Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-11-06

OF the day WHICH IOIIOWS. But II Is
reasonable TO conclude that the day
has not only time, but a place Of
beginning and ending; and
,. It is a remarkable fact that this
line of transition or division between
the beginning and the termination of
the course of day, is found in cross
ing the Pacific Ocean. We may
start from California and proceed
eastward to the eastern coast OF
Asia, and We shall at every meridian
we cross be in perfect harmony, as
to our count of days, with all the
people living upon that meridian;
and when we reach China We shall
have exactly the same count of days
that we have in China. Again, if
We start from China and reverse
this Journey, making our way west
ward to San Francisco, our days will
correspond exactly to those of the
countries we cross; and when we
reach that city we shall have the
same day that the people of that
place have This journey takes us
fully twO-thirds around the world,
and yet does not change our count
Of the days of the week. But take
notice: if we cross the Pacific
Ocean, either westward to China
or eastward from China to Califor-
MIA. we find in the one case that
we are one day behind the people of
China, and in the other case We
are one day III advance Of the peo-
pie of California. And this is be-
cause of the well-known fact that
west shore of the Pacific Ocean is
one day in advance Of the time on
the east shore of that ocean.
4. The dividing line between the
commencement and the end of the
course Of the day in its circuit
around the world is, therefore, in
the Pacific Ocean. And this great
fact, which no candid man of any
sect or party will deny, really ex-
plains why in crossing this line to
| the east we step back one day in
our reckoning, and, crossing it to
the west, we add a day to the reck-
Oning 1t is because the days of
the week are really definite and
tangible, and not, as cur opponents
represent them, indefinite and I'M
certain, that this change takes place.
Indeed, we point to it as con-
elusive evidence to all thoughtful,
candid persons, that the definite
seventh day does exist and comes
| to all the jewellers upon our earth.
The simple truth is this: we add
day in circumnavigating the earth
| from east to west, because, going
with the sun, and thus prolonging
| the time that it remains above the
| horizon, we make each of our days
| a fraction more than twenty-four
hours long, and in the complete cir
cult Of our earth we thus use up
! one entire period of twenty-four
| hours And we drop a day from our
count by going round the world
from west to east; for as we thus
travel in a direction opposite to the
sun, we make each day a fraction
| loco To C,,rCnlvcC tbaD If would
| have been had we remained sta
tionary. As we thus take a fraction
from each period between the sue
cessive sunsets, we gain one day
as the sum total Of those fractions,
though we have had no more real
time than those who remain at
| home, whose reckoning is one day
less than ours. We add a day to,
or drop a day from our reckoning,
while crossing the Pacific, because
experience has proved that the provi-
dence of God has established the
daytime in that ocean.
Dear reader, honestly, in the light
of the foregoing statements, do you
/ believe the great God, infinite in
wisdom and power, who created the
earth in six days and rested the
seventh mot the firstl day, made
mistake? Do you believe that He
who swung the earth into space and
hung it upon nothing, did so with
out establishing laws to govern it?
Astronomers tell us that for six
thousand years and more, the earth
| together with the other planets
have not varied in their move
ments, so accurately are they con-
trolled.
Do you believe that He who said,
in Elk. 2O:8-11, Remember the sab
bath day to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labor, and do all thy
work: but the seventh day is the
sabbath of the Lord thy God: in
it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, mol
thy cattle, nor thy stranger, that
is within thy gates: for in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth,
the sea. and all that in them is, and
rested the seventh day: 1.-THE sew
enth day, not A seventh dayl, where
fore the Lord blessed THE sabbath
day, and hallowed it." left man, the
browning act Of His creation, in
darkness as to which was and would
be the seventh day, or Sabbath?
So definitely did the Creator fix
the seventh day that it remains the
same, unchanged by Him through
all time and in all places. Matt. SIS,
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