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*. for, we have seen "Sila star In
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Silim."
THE STAR IN THE EAST
اسمدة
Mystery Star of the Three Wise Men
His Star in the East? The mag nificent, invernable, inexpfleshle Rach glury and limitless beauty in a sable sky dat in many centuries ago
By John Cahill
test the Magi to the Cradle of Christ Toward this ingatie light and in Bethleher and sist stands todayward Bethlehem they turne
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sejence.
of steps, carrying frankincense
his sudden flare of dazzling bright- es. There was 4 recent example of this phenomenon four year gu
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Now Hereulia has all but disap what it was that jayo wonder of this magnificent star, but End it, but there is still evidence to
to dispel the mystery and peared. A telescope is needed Judra-n
an air acuieves message from high, o each succeeding Christ in all justice to science it must be prove that Herculis was one of the rarest of alla "twin" whose two mas the star has appeared again to admitted that the "wise men" of a them, in their imagination or in their later day lost little time in attempting component parts burned with such an inner consciences. They are satisfied probe this greatem of all celestial unearthly brightness for such 2
seacon
phenomena. Dr. Clyde Fisher of the lule while. light to salvation whan the world cried aluwayden Planetarium, who admits cheat
This the Star of Bethebem may the conjunction theory is at least have been, or perhaps > Avinur
a planetary conjunction, And each succeiling Christmas the worthy of intensive study, says:
likely still a "This wientists try again to make up their
triple
conjunction of Mars, comet. minds whether it was indeed a mir-Jupiter and Saturn, In one of the But it may just as well have been. CHINA IMPORT & EXPORT TRADING CO. are, or something as comparatively rarest of celestial events. It happens what Christianity prefers to believe prosaic as an exploding star, a con-only once in every in the 25th and will not occur again, a myнety
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The miracle that occurred but once one is due century. So scientists will have to just as precious and iarzplicable to wait n while before they can rest the all mankind as the blade of grass was theory in the heaven itself."
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Science's Admission
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For white se'ence admits that graphic plates that are worth their miracles have occurred
will weight in gold, the Hayden scientists are able to reproduce upon the nceur again, the minil steeped in Planetarium's artificial sky a credit- logarish and "Q.. E. DA" stable facsimile of the event
the whys auto have occurred upon the
supposed first Christmas eve, and in so doing are
perforce seek wherefores.
after
Each day during the Christma able tu
tu put in the sest a theory ad-
scaron
the scientists seek to recreate the heavens as they shone on the night of the Nativity. There is some documentary evidence to show that three brilliant planets were in con junction on that "Silent Night, Holy Night."
vanced originally in the 17th century by Johann Kepler, one of the earliest of the world's great astronomers.
Kepler 'ran is calculations back after
reviewing the extraordinary conjunction and found that it had
799 a.d, and taken place before
What is known from the Scriptures December of the year 7 B.C. Modern and the legende dear to Christianity sen
is that the Magi, the Wise Men of investigation has disclosed that the
that Christ' had been horn.
he East, torn with anguish by the fear of the birth of Christ does not brutal tyrannies exneted by Herodespond to the year. 1 of our era. fixing the date of the death of people, waited with Hernd le became possible to date per their anxious eyes the appearance of some message from Heaven to tell them fix the year of the first Christmas. New Testament events and to many
This has proved to be 7 B.C. Suddenly this great star de rot- The conjunction appeared in the junction of planets appeared in the constellation Pisces, eastern sky, lighting up the bowl of of the Zodiac then of especial signi Fishel, sign black above their heads with an ficance to the Jews. Kepier, alive 10. effulgent radius and calling from far
expectation af a Mendab, Chakdea, Persia and Arabia the Wise Judea's Men who knew
that the signal long awaited bad come at last.
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concluded it would be entirely logical for the Magi to interpret tits celes tial phenomenon A1 the awaited signal and to start Allt оп their biblical journey forthwith.
Theory Exploded
Kepler's theory stood up fairly well until Professor Ideier of Berlin came along and in 1826 showed that the three planets were at no time in absolute conjunction ...... ruling out ponsibility of them appearing as
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cles until men learned in scientific lore pointed out that the ancients all feared. comets as harbingers of evil and as retribution for sins done on earth hardly the signal of the saviour's arrival.
Then came the most beautiful and poetic "explanation" of all-that the Star of Bethlehem was a "nova" or un exploding star, one of those in credibly glorious phenomena of the raven created when two cold, dead bodies of the upper atmosphere collide in space at 400 miles, second and set fome the pyrotechnic griet buried in their Interior,
Immediately after the contact, the pent-up fury deep Inside the dead stars, bursts forth in a terrific blaze.
Arrested in mid-flight, these bodies turn and twist on a common center with and- produce as illumination their burning fragments tha
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