Show I 1 I 1 i BETHLE I 1 PS HEMS I 1 STAR 1 I 1 ii 1 4 4 its I 1 clr appearance ea Th isear u LL i y A I 1 4 I 1 JAO T Tsi 1 ta I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 the bradt ab bo if the stars omera appearance di I 1 an of great I 1 6 W I 1 I 1 r there is is mile mufeh hi interest felt loth among theolo s ami and astronomers I 1 says y a the VZ sunday CA zette iu in tile f gaibl pa L sible ibl if f not expect el ed appe arau 1 I h I 1 s of the fa 1 star th liias ha baeff known fa fur r several severn I 1 bu hundred ildrid years as na t they h e 1 sarr lar of t radiance it ia is alcied alleged ali eged a showed h ed gailyer Gail per battha zer an and 1 11 e ach T or the three ve arye slen of the th eat where the cradle of the lay ab about tit tio other in llie life unive universe tapis there BO so augh of romance or i to much of erit buia tic interest 6 fd purely sentimental about thia this great blazing luminary which ia is brilliant brilli aut enough to be been een at noonday blazing in iu full op splendors lendo rs by the shi efing uin of the unclouded 11 it has a power tor or it indeed alone of all other things iu in mhd universe has united science and religion by a boad of common iut erett and will engage upon ite its appears appearance ince the rapt attention of the indel scientist equally with that of the devout priest the latter say that it heralded the birth hirth of G gid arf human fund foria and certainly corta it baa bas done by eng engaging aging scientist and theologian upon a copinjon cn ninion plat forta what nothing euort of god ar or a direct nuncio of god was heretofore heretofore supposed able to do in 1572 tycho brahe the re danish astronomer saw on the evening of november I 1 11 1 a star s illing out in id dihe the constellation of Gassi where no etar star bad had been observed before in the tb e memory of mf man but the extraordinary brilliance and a nd lumini luminosity sity of this star were the of chief hief P interest terest it far surpassed venus at the latteri lat latt teru erld period of grea grenet effalee nce more than att days and week thereafter this strange guest of the northern heavens wad was visible at high noon of unclouded tunny da days y a hining shining I 1 with a magnificence of f lustre that was unequalled by anything in the heavens but the sun or moon it gradually waned however and by the of march 1573 it was not visible to the naked eye As the modern rediscovery of the telescope did not take place for more than thau 30 years thereafter it the therefore practically became extinct ti net As no astr no comical mical record bad had been kept in in europe since long before the fall of the roman em pire any previous appearance of such a bright 1 star at anything like a synchronically perio periodical lical date cou could ld only be supported by tradition such tradition however was not absent in 1257 according to tradition such stich a star bud had appeared in the same saine quarter of the firmament as also in there ia is no doubt of such appearances and color was consequently lent to the vaguer and dimmer accounts of similar appearances in in lone long known as the star of con etau tine the great which with the demonstrated appearance in 3 B C the true year of the birth of christ makes the cycle complete its reappearance therefore in ibis this year is a sufficiently probable to justify the intense felt in the matter iv such diverse 1 clas clasek seii of people as its Chri christian jitian and skeptics it must not be for forgotten gotton however thai that tradition goes back of the be birth of the sanor in in connection with a acar aswell as well as afterwards Ch alcidus the platonic philosopher bears testimony em of the appearance of the star of bethlehem in the ille year 3 B 0 96 so tile be fa fact ct of this tar star laving having appeared at that lime time is india ilidia julian the apostate endeavors enTea endeavors vors to connect it with the famous star asaph ol 01 the eg egypt apt ians ana whose p period e rid was four hill buia dred red years it ia is a lamentable pit pity y that thattie the records of the egyptians are either destroyed or hidden away especially ally ber her astronomical annals annale the stone stolle lipped sphinx of that land of silence and symbolism guard guards well the secrete secrets of her shadowy past the astronomical records of cholden are also lost ur for tho the present at least hope essly lessly buried under the drift of cen centuries tories teutonic christians and t in believers alike unit ed in destroying the priceless treasures I 1 of greek thought an and 1 poman itoman law lav specially ally of scientific ch chronology ron so we cannot appeal to the inestimably valuable bonk belok casee of alexandria alexand ria of cos Gs ir of halican nonsuit no Asuit ve we have hitherto dia dis I 1 darned to seek information among the indians indiana or the chinese and re gard persia as a land of if nomadic slave rather than as the eite site of the greatest empire of antiquity a an U e empire that fell heir of the tile intellectual as well uell as to 1 abo 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 material wealth of egypt ot 01 aej A ii of chaldea chalden and aa I 1 56 can call oil only I 1 grope after ifor g a poor koo Z blind a in the theat k 00 auch clatters as these enough lid however eve r remains to how show the probability of the appearance thise ar ot te splendid star of bethlehem Y according to td fridi tradition tion andio and to tycho bribes observations observation it it occurred dearice tar star in ili the abe hait of cassiopeia tais condell co nitella lioa lion is always alway aou ou the op opposite posit aide of or the pole etar star froia from the beven aea it icare ars of the r tf or w A at ID in the bonste latigu tho the eh abair N r il Is composed of five live aright tare mars arranged in a rude to jin an inverted chair at thia this season semon or the year any dear cleir evening after fitak it can easily be found by drawing a it line from Xe begres gres the westernmost and uppermost suf in ae body orthe time 0 h tai the east side of t ahe pule airy tor I 1 t the molests pol e ests etar anfor for the sime same distance west of the lot a ae as mcgree is cast east about tariq dt d grees reea the line thus drawn will terminate at kabb in the centre centi oc C oceia near which the staf fila of will appear of barge ills ne deed idless leas to to remark that the rear year advance advances the two ions 00 9 will 1111 change place K seiwin the bumber time at dine p r m the great bear r is W west est and CM siope iii I 1 is eastok eat of th eTole s 1 ea |