is not a globe"
A phot0-toloscopc camera OF the lat.
est pattern was used In the experiment,
II was placed In position less than two
feet above the ground level under Wei.
noy Bridge by an expert operator At
BEDFORD Bridge Il scream was fixed. III
the world be n globe having u clrcum.
ference W $4,000 miles" says Lady
lllouni "lho bottom Of the screen
should have been over twenty feet be-