The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our HeavenMortimore, D.
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The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven
Mortimore, D.
Heaven; Sun
In the first place, it is _true_ that the _"loadstone power of
attraction" is there_: but it is _within_ what all denominate the SUN,
and by _this_ the surrounding planets are controlled. But this power
_is not the Sun_. For what all denominate the Sun, is that which gives
out light and heat. The Sun is _fire_, _heat_, and _brightness_ or
light. Fire, or heat, is _ethereal_; has no such power of attraction:
but on the contrary, is repelling and dissipating. There is no solid
substance in fire; it is an invisible agency--save when it is
concentrated. It would be an unreasonable hypothesis to conclude that
the fires of the Sun were fed on combustible material. The Sun may
have been just the same as it is now, for untold _billions of
years_--possibly from all eternity--and God, by His Word has revealed
the fact that it will continue forever--even as long as His throne.
Hence, if produced by combustion, its material would be constantly
wasting away, and, as Prof. Olmsted says, "the products of combustion
would obscure its light." Therefore, as there is no tangible source,
and all agree that God Himself was, and still is its source, we hold that
our hypothesis, that it is a fixed volume of _Photospheric-ethereal_, or
_spirit-fire_, is correct. That it is one of Jehovah's attributes; ever
existing and performing its offices in creative and enduring Nature;
never increasing nor diminishing.
Now, this being the only reasonable, and--as we believe--correct
hypothesis, of the origin, nature, and element of the _Sun_--the Sun
being the brightness we see in looking at it--_where_ and _what is the
loadstone power of attraction_, which reaches out millions of miles
into space, and controls vast worlds, steadying each in its own
orbital path, while they are flying round at the rate of from fifty
thousand, to one hundred thousand miles an hour? We think the answer
plain, and that all can comprehend it. This Earth is a solid body, and
_all such_ possess, within themselves, the power of attraction.
Therefore, the laws of Nature reveal the fact to us, that _the great
central and controlling power of attraction_ attributed to the _Sun_,
is the vast INNER GLOBE we have been contemplating; a globe, or world,
more than a million times the size of this Earth. Leading Astronomers
have agreed on the existence of such a body within; and far
separated--by a non-luminous atmosphere or void--from the outer
_photosphere of ethereal fire_. That globe we hold is--_beyond a
doubt_--the "HEAVENLY WORLD" spoken of throughout the Holy Scriptures,
and is the final and eternal home of the righteous.
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