The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Religion
The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
"I have the plan already worked out for this Tunnel thru the Air. I
expect to accomplish it by the use of certain light rays and light
waves, sending a strong current thru the air on one side and another
current on the other side anywhere from 100 yards to miles wide and
then thru another process that I have in mind, remove the air from
between these lines or currents, making a vacuum or space between the
air which will really be a tunnel. We can drive our planes thru this
tunnel by radio rays, directing them from a great central station which
I expect to build. All the aviators know that often they run into
what they call air-pockets in the air, which means nothing more than
a vacuum made by Nature in some way and that when these air-pockets
are encountered an airship will drop right down until denser layers of
air are reached. If Nature can construct a tunnel thru the air, then
certainly man with the guidance of God's divine power can do it. It may
be hard for you to understand and believe my theories, but they are
founded on faith and the knowledge that with God nothing is impossible.
"I have demonstrated in the past that every law laid down in the Bible
is provable, every prophecy has been fulfilled or will be fulfilled.
I again refer to Roman 1:17: 'For therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live
by faith.' At this moment there is nothing for this nation to hang
their hope on but faith in a divine Creator, and if I am right in my
interpretations that the United States was God's kingdom which he
created never to be destroyed and if it is to be the united kingdom of
the world, then we must live by faith. If every other man, woman, and
child in the United States, yea, and the world, turns against me, I
will believe and follow that faith, knowing that no power can harm me
and that no matter how many may be against me, I can win so long as I
believe in the divine Creator.
"Romans 5:3-4: 'And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience;
and experience, hope.' These trials and tribulations which we have
gone thru have brought knowledge. We have learned patience and thru
patience, experience. I propose to put that experience and knowledge
that I have gained in the past into execution to preserve and protect
my country which means more than life to me."
When Supreme Commander Gordon had finished talking, there was new life
and new hope in the face of every man in the room. It was plain to see
that they had caught the divine inspiration; that their faith had been
strengthened and that they now believed that God would lead them safely
to victory and preserve the nation which He had created to be a land of
love and liberty.
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