Identifier: astronomybible00reed (find matches)
Title: Astronomy and the Bible;
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Reed, Lucas Albert
Subjects: Astronomy in the Bible Bible and science Religion and science
Publisher: Mountain View, Cal., Kansas City, Mo. (etc. ) Pacific press publishing assn
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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turnwith added confidence and joy to the Book that ex-plains all. Thus will he know the blessing gained bya study of astronomy and the Bible. Lucas A. Reed. Creation The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue, ethereal sky. The spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim; Th unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creators power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail.The moon takes up the wondrous tale,And nightly, to the listening earthRepeats the story of her birth;While all the stars that round her burn.And all the planets in their turn,Confirm the tidings as they roll.And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though in solemn silence, allMove round the dark terrestial ball?What though no real voice or soundAmid their radiant orbs be found?In reasons ear they all rejoice.And utter forth a glorious voice.Forever singing, as they shine.The hand that made us is divine. —Joseph Addison. j6
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Omega Centauri One of the many star clusters, each composed of immense glowing suns far larger than our own. 2a The Head of a Comet This drawing gives one an idea of the size of a comet as compared with the earth. The brightest spot in the head of a comet is called the nucleus; surrounding this are layers of luminous matter, from which the tail streams away. :^, v^t-v: v^^;^ s ^^J ^^ pi^ ^v5^s^.-f^::-fl ^^^ra^ CHAPTER I Astronomy and the Bible OF all the sciences, astronomy makes the mostnearly universal appeal. Persons who havelittle interest in even the common things aboutthem, are nevertheless often deeply interested in know-ing something of those heavenly lights which shinedown upon them. What are these stars ? Are they other worlds at alllike ours? How many of them are inhabited? Whatof their distance and of the scale on which the universeis built? What is that large red star, and this brightwhite one? What is the Milky Way? Why does theNorth Star always remain north? These and c

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