| Show THE GRANDEUR OF OE THE UNIVERSE Or Lecture on the tho Sun Moon and Stars Last NI Night ht J i I SINE FINE Sl SIt The lug nr with a and suvA subject liver New SplendId Indeed was the tho 1 lecture delivered la the tabernacle by byi Dr Talma last Th IU subject i t Th The Sun lIun and 4 Ita Star I Is 00 one I 1 with whIch the Sa Is thoroughly familiar and one too that that never grow old the len was we I much larger larrer than might haw have been ox x the great Humber of counter and attraction that are always found at conference tune time and nd waa a tribute to the well ell known or of th the lecturer The Th audience In pain painful d tul ful to the pouched diction of the doctor and nd gale Int Intently upon the stereopticon vI pre and nd several m r found Itself Iii fit at the point of applauding that which It heard and nd saw law The Tb lecture c 18 cE e E 1 on one that could be delivered with untold profit In every advanced Institution ot of learning In Utah Uth The pictures exhibIted by br Dr Tel Tal 4 mere mate In Illustration of hi subject abject wr were 1 of an order of oC excellence rarely nur lur passed There were diagram executed with the greatest care In true h relation of sire the hi lIun eun and Its ita family or of planets of the parents In apace the of the moon and ot of j the inferior r planet also magnificent p paintings ot of the solar surface and if numerous photograph of the am aim Some of there sun lun views presented on 1 the surface of the glowing orb tb the ot of frost lower flowers and Ice lb crystals But Dut the most interesting and Instructive ot of all the were r h the movIng showing the slant moon moan In n It its monthly about a earth arth the entire a family of planets and I tug Ing around the pun un the direct And AndI j I t r retrograde apparent motion ot of Ute the In tenor planet etc Dy By moving views also the nature of seaS made clear and tb the dark Use ot of the tbt moon I was as seen en creeping over the eons face until from a mere noth In the limb of the eater IOlar luminary It Ite race face w wee en end d i I The lecture proper was wal prefaced by byan byan an interesting outline of the history of r i the science of the heavenly bod I and andI j I by n a sincere trIbute to the and Investigation et ancient time which while In often otten erroneous I I prepared th the way for mole reliable demonstrations of later time timea Astronomy I I my was pronounced the oldest of all allai human f dependent on ai II Uon In striking contrast t with this t fact that or f th the of earth i science was U It was but yea ree J In the history of th the race that l men learned to lo look It at the 1101 un far bak In III th the time ut of hit hiat rys 1 dawn men I w to toward ward the str and artl d un and we or r shipped d at what there thre they the eau aI Like the babe stretching it tiny hands 10 Ward the moon man has hall over r I been prune to tJ reach after r the I and aDd the ott to the neglect t of the near and present Bo old II h the science or of th the stars that no DO trustworthy account rf f it le origin Is Isto Isto to be found In r c rde and almost every famous nation of an claim till the honor hOllor of It parent ape III and nd Egyptians have severalty been credited with originating the of the spheres and some of the ree rec record ord claimed b by tbt these nations date hack k nearly tu to the throe Ura of the tha tower lit of Rebel Jabel Abraham Ia c given the credit of having conveyed a knowledge knowl edge ot of from Chaldea to Egypt Today astronomy I la In a oak ont one of the float exact of elene and In an another other uther al aspect It la Ie largely Its practical service to mankind Ie b un It Our r maps would be inexact and unreliable time regula lion woUld be faulty fault calendars would I be practically unknown and lp I lion Uon In III 11 larger larrer i ha huea would be Im The tart part of the be lecture began will Views ot of tb the sun lIun and l dhawn to 0 scale III this earth of which w ws think w 10 much muchas as 1 an almost dot corn com compa pa pared with a tn In The rh aua distance was Mid eald to bt 1 when ox ex Iii Ih It If It wets wera possible to make the journey by team traveling thirty mil a day over el eight bt years would be rt rs or by train at t the rate of thirty miles In an hour without stops 8 yearn would be needed for the single trip amusement wu war created by Il a calculation of tie the fa tare for such lIuch a solar IOlar journey amounting at the rate of four ants per mile to nearly four million of dollars dollar A tale tele graphic lo would be five flye minutes II a ray of light eight minutes and a cannon ball nine and a half years year on the way war Icy the aid eld of beautifully colored plo turon tures the telescopic appearance of the lun puns Wit was shown revealing and Sun of enormous dimensions compared with which our earth would b be lIk like a ball at t the bottom ot of a 11 well wen exhibited The most striking of If all the solar polar pictures were those thON show tag the fiery try prominence the red flam flames and the beautiful corona the last named being visible only at the time of total eclipses ex except except by the help ot of the e eD D By the lid aid of brilliantly color colored view the operation ot of the that invaluable adjunct to the w was made plain The moon was shown In all Its ph phases and by moving Its revolution about aboul tb the earth and amI Its an annuel nUll nuel journey journ round the un eun were wert ox ex explained Some r recent nt from the Lick observatory revealed the craters end and mountains on the lunar surface Think of volcanic mil milk across and ond remember that the largest active crater on tb the earth that of It Is only about three threemile mile In diameter The tore force ot of gravity ty on the moon le 18 so emAll compared with the earths that a aman aman man weighing h here pounds would tip the balance on the moon at II pound From the moon th the earth must be a magnificent globe thirteen times larger than the full moon to us UI with a brilliant earth shine The different were partial and annu annular her lar Turning his attention to the lecturer explained tb the distinction be between tween fixed stars atara and planets planet and then exhibited by moving views the majestic march ot of th the planets about their ren een orb Mercury with Its year ot of 88 of our days Venus with seven and a half of our month tu to It Its year Mara whose year I Is nearly two of ours tr ter which mak makes 0 one revolution about th the sun lun In twelve of our years Saturn with III lt yr year equal to IW of our own with II S of OUr years rs to one of Ire own and with a year 1 timer al a long lonar as our were ere moving with true relative speed peed The asteroids revolving as al a ring of trig trac manta between the orbit of 11 Mare aill and Jupiter r were and thep con conn n with meteoric showers hower who ex explained An actual n a fragment of II a world felt fell earth from apace striking our planet somewhere In was war exhibited exhIbit Th The I of an aster old of considerable aloe ete made by Witt of In 1 ISIS was 1 explained U of particular importance This Thle tiny planetoid Era OI by name an orbit which passes within that ot of d J are and so 80 may mar approach the earth arth earthe e coter seer than an any other ladr except the moon It will be favorably for tor ob observation In next and from Ira Ita proximity to the earth rth may mA serve to rectify or confirm our accepted distance of the sun and other bodies from the earth rth Then passing the solar yes tm tern Into sidereal span the enormous ot of tile the fixed stars atall we were by an n imaginary journey journer on CUI Q a Qbell abeam bell beam of traveling at its usual ve velocity e of over eleven millions of miles minute At luch auch a rate the sun lun would be reached from the earth In eight orbit of 01 Jupiter would be erased in hi one hour and a halt half that of Saturn In two and a half hours hour that ot of Neptune In three hour the Pole lole Polestar star would be reached In forty dye yore r and the In SIS YeArs while the most distant bodies able from the earth would be reached In not leas than 1000 years And still beyond these are other systems other heights and other depths i Comets occasional visitors from I outer apace which come now and then I within our system tm and of which worlds ar are described explaIned and Illustrated The lecture wu was a masterly effort throughout and nd It wu way brought to a 1 close ny br a grand d recital of Jean Paul finite Dream VIII Vision on of the In Infinite I |
