THE EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE REVIEW

1894

Note: The date is not on this issue that I have but I believe it’s one of the first issues, the date should be about 1894. They spelling, word usage is kept the same as in the original.

The Earth and Ocean not a Globe; but a circular-plane, according to the two great books of God, Revelation and Nature.

According to the book of Revelation, the word “world” is used more than 260 times in the Bible, and the word “earth” 350 times. The words, “round” or “globe” or “sphere” are never one applied to it. Not a single expression is used from the beginning of the inspired book to the end, suggestive of the idea that the earth is a planet, or, suggesting that the earth is anything else than a stationary plane.

1 Passages speaking of the heavens above as “stretched out,” and the earth spread forth and stretched out upon the waters, so that the line of the heavens is parallel with that of the earth. – Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 136:6. “To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters.” – Psalm 24:2. “He hath founded the earth upon the seas and established it upon the floods.” Genesis 1:10, informs us that the waters were gathered together unto one place, and called the seas, and upon those seas the earth was founded, consequently the waters are beneath and around the earth. The waters sustain the earth, sustain the earth as a whole. – 2^nd Peter 3:5. “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing or consisting out of the water and in the water.” R.V. Reads: “For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst (or through) water, by the word of God.” Compacted – held together – leagued with – united. Now look! The earth is one – the continents appear to us who are on the surface as being a great distance apart, yet these continents are joined together; they are connected in the water and together they constituted one earth. These connections deep down in the water of continent with continent, are themselves sustained by the waters underneath. “The waters under the earth.” Those water under the earth, sustain the earth as a whole; sustain the earth in its entirely. “The earth compacted out of water and amidst water by the word of God.” The dry land above, or out of the water compacted, united with, the earth in the water and that again compacted, united with, the other continents, amidst or though water.

The continent of America is compacted, united with the continents of Europe and Asia, amidst or through the water of the Atlantic. The continent of Africa, though connected with Asia by the Isthmus of Suez, yet is compacted, united with Asia and Europe amidst or through the water of the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and probably Arabian Sea. Australia compacted, united with Asia amidst or through the water of the Indian Ocean.

God said, let the dry land appear, the dry land did appear. Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and the waters flowed into the place appointed for them, beneath and around the earth. Here we are on this earth – living, moving, working, trading, buying and selling. This earth is a real earth, it is inhabited as God meant it to be, and some of our fellow beings go down to the sea in ships and see the wonders of God on the great waters. This earth is a real, material earth, and this material earth, really, unmistakably and without doubt, is compacted out of the water and amidst the water. But the planet earth of Copernicus and Sir Isaac Newton is not real – it has no material existence, it is fictitious and visionary.

2 There are also passages showing that the waters surround the earth have their bounds on the great southern circumference. Job 26:10, “He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.” In Margin, “until the end of light with darkness.” In the R.V. Is is “He hath described a boundary on the face of the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.” Job 38:8, 9, 10, “Who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth.” 9 – “When I made the cloud, the garment thereof and thick darkness a swaddling band for it.” 10^th and 11^th, “And prescribed for it my decree (or boundary) and set bars and doors, Good Hope are the ends. The great God sitteth over the circle of the earth – over the north centre and seeth to the ends of the earth. Isa. 45:22. “Look unto me and by ye saved all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”

Job 38:11 “And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall they proud waves be stayed?” And far out there on the southern circumference, are solid and impassable ramparts of ice, barriers – cliffs of ice – forbidding and further progress of daring navigators. It was so with Capitan Wilks and Jas. C. Ross. Well, you ask: Do the Scriptures mention these solid walls and barriers of ice out there on the southern circumference? Yes, they do. Job 80:30; “The face of the deep is frozen.” The daring navigators on the southern seas, who have told us on the solid walls of ice – the barriers and cliffs of ice – disclose to use the meaning, the sublime meaning of such passages as Job 38:30; Ps. 33:7.

The earth and ocean together constitute an immense circular plane, according to the other book of God, Nature. There are phenomenal proofs that the earth is not a globe, with north and south pole, but that the earth is a plane, having central region for its north, and, the southern circumference for its south.

3 Long periods of light and darkness, regularly alternating is a phenomenal peculiarity of the north, but not of the south, and proves that the north is the central region, and the south is the circumference.

During the summer solstice, the northern or central region of the earth is illuminated for several months together, during those moths it is a long day without a night. This is a phenomenal characteristic of the north. This being the central region, the diameter of the sun’s orbit in June is much smaller than that of its December or winter solstice, its speed is not so great or rapid as it is in December when on its outer path, or orbit on the Tropic of Capricorn, consequently its rays continue over the northern centre for several months. But in the south this is no the case, though it would be if the earth were a planet. In the south, on the contrary, the day closes abruptly in summer, they have little or no twilight. In the south seas beyond the 50^th parallel, the sun will be shining brightly, and, in a very short time, the sailor who happens to be aloft, will be in pitch darkness. The sun seems to drop below the sea. At Auckland, New Zealand, there is little or no twilight. At Nelson, it is light till about 8 o’clock, then in a few minutes it becomes too dark to see anything, and the change comes over in almost no time. Twilight lasts but a short time in so low a latitude as 28 degrees south, according to Captain Basil Hall, so that from 28 degrees south, to beyond 50 degrees south, there is little or n twilight. But, in the corresponding latitudes north, the twilight continues for hours after visible sunset. In the north at midsummer, for many nights in succession, the sky is scarcely darkened.

4 The difference between north and south with regard to organic life, vegetables and animal, show that the earth and ocean is a circular-plane. The long periods of sunlight in the north, develop with great rapidity numerous forms of vegetable life, and furnish subsistence for multitudes of living creatures. But in the south, where the regions is circumferential (not central as in the north, the sunlight cannot linger, but sweeps quickly over the greater southern circle, completing it in the same time as the shorter circle of the north, viz., 24 hours, and so has not time to excite the surface, has not time to aid and stimulate animal and vegetable life to the same extent as in the north, consequently in comparatively low southern latitudes, everything wears an aspect of desolation.

The South Georgia’s latitude 54 and 55 degrees in the very height of summer, is covered deeply with frozen snow; but in the farthest north, nature is adorned with summer beauty; flowers and grasses bloom during a brief and rapid summer. Keruelan, 49 degrees south, boasts 18 species of plants, only one being useful in cases of scurvy, it is a peculiar kind of cabbage; but Iceland, 65 degrees north, 15 degrees nearer the pole in the north, boasts 870 species of plants. Kerguelan’s land, or, Desolation island, was discovered in 1772 by M. de Kerguelan, a French Navigator. Here December corresponds to our June. According to Captain Morrell Keruelan is situated in latitude 48 degrees, 40” south, longitude 69 degrees 6” east. Many of the hills on this island, though of moderate height, were covered with snow, notwithstanding that the season was midsummer. January corresponding to our July. There is not the appearance of a tree or shrub on the whole island. Captain Morrell, 1822 to 1831, in latitude 62 degrees 27” south, longitude 94 degrees 11” east, met with extensive fields of ice, one of which would have measured 150 miles, east and west.

The bones of musk oxen, killed by Esquimaux, were found on the 79^th parallel north, while in the south, man is not found above the 56^th parallel of latitude.

These differences between north and south could not exist, if the earth were a globe, turning upon axis and moving in an orbit round the sun. the latitudes corresponding north and south, would have the same degree of light and heat and the same general phenomena. The distance round a globe would be the same at 50 degrees south as at 50 degrees north, and the surface at the two places would pass under the sun with the same velocity, and the light would approach in the morning and recede in the evening in exactly the same manner. There would be a sameness of phenomena north and south, if the earth were a globe; but the differences are in harmony with the doctrine of the circular-plane of the earth and ocean.

5 The meridian lines diverge southwards, and the degrees of longitude increase accordingly; but if the earth were a globe, the degrees of longitude northward or southward from the equator would diminish.

From the known distance between two places in the south on or abut the same latitude, and the difference of solar time (or difference in longitude) we can calculate the length of a degree at that latitude.

JOHN T. LAWSON,

Kearney,

Parry Sound District

Ontario