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Though men deem “ mad.,'' and demons jeer, Truth’s Power makes glad, and quells all fear!
Being EXTRACTS from LECTURES
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Foreword
(From SIR HENRY EDWARDS, BART.)
Ashbkittle,
Somerset.
1st Sept. W14.
“ Having read your lectures on “ Our Enclosed \\ orld ” and “Sight Limitation,” I am much impressed with your arguments, and consider them very sound.”
I remain,
yours truly,
G. Henry Edwards.
Contents.
1. SOUND DOCTRINE.
2. GOD’S COSMOGONY.
3. THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
4. CHAOS !
5. “THE SUN STOOD STILL.” fi. THE SEASONS.
7. “ THE EARTH.”
8. SIGHT LIMITATION.
9. GALILEO.
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“ SOUND DOCTRINE,”
(John vii. 16 ; and v. 46, 47 ; i. Timothy 10 ; and Titus 1, 9).
God’s enemy makes many a tool,
To sow false doctrines in each school.
In the New Testament there are many warnings given us against false teachers and false doctrines.
The apostle Peter says that as there were false prophets amongst the Israelites of old, so “ shall there be amongst you (Christians), who privily shall bring in damnable heresies.” “ And many,” he adds, “ shall follow their pernicious ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” — 2 Pet. ii 1, 2.
We see the fulfillment of this prophcey in our own day. Ungodly teachers, and even some who profess to be Chris¬ tians, are bringing in speculations, and doctrines in the name of religion and “science” which are rapidly undermining belief in the inspiration of the Bible, and the doctrines of the Christian religion.
When the enemy of mankind tempted the Man Christ Jesus he first tried to corrupt Him morally, by offering the world’s wealth if He would only bow down and worship him. Failing to so ensnare Him, he afterwards tried to take away His life, and he succeeded through human instruments in his
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awful and murderous aim. But God raised Jesus from the dead, and afterwards took Him bodily to Heaven.
With the followers of Christ he reversed the plan. He at first caused many of them to be put to death ; but still the truth of God flourished.
Then through the Emperor Constantine he offered them wealth and worldly advancement. This corrupted many, and true faith seemed to decline. The “ dark ages ” closed in over the world ; and the true faith was hidden in secret and inaccessible places.
Still the truth existed ; and the Reformation blazed forth “and light was sown for the rightous.” Truth came to the front again. Printing was discovered. The Bible was printed in the vulgar tongue. The enemy prompted his human instruments and agents to seek out, and even to buy up all etke Bibles they could find, so that the Word of God might be destroyed by burning all the Bibles that the light of Truth might be extinguished. But more Bibles were printed and so the plan failed !
Profitting by past experience, the enemy grew more subtle and a deeper plan was laid. The multiplication of Bibles could not be stopped, therefore let them be corrupted. So Versions of the Bible were printed, corrupting the original texts in favour of false doctrines. Still faithful translations multiplied and they did good work, strengthening the minds of men and purifying their hearts by faith.
And now a deeper scheme came into operation. Men sprang up in our seats of learning, and in famous univer¬ sities who threw doubt upon the Bible as a mere human book or compilation of books, uninspired and unscientific. This scheme prospered and has attained vast proportions, and it seems likely to succeed where other plans have failed.
Since man’s false “ science ” was enthroned God’s Cosmic Truth has been Disowned.
And now the establishment of Mokammedism is being encouraged in our “ Christian ” England by our authorities permitting costly edifices to be erected, wherein the False
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Prophet — Mohammed — i s to be worshipped . And his followers are being permitted to go about proselyting all persons they can manage — with Satan’s help — to deceive. Can our Nation expect God’s blessing while its rulers permit the establishment of such audacious insult to Him, and to his Son in our midst ? No ! (See “ Answers to Questions,” Nos. 19 and 2.
But it seems to prove that the end of this dispensation is approaching. We need not say that we do not judge or condemn individual men, we dare not do so — but doctrines false— and insults to our Creator, God — and to His Son— Jesus, the Christ — our Saviour — we shall denounce while we have a pen and voice, and strength to use them.
An earnest word of warning is needed against these false doctrines which are everywhere corrupting the minds of men from the simplicity of the truth and faith in God. Take for instance the writings of the so-called
HIGHER CRITICS.
They first attacked the authority of the New Testament. But this was happily defended by men equally learned, who proved the epistles of Paul were genuine and the four gospels faithful narratives of historical events.
The downgrade critics now attack the Old Testament, and their chief attacks are directed against Genesis in particular and the Pentateuch in general. They see in Genesis the foundation of the Hebrew and Christian religions, so its authority must be overthrown.
The account of Creation is supposed therefore to be a “ myth.” Men raised up by God, such as Abraham, Isaac, Moses, and others, are supposed to be merely poetical “ heroes.” No proof is given, but their theory requires these hypotheses. The Bible is said to be only a human pro¬ duction, and the miraculous (history of Israel in the past is nothing more than poetic fiction and exaggeration.
F. E. Spencer, M.A., well says : — “ It is a strong delusion which boasts to see no more the glory and the handiwork of Jehovah in the universe, but only the glory of Copernicus,
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and Newton, and Darwin, and others. . . . The fear of God is gone when there remains no traces of His action.’
The Reason of it All.
There are some who cannot see this, and who, therefore, give these destructive critics credit not only for honesty, but lor godliness ! Yet these men attack the Word of God while the astronomers are secretly undermining men’s faith in God’s Account of His own Creation. In fact God is being spirited away as it were both from His Word and His Works.
But we may see that there must be some strong reason for all this expenditure of time, talent, and force. The fortress must be something very valuable, or it must contain something very valuable. Or, on the other hand, the Bible must be peculiarly obnoxious to the beseiging party and obstructive to their final aims, to call forth such persistent and powerful attacks.
The real reason for all the opposition against the Bible is because it exposes false science which teaches that all nature is an evolution from embryonic and atomic without final cause, or any influence from without.
Nature truly includes history, and neither can be explained apart from the Bible But the aim of the Bible-opponent is to explain both history and Nature as a mere evolution, and as the Apostle Paul says : “without God in the world.”
This, we are persuaded, is the secret of all opposition to the Word of God, to the Works of God, and to the Providence of God in the history of His people Israel.
The influence of men who profess to believe God’s revealed Word, and at the same time promulgate Scripture- contradicting systems of cosmogony, is very misleading to the world at large, and their action is leading many to think there is no God ; or that if there is one He is so far removed from this mere “ speck of a planet ” that He takes no notice of what is going on here.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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1. — We know nothing about the energy and Laws of Heavenly things, nor do we know how the Heavenly Lights appear to every eye all round the inhabitable world, but their regular movements and other evidences, including those in the Scriptures, suggest supernal mechanism.
2. — A son may be greater than his father in every way and sense. If our Lord had not revealed to the contrary, we might have thought that He was even greater than His Father, but the Lord Jesus Christ said “ My Father is greater than I,” and He also revealed that He would eventually give up all rule and authority to His Father, “ that God may be all in all ” (I. Cor. xv., 28).
3. — “That Solar energy is one of the unsolved 'problems of Astronomy” are the words of a scientist in his latest astronomical work, and all scientists admit to the same because it is an undeniable fact.
4. — A telescope with a five-inch lens is advisable and would cost (new) about £100. The fixed telescope may give the impression that our World’s Motion is causing the telescope to pass the Lights, but this is not so. The Lights all travel from east to west. And the telescope must be moved towards the west to follow any particular Light or Lights. This also proves that Sun -Light is moving towards the west, and that our World which is falsely called “ a planet ” has no motion The fact that astronomical telescopes are often made with one lense short of the full number of a complete instrument accounts for misleading appearances.
5. — The prayer which our Lord taught to His disciples as an example of how they should approach God in an attitude of childlike simplicity and humility, is commonly called the Lord’s prayer ; but in that prayer which Jesus Christ offered up to His Father in Heaven He said “ Thy Word is Truth.” Therefore when God says that our World is stationary we know without the shadow of a doubt that it is. The asserted rotation of our “ Earth ” and “ Seas ” is undemonstrable because it is imperceptible. As Prof. C. Schoepffer truly states, “ there are no air currents which we can justly regard as — or even suppose to be — consequences of this rotation.”
6. — -We believe in the promises made to Israel (Isa. lviii. II), and that they will be fulfilled to all those who humbly seek God’s grace through Jesus Christ.
7. — How could Moses and the Prophets have described the order of Creation, and portrayed events in the future which have since occurred, had these things not been revealed to them, and had not the Holy Spirit instructed them in these mysteries.
8. — When once the astronomers had adopted the fallacious supposition that the “ Earth " and “ Seas ” were a planet, they had to invent other equally fallacious theories to bear out their primary hypothesis, or supposition. If the World were a star then it had to turn on a supposed “ axis ” to account for day and night ; and it had also to be given a yearly revolution round their huge sun-body to account for the various Seasons And so there came about, the absurd supposition, that our “ Earth,” “ Seas,” Atmosphere & Skies, have two motions, both going on at the same time ! Not only a diurnal (or daily) motion of turning round on an axis in the wrong direction for the line of
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progress, but a progressive motion in a sort of circle or ellipse round their sun-body once a year. This is called its annual motion. These two opposing impulsions or motions are known in so-called scientific language as the centripetal and centrifugal forces.
9. — The term centripetal comes from words foreign to our language, meaning centre seeking, or motion which tends towards the centre ; and the centrifugal comes from two words which mean centre fleeing, or motion which flees from the centre ; so that centrifugal motion is that which tends or recedes from the centre. The centrifugal motion, the astronomers tell us, makes our world want to fly away from its centre of attraction, viz : their huge far-distant Sun ; and the centripetal motion, they say, makes their planet fly, or want to fly, directly towards their Sun. And as they say these two opposing forces both operate at the same time and our World obeys neither the one nor the other, but makes a sort of compromise and revolves in a circle, or in an elliptical orbit which is like a circle crushed a little bit in the middle. And what is the more amazing, we are asked to believe all this scientific folly without any proof but simply because the globular theory demands some such supposition or hypothesis to support it.
10. — It is a well-known fact that opposing forces nullify each other, so to meet this difficulty the theory has been invented that centrifugal force acts a little bit sideways and thus it causes the centripetal force to move in a circle. Gravitation — they say — causes the centripetal motion. But gravitation is a purely imaginary force. And when one enquires what supplies the force which makes the world seek to fly away from the centre, i.e., the centrifugal force — no professor can answer. The great attractive force in our Enclosed World is supernal Magnetism.
11. — No lecturer could illustrate the motions of the astronomical ball by tieing a string to an orange and then twirling it round his head. Of course, the head of the lecturer named represented his sun and the orange his planet. But I fear there was not much light ! And another difficulty arises (where there is no string attached to the ball) which astronomers have never attempted to explain It is this : — If the centrifugal motion is due simply to initial force, and the centripetal due to a constant and ever operating power, how is it that the power which is supposed to be always operating has not yet overcome the force which only once was started, and that many thousands of years ago, or according to the astronomers many millions of years ago ?
12 — Disciples of the planet-Earth theory who profess Christianity have often tried to creep under the Bible’s wing to justify their false position, and account for the difficulties of the God-contradicting theories which give the lie to the Creator's Revealed account of His Created Works. Their sun¬ headed lecturer referred to above seems to have used this subterfuge ! The Creator, in His Written Revelation, discloses that He Created our innate World in a solid water-dividing “ Firmament ” — not “ space.’’ And further¬ more our World’s Maker has revealed that our World is “ set ” on Pillars of Earth— also called “Pillars of Heaven.” because our solid “Firmament” which God called “Heaven” is attached to them — fixed on solid everlasting foundations firmly, and at rest. But all the motion in our Enclosed World is within its enclosed precincts — within whose bounds the Lights were created and made to pass around in the ethereal heavens to divide Time, and illuminate and resuscitate our World, and all living creatnres and things. But whirling-globites contradict their Creator, and falsely assert that His inspired prophets and apostles 'and His Son, Jesus Christ — who endorsed their words and writings (John v., 46, 47) — were not intended to teach cosmic science. And these Creator-contradicters promulgate the fabulous idea that our “ Earth ” and “ Seas ” are a bright planet madly rushing — while
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spinning — ronnd and round their huge Sun-bodv in their illimitable unenclosed “ space ” which they cannot conceive, as unending things are past mortal conception. The Lord God Jehovah, Creator of “ The Heaven ” and “ The Earth,” hath revealed to us — i.e., to all His Created creatures — that “ all things,” visible and invisible, were made by Jesus Christ, “and without Him was not anything made that was made ” (John i. 13).
The “ planet-Earth ” must sink and fade,
Its “ science ” — false — is sin,
. As “ all thinys ” that exist were made By Christ our Saviour-King.
—(Col. i. 16 ; Heb. i. 2.)
13. — It would be a false statement if a third “ co-equal ” part of anything stated that one of the other two “co-equal” parts was greater than itself (see John xiv. 28 ; x. 29).
14. — Every individual, and every thing beneath the sun is largely
dependent upon the mineral Kingdom for sustenance, comfort, health, wealth, and civilization, and all life is continually being built up, and resuscitated by the substances of the earth. In agriculture, in every description of building, in road, railway, canal, and tunnel construction, in sinking wells, and all mines : and also in the quest of gold and precious stones, and in fact, in all purposes of life, the utility of the science of geology is clearly manifest. And the vegetable world borrows its life from the earth. To illustrate the positive utility of Geology in a lucid manner that even a child may understand, I shall (d.v.) present my original chart of the earth’s geological strata and the fossil remains they contain in
T. E. W., No. 7.
15. — There is a circus of upper clouds at about 20,000 feet, and some
others beneath, under 10,000 feet high. 1760 yards is an ordinary mile. A Nautical mile is one-sixtieth of a degree measured at the Equator— equal to about 2025 yards. A degree is the 360th part of a circle, or 60
geographical miles.
16. — If our World was a star spinning on an axis, like a reel on a pencil at the rate of over 1000 miles an hour at the Equartor, and rushing on an everlasting tour in everlasting “ space ” round and round, the astronomer’s 2,646,000-miles-in-circumference-Sun, at 93,000,000 of miles from it— wind would be so fearful in its force that life on their planet's surface would be impossible, and it always would be in one direction, and they could not box the compass as they do from east, west, north, and south.
17. — The meteorological causes of Thunderstorms are well understood, but in T.E.W. No. 7, we will reply further on this subject. The causes of clouds are due to the evaporation of water chiefly from Oceans and Seas by the heat of the Sun which wraps within the heavens around above the Sea’s and outstanding Earth’s surfaces. The clouds are carried in different directions by and with the wind. The vapour condences, and falls as rain, hail, or snow over districts which are favourable to the condensation of moisture.
18. — Brighton is 10 miles east of Worthing by road, but not so far by Sea, and owing to the shape of the coast, Brighton, and the cliffs still further east, appear almost facing an observer from Worthing sea-shore. But atmospheric density frequently causes the limitations of a Worthing observer’s eye-tent to cover so small a circuit that Brighton is excluded far beyond its bounds.'*'
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19. — The co-equality of our Lord Jesus Christ with God the Father and God’s Holy Spirit is a man-made doctrine, and not in the Bible. The false co-equal “ Blessed Trinity ” doctrine was probably introduced by men who divided themselves from the Apostles. But “ Trinity Sunday ” was not set up by Pope Gregory IV. until A.D. 828 This God and Christ dishonouring doctrine must have helped the False Prophet to establish his false position. Because in Mohammed’s “Koran” the entire supremacy and ONE-ness of the Lord God Jehovah, as taught by the Lord Jesus Christ and throughout the whole Bible, is strictly maintained.
. 20. — We believe in election and that God has elected men, and women too, for certain work. The Prophets and Apostles were elected and raised up and some may be thus elected to-day But Free Grace is offered to all — to “ Whosoever will.”
21. — The eyes of each man it is certain Spread out the heavens as a tent,
And they stretch them around as a curtain By the power that their Maker hath lent !
22. — “ No man knoweth who the Son is but the Father ; and who the Father is, but the Son.”- — Luke x. 22.
Jesus said — “ the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father.” — John vi. 57.
“ God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power ” — Acts x. 38.
“ Him God raised up the third day, and shewed Him openly.” — Acts x. 40 ; Acts ii 24, 27. And again —
“ The Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the dead.” — Acts iii. 15. And numerous other passages reveal the same.
23 — In Christ Jesus, no doubting enshrouds God’s promises all Saints shall share When their Lord and their Saviour returns “ in the clouds ”
They will all be “ caught up ” in the “ air.”
— I Cor. xv., 51, 53 ; I. Thess. iv., 15-18.
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The Enclosed World
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GOD’S COSMOGONY,
“ In the midst of the waters, on “ Pillars,” fixed fast, (Gen. i. 6
Job ix. 6 ; xxvi. 11 ; and I. Sam. ii. 8> Our World is enclosed in a “ Firmament ” vast. (Gen. i. 7)
Our “ Seas” God divided from Waters outside (Gen. i. 6, 7 and S
To form our World’s centre, and wet “ Land ” to hide. (Gen. i. 9
Prov. viii. 27 ; Psa. xxxiii. 7 ; Ixxviii. 13 ; and §Heb. xi. S') From the Old World, our World’s Land the Waters upbrought (Gen. i. 9-10) And in their vast volume God hung it on “ nought,” (Job xxvi. 7)
He then made our Dry Land “appear ” o’er Sea-girth, (Gen. i. 9
Psa. civ. 9 ; cxxxvi. 6 ; Job v. 22 ; and Jer. v. 22) In touch with our atmosphere, calling it (the Dry Land) “ Earth (Gen. i. 10) By His Son, our enclosed World God made in Six Days, (John i. 3 ; xvii. 5 ;
Gen. i. 31 ; Ex. xx. 11; Heb. i. 2 ; and xi. 3)
( Prov. xxx. 4. ; and Gen. xi. 4 — 6)
And placed all outside it past men’s eyes and ways. He girded our Atmosphere round with Blue Skies
In which the Lights move and impinge to all eyes.
And so each man’s eye-bounds by God’s Own decree, Encloses the limits of all he can see.
And his eye-line’s the same length— with equal eye-light — | If he looks straight before him, or gazes upright,!
And as far— but no further — the Light man can see,f In every direction, wherever he be.|
But our world’s in “ The Waters,” not rushing in “ space.” And “The Heaven”*' is above their vast surface — or “ face.”
(Job. xxii. 13 — 14, and xxxviii. 9) (Gen. i. 14—18)
(Isa. xl. 22).
(Gen. i. 6). (Gen. i. 1).
(The above lines are also based on innumerable other passages of Scripture).
% i.e., the Waters from which our “ Seas ” were “divided ” by our Water- dividing Firmament, and “ made ” to keep within their central “ Bounds ” as we find them.
§ The seventh word in Beb. xi. 3 should be Ages ; and this refers to the motional-divisional-Svstem of the Lights of “Heaven” — dividing all Time, from Moments to Ages.
T See “ Sight Limitation,” by Lady Blount.
® This is not our Water-dividing “ firmament,” which God created on the 2nd Day of Creation Week, and “ called Heaven,” hut God’s Abode above the surface of those Waters in whose midst our enclosed World is. God created “The Heavens” in the Beginning (see Gen. i. 1.)
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STAR - GAZERS’ DELUSIONS.
XET us remember the danger of putting our faith in “An Arm of Flesh.” The prophet Isaiah warns men not to trust in “men, and not God,” nor in “flesh, and not Spirit.” And it was never so necessary that his warning should be heeded as it is to-day !
The Holy Scriptures reveal that we are living in an Enclosed World, and that we have been created and placed in it by our Creator to cultivate the love of Truth and to seek after it as “ a pearl of great price.” The two great sources from whence Truth may be found are from God’s written Word, and from His Created Works. And if we find anything in perfect harmony with both these, we may know that it is true.
Xow is it true that the stars are all worlds ? This assumption has become such an integral part of modern theoretical astronomy that it is quietly taken for granted. A Professor of “ Science ” is reported to have said :
“There need lie no hesitancy now in publishing what has been determined in fact (?) viz.— the burning up of eighteen or more worlds or stellar bodies. We know (surmise) that they have disappeared by coming in contact with other bodies in space, and they are fused into new worlds, which in turn have taken up their paths through the universe.’’
But when, or by whom, was it proved, “ determined as a fact” that the stars are worlds; and how have astronomers got to “know” that eighteen worlds have disappeared through collisions, and eighteen new worlds come into being.
The Professor gives a hint in the following words as to how he thinks they have got to know. He says :
“ But now we have come to know that the worlds have been destroyed by contact with other worlds. That is to say, at least eighteen new luminous worlds have been observed where none previously existed.
This is the usual style of astronomical reasoning. Eighteen fresh luminous spots have been observed in our Enclosed Hea\’ens, and they assert these are “worlds,” although the celebrated 18-inch telescope through which the Professor observed them fails to make more of them than
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mere points of light. But they are “worlds,” and not having been before observed, they must, of course, have “ lately come into existence ” of themselves.
Every evolutionist knows this, of course. But as they cannot “come into existence” without the destruction of other worlds it follows, of course, that eighteen other worlds must have collided, and been destroyed.
In fact the Professor proceeds :
“ Probably many more worlds have disappeared by collision than those which we have recorded. This is not a surprising inference when one considers that already about 300,000,000 stars are mapped, and that doubtless as many more dark bodies are among them.”
The intelligent reader will notice the words “ probably,” “ doubtless” and “ inference.” These words figure promi¬ nently in scientific speculations, yet these very speculations are put forward as the grounds for asserting that the astronomers “know” that the stars are worlds; and to describe “ what happens when a world is destroyed ” ! Such speculations tend to undermine all belief in the inspired account of Creation, as given in the Word of God.
When unknown Stars appear in view,
Star-Gazers call them “Worlds,” and “new.”
They may be “ new,” or may be old ;
But this to man God has not told ;
And mortal eye-bounds have revealed,
The Nature of Heav'v s Lights is sealed !
Yet these extravagant speculations are quoted even in religious papers !
The editors of many religious publications decline to allow Bible Cosmogony in their papers, but open their columns willingly ' to the extravagant fallacies of modern astronomy.
It is a sad and suggestive state of affairs when professed Christian editors have more faith in such so-called “science’’ than they have in the plain statements of the Word of God.
The Bible teaches that the Sun and the Moon Lights were not created until the Fourth Day of Creation Week, yet Pro¬ fessor IX says ; “the Sun, which probably came into existence as
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the result of a collision, has been cooling off and diminishing in height and light for thousands of years”; and further, that 11 if a planet like the earth, or a bright star, should run into it, the earth and the whole solar system would burn up in a few minutes. As I, for one, have never seen the dirty mud of city streets shining like “a bright star.” nor even the distant hills out in the country, 1 am not alone in thinking there is little danger of our earth “ running into their Sun, which they say is 93,000,000 miles away.
The Apostle Peter says that when the earth is purified by fire, that fire will come from the interior of the earth itself ; so that it will not be brought about by a so-called “ collision.” But the above-mentioned Professor, who flatly contradicts the Word of God, little knows that he could find pearls of Truth and Wisdom in the plain statements of that Word in relation to true Cosmical Knowledge — and the sublime revelation that God has magnified “ His Word above His Name.
Concerning the “new” star, Nova Perseii, which appeared in the constellation of that name in the year 1898, Prof. D. says : This star shone very brightly for a short time, and then diminished in lustre until it became quite faint ; relating to this, and the Sun, he says :
“ We are eight light minutes from the Sun, 93,000,000 of miles by actual measurement. Now Nova Perseii appeared in the heavens, and I looked at it through a telescope. I was about 100 years behind the times. The collision, you see, though news to me was ancient history. It really took place 100 years ago, for the light from the collision that gave birth to that world to reach my telescope now. I incline to the belief that worlds are destroyed by direct collisions.”
This paragraph is full of assumptions and errors, and what is worse it has been endorsed by professed Christians ! In fact, there are statements made which are not simply errors, but downright untruths. For instance, the Professor says that the sun’s distance from the earth is “ 93,000,000 miles by actual measurement.” Now as the astronomers, from the time of Copernicus to the present time, have differed in their conclusions respecting the sun’s distance by more than 90,000,000 miles, therefore, where does the “actual measurement” come in? And
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whose measurement was it that was “ actual,” while all the other various and conflicting measurements made by astronomers were only fanciful ? And, again, what must be the folly of “believing ” that a conflagration can be seen 100 years after it has taken place.
But this astronomer says the news reached him 100 years after the event! And it reached him “ through the telescope” ! If so, the telescope has misled him for once at least. His idea came to him from a more occult source than through a long tube with some pieces of glass inserted in it.
It is time that Christians were aware that such teachings come not from God but from men who have not only no faith in God’s Revealed Word, but who are conspiring towards its overthrow.
Thinking men ought really to be ashamed to own such things. Let such fancies as are applied to theoretical astronomy be applied to the events of daily life and we should see their folly. We are told that “a new world” springs forth of itself from the collision of “ two or more old worlds.” But Sight-limitation alone exposes the fallacy of such an idea !
No man can stretch the eye-line’s length, which is the same in all directions. And that the added distance reached by a telescope is very moderate is proved by its horizontal reach.
And all men see beyond eve-bounds Is seen alone on guessing grounds.
But this is but a single instance of the delusions of one Star-Gazer, whose God-contradicting and absurdly deli s re “inferences” are believed by a large portion of our world (including Christians).
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS,
24. — In my new book, “ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed,” I do not assert that our world is an egg, but far more like an egg at rest than “ a flying orange.” And again, I use the term “ egg-world” to remind my reader of the fact that
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cmr world la enclosed In its solid firmament — even as the contents of an egg are enclosed within its shell— and to annul the false idea of illimitable space.
25. — In May, 1904, I conceived a mode of experiment to ascertain if water was level by photographing a 15ft. sq. sheet hung directly above a straight canal in Norfolk G miles from the sheet’s position. The operator had to lie close above the water on a platform I had made, touching the canal’s surface. The photographer took my photograph to London to develop it and I went to the Isle of Wight, where I was due to give a lecture the next evening. Just as I rose to speak, a telegram was handed up to me on the platform from Dalmeyer, (my photographer) of Oxford Street, London saying the sheet, and its reflection beneath it in the water, were in the picture ! What did this prove ? That that canal was level, as are all canals without locks. “ Parallax ” had made experiments on the same canal of a different character many years before and had reported its water to be level. Not only may canals be found practically level, but also lakes, and rivers, and inland seas.
The basins of our Earth with edges bevel
Hold horizontal Waters flat, and level.
Furthermore, it is possible that the surface of some main Seas may be practically level — i.e., with little or no bulge. When wre remember that both Atmosphere and Water are flexible, either temporary or permanent supernal pressural influence from beyond the Skies may affect the shape of extensive areas of our vast Oceans. Without revelation from their Creator, their exact contour cannot be ascertained. But we know pretty accurately their surfacial size, ana that we can pass round them circumferentially.
26. — By my photograph I have given evidence that the canal I photographed is level — which its maker well knew ! But the relative distances of our Continents and Islands, the Facts of Navigation, the shape of the Skies, and lastl}', but of all importance — Bible statements prove that the “ Seas ” are bound around, and entirely surrounded by the atmosphere we breathe, which is again surrounded by Skies which end our vision. The Land in our World is within the centric “ Seas,” and it was only our outstanding continents and islands of Dry Land that God called ‘‘Earth.” I repeat, it was not the wet Lanp, but the Dry Land God called “ Earth.”
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27. — A cursory glance at the pamphlet given with your (“ A Friend’s ”) kind letter reveals that I had neither seen nor heard of it before ! The quotations of which it is made up are not adaptable apart from the foregone conclusion that “ Parallax ”-ism is in harmony with the known Facts of Nature and the Bible conjoinedly. And it is waste of time, money and space to quote my experiments in supjrort of the flat earth, because I have explained horv not only man-constructed canals made without locks may be level, but also some of our natural Lakes and Seas. And apart from this fact, my photographic experiment on the “ Bedford Level Canal” (N.B. — named “level” by its constructors) only proves that that water is level, and not that all Seas are consequently so. The writer of this pamphlet prints wrong conclusions.
LECTURE ON SPIRITISM.
By Lady E. A. M. Blount, f.r.s.l., f.s.a,, etc.
Each waking hour of Life’s great story,
Or when chains of sleep have bound us, There are spirits from the glory
“ Clouds of witnesses ” surround us ! Also spirits dark and vile Ever hovering to beguile !
TOURING the past century the increase of “Spiritualism ” ■ZL' portends (in my opinion) that the Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the end of our present dispensation are not very far distant. This occult phe¬ nomenon, which should more correctly be called Spiritism or Demonism, has increased very rapidly in two senses, viz., in development and in its spread. The chief agents and motive powers of Spiritism are “ Seducing Spirits,” and these, we are distinctly warned b}r the Lordls “chosen vessel,” Paul, will cause some to “fall away from the faith ” through “giving heed ” to them in these latter times. This ancient prophecy is now at the present moment being- fulfilled.
Evil “seducing spirits” impersonate the dead, and daringly masquerade, not only as men’s departed friends,
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but even as the Son of God Himself ! Let us, therefore, earnestly endeavour to discern the nature of these “evil spirits” and then prayerfully attempt to oxpose their methods and reasons for seducing mankind.
That those spirits are not those of our departed friends is evident to Christians, who have any powers of reasoning. For those wh > claim that demons are the spirits of wicked men who have gone to hell (i.e., “eternal torment.”} forget that it would necessitate such to have power of escaping therefrom, before they could manifest themselves to tlieir friends. And on the other hand, it could not possibly be a state of rest, or a happy condition of the Redeemed in Christ if they were simply hanging about awaiting the beck and call of some mortal “ medium” — for the purpose of saying a few common-place words to their friends who are still in the flesh, with all its sin and suffering.
Personally, I should regard the latter as a state of monotonous misery that might be designated as a sort of eternal torment. But according to God’s sure promises Redemption will mean something very different to this de¬ grading idea !
“ It is written,” Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him (I. Cor. ii. 9). Then again, the common explanation does not account for the power that controls the “ medium.” To me it is doubtless that the demons — manifested in spiritism — are the disem¬ bodied spirits of the offspring of the Angels who sinned in the days of Noah by taking mortal wives against God’s command.
The result of their illicit union were giants, who were born of immortal fathers and mortal mothers.
The fathers were cast down to Tartarus and there de¬ livered into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment.
The mothers, who were the beautiful daughters of men, perished in the Flood with their God-forbidden offspring whose disembodied spirits became wandering demon spirits of the Satanic host, for, as we shall eventually see, the fall of those Angels was the leading factor in a deep satanic scheme to frustrate the Divine Plan of Redemption, which God ordained before the world “ was.” But, nevertheless, the frustrator was frustrated ! For we are told that the Lord in His resurrected body went and made proclamation to those fallen Angels in prison.
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These “sons of God,” were suffering for tlieir dis¬ obedience, and in the words of Dr. E. W. Bullinger in “ How to enjoy the Bible,” “ they took part in a gigantic Satanic plot to corrupt and distroy the whole human race. Satan’s object was to frustrate the council of God, in respect to the great promise and prophecy that the Seed of the woman should come into the world at the appointed time and finally crush the head of the old Serpent (Gen. iii. 15). Satan having as yet no clue as to the time when ‘ the Seed of the woman ’ should come into the world, his first effort was to corrupt and distroy the whole human race. This he carried out as described in Gen. vi. and Jude 6th verse.”
“The sons of God” were Angels; “the Angels who sinned.” All beings who are the direct creation of God are called “sons.” Adam was “a son of God ” (Gen. v. 1; Luke iii. 38).
All families, except Noah’s family, were tainted with this uncanny and unholy breed called the “ Nephilim.” Noah was tamim, i.e., without blemish. Satan’s plot would have succeeded but for the direct interposition of Divine judgment, and Noah’s faithfulness ; and consequently “ the Seed of the woman ” ultimately came into the world, and satan’s agents, who had taken part in that daring plot, had to learn that the designs of their master had failed !
Christ, the Son of God, having conquered satan and death, He descended into the heart of the earth and “proclaimed ” His victorious Redemptional Triumph. This is the Triumph referred to in Col. ii. 14-15, where having “spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
(Continued on page 27).
NOTICES & LETTERS.
-4ZZ readers uj The Enclosed World should read “ The
Secrets of Nature Exhumed.”
Extracts from numerous voluntary testimonies from Mem¬ bers of the U.T.K.S. League, and others.
From J.B., LL.D.
Your new book (“ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed”) is extremely clever, and intensely interesting.
Mrs. F., Worthing.
Your very interesting book has led me a willing captive, for its contents are so thoroughly based on the “ Scriptures of Truth.” My sister and myself are so thankful that it came before us, as it has been the means of sweeping away the old cobwebs of Pythagoras, and lxis followers up to date.
Miss F., Worthing.
Happy was the day when your dear daughter brought your book to my house and opened my eyes to the errors that I had been taught concerning astronomy. I believe every word of your book and therefore it is my delight. My friends are so interested in the subject of your teaching, that they are looking forward with great pleasure to your next lecture here, as they found your last discourse so very instructive and interesting.
E. Robert, Plympton.
I have read your book and have found it most instructively interesting.
A. George, Manchester.
I love your book !
From G.S.
Your book is true.
Cadogan, London.
Your “ Secrets of Nature Exhumed " contains volumes of Truth, and cannot fail to increase the readers’ faith in the Bible.
Florence Hamilton, Worthing.
Your book I consider Scripturally true, and the more I read it the more I realise its value in enlightening and exercising the mind.
Karl Le Sain, Worthing (Professor of Physics).
Keep on with your great work, and make men think.
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Caldwell Harper, Cumberland.
Your present, theory is comparatively high up the scale of likelihood * I think it has chances of being approximately true.
Agnostic, Yew Zealand.
Your “ Secrets of Nature Exhumed ’’ is worth £5 per copy.
Play- Writer, New Zealand.
I enclose one shilling for your new book, “ The Secrets of Natur Exhumed.” It would be cheap at one guinea !
A.M , Forest Gate.
Being a convert to your teaching that we are living in an Enclosed World, I am writing to tell you that I am delighted with your printed lectures, with which I entirely agree. And I consider that each copy of vour ‘"Secrets of Nature Exhumed” is worth its weight in diamonds ! Well might our friend say it is worth five guineas per copy. I hope to hear your lecture at the Lyceum Club and at the Marble Arch. I believe you may cause the abandonment of the Planet-Earth hypothesis in your lifetime, but if your efforts are not crowned with success while you are in the Uesh, your writings will live and bear fruit eventually. Your con¬ tention re Sight-Limitation, and that the eye-line is equal in all directions, is irrefutable, and this fact clips the wings of the astronomers so effectually that they must eventually come to the ground. Am glad you liked my poem on yourself, and as a faithful follower of the Truth you have upraised, I close with two lines from it : —
So pass thee onward, higher, higher climb.
To sow Truth’s Seed in this the Sowing time.
E.R.B., Plymouth.
Glad to know your new book is selling well — as it deserves to.
A Princess, Brighton.
No wonder that all your relatives who know your teaching accept it. M.C., Worthing.
No doubt your system of cosmogony is true, as it harmonises with, both known facts and the Bible.
From C.E. (a Doctor who formerly followed and helped “Parallax”)
I entirely endorse your teaching. Your system is self-evidently true. If Dr. Rowbotham (“ Parallax ”) could return to us he would endorse it.
The Rev. W. H. Stanley, B.A.
I have a copy of your new work and have perused it with interest. Obviously it is written with the veracity and wealth of resource one has grown accustomed to associate with your name, neither would it be easy to over-estimate that spirit of experimental investigation so natural and so precious to all real thinkers. Evidently your Ladyship has the invaluable power of placing old truths in a new light — very rare in these days — and very striking too is the independence of thought, the Athanasius-contra- tnundum attitude quietly maintained throughout your work. But to my mind the highest and best characteristic of the whole book is its unswerving
loyalty to the Word o (!od and your constant and respectful reference to it is admirable. Thus a sound and healthy path has been chosen in your work and one that ensures its cordial reception among all class's of Churchmen and all independent thinkers.
Fred G. Bowles, the well-known Poet.
Upon my return from Paris, I find your most interesting book, “ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed.” I am really delighted with the volume ; it is most fascinating. Herewith a P 0. in payment, and I hope the book will have a very large sale. You have struggled hard and gloriously.
Hits. M. L. S., & Miss C, Gcnston.
Your book, “ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed,” should be read by every person living, as it harmonises the Bible and Science, which has not been done by anyone previously. It seems to me very wondrous, and reveals Facts which have been — as it were — buried alive. It cannot fail to gain world-wide appreciation.
Lady E., Somerset.
I am looking for great results from your lectures at the Lyceum Club, Piccadilly, because I regard your contention as set forth in your new book, “ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed ” to be irrefutable.
I entirely agree with your expositions of known facts, and regard them to be uniquely valuable as builders of Faith in God and His Son, Jesus Christ, through their perfect harmony with our five Senses, as well as the world's whole phenomena. That section of your book under the head¬ ing of “ Universal Phenomenal Deductions ” is also fascinatingly true, and is a clear exposition of hypothetical fallacies which are but too often enthroned on pedestals of truth.
Illimitable space is the essence of fallacy. The truth of your stanza on this point is self-evident when you say : —
Eternal, everlasting “ Space,”
No man could comprehend ;
Nor one conceive of mortal race —
Time, “ Space,” and all things end !
And again —
Eternal ‘‘Space,” or aught else without end No mortal brain could ever comprehend ;
As God ordained, and as in nature found,
All endless mortal things must curve around.
All your stauzas speak forth truth and your every line set forth in pr-.se and verse in this book I agree with, with all my mind. And regarding Sight-Limitation. I endorse your stated facts thereon most emphatically. You are setting forth the truth when you state that all man’s Senses are equally limitated in every direction, including liis Sight. Why should Sight-Sense stretch further in one direction than another? It is impossible that we can see further vertically than we can horizontally- As you say —
Where’er a man’s horizon be,
Not one yard further can he see.
His horizontal line of sight Is equal to its length upright.
And all men see beyond eve-bounds /■ Is seen alone on guessing grounds.
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In Harmony with The Two Certain Witnesses — God’s Written Word and — His Created Works (as opposed to ALL false things, including false doctrines, and Whirling “ Seas ”-and-“ Earth ”-Globe-“ Science — falsely so-called.”)
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
Indoctrination from childhood in the far-fetched fabulous idea that we are living on a planet in the Skies affects men’s and women’s Senses and weakens their Reasoning faculties during their growth, and begets an appetite for fiction, with a counter distaste for simple Truth. And also breeds indifference and contempt for the Word of the Living God.
The greater majority of mortals belonging to the civilised world are trained to think very lightly of setting aside the Cosmogony of the Bible for that;, of man’s invention. And they entirely pass over the Creator’s account of His Created Works given through Moses, which the Christ (by whom “ All Things — in our World — were • made ”) endorsed. But the fascination of fiction rises so high above the love of truth that even clerics deem it a sin, or a sign of madness, to doubt that our world is a luminous star.
It is an astounding thing that preachers of nearly every Christion sect, with their Bibles ever before their eyes, lead the world to discard the Divine Cosmical Revelation of the Holy Scriptures, while at the same time they point to the same Scriptures and ask men to place their faith in God’s promises of Salvation through Jesus Christ which they contain. And, apart from the Scriptures they must well know that they themselves could obtain no knowledge of their Creator and His Son, as there is no other source of Divine Truth and Spiritual Enlightenment within our world. But almost every wayside preacher is aware that neither
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the professors of modern cosmic “ science ” now living, nor its founders, ever turned to the Word of our World’s Creator for their data, because they could find nothing therein but opposition to their ideas. And the only explanation the professed upholders of the Bible offer for their disbelief of the Creator’s Revealed Cosmogony is that “ the Bible was never intended to teach Cosmic Science.” But this hackneyed statement is absolutely untrue.
The True Cosmogony of our World is the first subject, written not only on the first page of the Divine Record, and all visible phenomena, but it is interwoven in their every feature, and God-ordainedly forms the First Lesson and the very basis of our Spiritual Enlightenment and Religious Education for Eternity.
Reader, don’t “ Wait and see,” but ojten your Bible, and look and see, that our World’s Creation is the theme of its opening Words of Revelation, showing how God and Jesus Christ “ Created ” and “ Made ” the World in which we live.* Two minutes will expose, even to the man in the street, that the Bible is intended by its Author and our Creator to reveal to us the true origin and nature of our universe. And it is self - evident that the Bible and man’s modern so-called “ science ” are so directly opposed to each other that they cannot possibly be held together in the same mind, and that the man who thinks he believes both probably knows very little of either, and certainly he is practically ignorant of one or the other. No wonder that whirling-globe “science” is deemed too deep for the great majority of human minds to receive! Yea, it is “deep,” and its depths have been dug by the enemy to undermine man’s faith in the Creator’s Word. And it is doubtless that men have been unwittingly used in this deep work ! But if Christian men and women will only open their eyes to the fact that a system of education is being taught in our schools, presenting things distinctly opposed to each other as both emanating from the God of Truth, they will surely rise tip against so great a wrong !
The Bible cannot be believed unless it is known. And knowledge of it cannot be possessed unless it is carefully and prayerfully studied, and continually used as daily food for the mind, which is as necessary as daily bread for the human body.
“ Man shall not live alone by bread, but every word that God hath said ” (Matt, iv., 4 ; Deut. viii., 3).
* See “ The Secrets of Nature Exhumed,” by Lady Blount.
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Then why reject the First Words in G-od’s Holy Book ?
And why reject God’s Holy Book’s First Subject, which is His Creation Truth ?
The Bible, which is the only Divinely scientific Book, was written by Moses, and the Prophets, and Apostles, who, being “moved by the Holy Ghost,” acted as pens and mouth¬ pieces of the Deity. The Holy Scriptures contain what the Creator deems necessary that His creatures shall know. And He requires all men to study them daily. Ho other book could be read daily from youth to age with profit but God’s Word, which is the source of all Truth — wherever it exists.
The best system of Christian education would be to train the pupil to use his own God-given Senses, and to knoiv and love God’s Word and Works.
The man who’s educated well will ne’er feign to believe
What he don’t understand — nor swell the throng who thus deceive !
It is a notable fact that the conjunction of error with Truth mars Truth’s progress, but nevertheless the false planet-theory of our World and the Bible are conjointly presented to the young, the thoughtless, and the world at large, as being conjoinedly true : and thus God’s Word is sown intermingled with error in every Infant School, and College of every class and kind and stage of advancement ; and in nearly every Christian pulpit of every sect ;
“ The Clergy ” think the “ whirling globe ” a tit-bit of reliance,
And use it just to flavour up their sermons with some science ;
But Logic asks Why they eschew the Scriptures true for fables new. Yes, scientific parsons oft dilate on endless “ space,”
And hoie their “ planet-Earth ” (and Sea) around their huge sun race But where’s God’s Heaven ? I pray them tell — •
And theirs as well ? and where’s their Hell ?
The globite parson’s Heaven must fly in “ space ” around his sun,
“ Above ” his globe— while it “ beneath ” by “ axial ” force is spun !
But no man born of Adam’s race could know or trace Eternal “ space.”
The ancient Roman Catholic Church believed in and defended the Mosaic account of Creation. But its modern popes could not maintain their defence on the basis of the horizontality of water, because the more the true nature of our World's Facts became known, the more certain became the shape of our main “Seas’” and “Earth’s” surfaces.
And although honour may be due to a few cardinals and popes (including Urban VIII.) for their opposition of a “science falsely so-called” which opposed the Bible’s True Cosmogony. Nevertheless it was neither given to them nor to their successive representatives of the Church of Rome to
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harmonise the Facts of Nature with the Bible. Therefore they found it impossible to satisfactorily maintain their position as temporal and spiritual educationalists while sailing as anti-globites.
So a pope and his bishops in a long confab sat
And they tried hard to roll out their planet-Earth Flat.
But one of the wily ones said, “ Its not that” !
“ We must cease to oppose.”
So they left the Truth to fall !
The Bible account of Creation is nevertheless absolutely true ! But modern “ science ” is a thing of “ uncertain sound ” and “ unknown quantity.”
According to one kind of very modern “ science,” called “ Christian Science,” Matter does not exist ! And another kind of rather modern sciencet is based on the theory that all Matter once floated in atoms wide roaming through “ space,” and something which Newton called “ universal gravitation ” pulled the atoms together from a central point, and the sun thus evolved itself ! And the “ Earth-planet ” (this kind of “ science ” asserts) was “ a cinder shot out from the sun,” and evolved and rounded itself into an Earth — (and “Seas”) — “globe,” or “planet” while spinning. And the stars evolved themselves in like manner. But we ask —
Who saw those “ Atoms” roaming in illimitable “space”?
And further back gaze o’er eternity’s maze what before was “ universal gravity ” doing ?
But some present-day professors of modern science are opposed to Kant and Laplace’s “Nebular Hypothesis,’’ and they assert that their 2^anet-Earth-and-Seas-globe came into existence in a different manner. For instance, in a new scientific work entitled, “ The Earth : Its Genesis and Evolution,” the author, who does not claim to introduce any¬ thing new, and merely professes to give “ an account of the geological history of our planet,” asserts that it formed itself by sedimentary cycles. But this professor very strongly denounces the “ Nebular Hypothesis.” We ask again : —
Who saw those so-called “ cycles,” which really mean imaginary orbits in the heavens ? No one !
1 Kant, a German mathematician, the real author of the Nebular Hypothesis theory, on which Laplace enlarged, was born in Prussia in 1724, and died in 1804.
Laplace, a French Marquis, created by Louis XVIII , born 1749, died 1827, credited author of the “ Nebular Hypothesis ” theory, which verified Newtons' “ gravitation ” theory. His works were published by the French Government in 1843. Laplace was the first famous French mathematician.
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And who saw that sediment sink in the revolving liquid to form the “ Earth’s ” various stratum ? No one !
Therefore, it is a case of “ the pot calling the kettle black ” ! But these “ scientific ” theories are all equal in the sense that they are all Scripturally untrue. But it is a bad fix to be in, in either case ! Not an iota of evidence could possibly be found to uphold either of these men’s theories of “ planetary genesis.” In fact, in neither of these astronomer’s hypothetical ideas is there one raj’ of hope of the possibility that a mortal soul could be dug up to attest to the veracity of either the “Nebulous Hypothesis” or the “ sedimentary cycles ” to account for our World’s “ Genesis and Evolution.” This would be impossible because no mortal existed, as in the case of the latter theory its upholder asserts that our planetary system (which includes their sun) may have commenced in a gaseous fog and passed through many stages of evolution, and may have returned again to nebular ; then a new cycle of operations may have commenced where the last one originated. But both these theories are entirely contradictory to the Creator’s Word, which reveals that God made our World in Six Days by Jesus Christ nearly 6,000 years ago. But although our Creator brought Light on the surface of “ The Waters ” in whose midst our Enclosed World was created to make the First Day, God did not create our sun and moon “ Lights ” until the 4th Day of Creation Week. And all the claims of Geology can be met by showing that the “ Land ” which was brought into our Enclosed World within the “ divided Waters ” was part of “ The Earth ” which its Creator created in shapely form “ in the Beginning ” (probably many millions of years in the past) ; but it had become without form and void through its inundation in “The Waters.”
The supernal Divisional Lighting, Heating, and Life- Force System of the sun and moon were made by the Son of God on the 4th Day of Creation Week especially for and icithin our Enclosed World. Therefore neither of these kinds of modern “ science ” can find any divine support or endorsement from the divine Cosmical Revelation, which forms so important a feature of God’s Word. Alas ! it is evident that globe-scientists can have little knowledge of the Bible’s extreme value. But Christians should know that the Scriptures are as reliable in their account of the Creation of our World as they are in setting forth Life and Re-Creation in and through Jesus Christ, who under His Father’s directions, was its Maker ! John i. 3 ; and xiv. 31,
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The Editor is thankful, thei'efore, that God’s Word affords a reliable account of the origin and nature of our Enclosed World, with undeniable evidence of the date of its beginning, and points to many witnesses who were present at its Creation when “ all the Sons of God shouted for joy” (Job xxxviii. 7). And, as above stated, by the exposition of facts relating to our “ Earth ” (God called the dry land “Earth ”) and the wet land beneath our “ Seas,” (the gathering together of the “ divided ” Waters unto one place God called “ Seas,”) we can fully account for the known Facts and Finds of Geologists ; and satisfactorily explain their “ pre-historic ” findings in the various stratum of our “ Earth,” submerged “ Land,” and “ Seas,” by supplying pre-historic data.
The “ pre-historic data ” above referred to reveals know¬ ledge of things prior to our Enclosed World’s existence. And, apart from this, true science and known facts clash with God’s Holy Word — as also do “ Parallax’s ” Flat “ Earth ” and Flat Seas. And all true Christians and Jews who endeavour to uphold both the Whirling Globe theory and the Six Literal Days Work of Creation Week are practically in the same position, through other errors !
The denial of Geology is simply the denial of Facts : and it would be far more reasonable and sensible to insist that a person SO years old had attained that age in five minutes than to deny the Facts of Nature or the Facts of Nature’s Creator's Word.
“Parallax’s” initial error — which necessitated its followers to believe in the divergence of degrees of longitude south of the equator — engendered many false ideas ! Never¬ theless, “Parallax” and his disciples — few as they were — appear to have been admirable in that they were willing to say (as it were), black teas white, in their zeal to uphold the Bible.
But in “The Secrets of Nature Exhumed” the Ed. has harmonised the Facts of Nature with the Bible, and shown how necessary it is for these to be in perfect concord if the Truth, in its every flower and bud, is to form a perfect bouquet. And Reason itself testifies that every atom of Revealed Knowledge is necessary unto this end. Therefore, by conjoining forgotten or rejected portions of our Creator’s Revelation with undeniable Facts, we obtain the true Cosmogony of our Enclosed World.
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LECTURE ON SPIRITISM,
By Lady E. A. M. Blount, f.r.s.l., f.s.a., etc.
[Continued ].
The Spirit speaketh expressly — “ that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” And these Spirits dissemble to be the departed relations and friends of the living for the express purpose of seducing the souls of Christians from God by making them believe that which is false. The wandering spirits are the offspring of the Angels who sinned against God by taking to themselves wives who were the daughters of men.
The offspring from this unholy union also afforded satan suitable instrumental agents for that great apostasy whose primal object was the corruption of all women then living and thus to frustrate the divine mandate that the woman’s seed should bruise the serpent’s head. But as I have already remarked, this satanic plot proved a failure. The giants who were the offspring of both Mortal and immortal parents — are probably the wandering disembodied evil spirits of whom we read in the Holy Scriptures ?
Both the Old and the New Testaments abound with information respecting the disembodied spirits, and how they wrere ever seeking to inhabit bodies. And the warnings against them are numerous : and especially are we to be warned in these latter days.
It is doubtless that these are the spirits that at the present time inhabit suitable mortals -who are now called “ mediums,” who yield themselves up to be “ indwelt.”
The possession of a familiar spirit is the necessary qualification a “medium” must have to enable an invisible spirit-intelligence to hold him or her under control. The spirits evidently operate similarly to a mortal mesmerizer.
The “ seducing spirits of the Giants,” (or Nephilim) who lived before the flood, have been deceiving the heathen nations all through the Ages, and in these latter days they are (as prophecied in I. Tim. iv. 1.) deceiving Christians of various Nationalities by inpersonating the dead friends of those who disobey the inspired injunction set forth in the I. Peter v. 8 and other passages by giving heed to them.
Also see “ Familiar spirit” — Lev. xx. 27 ; I. Sam. x. 7-8; I. Chron. x. 13 ; II. Chron. xxxiii. 6 ; Isa. xxix. 4.
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“ Familiar spirits ” — Lev. xix. 31 ; Lev. xx. 6 ; Duet, xviii. 11 ; I. Sam. xxviii. 3-9; II. Kings xxi. 6; II. Kings 24 ; Isa. viii. 19. Isa. xix. 3.
“Evil spirit or spirits” — Judg. ix. 23; I. Sam. xvi. 14-16 and 23 ; I. Sam. xviii. 10 ; I. Sam. xix. 9 ; Luke vii. 21 ; Luke viii. 2 ; Acts xix. 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.
These passages should be turned up by the reader and read aloud.
To the Christian Bible Student two things relating to spiritism are obvious ; — viz, 1st, that the phenomena are real ; 2nd, that its nature and effect are distinctly evil and opposed to both the Will, and the Word of God. Also Bible opponents and modern scrutinisers of the most critical type have been forced to admit the fact that the phenomena of spiritism are a reality.
[To be continued.]
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
28. — Jews, as well as Christians, should know that our World is not a star in endless “ space,” but that our innate world — including the Sun and Moon Lights and the Stars — was created in an Enclosed Firmament (which God called “ Heaven ”) “ in the Midst of The Waters ” (Gen. i. 6 & 14).
29. — We deny, 1st, that our “ Earth ” (Dry Land) and “ Seas ” are “ a planet ” ; 2nd, that the Sun and Moon Lights are two huge bodies ; 3rd, that illimitable “ space ” exists ; and, 4th, that we can see further vertically than horizontally.
30. — The Flat Earth, and Flat “ Seas,” are not in the Bible.
31. — Bad calculists are poor Reasoners, but keen quibblers !
32. — Darkness may possibly have caused the Old World’s death. Pride certainly causes some to cling to their errors, and thus they help satan.
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y || LL man-made cosmogonies begin with “ chaos,” which I I means disorder ; and forms the basis of the Scripture- contradicting doctrine of evolution. Science means Knowledge. Therefore it is what we know, not what we think. But nevertheless, “ the Planet-Earth,” which is only a theory, is called “ science,” and handed to the world conjoinedly with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the medium of nearly every educational system, and pulpit. Modern Cosmic “ science ” flatly contradicts the Mosaic account of Creation which the Son of God endorsed when He said : —
“ Had ye believed Moses, ye would believe Me, for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words.” (John v., 46-47).
“All things were made by Him (Jesus Christ), and without Him was not anything made that was made.”
Apart from the Creator’s Revelation, man really knows nothing whatever about either our World’s origin or what was before it. And it is evident that all false cosmical theories have arisen through God-forgetting and Scripture- ignorant individuals having unwittingly set up their own explanations of unrevealed things beyond the Skies which their Creator has sealed from the eyes and minds of all His human creatures. But every man and woman in every
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Christian country should be thoroughly instructed in the Holy Scriptures from childhood, and taught in no superficial way that their Creator created all things both visible and invisible by Jesus Christ. And also that God Himself placed His Word above His Works. In Gen. i. 1, the Creator reveals His Creation of “ The Heaven ” (His Throne) and “ The Earth ” (the Primal World). And the words employed — few as they are — denote that all was order, perfec¬ tion, and beauty. As the late Dr. E. W. Bullinger pointed out the word “Create ” has the foregoing as its root meaning, and in an article which he wrote expressly for the writer of this, he says that “ the very word cosmos, from which we have cosmogony, means the same and more ; for again and again it is actually rendered “ ornament .”
See Ex. 33 : 4-6 ; Isa. 49 : 18 ; Jer. 4 : 30 ; Ezek. 7 : 20, and “adorning” Pet. iii. 3. But eventually the “ World that then was perished” beneath “ The Waters,” * and became shapeless, and “ void ; ” — “ And darkness was upon the face of the waters.”
“It is not a continuation of the statement of Gen. i. I, but a revelation of an event which took place. The Hebrew has no verb “ to be, ” hence where this verb substantive is meant it is always (in the A V) represented by italic type. But here the verb the Earth “ was ” is not in italics, because it is the verb Haijali, which means to become or to come to pass. Again and again it is used in this sense.
Hence in Gen. 1. 2, it means “And the earth became tohu and bohu." Now whatever tohu and bohu may mean is not here our point. The expression means all that is implied by desolution and emptiness. The important fact is that it was not created tohu and bohu but it BECAME so.
This is not a matter of opinion but of fact and revelation. In Isa. xlv. 18, the expressions are heaped together to impress us with the fact that the speaker ought to know what He is speaking about. This is what is written : “ Thus saith the Lord which created The Heaven : God Himself that formed The Earth and made it : He hath established it, Be created it not TOHU.” E.W.B., D.D.
If we believe the Creator’sf Word, and also the evidence of our God-given Senses : we shall perceive that “The Earth ” which God created “In the Beginning” was not created tohu, but it became so. We are told how it became bohu, ( shapeless and void), viz., by water-inundation. But the reason why “ The Earth ” was submerged, or when its submersion
“ Thf Waters ” of Gen. 1.2; in whose “ Midst our World was Made, and from which our “ Seas ” were divided, are referred to as “The Waters ” in this article.
t “The Earth” which was submerged, and became deformed, from which the “ Land,” and “ Earth” in our ‘present World was “Made.”
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occurred, has been withheld : as also is the date of its creation. But it is revealed that God enclosed our innate World in a Water-dividing “ Firmament” in the midst of “ The Waters” and set it upon Pillars of “ The Earth ” on solid foundations beneath them and it. God also brought Light upon the surface of the Dark Waters in whose “ Midst ” our Enclosed World was created, to make the First Day of The Week. And further¬ more it is revealed that “ The Heavens ” icere of old, and “ The Earth.” And the latter stood out of “the Waters” beneath “ The Heavens ” and in The Waters: and “being overflowed by Water, it 'perished .”
But “The Heavens” which were “of old ” above the face (or surface) of “ The Waters ” (in whose “ Midst ” our Enclosed World was Created in Six Literal Days approaching 6,000 years ago) did not also perish ; although Light and Life-sustenance evidently ceased to issue from them during the world’s dissolution — and “The Waters’ face” or surface above the Old World’s Earth that was buried beneath it was in darkness until the Creator said — “ Let there be Light.”
It is foretold, however, that our “ Heaven ” (or Firmament which God Created to Divide “ The Waters” on Creation Week’s Second Day) shall “pass away,” and its “elements shall melt with Fervent Heat ! ” Peter states that “ The Heavens and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire.'" “ And the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved ” (II. Peter iii.).
We should note that the “ Lights ” which ice see in our Skies were created within our Enclosed World on the Fourth Day of Creation Week — not only for “ Lights,” and to convey other Life-forces to each mortal within the limited bounds of each one’s own eye-formed domain, but also as a Time- dividiug-System to divide all Time from moments to Ages. And they formerly formed Signs to express God’s Will in the Skies before His Word was written on Earth. But all things “ in the Beginning,” including the Creation of “ The Earth,” of “the World that then was,” and “The Heaven” (God’s abode), and “ The Waters,” and everything outside our Enclosed World, doubtlessly existed long prior to it, and all it contains, including its Time-divisional system.
And with respect to things which existed before our World’s Creation, and outside its Enclosed bounds, we can only conceive, or refer to their beginnings, periods or intervals as though they were under the same regime of Time as that which God, by Jesus Christ, has created in His Lighting
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System within the circular “ Heaven ” of our Enclosed World.”
This point, if duly considered, will afford a good view of the falsity of modern “ science’s ” chaotic basis relating to its Earth’s beginning : and it will expose how intensely modern astronomy opposes the Holy Word of the Creator !
The following short quotation from a new Astronomical work will give a small example of man’s evolutionary contradictions of his Creator’s Word !
The writer says : — “ The evolution of the earth (meaning Earth and Seas ) commences with data from the stars. (!) The Earth is but a unit of the Solar system, which is but a single system among systems.” This is directly opposed to the Bible ! The writer then speaks of “ the sun’s evolution.” and admits the Fact that Solar energy is one of the unsolved problems of Astronomy. This is true ! As when God made Two great Lights on the Fourth Day (not necessarily two huge bodies but “ Two Great Lights” in the same sense as electricity and gas are two distinct lights), the Creator did Not reveal anything to us (His Created Creatures) as to the Source or Nature of their Supernal Energy — But the date of their birth (as above named) is given in the 14tli ver. of Gen. 1. All Christians and Jews should hnow I repeat “ know ” that our visible Lights — which pass through each mortal’s eye-tent daily — within the inhabitable World — are not yet 6000 years old. And that they were Made after all other inanimate things within our Enclosed World had been made, including the Water-dividing “ Firmament ” which God called “ Heaven,” which He Made to divide “The Waters” containing our World’s Land from “ The Waters,” from which they were divided.
When the Creator “ In the Beginning ” Created “ The Heaven” (His Throne) above, He Created “The Earth” beneath which was eventually submerged. And He made our Firmament (which He called “Heaven”) in the Midst of “ The Waters” wherein “The Earth” was. And the divided Waters and Land which were beneath the Firmament God gathered together unto one place in the midst of the atmos¬ phere surrounded by Skies within the Firmament. And God Made the Dry Land “ appear ” standing out above the Seas, to form our continents and islands, which He called Earth, and made our Trees, and all Vegetation before He Made our supernal Sun and Moon Lighting-System, which comprehended the “ Lights ” in the Skies as seen by every human eye within
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its limited bounds. But although the supernal Lighting- System which is within our World may be supplied from outside its enclosed precincts, it should nevertheless be remembered that the Creator first brought Light upon the surface of “The Waters” in whose midst He afterwards created our Enclosed World.
Bible Cosmogony conjoined with the evidences of our whole world’s phenomena, proves that the Old World was larger than ours, and that “ it perished ” beneath dark waters.
We have the last-named fact before our eyes in the appearance of our stratified Earth, and in its condition and contents, which shows it to be a divided part of the Old World out of whose Dust Adam was Made, and unto which all mortals bodies must return after death. And thus it is evident that our mortal bodies emanate from, and have ever been, and are now built up by, and of, the subsisting material which formed The (primal) Earth. And from our Creator’s adorable Word of Revelation to us — His grateful creatures — and from all visible phenomena, we know “ The Earth” became “without form and void” (i.e., shapeless and unoccupied); the cause of which was probably due to long suspension of both animal and vegetable Life-Binding and Sustaining Forces such as the “Lights” of our “Heavens” via their Rays — convey to each living creature, and thing, existing in our inhabited World. And we know that the material of the primal “ Earth” subsisted after its inundation in water had caused its deformation from its primal shapely contour : as also the remaining tissue of the skeletons of the Old World’s once living inhabitants which have been exliumed from our present Enclosed World’s Land and Waters bear certain evidence. And these things prove that within the God- divided Waters, divided Land from the primal world was also parted off into our World by the Water-dividing “Firma¬ ment ” which its Creator Created and called “ Heaven.”
And Nature herself speaks when she presents huge skeletons of creatures of various descriptions and other things to the exhumer which have long been buried in our “ Earth,” “ Land,” and “ Seas.”
These exhumed discoveries, which include the remains of various immense reptiles, trees, and vast vegetation, etc., distributed everyivhere at different depths beneath the surfaces of our World’s Earth and Waters are unknown and entirely foreign to the Adamic Race. And this is evidenced by their natures and sizes, which proves that they originally
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grew in an ever equal climate, without Seasons, which may be described as continual summer of higher temperature than the periodic summers of our Enclosed World. And plants, similar to our coal measures, have been discovered 20° from the Pole : and (judging from the earth’s visible testimony) the geologist asserts that “ the temperature of the whole world seems to have been the same, as from the Equatorial regions up to the Melville Islands in the Arctic Ocean, the same species (now extinct) are found in equal development.” And “ extraordinary geographical distribution of the floras in Relative Unity lie all over the face of the earth.”
One writer on geology, speaking of “ the carboniferous epoch,” quotes “ The Impressions left upon the roofs of the mines after the removal of the seams of coal,” as follows : — “ The fmost elaborate imitation of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overlaid. The roof is covered, as it were, with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of the most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal- black colour of the vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported as if by enchantment into the forest of another world. He beholds trees of form and character now unknovm upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches with their delicate apparatus of foliage all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of Countless Ages, and being Faithfid Records of ex¬ tinct systems of vegetation which begun and terminated in times of which these relics are the Infallible Historians.”
The one who quotes the above from another work, remarks that: — “Humidity must have attended such equa¬ bility, extending without distinct terrestrial zones, probably completely into the Polar regions.”
This evidence agrees with the revealed hnowledge we have of the supernal combined Lighting and Life-Forces System of the Sun & Moon — and the Stars — which were Created within, and especially for, our Enclosed World ; and at the same time, it not only verifies the absence of any reason for concluding that the Old World was supplied with, and resuscitated by
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an entirely similar System, but it affords direct, and very pertinent evidence to the contrary.
The Bible account of Creation and the presence of visible evidence in the “Earth,” “Land,” “Seas,” and the Lighting, Heating, Periodic, and alterative - Climatic Systems, with their respective results, all bear undeniable testimony that, although the Land and Water in our World was made conformable to it out of part of “ The Earth” and “The Waters” which formed the Old World — which God created “ in The Beginning”; nevertheless, we have many certain proofs that the Old World was very different in various ways from ours.
The evidences of this are so numerous that they would occupy many volumes if given in full detail.
But, in addition to the above-named differences, betwixt our Enclosed World that “now” is, and that World referred to by Peter as “ the World that then was,” and of which, he reveals, certain persons (doubtlessly ungodly geologists®) were “ willingly ignorant,” there are further differentiations of even higher evidential import from a Scriptural standpoint than those we have already referred to.
For instance, skeletons of reptiles have been discovered, in both the new and the old world which existed in pre¬ historic times whose gigantic sizes and evident long entomb¬ ment proves that they were not created for our Enclosed World, which was created less than 6,000 years ago. For instance — quoting from a book before me — “the skeleton of the Brontosaurus standing all fours, is 50ft. high, and upright it would measure over 100ft, and when alive must have weighed 20 tons. The Atlantosaurus skeleton is 80ft. long, and 10ft. 6in. high, standing all fours ; and that of the Brontosaurus is 84ft. in length, and 30ft. high, standing all fours. In Africa alone over 100 different species of distinct and extinct reptiles have been discovered.” Then again, in the Divine Word we have the Revelation that “The Earth” of the Old World perished by Water, but that a different means of transformation is ordained, not only for the Land in our Enclosed World, but also its Firmament which God called “ Heaven.” This is revealed in II. Peter iii. 7, where our World’s future is foretold, and we learn that “the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same Word (as that
9 Star-Lore was called astrology until the Earth and Seas were said to be a star in the Skies, and then it was changed to astronomy.
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which ordered that the “Earth ” of the Old World should he submerged beneath “The Waters ”) are kept in store, reserved unto Fire.” And we know the Fire is stored within our Earth !
In the same chapter it is revealed that “ The Heaven shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the “ Earth ” (i.e., ‘ Dry Land ’) also, and the Works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all manner of conver¬ sation and godliness, Looking for, and hasting for the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.”
And the Apostle Paul further reveals that the things which were made in the Six Days are to be shaken and re¬ moved : and that visible thitigs which we see are changable and transient, whereas those things which are invisible, and beyond our eye’s reach (and may be beyond that of mortal understanding) are Eternal. And after the great transformation of our World by fire there will be “no more Seas.”
All these things are perfectly certain to come to pass, but nevertheless they are unheeded and ignored by the world at large through the leadings of its preachers and teachers.
But each one who professes to teach and uphold the Word of the Living God (which engenders the Creator’s Works by Jesus Christ) and fails to do so, is himself pur¬ blind, and consequently incompetent to present the ichole of the Creator’s revealed Truth to others.
The blind guide blindly leads the blind Along where he himself may stray,
And if they turn not they will find
They both have missed “ The Narrow Way ! ”
But if they’d learnt to use their eyes They would have seen God’s ways were wise.
Epli. i. 18 ; Matt. xv. 4 and xxiii. 16 ; Luke vi. 39 ; Isa. iii. 12 ; ix. 16 ; and xxiii. 16.
From the Divine Account of Creation we learn that our World was created beneath and in the “ midst ” of those Waters wherein “ The Earth” of the Old World was sub¬ merged. And (as in each reference to it I repeat) our Land, whose Dry portion God called “Earth,” was divided from “ The Earth ” which had perished and become shapeless
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beneath “ The Waters ” from which our Waters which God called “Seas” were divided. And our World’s “Seas,” being only part of those divided Waters, are gathered to¬ gether into one place in our enclosed Firmament, which is in their “ Midst ” : resting upon pillars of the Old World’s Earth beneath it. Therefore, although nothing is revealed with regard to the extent of “ The Waters,” whose Creation is never referred to, nevertheless, the revelation that they contain our Enclosed World (the size and shape of which is entirely unknown) in their “ midst ” set irpon pillars of the submerged Old World’s Earth, discloses their im¬ mensity.
Nothing has been revealed as to whether “ The Waters ” — in whose vast womb our Enclosed World was made — were, (like our Waters after they were divided from them), also “ gathered together (in the midst of atmosphere) unto one place” and enclosed within a Firmament. Nor do we know whether “The Earth” hung unsupported upon “nothing” in “The Waters” beneath which it subsequently became submerged. But it is evident that the Old World was submerged to so great a depth that it formed the foundations beneath the Pillars of “ The Earth ” whereupon our Enclosed World is set. And — unlike the “Land” and “Earth” in our present World — it was created in shapely form, standing out of “ The Waters ” and in “ The Waters.” And God “ formed it to be inhabited, in the Beginning ” when He Created His Abode, “ The Heaven,” above Heavens which were over “ The Waters,” and “ The Earth ” before The Water’s surface covered it and darkness reigned supreme.
The Lord God Jehovah, the Eternal and only God, has given us the Revelation that both His Abode, “ The Heaven” above, and “ The Earth ” of the Old World beneath had a Beginning, and did not always exist, and that He Created them both at some time in the past (before our Enclosed World and its orvn innate Time System was made) which is described in the Bible’s first words as “ in The Beginning.” But no Revelation whatever is given as to the Creation of Water.
And mankind would need enlarged mental capacities to comprehend supernal knowledge such as Hoic Matter and All Things — visible and invisible — were Created and brought into existence ; as also Eternity, from everlasting to ever¬ lasting, is past human comprehension. The All-wise Creator
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has withheld the heights and depths of Eternity from His creatures, and He has not created the finite mind capable of grasping things Infinite.
The Eternal Past or Future Without End No Mortal Brain As Yet can Comprehend ;
But A 8 It's God Ordained, so in Our World is Found All Endless Mortal Things must Curve Around.
The Nature too of Vision God Hath Lent Curves Round the Limits of Each Man’s Eye-Tent.
The duration of interval between verses 2 and 3 of Gen. i. no mortal can tell. But, in any case, while there is ample room for all Geologists’ requirements, there is not an atom of Space for those of the evolutionists’ Chaos. And the Divine Record is not only undefinably more enlightening than man’s invented “ Earth-and-Seas-Planet ” everlastingly rushing through illimitable “ space ” : but it entirely contradicts it. And if the latter could be proved to be true (which would be quite as impossible as to prove our World to be non-existent) it would prove that the Bible is untrue !
The first 21 Divine and Sublime Words of the Bible (Eng. Ver.) refer to the Primal Creation. But its History, Duration, and Wonders are unrevealed. We are informed what caused the Life-cessation of the Old World, but the reason for its causation is not given. And, apart from further Divine Revelation no mortal can knoAv either Why or When “The Earth” (which God Created “in The Beginning”) became without form and void beneath The Waters in darkness. And whether— as many believe — it was caused by the revolt of Satan or resulted from some other unknown or humanly incomprehensible cause, God, to us, has not revealed. But whatever its causation, and whenever it occurred, we possess evidences of its occurrence ad infinitum both from the Holy Scriptures and from all Nature’s visible and exhumed evidences. And Ave have the joy of knowing that our Creator has designedly Made His Revealed Cosmogony the Fit'st Subject of His Divine Word, wherein we have the wonderful Revelation that without our Lord and Saviour — Jesus Christ — AA'as not anything made (either visible or invisible) which exists. Also Ave haA’e the deep satisfaction of possessing knoAvledge far beyond the limits of that of mere human origin. For instance, is there a mortal astronomer AA'ho could tell us anything about a world prior to ours, apart from the Bible ? Not one ! And above all. Divine Cosmical Knowledge not only strengthens our Faith and enlightens our minds, but it enables us to beneficially account for many
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phenomena, which would be otherwise unaccountable. And we can thus comprehend the discovered facts of geology with keener interest, and with thankfulness to our Creator-Father, through His Beloved Son— the Lord Jesus Christ.
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LECTURE ON SPIRITISM,
By Lady E. A. M. Blount, f.r.s.l., f.s.a., etc.
[Continued].
Learned, Scientific, and Notable thinkers such as Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, Professor Crooks, Godfrey Raupert, Miles Grant, and innumerable others have examined, and closely analysed spiritism and its phenomena, and have given their testimony that spiritism is a reality though its nature is occult. In an excellent article by Godfrey Raupert in the “Daily Mail” be said : — -“It is an admitted characteristic of the intelligences, that they attempt to impersonate deceased individuals, nevertheless it is certain that the identity of the communicating intelligences has not been established.” Godfrey Raupert does not attempt to identify these invisible intelligences who mesmerise certain mortals, and who know so much about human beings and things generally, but he truly states that “their moral character is invariably of a low order, though it often remains hidden for years under a mass of platitudes and high sounding phrases.”
But the general moral and physical effect of spiritistic practices upon investigation (and particularly on the weak or sensitive) is disastrous. I have met people who had been compelled to give up acting as “ mediums ” owing to their having been robbed of their vitality through their intercourse with invisible agents.
Utter prostration and physical breakdown has resulted, and these poor creatures became hopeless wrecks.
In A.D. 1877, Dr. L. S. Forbes Winslow, when referring to madness and its causes, stated that 10,000 people — at that time — were in lunatic asylums through having tampered with the Supernatural !
More recently, Professor Del Barrell, who was formerly President of the Society of Physical Research, has warned the world from tampering with these mysterious and invisible agencies,
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But spiritism is still upheld and practiced by men and women of all nationalities and classes from Dukes to indi¬ viduals of the poorest classes.
Seducing spirits have fascinated Archbishops and many of the Clergy of the Church of England, and preachers of every known sect have been deceived by them !
Archbishop Colley, writing in favour of “ Spiritism ” in the 11 Daily Mail,” said, “ Will Spiritism kill all religious doubt ? ” and he speaks of it as “ a real God-send.” Perhaps so, but sent by the god of this world and not by the Supreme Deity. Mr. Colley, however, admitted that “ bad spirits may now and again come to our circles.”
This Archdeacon states that there is no death. But God's Word, including the Gospels, states that death exists. Such contradiction shows that it is an undeniable fact that if Spiritism be good and true, then the Bible is false.
But the Bible distinctly denounces the practice of consulting’ spirits respecting" things unrevealed.
Another prominent “ Spiritist,” Dr. J. Peebles, M.D., M.A., admits that some of the spirits teach “ the crudest Darwinism and spontaneous generation,” and that they have caused much insanity.
Chinese spiritism has brought awful results, as also in India, the whole details of which would be unfit for print even if space allowed.
In a work written against spiritism by a friend who was formerly a clergyman of the Church of England, he states as follows : —
“ I have received a copy of the Birmingham Weekly Post. Under the heading ‘ Amazing and Horrifying Tragedy ’ we are told how a spirit (a demon) so operated upon the mind of a young man as to induce him to murder his own father ! And how, under the pretence of being the spirit of a dear brother, the mother and sister were actually led to approve the crime. The father had opposed their demonism.”
But let us remember that a Divine and Supernatural antidote is at the command of all Christians to deliver them from Satan and his host of evil spirits.
E’en at the sound of Jesu’s Name Seducing spirits flee with shame.
Christians would never be troubled with these Satanic agents if they strictly obeyed the Divine injunction — “ Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James iv. 7).
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But those who persist iu going after *' familiar spirits ” to endeavour to obtain information respecting the past and the future, and other hidden things, seeking after that which is forbidden, from behind the veil, through occult methods, are simply seeking after the devil instead of “ resisting him.” The case of King Saul and many others who have disobeyed the Divine command in this manner illustrate the disastrous results from such folly and disobedience. And it is certain that all who allow themselves to be allured into these “ wiles of the devil,” who goeth about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, will suffer thereby.
Of course, these “ wiles of satan ” are probably more tempting to some mortals than to others. For instance, to the excessively inquisitive.
But God, through Jesus Christ, will deliver us, if we put our trust in Him.
The materialisation and dematerialisation of spirit forms is no fable, but a fact.
Many reliable men and women have borne witness to such phenomena. Amongst these notable witnesses are Sir Oliver Lodge, Professor C. Richet and others. From printed matter I have got I will give the exact testimony of the latter.
Professor Richet states : — At a seance, in the presence of several persons, another person appeared, a spirit intelli¬ gence, which materialised and dematerialised before his eyes.
The President, who was sceptical, applied experimental tests, and afterwards reported as follows : —
“ I will establish, first of all, that the person in question was neither an image reflected on a mirror, nor a doll, nor a lay figure. In fact, it possessed all the attributes of life. I have seen it leave the seance cabinet, walk about, go and come. I have heard its breathing and its voice. I have touched its hand several times ; that hand was warm and jointed. I have been able through the drapery, with which the hand was covered, to feel the wrist, the bones of the wrist and of the metacarpal, which yielded to « the pressure of my hand clasp.”
“ A living body was formed, outside the curtain, before our eyes, issuing from and returning into the ground.”
(To be continued.)
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
33. — Several books called the Apocrypha are in the Douay Version of the Bible amongst which are the books of Esdras from whose second book an irrevellent quotation was made. These books are not accepted by the Jews as being Inspired Writ, and we do not accept them, or anything else outside the covers of the Authorised, or Revised Protestant Bible.
34. — Apart from Divine Revelation nothing is known beyond the limits of human eye-reach in the skies.*
35. — It is easy to quote texts separately, or wrongly joined up together from various parts of the Scriptures to establish false doctrines.
36. — If we see a Fact of Nature which contradicts the Bible, it shows that our understanding of the Divine Revelation is not correct. Because the Facts of Nature and the Bible are one They are in complete unity ! even as the Creator — God, the Father— and His Son— Jesus the Christ— are described to be One in John chap. 14. In the same chapter those who are Redeemed by Christ are included in this unity, or oneness. Unity is not trinity.
37. — It is A.S.’s cleverest Son who accepts The Enclosed World. But he believed nothing existed before our World was created in Six Days.
The Waters outside our Enclosed World, from which our “Seas” were divided, were not made on any one of the Six Days of Creation Week. And God’s having made the Dry Land to “ appear ” above the “ Seas ” to form our Continents and islands with the revelation that “ God called the Dry Land “Earth” exposes the fact that the Land was within the “ divided” Waters, the gathering together of which God called “Seas.” —
Gen. i. 10.
3S. — Teaching that two things contradictory to each other are both true, stunts the power of Reasoning, and the Teacher cannot teach what he has never himself learnt.
39. — “ Parallax's ” defence as an anti-globite was a mistaken one when he adopted the Flat World idea. Of course, it is evident that he, like the ancient Church of Rome, saw no feasible way of defending his position— But doubtlessly they both did their best.
40. — We may see where error exists, but not know how to remove it, and if we attempt to do so on wrong lines, we often set up new errors. This was P.’s position — as unfortunately he attempted to disprove the planet-earth theory by setting up another error which engendered many more.
41. — Jesus Christ revealed that no man will be condemned for offences performed unwittingly. But he will suffer to some extent through his mistake. — Luke xii. 4S.
42. — Gal. ii. 18 refers to Paul’s condemnation of those who enforced Jewish rites upon Christians. This cannot be applied to a refusal to stand neutral with reference to P.’s false teaching after seeing how to rectify the errors he unfortunately set up by his mistaken line of defence. One who wilfully hides error by keeping silence is a worse deceiver than one who invents or starts it unwittingly through having himself been deceived. But
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the one who knows differently, and by his wilful “silence gives consent” to it, is a guilty “ deceiver,” whom (unless he repents, and ceases his deception) God will bring to account. Both “ the deceived and the deceiver are His.” — Job xii. 16.
43. — From the Bible account of the appearing of Dry Land above the Seas, which God called “ Earth,” and the nature and shapelessness of both the Wet and the “ Dry Laud ” in our World, as 'well as the undeniable Facts, and Finds of Geology : and also from the relative distances of our continents and islands, we learn that the Land in our “ Seas ” is part of “ The Earth ” which God created “ in The Beginning.”
44. — When God gathered together the divided Waters unto “ one place ” and “ set a circle ” of atmosphere around their surfaces, He divided them — as we find them — from the circle of the heavens. And as it is revealed He called the “ gathered together of the Waters, “ Seas ” and left the Land within them unsupported , and hung upon “nothing” as we find it, wholly cut off and disconnected from the Skies wherein our Lights pass round, and beyond which no mortal’s eye can penetrate to “ see the swaddling band of thick darkness ” which binds them around our atmosphere which touches the “ face ” or surface of our “ Seas ” and that of the outstanding “ Earth ” on which we live.
45. — “ In The Beginning ” is long in the past — probably many millions of years before our Enclosed World was Made in Six Literal Days — nearing 6000 vears ago — by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ under His Father’s Almighty supervision.
46. — God brought Light upon the surface of “ The ” darkened “ Waters ” wherein “ The Earth ” was entombed, to make the First Day.
47. —“ In The Beginning God Created “The Heaven ” (i.e., His Abode) and “ The Earth ” which through submersion in “ The Waters,” became shapeless— But our Water-dividing “ Firmament ” which God made to “divide the Waters” on the Second Day of Creation Week, we are distinctly told He Called “ Heaven,” and it includes our Skies — which it Encloses.
48. — Our Heaven is named by its Creator after His Abode. And our Continents and islands of Dry Land are named after “ The Earth” of which they were formed.
49. — God created our “ Firmament” which He called “ Heaven ” in the Midst of “ The Waters,” and set it on “ Pillars ” of “ The Earth ” with solid everlasting foundations.
50. — No mortal can have any idea what is past sight limits within our Enclosed World beyond what is revealed in God’s Word.
51. — Our “ Two Great Lights ” were made in our World, and for it on the Fourth Day of Creation Week And God made the Stars also— but He gave no revelation of their nature, order, or distances. We are simply told that they were made for our World, and in it, to give it Life Forces, including Light, and Heat; and for Signs and Seasons. And to Divide all periods of Time from Moments to “ Ages.” (See Heb. xi. 3, where the word Ages has been unfortunately rendered “ worlds ” in some Versions.
52. — The Sun and Moon Lights are “ Two Great Lights” in the same sense as electricity and gas are, and not two huge bodies ! They are supernal Lights whose causation is beyond the reach of human eye-sight and probably past human comprehension. The Lights appear to each Mortal in convenient size and shape to his eye, as well as his whole nature for which they were made.
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53. — No diagram of our world beyond our Skies can be given, as its Creator has not revealed the appearance of anything beyond that visible circuit, wherein the Lights are seen : and neither the innate nor the outer shape of our “ Firmament ” is known.
54. — Our Enclosed World was created “ in the Midst ” of “ The Waters” beneath whose surface “ The Earth” which God had created “ In the Beginning ” had been submerged.
55. — “ The Earth was not created shapeless, but it became so through inundation in “ The Waters ” whose surface was in darkness. (Gen. 1. 2).
56. — The Waters in our Enclosed World which ” God gathered together unto one place ” and called “Seas,” were “ divided ” from “ The Waters ” beneath whose surface “ The Earth ” was buried, and became deformed.
57. — The shapeless Land in our “Seas” is part of “The Earth” which God Created shapely “ In the Beginning ” and it was divided off into our World in the divided Waters on the Second Day of Creation Week — And on the Third Day God Made “ the Dry Land appear ” above the “ Seas ” to form our Continents and islands — “ And God called the Dry Land Earth.”
68. — God said, Let there be a Firmament in the midst of The Waters,
and let it Divide The Waters from The Waters. And God called the firmament Heaven." And God said, “ Let the Waters under Heaven be gathered together unto One Place and let the Dry Land appear” (Gen. i : 6-9) And God Bound the Waters which He named “ Seas ” “ in a Garment” (Prov. 30 : 4) and made the cloud the Garment thereof, and Thick Darkness a Swaddling band for it ” (Job 38 : 9). “ And God called the Dry
Land Earth, and the gathering together of the Waters called He Seas ” (Gon. i : 10).
69. — “ Gathered together ” Waters engender their limitation — as found by Mariners who circumnavigate them. And “Unto One place” shows their undivided position in an undivided place, which is xcithin the atmosphere which wholly surrounds them.
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“THE SUN STOOD STILL.”
(Josh. s. 13).
In a review in The Church Quarterly, the reviewer states that —
No miraculous intervention of providence has presented a more formidable problem to human reason than that at Gibeon, when the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens. That the sun was actually and literally arrested in his mid-day course is verified by the writer of the book of Ecclesiasticus, the Rabbins, and the Greek and Latin Fathers. When the stupendous import of the miracle was understood by divines acquainted with the mechanism of the solar system (?) this literal interpretation was regarded as untenable, and while the German theologians, in explaining the occurrence as an impression produced on the mind of Joshua, the sun seeming to stand still because the day’s work had been achieved between noon and sunset, our English exegetists conjecture that the refracted light of the sun -was sustained in the heavens after the disc had gone down.
This extract shows how the miracle was literally accepted hy ancient worthies, who had no need to “ reconcile ” it with modern atheistic theories of the universe; and that it was only when modern “divines” accepted astronomical theories about “ the mechanism of the universe ” that they felt constrained to find some other “explanation” in harmony therewith. It is a curious fact that all such “ divines ” including the editors of professedly religious papers, seek for an explanation in harmony with what they believe to be the facts of “ science,” rather than one in harmony with the inspired account and the genenal teaching of the Holy Scriptures on Cosmic truth. Really they, for the most part, throw discredit on the Bible account, as we have seen, hy assuming it was “an impression” merely on Joshua’s mind (what about the Amorites — had they the same impression ?), or, that the phenomenon was caused by “ refraction,” or that the account is a myth, or a
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mere poetic license due to the exuberance of the Eastern imagination !
But let us notice what is this last, though probably not final, speculation as to what the miracle really is supposed to be, if they admit a miracle at all.
The plain and unvarnished account of the Bible is to be discredited, and so the writer asks : “ Why should the Moon pause in the valley of Ajalon when at mid-day her light would have added no increasement to that of the Sun ? ”
Now the fact that the Moon’s motion was also arrested, instead of beiug a difficulty with Bible students ought rather to show them that Joshua spoke by the inspiration of God. Had he only spoken as a man the Sun’s light was all that he needed to enable him as an Israelitish general to pursue, and complete the conquest of his enemies. Then why did he command the Moon also to stand still ? Because if the Moon had not been stayed, as well as the Sun, the Israelitish calendar would have been put out of order ; the months would have been disarranged, and the reckoning of time and the cycles of time would have been interfered with. Hence we may see that Joshua spoke under the direct inspiration of God, and that the Sun did stand still, otherwise the Moon need not have been interfered with at all.
The Planet Earth.
A known writer says “ that the earth, in common with all the planets, revolves around the sun is a fact which rests upon the clearest demonstrations of philosophy. That it revolves like them upon its own axis, is a truth which every rising and setting sun illustrates.” “ Either the earth moves around its axis every day, or the whole universe moves around it in the same time.”
This is the style of their reasoning. The “ fact ” of the earth’s revolution rests, we are told, upon philosophy ! But human philosophy opposed to God’s Word is a poor basis for a fact to rest upon ; and strange to say this fact does not seem to rest long at a time. We are continually shaking it off its philosophic pedestal. Yet the writer adds, “it pleased the all-wise Creator to assign the earth its position amongst the heavenly bodies.”
The Creator has revealed that the Lights move within the circular Heavens above the circular “ Seas ” and out¬ standing “ Earth.” But our opponents affirm that it is earth which l'otates ; hence they are so anxious to explain away Joshua’s miracle, from which it is evident that he thought it
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was the Sun which moved ! If they could prove that the Sun, Moon, and Stars, were gigantic bodies at immense distances, it would seem incongruous to suppose that they all revolve about the “ Earth.” — As this writer admits — to suppose the latter case to be a fact would be to cast a reflection on the wisdom of the Supreme Architect, whose laws are universally harmonious. But if (as our opponents suggest) “ even a human architect built a house, and then made an electric globe to light it a million times bigger than the house, would not this reflect upon his skill?” We certainly think it would prove he was insane.
If we profess to believe the Bible we should stand by its teachings against all the “vain philosophy” in the world. Bible Writers and Bible readers, for over five thousand years believed that our World was stationary, and that the Sun moved around it, and so caused the alternation of Night and Day. This agrees with the evident meaning of the account of Joshua’s miracle. If any one could give proof that the “ Earth ” and “ Seas” are a whirling-globe, and that the Sun is relatively stationary to it, then it would be time enough to attempt to “ reconcile ” the account with the “ facts ” of astronomy. But no man in the world has ever been able to do this.
That the account was believed by the world of old, as a miraculous intervention on the part of the Creator, Who surely has all power over His Own Works, is testified by Josephus, whose statements are admittedly reliable.
Be Silent.
In the Revised Version of the Bible the words “be silent” are placed in the margin. Therefore the Hebrew wording bears the meaning of sound as well as motion, the nature of whose motive energy we do not know. But if anything relating to its supernal nature could be suggested, it may arise from mechanical process connected with the Tabernacle of the Sun which is set in the heavens. It is a well-known fact that all motion produces sound.
To command the Sun to “ be silent ” is equivalent to the command “stand thou still,” asstopping the sound would arrest the motion. This at once harmonizes the difficulties. If we believe as the Bible teaches and observations prove, that the Sun is in motion above and around the circumference of the “ Seas ” and outstanding continents and islands of “ Earth,” all is clear. But if we have more faith in so-called “ science ” than in the Bible, we shall have to accept all sorts of tricks of interpretation resorted to in order to get
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rid of the difficulty of reconciling the statements of the Bible with various men’s various modern ideas of the universe. Besides, those who try to explain away this miracle because of the idea involved of a moving Sun, to be consistent, ought also to explain away every other passage in the Bible, and there are many which speak of the motion of the Sun.
The Sun consists of, or conveys, not only Light and other Life-Forces, but it is the great Time-Divider — being the Ruler of the Day, having a “ Tabernacle.” But the Tabernacle of the Sun is not the Sun itself. The latter may reach partly, or entirely round ‘‘ in the heavens ” above our visible Skies, and moving images may be impinged by its agency to every eye that is a certain distance beneath it, ichile it moves. The Bible clearly reveals that the Sun’s motion is accompanied with sound ; therefore if the sound must cease, the motion also, which causes it must cease. Hence the record of this miracle is quite in keeping with Bible teaching which Jesus Christ endorsed ; and also in keeping with natural science. We are told of no Tabernacle of the Moon, and that of the Sun may act for both. We know no more than God has revealed in His Word, and in His Wonderful Works : and language is not a perfect tool. But we have Kature ever before our eyes, and the use of all our God-given Senses to “ Search the Scriptures" which contain no hypotheses. Therefore, although, as modern astronomers admit, solar energy is an unsolved problem, nevertheless we have the revealed knowledge from the Creator that when Joshua’s Sun-Light ceased to move, the Moon-Light also was “stayed,” and with the cessation of their motive action there was cessation of sound.
He Who Believes Our World’s a Star,
From Truth and Reason's Fold is far.
To uphold false “ science ” the world is taught to believe the lie that the whirling-globe hypothesis agrees with the Bible, and only a small percentage of mortals perceive that the Scriptures contradict all the various “ planet-earth ” tenets of modern astronomy. But the great majority of this “small percentage" are frequently led by the arch enemy of God and man to give up the Bible account of Creation, and from the ranks of such, have arisen many laurel-croivned professors of modern “Science."
The following quotation from a letter — just received — exhibits how these professors contradict each other : —
“ I have read your “Chaos” once, but I shall have to read it again. Which ‘ Bible-denying theorist ’ maintained
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that the absence of seasons in early geological periods was dne to our receiving light from other solar systems ? I never heard that theory, and it seems quite irreconcilable with orthodox astronomy. For, if you will accept for a moment provisionally the theory that the stars are suns and all far larger than the earth, you will see that if one of them came near enough to give perceptible heat, it would also be near enough to disturb enormously the movements of the earth and other planets. Indeed many astronomers say that Denel, the bright star in the Swan, at present moving directly towards the solar system, will 200,000 years hence, destroy all life on the earth and other planets. For if Denel passes the sun at about the distance of Uranus, the outer planets will probably be carried off to revolve round Denel, and the inner ones (including the earth) swing about so violently by the rival attractions as to perish by heat, cold, earthquake, and great tidal waves. If Denel and the sun should actually collide, of course the whole of the other solar system would be vaporised at once by the heat.
I think the usual explanation of the warmth of early geological ages is that the earth itself was still hot enough to keep its surface warm. No doubt you consider that just as un-Biblical as the theory you attack.”
Quite so and equally foolish, but, as my correspondent truly says, “ it is more popular.”
The “ planet-earth ” of pagan origin is not a very wonderful idea, but on its baseless foundations many men have been in some way drawn to exercise their calculative faculties by constructing different tenets for its support. And thus various hypothetical systems of cosmogony, contra¬ dictory to each other have been introduced to the world as Science ! Copernicus’s aim was to make all his hypothetical “ calculations agree ” with each other. But this aim was not strong enough in itself to permanently float his theories. And the whole secret of the trick which has established modern astronomy has laid in the difficult task of making its calculations near enough to known facts so as to connect them together neatly without showing the join ! But any calculist might invent a whirling-globe theory by imagining that a number of various sized balls revolved at arranged speeds around a huge central luminous ball within a measured area. But at whatever speed he might imagine his balls to rotate and revolve around his enormous luminous central ball, and however well he could arrange his balls’ speed in harmony with time, his calculations could never reveal anything beyond his imagined area of action. Nor
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could they reveal the source of his gigantic luminous central ball’s energy, or the laws governing its luminous emission. Many mathematicians having been led to reject or ignore their Creator’s cosmical revelation have wasted their time and talents in trying to establish mathematical theories which they have built upon the pagan idea that our “ Seas ” and “ Earth ” and submerged “ Land ” are a planet ever¬ lastingly rotating and revolving in never-ending “ space.”
But as their basal figure’s wrcmg their energies are lost !
Apart from logic’s wond’rous art, all calculations prove More valueless than words impart, without a truthful groove.
To teach a child the sea and earth are rushing in the sky,
Distorts his Reason from his birth and makes his Bible lie.
When things conflicting with God’s Book are placed on Thrones of Truth, Just for a moment let us look how these things injure youth.
A Church of England preacher had false “ science ” once denounced,
When quite a youth — a thinking lad— arose and thus announced :
“ Sir, may I ask a question now?” — the preacher bowed his head :
“ Then ” said the youth, “ will you tell how that Bible’s true you’ve read ? Do you believe, sir, the Sun’s course was stopped by man’s demand ? ” — The minister replied “ Of course ; — by Joshua’s command.” —
“ Now here’s against your Joshua proof, which baffles all defiance,
He would have s'opped the globe in truth, if he had known true science.” The preacher said, “ Now I request an answer straight from you —
How do you know7 by certain test, your moving earth is true ? ”
“ Oh,” said the youth, “ I never knew that any one could doubt it,
As all my masters thought it true, who taught me all about it.”
“ I doubt it much,” the preacher said, “ so much that none could move it,
Yet kindly name the facts you said your masters gave to prove it.”
With stock-proofs crushed , such proofs as be, like Sight's unlimitation,
This young agnostic soon did flee to “ catch a train ” at station.
Thus men teach minds in their bright morn to worship man-made “ science,” Which makes them doubt with rabid scorn God's Book of true reliance.
No man can ever find all truth, however deep he probe,
While bearing errors fixed in youth, 'neath prejudice’s robe.
According to The Word of God, the sun ( the greater Light) stood still in the midst of heaven, and the “ Moon ” ( the lesser Light) in the valley of Ajalon. And I now remind every thinking Christian who sings about “this terrestrial ball,” and every man who flavours his sermons with whirling- globe “ science ,” that it would have been necessary to stop your swiftly rotating “globe” if it had been rushing round and round your huge sun (93,000,000 miles from it) at the rate of over a thousand miles per minute, if the Creator and Joshua had known your “ science.”
God ordered the “ Two Great Lights ” to stop at Joshua’s command. And the image of the Sun “stood still ” in Joshua’s mid-heaven and the Moon over the Valley of Ajalon as long as the Lights (or their causation) ceased moving around within the circle of the heavens (Job xxii. 14) above the circle of the “ Seas” and the outstanding “ Earth ” (Prov. viii. 27).
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LECTURE ON SPIRITISM,
By Lady E. A. M. Bloont, f.r.s.l., f.s.a., etc.
[ Continued ].
By experiments with baryta water the phantom was found to breathe natural human breath which turned the baryta water white ; and the figure was photographed. Mr. Richet, being sceptical, was mystified, and could not under¬ stand what he saw, but he is prepared to maintain that —
“ There is something profoundly mysterious in it, which will change from top to bottom our ideas of the nature of life.”
So it will appear to the mass of mankind ; and those wrho are not prepared for these things by an intelligent and un¬ biased study of God’s Word will be likely to fall into this snare of the devil. Read I. Tim. iv. 1 ; Matt. xxiv. 24 ; and 2 Thess. xi , 9, 10. But “Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart” (Psa. xcvii., 11). A lying spirit voluntarily proffered how to deceive Ahab, King of Israel (see I. Kings xxii. 21, 22).
The Lord Jesus Christ, and His Apostles, and the Evangelists speak of and address the “ unclean spirits” as entities inhabiting human beings, and yet perfectly distinct from the persons who were “possessed” by them. Surely our Lord understood what he was talking about.
These evil spirits evidentl}7 prefer embodiment to disembodiment and so they go from one body to another, but they do not die. But all evil will eventually cease.
Professor Crookes’ unquestionable testimony is that when spirits materialise it is under stringent test conditions of a scientific and rare character.
Dr. P. Randolph was a noted lecturer on “Spiritualism,” but he ultimately renounced and denounced it. He had been in a trance over two thousand five hundred times and delivered three thousand lectures during eight years. But he expressed the deepest regret that he had “wasted so much excellent breath ; and with mind and body almost ruined.” He said : “ Chance led a man to approach me ere the lamp of life had quite gone out ; and by God’s mercy I was saved.”
He further said : —
“ Since I abandoned Spiritualism, and denounced it, my health of mind and body is slowly returning, and I would rather see cholera in my house than be again a spiritual medium.
All my sufferings I charge to demonism and the infernal doctrines taught by many invisibles.
Spiritualism is anti-Bible, anti-God, anti-Christian, unrighteous, destructive to morality, disorderly and irreligious, and consequently should be shunned by everybody and especially by those who desire to follow God’s truth and holiness. The Bible strictly forbids dealings with Satan or his hosts.
For seven years I held daily intercourse with what purported to be my mother’s spirit ; I am now firmly persuaded that it was nothing but an evil spirit and an infernal demon, who in that, guise gained my soul’s confidence and led me to the very brink of ruin.
Five of my spiritualistic friends destroyed themselves, and I attempted to do the same by direct spiritual influence. Hundreds of thousands of human beings have been drawn down'- from respectability, morality, health, wealth, and intelligence, to the filth of free love, poverty, bodily suffering, insanity, murder and suicide.
Spiritualism is a synonym of all falsities and lies — a cloak for all sorts of crimes and adultery, murder, lust, etc. ; — it weakens man’s intellect and individuality, and changes his worship of God to a worship of Ghosts ! ”
I could give hundreds of testimonies similar to the foregoing — many of which might even be stronger.
But I have taken the first that came up haphazard from volumes of printed evidential matter.
[To be continued.]
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
70. — From the Scriptures we learn that our heavens are limited, and that the “ Firmament ” which God called “ Heaven ” encloses the ethereal heavens wherein are the moving Lights which surround our “Seas ’’and outstanding “ Earth.”
71. — The modern astronomer’s so-called “ space ” is illimitable, whereas the words “wider the ivhole heaven ” which occur several times in the Bible alone prove limitation — as shown by the word “whole.’’
72. — The “ Earth ”-and-“ Seas ’’-whirling-globe theory leads the mind to conceive nothing but stars in illimitable “ space,” which is an entirely false conception of our World and its surroundings.
73 — .If we use our God-given Senses in the study of our Creator’s Word, we shall not be led to profess to believe it while we profess to believe things directly opposed to it.
74. — All mortals must know that their Creator is able to do things past their human understanding. Mortal Senses are all limited : and the length of the eye-line has equal possibilities in every direction which cannot, by any means, be stretched further vertically than horizontally.
75. — The nature of our Enclosed World verifies what God has revealed. He did not upraise “The (submerged) Earth” (which He Created “In the Beginning”) to make our World. But He used it in the midst of “The Waters” (wherein it was) to form “ the Pillars of The Earth,” and doubt¬ lessly the solid “Firmament” which is “ set ” upon them: and also our Land, which God brought into our Enclosed World in the divided Waters (which God called “Seas ”) where it now is: the Dry Land (which God called “ Earth ”) appearing above their surfaces.
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THE SEASONS,
Heaven’s “ Lights ” divide all Time — as seen in our Enclosed World’s skies, Yet their causation ne’er has been revealed to human eyes ;
Star-courses and Eclipse-times were by primal mankind known,
But Heaven's supernal Energy, and Laws, God has not shown.
We are expressly told by God that the Sun was made in, and for our Enclosed World, and that it rules the day. Therefore the Sun is the natural cause of day, and has the division of the day under its control — lengthening the day or shortening it according to the changes in its position. And the Sun’s Creator has revealed that the Sun is a “ Light,” and not a huge body 2,646,000 miles in circum¬ ference, 93 millions of miles from man’s eyes, in illimitable so-called “space.” No ! but according to the Scriptures, which God’s Son from Heaven endorsed, the Sun is “ the Greater Light.” But the composers of modern astronomy contradict the Creator and assert that day and night are caused by the rotation of our “ Earth ”® and “ Seas’ ” and the year by their revolution around their huge-bodied Sun. But no mortal invention could reconcile the seeming movements of the image which illuminates every man’s eye-tent with the appearance which a huge motionless object would present under the astronomers’ conditions. The Creator of the Sun states that it is a Great Light and not a huge body, millions of miles distant from the observer. All the “ space ” that man can know of or trace is our atmosphere which is comparatively but a few miles in height above the surfaces of our “ Earth ” and “ Seas ” and
* God called the Dry Land “ Earth,” and the gathering together of the Waters “Seas,” and the visible Sun, Moon, and Stars “Lights.” Therefore the writer has written these and other single words in inverted commas throughout this and other articles to show they are Biblical terms, and to remind the reader of their full significance.
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surrounded by the circular heavens which are enclosed within the Water-dividing “Firmament'’ which God called “Heaven,” and which encloses our World, and divides it from all beyond its limits. Both the Bible and Nature show that our Heavens surround our “ Seas ” and outstanding “ Earth,” and that the “ Lights ” are ever moving in them in their regular God-appointed courses.
In Gen. i. 16 it is revealed that on the Fourth Day of Creation Week “ God made Two great Lights ; the Greater Light to rule the day, and the lesser Light to rule the night and “ He made the Stars also. And God set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to give light upon the Earth.” Therefore the Sun is a moving “ Light ” reaching partly around within the heavens which are enclosed within the solid water-dividing “Firmament.”
But God has not revealed to us how the Lights reach around and operate within our ethereal heavens.
We see the Lights, and mark their courses,
But God has not revealed their Forces ;
And past the reach of mortal eyes We cannot trace things in the Skies.
The shape of our Light-charged atmosphere is curved, the ethereal skies forming a hollow globe all round above it at a certain distance above our “ Seas ” and outstanding “ Earth.”
Above the ethereal Skies is solid Sky, which is strong, as a molten (i.e., melted metal) looking glass. Clouds float in various directions in .the upper part of our breathing atmosphere. But the cloud is above the Skies, and “men 6ee not the bright Light that is in the Cloud.” But through its striking against certain points it brings an image to human eyes.
The Sun appears in the form of a ray-emitting image, or lamp, within the limits of every mortal’s eye-formed tent in the inhabitable world daily. But the extreme north and south ends of the heavens are both beyond the Sun-Light’s reach when its greatest force is in equatorial regions mid-wav betwixt them, and consequently ordinary day and night come to an end at the "poles" and cause the surfaces beneath those centres to be uninhabitable.
The regular differentiations of the power and the position of the Sun causes Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter successively. But beyond the Arctic and Antarctic circles are the “ends” of the northern and southern heavens,
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where through the Light of the Sun ceasing to rule the day and divide it from the night the ordinary Seasons come to an end. When the Sun is midway betwixt the “ ends of the Heavens in March and September, it reaches to neither the north end, nor the smith end, but in June it wraps right over the north end causing continual day for several months, its greatest power then being in the north. And at Christmas its greatest power being over the southern regions causing a long day of month’s duration there — leaves the northern end of our Enclosed World in darkness, until the Sun, in its regular course, returns to again give the south end — in its turn — a long night.
And thus the Sun’s greater power, by gradually oscillating from north to south, crosses the Equator twice a year: leaving its lesser power in the north during the northern autumn and winter, and in the south during the northern spring and summer. And by its faster daily-varying circumferential movement around the Heavens from east to west it causes successive days of various lengths — except, as above stated, when its greatest power is in a central position circumferentially, i.e., when it is directly over the Equator — days and nights then being the same length all over the inhabitable world. And so we may see that the Sun-Light has two great movements, viz., an oscillating motion from north to south, and back to north in one year, and a revolving movement right round the Heavens above the “ Seas ” and “ Earth ” circumferentially in 24 hours.
The Sun’s greater and lesser power alternately passing from north to south and its wrap reaching only half way round the world’s circumference at the Equator, as well as its northern and southern reach not covering the length of the Heavens from north to south ; and the changes in its daily east to west course, due to its regular oscillation from the tropic of Cancer to Capricorn, cause the variations in the length of days and nights, and the periodical Seasons.
The Sun’s Rays not only bear Life Forces from above for each individual’s life-sustenance, but they also convey life-potentialities to the whole surfaces of the “ Seas ” and “ Earth.” Otherwise, every creature and all vegetation within our World would die !
It is quite unaccountable how reasonable men and women are led to accept the pagan idea that the “ Two Great Lights ” which God created within the circuitous cavity of our Firmament are two huge bodies in illimitable “space.” The size of the object which crosses each individual’s eye- tent daily and conducts the light to his eyes bears
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undeniable evidence that it is made in harmony with his Sight-Sense possibilities. It would be just as reasonable to suppose that the light of electricity and that of gas are two huge bodies as to think that the Sun and Moon are.
“The lesser Light,” i.e., the Moon, introduces its presence into the northern and southern Heavens succes¬ sively. It crosses the Equator fortnightly and is the cause of the lunar month. The shape of the Sun’s and the Moon’s courses are similar, but their periods and declinations are different both north and south.
And there is another great difference betwixt the Sun and the Moon, viz., the visible Sun is daily present — either in its most powerful or less powerful force — on both sides of the equator simultaneously, whereas with the Moon it is not so. But when the Sun’s greatest power is in the southern heavens, causing shorter days and longer nights in the north, the full moon is in the north ; and, similarly, when it is summer in the north, and the nights south of the equator are long, the moon’s fullest light is in the south. Moonshine is not reflected sunshine, its light being of a different nature and much weaker. And those who deny this, deny the visible differences as witnessed by their own eyes, as well as by their Creator’s Word, which states that He created “ Two Lights ” — one “ Greater” and one “ Lesser.”
But professors of the whirling globe hypothesis tell us that the Moon receives its Light from their huge Sun-body. And they assert that “ the Moon is a body which revolves round the earth (but they mean the Earth and Seas) in nearly a circle, called its orbit or path.” One professor states :
“The moon has several motions, and (regarding that by which it revolves round the Earth whilst the Earth travels round the Sun) he says this is effected bv a cork-screw motion, otherwise the Moon would have to travel on one side of her orbit, in a direction opposite to that of the Earth. When new or full the Moon is on the ecliptic, or has the same level with the Sun as the Earth. But when seven days old she is above the Earth, so that seven days after, when being full, she is below the Earth. To understand this, all we have to do is to imagine a straight line which represents the path of the Earth in her orbit. Then imagine that after being new the Moon dives below the Earth (but still keeping about the same distance from the Earth) She then ascends on the other side of the Earth and becomes full when she again reaches our level. She is then outside the Earth ; when new she is inside. This is why the Sun can only be eclipsed by the Moon when she is new, and also explains that the shadow of the Earth can only eclipse the Moon when the latter is full.”
A complete circle like the diagram on next page contains 360 angles of one degree, four angles of 90 degrees, and so on.
Astronomers use such a circle, with its centre at the centre of the Seas and Earth, and upon this they
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determine the angles formed by the supposed planes referred to ; and they assert that they have thus found that the angle made by the plane of the ecliptic, and the plane of their globe’s motion of rotation is 23 deg., or thereabouts (say 23|-) and they assert that the angle made by the plane of the ecliptic, and the plane of their Moon-body’s motion round their globe is a little over 5 degrees.
The circumference of our Seas and Earth is doubt¬ lessly about 25,000 miles at the equator, or largest circum¬ ferential circle : and working on the false hypothesis that the Earth and Seas are a star in “space” the astronomers assert that the diameter of their Moon is 2,160 miles. Their globe s rotatory speed they say is over 1,000 miles per hour at the Equator, and its orbital, or rushing round and round their Sun speed, about 1,100 miles per minute; and the Moon’s speed round their globe is stated in Marvels of Science to be 180 miles per minute. The following paragraph is very suitably entitled A Romance of the Moon.
Sir Robert Ball, in his Time and Tide : A Eumanee of the Moon, makes an estimate respecting the Moon’s moment of momentum, which, says he,
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“ may be regarded as the product of the mass and its velocity, the moment of momentum being found by multiplying the momentum by the radius of the path pursued ; yet where the body does not revolve in a circle, but pursues an elliptical path, the moment of momentum is to be found by multiplying the orb’s velocity and its mass into the perpendicular from the Sun in the direction in which the orb is moving.”
In quoting the foregoing, and also the following figures given by different modern astronomers, we deem it impossible to adhere to accuracy, Not only because the distances of their “heavenly bodies” have been differently rated ; but in dealing with
“A ROMANCE OF THE MOON,”
where veracity is not the ruling principle, accuracy is out of court. But if it were a fact that the Moon travels round our World at the rate of 180 miles per minute, it follows that in a month of 28 days it would have travelled about 7,257,600 miles ; yet they say their Moon-body performs its revolution round their globe in 27 days 7 hrs. 43 mins. ; but in consequence of the progressive motion (i.e., the orbital motion) of their globe, their Moon takes 2 days 5 hrs. longer to again occupy the same position between their rushing Sun and their globe.
Now if the diameter of the Seas and Earth is about 8,000 miles the distance they assume their Moon from it, viz., 240,000 miles, is thirty times their planet-Earth’s diameter. But taking the calculation that the diameter of the Moon’s orbit is more than 60 times the size of our “ Seas,” and outstanding Earth’s diameter, viz., 480,000 miles — making its circumference about 1,450,000 miles— one cannot but stand amazed at the awful nature of their Moon's supposed motion in flying round their “ planet-Earth ” ; and when the two motions are in the same direction (i.e., the “ planet-Earths’ ” and the Moon’s) the velocity would consequently be tremendous ! It is truly “ a romance.” And it would be impossible for eclipses to last as long as they do on this assumption. The retardation in the one case and the acceleration in the other case, every day, cannot be adequately described. Such notions are not only un-Scriptural, but unthinkable, yet, we are not only asked to accept them, but also further tremendous added motions of the “New Astronomy ” !
But apart from the immense added motions of the latest astronomy, it is a difficult task to differentiate between the immense difference of the stated speed of the astronomers' Earth-Star round his Sun-bodv and that of his Moon-body round his Star-Earth, except to say that the proportion is as 180 to 1,100 per minute, and this differentiation goes on perpetually. It is evident that their “ heavenly lights” could never be in that position to each other whereby their lunar eclipses could last many minutes.
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At the time of the new Moon it follows the Sun closely in its daily course, whether in the north or the south, falling back 12 or 13 degrees daily. That the Moon is slower may be noticed from the fact that it is about an hour later each day in rising. Consequently the Signs of the Zodiac containing the Constellations pass it at the rate of about 13 degrees daily, all passing it in about 28 days.
This makes the astronomers think that their Moon (which they regard as being a huge heavenly body) has gone through the Signs in a direction contrary to its real course, which thejr term “ direct motion ” !
When the Moon gets behind the Sun into that position, which is called the opposition or full Moon phase, it is not only in the opposite part of the Heavens, east or west, appearing or “rising” as the Sun is disappearing or “ setting,” but it is also in an opposite part of the Heavens as regards the Equator. That is when the Sun’s greatest power is in the Southern Heavens at such a time, the Moon’s declination would be north and vice versa.
In the Moon’s monthly course it circles or spirals* around the northern Heavens daily for about a fortnight, and then crossing the equator it goes daily around the southern Heavens, following a similar course once a month.
The Two Great Lights were created in this Enclosed World, and expressly for it, on “the Fourth Day” in harmony with and for man’s eye and his whole Senses. And they bring Life-forces directly to every mortal, creature, and thing, and also (as above described) they make the Seasons and all divisions of Time by their movements in the circular Heavens which surround the “Seas” and “Earth” above our atmosphere.
The Sun’s Forces, and doubtlessly those of the Moon and the Planets are borne in their Rays, and by magnetic, and other influences they impregnate the whole atmosphere we breathe, as they travel around above our “ Earth ” and “ Seas ” surfaces.
The local Seasons are ruled by the Sun’s position with respect to any particular country ; and, as the Psalmist says, “ He appointed the Moon also for certain Seasons.” The simul¬ taneous visibility of the moving Sun-Light reaches but partly around the circumferential heavens, and when it sets, its wrap has passed round beyond where its visibility is possible, and a new period of time called “Night” begins.
As the natural day begins at the close of the previous day, or sunset, so the natural year begins at the close of the
* The shape of the daily path of the visible Sun-Light around the Heavens may be described as that of a slightly tilted hoop.
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previous year which naturally occurs about the end of September, when the fruits of the earth have been gathered in. This was the beginning of the year to the Israelites. They had, also, what may be called a civil year, which began yearly at the end of our March. Either of these periods will do for a starting point when the Sun’s greatest force crosses the Equator. If from either of these periods we watch the Sun’s course daily, we shall notice that besides an elliptical path which the Sun has daily around the Heavens, it has also a course which carries it either further towards the south in October, or nearer towards the north in April.
After the 21st March (when the days and nights are equal) if we notice the Sun's position each day at 12 o’clock, noon, we shall find that it mounts higher and higher in the Heavens until Mid-Summer when it attains a North Declina¬ tion of 23^°, that is, in other words, its daily circuit around the “ Seas ” and outstanding “ Earth ” becomes less and less from Spring to Mid-Summer, so that about the end of June if we were to go further north, into the northern parts of the country called Norway, we might see the Sun-Light at midnight, and all the twenty-four hours. And likewise at Christmas in the south, when the Sun’s greatest power is there.
Although the Nature of the Supernal Heavenly Lights, and their governing laws of action, including that of their regular appearance to each mortal within his own limited eve-bounds, and also the Nature of Life-Forces, and their unswerving supply for the resuscitation of our whole world, and the motional circulation of the wind may be to us mysteries as inexplicable, as is the growth of a blade of grass or the mainspring of life itself. Yet we know that the “ Two Great Lights,” through their visible “ Lights ” in the Heavens, and the Stars, divide all Time, and cause all Seasons by their movements. And through their Rays Life- Forces descend from the circular skies into our atmosphere to permeate it and the whole surfaces of our “ Seas ” and ‘‘ Earth ” and all living things with life-sustaining virtues from Heaven. And even under the limits of finite knowledge reasons may be given based on Scriptural Revelations, and all visible phenomenon — as well as on the evidences of our God-given Senses — showing how the visible Lights of the Sun and Moon are caused to “ rise ” in the eastern horizon and to go “down” in the wrestern horizon of each mortal’s limited eye-tent in accordance with his eye’s possibilities. For instance, it can be shown that an appearance like that of the moving Sun-images could be produced by sucsessive
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lightings of the different parts of a highly ph'ospherescent zone in the upper air ; somewhat as the parts of a big electric sky-sign advertisement are lighted and extinguished from a stationary dynamo, the light seeming to run across a field of grass. The influence which kindles these Sun- images might be the Sun-Light beyond the highly refractive swaddling-band of darkness : and this swaddling-band might be of some material which is instantly blackened by light passing through it but recovering its transparency in a certain number of hours according to ruling conditions. Modern astronomers are compelled to admit that they do not know the nature of the Sun’s energy : and also that great astronomical discoveries had been made untold Ages before their earliest records existed. This is true, but we have the Bible Record, which they are compelled to ignore because it, contradicts their theories. But the unprejudiced 'Truth-loving mind will perceive that the Creator’s revealed account of the Creation of our Enclosed World is simplicity itself as compared to modern astronomers’ intricate mazes in their non-existing “ space ” without end, wherein they have arranged their various orbits’ shapes, and speeds of motion of their imaginary rushing “ heavenly bodies ” of their solar system ” ; which, in fact, are “ Lights in the Firmament see Gen. i. 14.
LECTURE ON SPIRITISM.
By Lady E. A. M. Blount, f.r.s.l., f.s.a., etc.
[Continued],
In these evidences it is shown how Ministers, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Governors, Presidents, Kings, Queens, Emperors, and Rulers of all kinds of religions have bowed, and are bowing to evil “Spirit ” influence, and its fascinations. And how no system of religion ever made so great and swift progress, or ever had a better prospect of bringing the whole world into its embrace. Its doors are open to Roman Catholics and Protestants, Infidels and Atheists, the lewd and the virtuous, Mohammedans, Jews, and Pagans. All are welcome to enter on a broad road into this broad church ! Scores of ministers have left their churches to preach this “ new gospel of Spiritualism ” as they term it.
In a work by Dr. Potter entitled Spiritualism he says : — “ We are personally acquainted with one who claims to be Christ’s medium, and a medium for the higher order of spirits, as the Apostles, and other holy men. This medium held dark circles with persons in their nude state ! and his character was seen to be very bad.”
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Devils have “doctrines,” and it is revealed that in the latter times some will give up their Christian faith through giving heed to Satan’s false doctrines, which seducing spirits introduce through mediums. Therefore of devils’ anti- Christian doctrines such as the following we should be fore¬ warned : —
There is no God ; or he is too far away to care for this world ;
Jesus the Christ did not rise from the dead;
Man is his own saviour;
Man, even apart from Christ, is immortal ;
There is no second coming of Christ ;
The Bible account of Creation is untrue.
There is no devil ;
There is no sin ;
There will be no resurrection of the dead ;
Jesus Christ never performed any miracles ;
There is no God but a principle in all matter — similar to magnetism and electricity — and this principle is the author of both what we call good and evil, commonly called Pantheism ;
Whatever is, is right ;
Monads evolve through all forms of rocks, trees and animals, and at last evolve into mortals — men and women !
The only true union is spirit affinity — true affinities are said to be spirits born at the same time in the spirit life as are their counterparts on earth.
These unions, it is taught, are immortal.
ATM TO FOUND A UNIVERSAL EMPIRE.
Napoleon III., and other crowned heads, and prominent men in the Governments and in the Army, and innumerable individuals belonging to the highest and lowest classes, have consulted, and are at present consulting, evil “ sedueing- spirits.”
One of the under-lying motives of spiritism is eventually to crush all existing forms of government, and to build up a Theocratic Democracy of a demoniac nature, in opposition to God, Truth and Christianity.
“Seducing Spirits” doubtlessly only have a wider range of knowledge than human beings in some ways.
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The following is a conversation with a spirit which was published in “ The Banner of Light"-. —
Ques. : What is the process of induction of a subject bv a develop¬ ing medium ?
Ans. : The process is the changing of the magnetic and electric con¬ dition of the subject under a course of treatment. For instance, there may be a superabundance of magnetism. The developing spirit endeavours to equalise the forces, or to bring about an electrical and magnetic condition that shall be adapted to the return of the disembodied spirits, and the making of various manifestations.
Ques. : Are these changes effected by the brain ?
Ans: No; the nervous system is generally first affected, then the system entire; not simply the centre, but the system entire.
Ques : Has the spirit any other way of manifesting itself except through the brain or nervous systems ?
Ans. : Yes.
Ques. : When the spirit controls the hand of a Medium to write, is the impression always made through the brain ?
Ans. : Sometimes the control is what is termed mechanical control ; then the connection between arm and brain is entirely severed, and yet the manifestation is made through what is called the nervous fluids , a "certain portion of which is retained in the arm for the purpose of action. When the manifestation is made through what is called the nervous fluids only a certain portion is then retained in the arm for the purpose of action. But when the manifestation is what is called an impressional mani¬ festation, then the brain and entire nervous system is used.
[To he continued.]
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
76 — Our Enclosed World was Created in the midst of “ The Waters,” but the extent of the divided Waters outside our Water-dividing “Firma¬ ment ” has not. been revealed ; nor are we told if they were to remain or not. The Revelation of St. John shows that our “Seas” will pass away when the Water-Dividing Firmament opens. But “ the Pillars ” of “ The Earth ” on which our World is set shall not be removed for ever.
77. — No thinker can believe the Bible is truly God’s Word if he believes in anything of human invention which contradicts it! But few understand the hypotheses of the whirling-globe.
If men were educated well they’d ne'er feign to believe
What they don’t understand, nor swell the throng who thus deceive.
78. — Our “ Seas” (Gen. i., 10) are in the centre of our World, about 25,000 miles round. “ When He described a circle on the face of the deep ” is the best translation of Prov. viii. 27. The “ Earth ” is the “ Dry Land ” which stands out of our “ Seas ” and forms our continents, isthmuses and Islands, and the whole land in the “ Seas ” is unsupported and hangs attached to “nothing.” The submerged Land which is beneath our “ Earth ” contains Fire. Our “ Heavens and Earth ” are reserved for “ the day of judgment ” (2 Peter iii 7, 10, and Matt, xxv., 4).
79. — Our atmosphere wholly surrounds the surfaces of the “Earth” and “ Seas,” and it is encompassed by Skies, in which our lamp-like Lights move around, and beneath which our clouds are carried in various directions by wind. It is revealed that “ the Cloud ” and a swaddling band of thick
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darkness” aie ahove our visible skies, within our “Heaven” or solid “ Firmament,” which God made to divide the Waters outside it from our Waters which their Maker called “ Seas ” within it. And thus it is revealed that our “Seas” formed part of “The Waters ” whose surface was in darkness before God said “ Let there be Light ” (Gen. iii. 1). ^Ye read of “ the circle of Heaven ” in Job. xxii. 14, and elsewhere.
80. — The Sun and the Moon are “ Two Great Lights ” which God made on the Fourth Day, and He made the Stars also.” The Sun is “ the greater Light ” which rules the day : the Moon is “ the lesser Light " which rules the night. The Sun-Light is simultaneously visible half-way round our Enclosed World’s circular Heavens, when its greatest Forces are directly above and around the Equator. And in March and September it simultaneously lights half¬ way round the Equatorial circumference mid-way betwixt the northern and southern “ ends ” of our Enclosed World’s “ Earth ” and Heavens, causing days of equal duration, followed by equal nights. Whether “ the Greater Light ” reaches round the Heavens in one huge sheet, connectively, or in any other way, we know not. It is revealed that the “ Tabernacle of the Sun ” is “set ” in our heavens, and it possibly may be a supernal moving apparatus reaching all round and through whose agency the Sun and Moon “Lights” may appear in the Skies. And although the “Two Great Lights ” vary in their nature and force, the same viaduct may serve both, and it may be the agent of both Lights in bringing them and their combined Forces to pass through every mortal's eye-formed tent,5' appearing as lamp-like images.
81. — Certainly, “ the Divine Power is exercised in conformity with and through the operation of natural laws,” because God is the Creator of “ natural Laws."
82. — As a rule functional and not organic disorders are healed by spiritistic “ healers ” or suggestion. But when it occurs otherwise, if it ever does so as it is rarely claimed to ; in both cases it is accountable either by trickery, or through demoniac agency.
83. — How whirling-globe professors have ever differed in their calculations respecting their sun’s distance from their sea-and-earth globe may be seen in “ The Latest Proofs the’ Seas ’ and ‘ Earth ’ are not a Globe," page 19 (price 2d.) But the amount of the yearly expenditure used in trying to find out the astronomers’ huge sun’s distance was given in a leading London daily paper some five or six years ago. And a similar waste of capital, energy and time is still going on !
84. —The Sun is not a huge body, but a Light, which according to God’s Creational economy appears as a Lamp within the limits of every mortal’s eye-formed tent, through which it passes in its greater and lesser intensity of power, causing Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter alternately , with daily-varying lengths of appearance.
85. — In Acts vii. 22, we read that “ Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” Now the Egyptians and also the ancient Babylonians and Chaldeans, and eventually the Greeks in their “ wisdom-religion ” worshipped “ gods ” and “ demi-gods.” who were the heroes and “ the mighty men ” of Greek Mythology — But mythology was not founded on mere myth ; wonderful Astronomical symbols are enwrapt around the mysterious facts of this ancient “ wisdom-religion.”
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The Enclosed World
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“THE EARTH”
(< GEOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED).
“ God called the Dry Land Earth, and the gathering together of the Waters called He Seas.” — Gen. i. 10.
The book of Genesis is the Foundation and the Key of the whole Bible, and the basis of all reliable knowledge. Its opening words of Revelation are : — “In the beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was (i.e. became ) without form and void.” This wonderful information relates to “ the Heaven and the Earth ” of a world that existed before ours. The Prophet Isaiah reveals that “ the Earth ” of the Old World was not created shapeless and void, but it became so, and like our “ World that now is,” it was created to be inhabited, and it stood “out of the Water, and in the Water.”
In Peter we learn, that truth — opposers are wilfully ignorant of the Fact that “ the Earth ” which God created “ in the beginning ” was eventually drowned, and “ the World that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.”
How long the Creation, Life, Death, and deformation of the Old World occupied is not revealed, nor is it revealed how long darkness covered the Face of the Waters wherein “ the Earth” of the Old World was entombed.
But we know that -while “ the Earth ” stood “ out of the Water as well as “in the Water” it subsisted by means of Water, and its dissolution was caused by entire sub¬ mersion in dark Waters.
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The human brain is capable of understanding that it cannot at present comprehend anything without a beginning or an end. But according to God’s merciful goodness, all men may seek and obtain Eternal Life through Jesus Christ, and under everlasting conditions, hnmvledge of Eternal things will doubtlessly be given to the Redeemed. But God has revealed that “the Heavens and the Earth” were created by Him in the past and consequently had a “beginning,” therefore their Creation is ?iot past human comprehension. But evolu¬ tionists — in their folly— contradict the Creator’s Word !
The Revelation of the disintegration and “perishing” of “ the Earth ” of a Former World beneath darkened Waters in whose “Midst” God made our present World by Jesus Christ: (Gen. i : 6-10; and John i: 3.); and the disclosure that the Land-containing Waters within our “ World that now is ” (which God called “ Seas ”), once formed part of the Old World’s Waters is the Bible’s first lesson, and the God-ordained ground-work of cosmic science and divine enlightenment. It is revealed that The Creator Created “The Earth” standing out of “ the Waters” when He created “ The Heaven ” “ in the beginning,” but no revelation is given relating to the Creation of “ The Waters.” But it is revealed that
1. “The Earth” was drowned in “the Waters,” and “ perished ” beneath their dark surface.
2. God Created our Enclosed World “ in the Midst of the Waters .”
3. The Waters containing the Land within our World were taken from “ the Waters ” (wherein “ The Earth ” of the Old World was drowned) and divided from them by a Water-dividing “ Firmament.”
4. “And God called the Firmament Heaven,” and made our Dry Land “Appear” above our “Seas.” “And God called the Dry Land Earth, and the gathering together of the Waters called He Seas.”
5. The Dry Land which forms our continents, isthmuses, and islands God “ called ” “ Earth ” after “ the Earth ” from which it was divided. The Creator not only “ called ” our “ Firmament ” “ Heaven ” and our Dry Land “ Earth ” after “the Heaven and the Earth” which He created “ “ in the beginning ,” but the Bible reveals other notable instances of the same thing, as for instance, see Luke i : 32.
And our “ World is stablished that it cannot be moved.” Psalm 93 : i. 96 : and 104 : 5.
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The Bible describes the solid nature of the Water-divid¬ ing Firmament which encloses our World, and from sound deductions based on divine Revelation, it evidently was made of “ the Earth ” (as were “ the Pillars ” on which it was “ set ”) close upon 0000 years ago when God divided “the Waters from the Waters ” by it, to enclose our World. And the annexed Chart bears visible evidence that the unshapely Land within our “ Seas ” was divided from “ the Earth ” of the Old World — as its intermixed strata and “ 'perished" and petrified contents plainly testify. (See Chart).
Each Formation was evidently Created peculiar to itself, and distinct from adjoining deposits above and below : but where dissolution and separation have occurred certain layers have been widely separated.
If distinctly dis-associated with the whirling “planet- Earth ” (and “ Seas ”) theory, and admittedly based on the Scriptures, geology would be a true science. This will be seen from the enclosed geological Chart which gives the reader good evidence that the Land in our present World contains the remains of a former, and a larger World than ours which, as revealed in the Bible’s first words, became shapeless and “void.”
According to the tenets of geology there are four geo¬ logical Ages, and seventeen Systems.
The Ages are called :
1. Primary or Paheozoic :
(The Region of Fishes).
2. Secondary : or Mosozoic :
(The Region of Reptiles).
3. Tertiary : Cainozoic :
(The Region of Mammals).
4. The Modern Age :
(The Region of Man).
In twelve of the seventeen Systems in the Chart, sayjd or chalk are mentioned as characteristics which, being interpreted, mean that they were deposited from Water.
Now if our “Seas” and Land were a revolving cooling “ planet ” as described by whirling-globites, it would have been practically impossible for Mica-slate, or Sandstone, to have formed on their “ planet,” nor could these have been deposited as found at the present day since our Enclosed World came into existence, less than 6000 years ago.
Their Formation which is mistakenly supposed to have taken place in this World “that now is” — is attributed to
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what is termed “ the Silurian epoch.” But they were doubtless created “ in the beginning ,” and changed after “ the Earth” was devastated in dark Waters long prior to our present World’s existence.
Of course, Geologists would agree that this occurred millions of years in the past, as they ignore the “ Six Days ” Bible account of Creation by adhering to the whirling-globe- planet hypothesis. Therefore they place their Silurian Epoch many years prior to Creation Week. But the true explanation is, that during the Earth’s dissolution beneath “ the Waters” the Silurian rocks were sub-divided from the Palaeozoic rocks before our Land and Water wasedivided into our Enclosed World by our Water-dividing “Firmament” which God made “ in the midst of the Waters" under 6000 years ago.
The known rocks in our World are of two kinds, hut it is highly probable that there are others.. The Igneous or Plutonic rocks are unstratified, massive, and uneven. They include granite, porphyry, etc, and are supposed by whirling- globites to have been in a melted state like lava by the action of Fire, which on cooling formed the original crust of their globe.
But in such case there could have been no water on the surface of the Earth, and the surface would have been similar to a corrugated cannon ball !
The Chart shows Granite — No. 1, and all the other six¬ teen Systems are above it.
2. The Stratified rocks, which have all been under water; contain earthy matter from dead animals and plants with atmospheric properties of an ethereal nature, showing that death, decomposition, and petrifaction resulted from droivning and long entombment in dark water, in harmony with the Revelation of the Holy Scriptures. But that a cooling revolving star could possibly either attract water, or manufacture it is an assumption too ridiculous for con¬ templation, and too un-Scriptu ral for Christian credance.
The Lord Jesus Christ said that “ with God all things are possible ; ” and even the sin-marred mind of a thought¬ less mortal who may know very little about the Scriptures may believe this. And Christians who stand on Bible grounds cannot doubt that their Creator Created every atom of Matter, and all things visible and invisible by Jesus Christ. But man has been given no knowledge of how God Created anything.
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’Tis revealed that the “ Heaven and the Earth ” God Created (Gen. i. 1),
But nought of “ the Waters’ ” Creation is related (Gen. i. 2) ;
The Earth ” in “ The Waters ” (which were darkened) was drowned,
And our World was built upon —and Made of — its ground ;
“ In the midst of the Waters” our “ Firmament ” vast (Gen. i. 6),
Was “ set ” on Earth — “ Pillars ” and “ Foundations ” — fast ;
And our “ Seas ” from “ the Waters ” our God did divide (Gen. i. 7),
And enclosed our whole World in from all that's outside ;
So our “ Seas,” and our Land which within them now lays,
Were “ Divided” ( not Created) and ‘‘Made in Six Days ” Gen. i 1;
But how God Created things no mortal knows (Exod. xx. 11. & II. Peter iii. 6), Nor e’en how a small flower or blade of grass grows.
But as things that transmute we mortals can change,
God has placed Re-Creation within our brain's range.
“ With God all things are possible,” therefore it is not a matter of what our Creater could do, but what He did.
Now from the Bible, and from evidential deductions based on its Revelation it is shown that God Created “the Heaven and the Earth ” in the long past — called — the beginning.” And although there are beginnings to every mortal thing, that “ Beginning” referred to in the first three words of Genesis was doubtlessly “the beginning” of what we call Matter. There is no revelation respecting the Creation of Water, or the gases of which it is composed. But it is revealed that our Enclosed World was made “ in the Midst of “the Waters” “in’Six (Literal) Days.” Our Water-Dividing “ Firmament ” called “ Heaven ” which encloses our innate World was “Made” on the Second Day of Creation Week nearly* 6000 years ago.
“ The Earth ” which God Created” in the beginning ” be¬ came “ without form and void ” beneath “ the Waters ” pro¬ bably many millions of years before our World existed. “The Waters ” were darkened, and God brought Light upon them to make the First Day of “ Creation Week.” And the Waters of which our “ Seas ” were “ Made,” were divided from those pre-existing Waters by a strong and solid structural Water- dividing “ Firmament ” which God called “ Heaven.” And God gathered together our divided Waters unto “ One place ” which is a central position in the midst of motional “atmos¬ phere,” “ skies ” and “ clouds ” which inclusively are termed “ the Heavens ” wherein the “ Lights ” appear, passing round and round in their regular circumferential courses. The
* It is so nearly approaching to 6000 years since our Enclosed World was Made, that the fulfilment of Daniel vii., and the Second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ may be at hand. And the Emperor of Germany's Declaration of War, on Saturday night, August 1st, 1914, and his War A ctions since — as well as his words, which expressed “ very great things ” make one wonder if it may not be the beginning of the final conflagration.
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Land in our World was evidently divided into it in the divided Waters which Form our “ Seas." f Therefore neither its atoms, nor its substantial body were created during Creation week. And it came into our World “ without form and void.’’
On the Third Day God Made the Land “appear” above the surfaces of our “ Seas ” to Form our continents, isthmuses and islands. “ And God called the Dry Land Earth, and the gathering together of the Waters (unto one place, or central position) called He Seas.”
The Old World was larger than ours,- and its Earth was not Created “without form and void,” but it became so beneath the darkened Waters in which it was submerged, and wherein our present World was created, out of, and upon its remains. And it is evident that our “ Firmament *’ and “ The Pillars ” and “ Foundations ” on which it was “set” “ in the midst of the Waters,” and also the “ Land ” within our “Seas,” once formed part of “the Earth” of the Old World which was submerged in “ the AVaters,” and there became shapeless and “void.”
Huge masses of 11 the Earth" which God Created “in the beginning” became deformed and divided in “the Waters,” but the unimpaired layers of even strata which have been found in different parts of our World’s Land both in the past and the present testify that it was not Created shapeless, but became so. Stratified Earth-Matter which became imbedded, evidently hardened after depression, and by this means was transformed into lime-stones, slates, marl, etc. And the fossil remains of animals and plants which existed in the Former AATorld have been kept from the times of their respective depositions, as in a museum, hermetically sealed in the collapsed, infolded and deformed Earth’s strata. And these things are object-lessons for the Education of those who seek after True cosmical knowledge based on the Creator’s Word which cannot lie !
“ Speak unto the Earth, and it shall teach thee and the fishes of the Sea shall declare unto thee ” Job. xii. 8.
The Figure below illustrates the fact that prior to dis¬ placement, and consequent alteration in shape and condition (through burial in water), and prior to perishing and petri-
| God Made all things both visible and invisible' by Jesus Christ, and He made our “Seas” of “the Waters” whereiu a World (which existed before ours) was drowned. But we are told nothing relating to the Crea¬ tion of Water.
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faction of their living contents, all the different strata of “ the Earth ” which God Created “ in the beginning ” were Created of perfectly horizontal shape, and arranged in layars one above the other like the leaves in a book. And from well-based deductions we may perceive that “ the Earth ” of the Old World was not globular.
Alluvium.
Diluvium.
Pliocene.
Miocene.
Eocene.
Chalk.
The unshapeliness of the Land which is in the “ Seas ” in our World is obviously due to its long entombment in the dark and consequently dead waters which overflowed it and caused its deformity long before it was divided within the divided and re-illuminated Waters, on the Second Day of Creation Week to form our present Enclosed World. This explains why the beds are not found in the order in which they were evidently originally Created. Every mortal can see the unshapeliness of the “Earth” which protrudes out of the Waters of our World ; and in the Bible we learn that, it became “ without form and void,” and how it became so. The Bible also reveals that God “ gathered together ” the waters which He had divided into our World unto “ one place ” — or central position — and called them “Seas.” And God compassed our “Seas ” with “ bounds ” in the midst of our atmosphere. And they contain the uneven-shaped Land which was divided into our World within them. It is further revealed that the portion of the Old World’s Earth which came into our present World within the divided Waters “ hangs ” unsupported “ upon nothing ” within them. And our “Dry Land” which God called “Earth” is resuscitated by the Light-and-Life-charged at¬ mosphere with which it comes in touch wherever it “appears” above the circumferential “bounds” of the “ gathered ” Waters which God called “ Seas.”
And the Land which is miraculously held within our “ Seas ” is evidently part of that “ Earth ” which God Created “ in the beginning ” which became “ without form and void ” beneath darkened Waters. And the uneven-shaped Land which God made to “ appear ” above our Seas’ surfaces to form our continents, isthmuses, and islands, God called “ Earth ” after “ the Earth ” from which it was separated.
Judging from the nature of the chips which fall from above our Skies through thunder and other forces, and from
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Scriptural deductions, we have good evidence that our Water- dividing “ Firmament ” which God called “ Heaven,” was also formed of part of “ the (submerged) Earth ” “ in the midst of the Waters,” as are “ the Pillars ” and Foundations on which our World is 11 set."
But the Land within our “ Seas,” and the “ Earth ” stand¬ ing out above them into the atmosphere of our Enclosed World have certainly undergone further alterations in shape since Creation Week. This has occurred through innu¬ merable disturbances and upheavals which have caused land to sink and new islands to rise up.
And it is practically certain that huge tracts of Dry Land (Dry portions, which God called “ Earth ”) have sunk beneath the “ Seas,” and consequently, our great continents (which were once conjoined) have separated, and where large tracts of Land have sunk (as probably is the case between Eng¬ land and America, and elsewhere), our outstanding “ Earth ” has become widely divided.
The causes of these disturbances may be attributed to magnetic, electric, and other natural and supernal forces, as well as to continuous decay largely caused by the great devastator — Oxygen.
Then again, within our World’s land is stored fire (II. Pet. iii. 7), which by its continuous supernal nature, doubt¬ lessly helps to cause innate disturbances and outward up¬ heavals. And this agrees with the Bible, and with the fact that the Land in our Enclosed World once formed part of “ the Earth ” of the World which God Created “ in the Beginning” which perished in dark Waters, and became “without form, and void” therein. But neither the length of time occupied in our World’s Creation, life, or en¬ tombment are revealed. But we have evidence of universal sudden death of prehistoric creatures within our Land which was divided into our World within our “Seas” which were divided from “ the Waters” wherein “ the Earth ” of the Old World once stood “ in the Water and out of the Water” in shapely form , like a ship at Sea — with no deformities, or intermixed, twisted, and crushed stratum. “ The Earth ” of the Old World became submerged beneath ‘‘the Waters” above whose surface it once stood, and “ the Waters ” were darkened, and probably remained so during many millions of years. “The Earth,” in its grave of dark Waters evidently collapsed, and became divided and intermixed in, and crushed by Ice. But nearly 6000 years ago God restored Light upon “ the Waters ” and
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formed our World in their “ midst ” by dividing part of “ the Waters ” and “ the Earth ” of the Old World to form our “ Land” and “ Seas,” within a solid water-dividingFirmament. And after God had gathered our “Seas” into the centre of our atmosphere He made our Dry Land “ appear ” above their surfaces to form our continents and islands ; “ And
God called the Dry Land Earth, and the gathering together of the Waters called He Seas.” No revelation is given of the Creation of “ the Waters,” or their extent — Nor are we told the size of “ the Earth ” which was drowned in dark Waters. But we know, like all things that become disintegrated through the process of perishing — even in undarkened water — the result of separation frequently exposes their innate contents to the surface, and things (from atomic to gigantic sizes) that were originally widely divided, may become intermixed. Therefore, geologists who base their tenits on the Scriptural account of Creation can neither affix dates of when the various strata of the Land within the “ Seas ” of our World were formed, nor when and where its various contents became divided and distributed, and its (once even ) strata deformed ; but Ice formation may have caused some of the deformation. It is not revealed if the inundation of “the Earth” of the Old World was caused by Satan’s revolt. But we know from the unimpeachable evidences of the Bible, and Nature, that our Land is part of “ the Earth” which became “ without form and void ” long before it was brought into our world in our “ divided Waters.”
The Bible’s opening Words to all the Nations Herein are quoted oft to swell their tone,
And show the value of the Revelations Which the Creator first to man made known.
And when we teach a system Truth may test,
Its basal tenets should be first impressed.
The numbers in the chart are as they occur in the order of Nature : the First is last.
All that is revealed to us relating to “ the Earth,” is that God created it and “ the Heaven” “in the beginning,” and that it was not created shapeless. But, I repeat, we have no revelation of how far back in the past the Creation of “ the Heaven and the Earth ” of the former world commenced, nor how long a period its Creation occupied. Nor are we told anything of its size, or what was beyond that “ World that then was,” nor how long “ the Earth ” existed standing above “the Waters,” in shapely form, as it was Created. The Bible only reveals that the “ Old World ” perished and became shapeless and “void” beneath “the Waters” in whose “ midst ” our present World was “ Made ” by the Lord
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Jesus Christ under His Father’s supervision and Commands. And our Enclosed World (whose Land and Waters once formed part of the former World) was Made “ in the Midst of the Waters ” which formed the Old World’s grave !
The wonderful Revelations given to us in the Holy Scriptures relating to the origin of our World’s “ Land,” “ Seas,” and “ Earth ” are entirely endorsed by the evidences of all known phenomena, and by the irrefutable testimony geologists have exhumed from the Earth itself. And when their discoveries are duly considered, their great achieve¬ ments — including their deep borings, and their evidential Finds — are indeed marvellous ! (See “ Chaos,” T.E.W., No. 4).
According to Geikie’s text book the deepest boring that has been made into our World's Land was 5730 feet at Schladebach, near Diirrenberg, and it is possible there has been a deeper one in recent years. If man could pierce still deeper, further evidential trophies from the remains of the Former World would doubtlessly be exhumed, and further exhumations of dead and petrified creatures and plants which once existed in a much larger World than ours, would probably be discovered. But, from data now possessed it is evident that through recurring disturbances, and upheavals of the Land, leeds have been upturned and deposited in positions foreign to those in which thev were created.
DIAGRAM A. VL
Between the Plutonic rocks and those containing prim¬ itive fossils are extensive layers of slate, gneiss, mica, etc.
These are stratified and declare no obvious signs of past life. They are termed Metamorphic Rocks (M. Diagram A), and are often found on the surface exposed, and sometimes form Mountains, and Peaks. The Plutonic rocks frequently perforate and penetrate, by veins , the metamorphic rocks and likewise all the stratified rocks that expand on the surface.
Some of these intrusive formations are known as trap dykes, and occassionallv, a flow of lava to the surface may be seen at the present day (T Diagram A.), and when the flow is
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of great intensity, it forms volcanos. The latter are conical hills, or mountains, which are usually truncated at the tips, wherein are funnels or pipes into the earth which bring forth streams of Molten rock, gasses, and hot vapours, etc. (V. L. Diagram A).
In the illustration the moved strata of 1, 2, 3 and 4, have exposed what was beneath to the surface (as coal some¬ times is), and it must be remembered that these “ dislocations ” were certainly caused by subterranean upheavals.
“ In the Beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth, and the Earth ivas (or more correctly, became) without form, and void.” The Prophet Isaiah reveals that ‘‘ the Earth ” was not created “ in vain ” and “ void,” but for the express purpose of habitation. No mortal man even would build a house without form and void. But not only the better translation* viz., became in the place of the word was, and the Prophet Isaiah’s revelation, but also the evidences of our God-given Senses as well as the facts of Nature clearly expose the error of supposing that our Creator Created “ the Earth ” without form and void. The Creator has revealed that “ the Earth ” was “ without form and void ” in the midst of the Waters ” when He commenced to make our present World “ in Six Days,”t and this Revelation shows us the cause of the shape, condition and contents of the Land in our “ Seas,” and the “ Earth ” (or “ Dry Land ”) which “ appears ” above their circumferential surfaces.
The inspired A postle Peter also reveals that “scoffers” would rise up charged with desire to disprove God’s account of His created Works.
* The verb “ to be ” is not here distinguished from the verb “ to become” also rendered “ came .” The Cosmogony of Genesis, is in flat contradiction to that of the so-called “ Creation-Tables,” preserved in the epic poem in honour of Merodach, the patron-pod of Babylon. And this corruption of primitive truth which had been handed down by tradition is preserved, and valued. But the Divine Account by Him Who Created All things (both visible and invisible) by Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of Mankind, given through God’s Holy Spirit by the hand and pen of Moses, is flouted to the winds, and utterly rejected for mere man-made theories based on the wildest fallacies, and the most fabulous romances of pagan origen ! But God from His Works none can sever which He made by Christ, His Son. Facts and Truth shall live for ever ! When untruth is overcome.
t God, having made our Enclosed World by Jesus Christ “ in the midst of the Waters ” in Six Days nearly 6,000 years ago, is a thing most wonderful to consider, and it should remind us that we must be approaching the time when the Lord. Jssus Christ will again appear. And the Redeemed will meet Him in the. Air. We are foretold that great swiftness of Divine Action will again be exhibited, and those who will be ‘‘caught up” from among the living will be “ changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” — i. Cor. xv. 52,
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The revealed Modus Operandi of those “ scoffers ” re¬ ferred to in IT. Peter iii. 3, was that of scoffing at the fact that “ the Heavens were of Old ” which God Created “ in the beginning : ” and assuming “ ignorance ” of the divine Revelations of the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and t lie prophetic folding up of our solid water-dividing Firmament.
It is also foretold that our “ Seas ” shall pass away and “he no more.” And the sequence from all this fore-knowledge is that when these things come to pass 11 the Waters ” from which our “ Seas ” were divided will also have sunk or been entirely cleared away. And “ the Earth ” (from which our Land was divided within the divided Waters which form the “ Seas ” in our present World,) will (together with our opened up, and renewed World) be once more, under the Canopy of “ the Heavens ” which “ were of Old." But “ the Holy City,” the “ New Jerusalem,” will descend bodily from Heaven. (Rev. iii. 12 and xxi. 2).
We have also the fore-knowledge that although “the Earth ” and the “ Pillars ” and “ Foundations ” of “ the Earth ” on which our World rests will “ not be removed forever :” the Land which was divided hanging “upon nothing” within our “Seas” (which God divided within “ the Waters ” to form our present World and whose outstand¬ ing parts God called “ Earth ”) — will he, shaken and moved. And based on the knowledge that our “ Firmament ” will be opened and that our central “ Seas” are to pass auiay, it is a reasonable deduction that the action of the “ Seas ” when they pass aivay by divine ordination, may be the means of moving our Land, and setting it upon, and annexing it to the solid basis of our “ Firmament ” where it is “ set ” upon and attached to those everlasting “Pillars of Earth” on which our Enclosed World rests.
None but the foolish or thoughtless could expect a fellow creature to show what is beyond “the Waters” in whose midst our Enclosed World was “Made: ” or the extent of those Waters, or what upholds them. Because we have no revelation of what is beyond them — or if anything is beyond them — This our Creator, according to His Infinite Wisdom, has not revealed to His Creatures : —
Eternal things, of any kind,
No man could comprehend,
Nor one conceive with mortal mind,
How everything could end :
Our Minds must be enlarged we know.
Ere God to us these things could show
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“ The Earth ” which once stood out of “ the Waters ” beneath “ the Heavens ” which “ were of Old ” was drowned beneath those Waters, and as Peter reveals “ the World that then was, being overflowed with Water perished.” And our World was “ Made” upon, and partly of, its ruins. And the Creator Made the “ Two Great Lights” and our Life-charged atmosphere, on the 4th Day of Creation Week within our Enclosed World, which He made -in the midst of “ the Waters.”
And that our World’s a Star in “space”
Is Satan's lie — as all may trace !
All the so-called “ space ” that man can trace is within our Enclosed World, and within the limits of man’s eve- bounds. But we clearly understand that “ the Heavens ” ivhich “ were of old” were above the divided Waters ivhich were left outside our Water-dividing “ Firmament ” on the Second Day of our World’s Creation Week. But “The Heavens ” which “ were of old ” have been seen by no ordinary mortal’s eye. If they were our visible Heavens, men could not have affected ignorance respecting them. And the idea that Peter refers to Noah’s Flood in the 3rd chapter of his Second Book is erroneous.
In his First Book he makes reference to “ the Deluge ” and exposes the fact that the “Earth” in our Enclosed World did not “perish” and become “without form ” as it is, and “ void ” in darkened Waters, when “ Noah’s Flood took place.”
Nor did all men and Creatures perish then, eight men and women were saved as well as male and female of all living Creatures. And that vegetation was not killed in the days of Noah is evidenced from many Scriptural deductions. For instance, when Noah sent a Dove from the Ark it returned with “a plucked olive leaf” in its mouth !
But when we turn to the First Words of the Bible, we find that our World “ that now is ” was made in the midst of those Waters wherein “ the Earth” (from which our Land was divided) really “ 'perished,” and became separated and deformed. And “ the Waters were beneath those “ heavens” which were “ of old ” and which were darkened, and death reigned within them. Darkness was upon the Face (i.e. surface ) of “ the Waters ” before they were “ divided ” by our “ Firmament ” being placed in their “ Midst.” But it is not revealed how long darkness continued beneath “ the Heavens” which “ were of Old,” nor how long “ the Earth ” remained beneath” the (darkened) Waters.” In fact, Time, or the
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“ Ages,”