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Show COM'M" 1TI0X OE MCKIITL'RK. A special to the San I'raitcisi Ortwie from Sew Haven, f'on-neeUcut, f'on-neeUcut, contaiM the fotloMing liriKted contirma ion uf the Serijiftss statemcnU about the standing still of tbe tun in the days of Joehua, aad of the -un's shadow going backward in tlie time or Ahsc The firt is It be found in Joshua x, 12-11; the secotii in II Kings, xx, 9 11- IJmtcnant t'narles A. 1 IVxten. of al farully Is s-ill pnrsuitnr his In m-nmus IHMirat stdfs tnd now an-noune an-noune n fresh result of his investi-vatiuns. investi-vatiuns. some time ago he appueu bis inaibematieal sraetxto theblenil. flcMion of Joshua's long ,a-. This time bis studies bate been directed to the only other M-Mua of time recorded re-corded fn tbe MUe, the reversion of tbe Min Oiailaw on tbe dial of Aha. This incident he regards as much more notable than ih n..-.. s time a: the batde of Itfh H.,nm. Tberr. acconlln to the renin!, the sun stood still, or as our modern science would irt it the earth stoppat its revolethvi. Tnereeonltn thiscaetsthstthean actual v went back, ihM K as could b' ni I now .. revolation of the earth sras reversed IJeutsnantTiitten now announoss that be has fixed tbe exact lime uf ihn wonderful event al that rt Hi-, int., the srononilral record. The storr .J this event, whi -h oerarra.1 in Urn tif. teenth year of lleaekteh's reign. UtoW in knurs. Chronicle an I Is.l.h. In lb- twentieth chi1cr of II Kin in tlie lira eli en ver.-s tha account i, found. Professor T-rtten hleetilles Ibe tlsv ?52?-aaS'? M,,a. "'PP-wl lb. Ijmt,. 4Hi from the creation, Wednes- cisil, the Mvcnth mere-1 month trf tho ff?.r r" A-JI- eatos that the 14b-lleal 14b-lleal elements fix the sun dial incident at th- absolute instant of auiumnemii-imx, auiumnemii-imx, JS9S ears aio. rwkonmx fnM,, tbe ipprosctiincniiiianx of S-.crm-ler 1id, I SK). Hi- ei ssf tn-,1. ..a? at bfc;h noon of that day. or about seven and one-half minutes before 1 o Hock that da v. This would be lust at Ibe time when tbe dal would be watched l.v a snt number of people fortbo auliumui eoum k, which marked the Isnmiinir of a new year, and the exact InsUnt that tlie sun stood rauarelr at the mth wouM be lookct for wfh great inierest in makine the reckoning r. tnenew seir. A most interesting re-salt re-salt o.t this computation in Profem Totten s eyes Is its eouaection with Ibe May of Joshm at the biUieoflMh ilonm. That he figured out to be exactly ex-actly twenty-three and ona-third tho dial or Ah was fonv jiilimtes. Tne two together made nxaotlr or Ky.ndha.ci.im, sets tKftnj richt. The mwn. though inrolml in lb,. Utter lncJd,m,wa. Sot mSi" .H"."? ",! ia ort of hsr entrance en-trance into her fourth qnarter.an.1 sras therefore at that moment below Uw eastern horizon. |
