he man who wrote that thought the sun was two or three feet in
diameter, and could be stopped and pulled around like the sun and moon
in a theatre. Do you know that the sun throws out every second of time
as much heat as could be generated by burning eleven thousand millions
tons of coal? I don't believe he knew that, or that he knew the motion
of the earth. I don't believe he knew that it was turning on its axis
at the rate of a thousand miles an hour, because if he did, he would
have understood the immensity of heat that would have been generated by
stopping the world. It has been calculated by one of the best
mathematicians and astronomers that to stop the world would cause as
much heat as it would take to burn a lump of solid coal three times as
big as the globe. And yet we find in that book that the sun was not
only stopped, but turned back ten degrees, simply to convince a
gentleman that he was not going to die of a boil. They will say I will
be damned if I do not believe that, and I tell them I will if I do.

Then he gives us the history of astronomy, and he gives it to us in
five words: "He made the stars also." He came very near forgetting the
stars. Do you believe that the man who wrote that knew that there are
stars as much larger than this earth as this earth is larger than the
apple which Adam and Eve are said to have eaten. Do you believe that
he knew that this world is but a speck in the shining, glittering
universe of existence? I would gather from that that he made the stars
after he got the world done. The telescope, in reading the infinite
leaves of the heavens, has ascertained that light travels at the rate
of 192,000 miles per second, and it would require millions of years to
come from some of the stars to this earth. Yet the beams of those
stars mingle in our atmosphere, so that if those distant orbs were
fashioned when this world began, we must have been whirling in space
not six thousand, but many millions of years. Do you believe the man
who wrote that as a history of astronomy really knew that this world
was but a speck compared with millions of sparkling orbs? I do not.
He then proceeds to tell us that God made fish and cattle, and that man
and woman were created male and female. The first account stops at the
second verse of the second chapter. You see, the Bible originally was
not divided into chapters; the first Bible that was ever divided into
chapters in our language was mad