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Thus the hoary-headed superstition that the cen- 

 ter of our earth was a molten mass is passing 

 away, and it will be the same as to the heat, and 

 molten condition of the sun it will be relegated to 

 the plutonian shades of ignorance and superstition. 



Because there were numerous volcanoes, geysers 

 and hot springs scattered over the crust of the earth 

 and in some deep mines there were hot sections, 

 the scientists jumped at the conclusion that the 

 inner portions of the earth were a molten, fiery 

 mass. This was to accord with their false theory 

 of a red-hot molten sun, and their assertion that 

 the earth had its inception as a fire mist, and roll- 

 ing ball of white-heated gases. But the scientists 

 have changed their theories rapidly in recent years. 

 They are just beginning to discover that there are 

 zones of heat and cold beneath the earth's surface 

 just as there are above its surface. That there are 

 electric currents of heat in volcanic regions and 

 mineral and mining sections, and none in others, 

 and even in the same mines there are warm and 

 cold sections. 



Take the Cornstalk mines in Nevada. A section 

 2,300 feet below the surface is very warm, while 

 another section 1,200 deeper being 3,500 feet be- 

 low the surface is very cool. Surely Lord Kelvin 

 would now laugh at himself to think he made such 

 a calculation of the heat of the earth and said it 

 was a molten mass of fire fifty miles below its 

 surface. And he even said it was so hot seven 

 miles down in the earth that water could only re- 

 main or exist in a state of vapor. 



Ye gods ! When so great a prophet makes such 

 mistakes, surely the little prophets that walk in his 



