Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-27

TO time stars suddenly flash up IN ths
sky. rapidly decrease in splendor and
dwindle down 90 faint visibility
one of these evcnts WAS witnessed
by astronomers in February 1901 Whom
o star of the first magnitude appeared
| in the constellation of pcrseus 10 WIS
| discovered on the 22nd of the month
mentioned. by one Mr Anderson a
scotchman 10 was then star of
Z the third magnitude rwcnty-oignt
hours before photograph taken failed
to Indicate thc existence of that star.
The Intensity of les light had. consc-
1uenty Increased at least te thoua-
and-fold during that short time. ON
February e3 the star surpassed al
stars except Sirius. ln bHuIancy by
tho 25th of February 90 was o. star of
the drst magnitude. by February 9Th
of Tho second by March 6th OF The
third. and by March 18th of the fourth
magnitude Then les brightness huc-
tuatcs By December 1902 30 had be-
come star vi the tenth magnitude and
then Dc gradually dwindled 90 even
fainter bHumcy At the highest in-
tensity the star shonc with O. BLUSH
white Ight This changed into yellow.
and finally into reddish. Gradually the
color passed into pure white.
ln 'hia instance says Professor Ar
rhenius. ,n his work ON Worlds in
th. Making we were evidently Wit
uessos OF the grand finale of the indie
pendent existence OF celestial body by
collision with some other body Of equal
kind The two coliding bodies were
both dark or they omitted so little light
that their combined intensities did not
equal that OF star OF the twelfth mag
uitudp After the collision the brillian-
cy of their light exceeded that Of tho
sun several Thousand times But This
dna'e is not the "cnd." Ou the con-
trary science noW regards 30 as the Doe.
ginning OF a new hte. under now condi-
tons. of tho worlds thus meeting In
arc melted iu the heat gen
GRATED, and an entirely new world-cx-
stence new world career has COM
uonced So far science seems to fol-
low closely the path OF knowledge o.
animated by the revelations of our
God Ii has not AS yet fully compre-
leudcd the truths revealed regarding
he Fate of our globe. or rs ultimate |
lestiny. but as Tar as IL has been able I
% read She astronomical hierogIyphics. |
{ has been led to accept the regeuera- !
ION Of worlds. through fire. as one OF |
ts iucontrovertible truths.
In connection with this subject Il has
Sen suggested that the human race
must perish long before any collision
,etwccn our sun. and any other star.
an occur Tho race must perish. 70
las been said. owing 10 the exhaustion
Z our oxygen. through combustion. as
uggasted by Lord Kelvin, or OF our
itrogen. or tho cost of living will
Use 90 famine figures. as the race null
piles Many other evcntualities have
cen foreshadowed 10 has been
hought that, ass our coal mines are eN.
austcd the price OF fuel must neces-
lrly advance. driving our descendants
arthor aud farther towards the tropics,
,hcrc the winters will be shorter ANA
ess clothing necessary IL has been
am that the sun may cool down and
freeze ms. or our planet may dry up /
With the loss OF our oceans, in the
.arth's Interior leaving ms 20 die Of
hirst. or. we might be suffocated by
ne atmosphere Of a large comet coming /
90 near our earth.
None OF these eventualities are prob
bic. The human race on this earth. was
iaced here FOR wise purpose, by the
'reator Everything that Is needed has
zen provided for AS the vessel that
tarts for a journey is equipped with
verifying that is needed for that
Quincy. calculations being made for
he time il takes and the number OF
ersons to take care OF. so our earth has
zen supplied with everything that h
eeded for the human race 70 fulhu tie
estlny ON this mortal sphere. Nothing /
8 left TO chance, OF accident. All is
oreseen. For the creation was carried
ut in every detail according 70 the
lans laid beforehand. When the mis-
ion OF the earth is fulfilled II win be
born again. but not I'm then, Times
md seasons, though not known to
nan. are nevertheless determined by
he Eternal Father
Heaven and earth shall pass away.
,ut my words shall not pass away. But
II that day and hour knoweth no man.
10. not the angels OF heaven. but my
Father only" Matthew "a: 36)