Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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varicolored, and left behind them a long train of fire.One immense green meteor came down over Lebanon, seeming as large as themoon, and exploded with a large noise, leaving a green pillar of light in itstrain. It was vain to attempt to count them, and the display continued untildawn, when their light was obscured by the king of day. , . . The Moham-medans gave the call to prayer from the minarets, and the common peoplewere in terror.—Volume I, pp. S16, 317. The Falling Stars of 183S 101 Textbooks and astronomical works thereupon began tocount it as fully established that every thirty-three years thedisplays would be repeated. It was confidently predictedthat 1899 would witness a repetition, possibly on the scaleof 1833. Professor Langleys New Astronomy (published in 1888)said: The great November shower, which is coming once more in thiscentury, and which every reader may hope to see toward 1899, is of par-ticular interest to us as the first whose movements were subject to analysis.
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CHRISTS PROMISE TO RETURN I will come again, and receive youunto Myself. John 14:3. Chamberss Astronomy, published in 1889, said: The meteors of November 13 may be expected to reappear withgreat brilliancy in 1899.— Volume I, p. 635. But the November date passed in 1899, and the yearshave passed; and the wondrous scene of 1833 has not beenrepeated. Gierkes History of Astronomy in the Nine-teenth Century says: 102 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy We can no longer count upon the Leonids (as the meteorites of 1833were called, because they seemed to fall from a point in the constellation ofLeo). Their glory, for scenic purposes, is departed.— Page 338. The Lords Signal to Watch Thus the wisest astronomical predictions made shortlybefore 1899, based upon the apparently recurrent regularityof the phenomenon, failed; but the predictions of the sureword of prophecy, set down on the sacred record eighteencenturies before, were fulfilled to the letter. At the close of the days of the predic

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