The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-05-17
SAYS EARTH IS
SPEEDING TO END
Pastor Outlines Nine Ways by
Which World May Meet
Destruction.
SEES NO NEED FOR ALARM
Mans Life On Planet Likely to Be
100000 Years, According to Science
Mo Immediate Cause for
Alarm.

DetrOlI-In0 WOrlQ is travelling Ou
its way to destruction at the rate Of
100000 miles a day, 80 the Rev.
George 7. Cullen Of the West Grand
Boulevard NJ. e. church believes. That
was a sure thing. he declared, and
further he said there are at least eight
other ways In which the old world may
come to its end before the fatal ending
of the death Journey"
First, he declared, the axis Of the
earth might decide to shift about a
few degrees, with the result that the
oceans would sweep over the dry lands
and destroy all life before an ark
could be built. If that falls to occur
there might be a failure of internal
fires and the crust Of the earth would
absorb all the water and the air. The
death Of u planet might, on the
other hand, be brought about by the
heat Of the sun dying out and leaving
the earth a mass of ice. There wal
just a possibility that we might all be
asphyxiated by the earth passing
through the tail Of q comet, or this
planet might collide with another world
wandering through space.
Another Way.
And the end might be brought about
by the slowing down or the speeding
up Of the rate of the earth's rotation
On Its own axis. The rotation at
present Is just sufficient to counter
act the centripetal force Of the sur
and II 1t were slowed down the earth
would fly into the sun. starting at the
rate of LOO miles an hour and be
consumed. II the rate of rotation
were accelerated the earth would fly
out into space into a temperature of
400 degrees below zero and the oceans
would be frozen to their utmost
depths.
Other ways by which Mr.. Cullen
could see the world come to its end
were the closing up of all volcanoes
and other vents for gases, the newt
able result of which would be a terrific
explosion that would shatter the world
or bring part of the atmosphere to
such a heat that the oxygen and
nitrogen would unite and cause a
combustion Of the atmosphere.
That such disasters were not impos-
was shown, he said, by the spec
troscope, by means Of which man
could read the life history Of the
planets. He added:
1.-THE sp~ectroscope shows that n
planet is In a state Of white heat, that
another showing yellow is on the down
grade, that Mars Is dying, that the
Is dead, while Jupiter Is just get
ing ready for sentient life. This world
$ on Its way to death, for 1t Is travel
ng straight toward Hercules 100000
niles a day, and while the distance IS
1t Is not Infinite"
The Great Danger.
But the greatest danger that Mr..
Julien thinks co~nfronts the earth is
collision with a dead star. Such a
tar would be invisible until 1t came
within the range Of the suns rays,
which would be when 1t was five times
$ far away as Neptune. 1t could Their
e seer In the telescope. In twenty
We years more it would be visible to
naked eye. In five years more 1t
-ould pass Neptune and In 145 days
.om that time II 1t kept straight on.
would strike the earth. That would |
We us t~hirty-two years and 145 days 1
warning from the time the dead
orld was first picked up by the tele- (
.ope.
Science tells us the end is coming, I
e preacher went on more r~eassuring-
but 1t does not believe the end Is I
ar. 1t estimates that God took |
nety million years to make the world |
Ibitable by man and that mans life }
1t is perhaps 100000 years.
His comparatively optimistic com =
mt at the finish was: =
"WAexcould God spend all that time
making d world II 1t is to be de-
so soon? God wastes neither
ace, material nor time. He Is too
He is continually making new
'rlds, but He does not destroy them
most as soon as they are made"