The sun., 1919-01-01
THE DOOM OF THE WORLDS.
with Pleasure Its Indefinite Postpone
ment Is Announced.

utter failure Of Mr.. Growers prognost-
cation OF a wave of far below zero"
| temperature early in December due TO
the earth being showed out OF Its place
In the sun" by Mercury casts doubt
upon his reliability as a prophet and
tends to lessen greatly the apprehen-
sion which your readers have doubtless
folt ever since ne made the prediction
OF the elimination of all things tenn
poral as the result OF celestial catas-
trophc the magnitude Of which has
never been known IN the annals OF time.
but which Is conceived by him to be
. Inevitable according TO the unerring In
! timat!ons Of precise astronomical CAL
culation lie has also cited numerous
Scriptural references with the ostensible
purpose OF clothing his prophetic utter
ances with L higher authority than
| that afforded by mere astronomical
! data; maintaining further that the &C.
currence of this cslamitous event will
| be In coinstantaneity with and in lit
| eral fulfllment OF the Biblical prophecy
| relative to the falling OF the stars OF
heaven
The concept that the ultimate doom
great system Of existence will in time
cease to be, - one OF the most persistent
OF modern times. II Is adhered to by
| the votary OF science no less than by
| the religious devotee, and has become
SO inwoven In the consciousness OF the
race as to be well nigh ineradicable
Its influence however. upon the human
mind is pernlclous. and. as Mr.. Growers
| conclusions have the effect OF lending
support to this erroneous idea, shall
| endeavor to refute his assertions.
II is to be presumed that your read
ers are entirely familiar with the
Groverian theory. which. briefly stated.
is that the vibration Of the earth's
perihelion and the gradual contraction
OF the orbit Of the Ineteor!c swarm will
eventually result in a collision of the
November meteors with our planet thus
causing every vestige of the works OF
mankind TO be destroyed. as foretold In
H. Peter. chapter Ill. 10" This, he
says. will occur some time after the
millennium.
He seems. 'owever. TO have entirely
overlooked the fact that at the time the
aforesaid prophecy was enunciated the
Newtonian law Of universal gravitation
had not yet been discovered. If ! cor
rectly state this law it is 10 the effect
that every particle OF matter In the
universe attracts every other particle
with a force whose direction Is thas of
the line adjoining the two and whose
magnitude Is directly as the product of
their masses and inversely az the square
Of their distance from each other
Now, according to this law, tho
heaviest mass of matter In the solar
and stellar systems is the greatest at
tractive force and every other par ,icle
of matter is necessarily attracted TO
this centre. Attraction inversely as to
the square Of the distance | understand
20 mean that the attraction is more or
less proportionate to the distance. the
greater mass having the greater attrac-
tive force. Accordingly all the matter
In the universe will eventually gravi-
tate into one body. To deny this is to
deny the validity of the law.
OF course We know that this uniyer-
sal contracting Is not an instantaneous
process. so We are forced to the conclu-
sion that II rs a gradual process, rem
dered so perhaps by the existence OF
some mysterious counteracting or cuor-
dinating law which tends almost to bal
anee the law of attraction. This grad
ual gathering together of all the mat
ter in the universe into one body ,,nn-
stitutes the rolling together of the
heavens AZ a scroll" Gsaiah, xNxiv..
-, eventuatlng in the formation OF the
new earth tlsaiah. ky. ~ prepare
tory 70 the descent OF the New Jerusa-
lem Rev.. xxi, Icy, which occurs early
in the millennium nov dawring. Thus
will be averted the great world catas-
trophe and the race Of mankind pre-
served. f. : tp,y
NEW YORK. December 81.