The Penn's Grove record., 1910-05-27
The WONDERS Of CREATION
HaiIey's Comet a Passing Attrac'
ton

HalIey'S tOnlet n fdDchHS AeeA
ton
The heavens declare the glory of God and
the armament Sheweth his andlWork'-
Psalms xix, Z.
There are more wonders in heaven and nell
than are dreamed OF in your pnllosoph!.-
Shakespeare.
The people in all the world are more
enlightened than ever before. Ihey
are being extensively educated through
newspapers. The great number OF artl-
cles on astronomy being published on
the occasion of the passing of Halley's
comet, which has not appeared for seven
five years, has drawn the attention OF
millions to the study OF the starry
heavens.
From times immemorial the appear
n C of comets, Or bright bodies with
bright tails, has been observed with
awe and superstitious opinions. But
with more enlightened knowledge the
people view the wonders in the heavens
with pleasure and without thought OF
awesOme omens.
Much has been published about the
comet which has been more or less WIS.,
ible for the past three weeks.
A comet was seen in 1881, 1907 and
1852. In 1705 HALEY, an eminent Eng
glish astronomer, found that it was
pursuing an orbit which would make 1t
visible again about 1859, or a period OF
rs OF rs years. 1t came then again in
1885 and again this month.
The head Of Halley's comet is about
100. 900 miles in diameter, or twelve
times as large as the earth, and IS 10
million miles from US. Light travels
lS6, 900 miles a second and ittakes more
than an hour for light to come from the
comet to our eyes. Before it will be-
come visible again it will have travelled
four thousand million miles, a distance
almost incomplehensible, and at the
speed of twenty-six and One-half miles
a second.
Millions see the sun ''rise and set"
daily with no more knowledge nor
| thought of it than did the old colored
preacher, MI. Jasper, in Virginia, who
declared 'the sun do move" The
starry heavens are viewed nightly with
no knowledge that some are planets re-
volving around the sun like the earth,
while others are called fixed stars, I've
cause they ale so far, far away that
their movements can not be calculated.
Many do not know that we live on a
ball of earth 5000 miles in diameter
and that it revolyes at the speed Of
about "a, 900 miles a day, 1000 miles
an hour, while we speed around the sun
once a year at the rate Of eighteen miles
a second.
The moon revolves around the earth
once a month at a distance of $4,000
miles from us and reflects the sunlight
on us like a boy throwing light with a
piece of looking glass.
There are seven other planets like the
earth revolving around the sun, and the
sun with all its solar system is revolv-
ing around other systems through in
finite space whittier, we do not know.
When we look into the heavens at
night and stop TO think, the wonders
are too vast for us to fully understand.
How came they there? How came we
here? Surely not 10y chance, because
they all move with the utmost regular
ity and certainty. If by chance, there
would be no certainty in the sun
"rising" tomorrow mol the certainty
that spring will come with its newness
of vegetable life and autumn with it's
fruitage.
All the wonders of creation were con-
ceived, created and made to work in
ha rmOny by an Ill -wise, superior mind
which is called God, who is all-powerful,
always present and all-knoMing.
The Psalmist says: "Thou art the
God that doest wonders, >" "The
heavens shall praise thy wonders, o
Lord" Not only in the heavens, but
also "These are the works of the Lord
and his wonders in the deep sea-"
The poet, William Cowper, says:
God move in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathonable mines
OF never-failiDg skill,
He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.
Joseph Addison, another English
poet, IL of the most elegant writers of
ENGLISH literature and pOatry talla i'm