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Show i the bible the command that tho sun stand still. 1 "How could the sun be mado to stand still If it was already still?" was I the clincher. PREACHER ARGUES THAT EARTH IS FLAT LIKE A HAT. Ashevllle. N. C, May 20. The theory the-ory of Rev. J. L. Cooke, preacher of the Sanctified Sect church, that "the earth is not round but flat like a hat on a fence-post," was sustained by the judges of a debate held between him and Leroy Henry, a high school student In West Ashevllle. Re. Mr. Cooke read from the Bible to show that the earth had a foundation founda-tion and asked bow It could have a foundation if it were flying In space without even a string to tie It down. If the earth is revolving, he maintained, main-tained, an Eagle flying at. tno rate or sixty miles an hour east would find itself in a minute 910 miles west and if a baseball was thrown up high enough en-ough to stay a minute it would land in Olive street, St. Louis. The student made the point that the earth must revolve else there would b no day or night,, but the sanctified preacher floored him by quoting from |