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of change of density of portions of a sphere exquisitely 
adjusted as to equipoise, and having a fluid envelope, 
which must obey the laws of gravitation, (and therefore 
aid by its movement in accomplishing a definite change 
in the centre of gravity), must tend towards alteration of 
such centre. As in the toy, the water-clock, the passing 
of water from one compartment to another alters its 
centre of gravity, and causes it to tilt over, and revolve, 
so in regard to our globe, such causes as disruption on a 
large scale of ice barriers, and their drift to lower lati- 
tudes, or the transference of fluid matter in the bowels or 
crust of the earth from one compartment to another, or its 
decomposition and dissipation as gas or vapour ; encroach- 
ment of the sea by earthquake breach, or subsequent to a 
long-continued elevation of sea surface, and its amassing 
within depressed areas of formerly dry lands ; accumulation 
of ice, or sea water, as gravitating to a changed position ; are 
each and all conditions demanding change of our globe's 
centre of gravity. Men of scientific renown, holding posi- 
tions of authority as teachers of science, object to this idea 
that the necessary action of the rotation of the earth upon 
her axis is to accumulate a belt of watery volume ur>on her 
equator, and that this tendency of equatorial accumulation 
abrogates the action of all other natural laws demanding 
equable dispersion of sea volume in accordance with the laws 
of gravitation. It is a startling fact, after all that has been 
based upon it, and considering the long and disgraceful 
apathy of theologians as to this primary denial by science of 
the truth of the inspiredWord of God, that there is no absolute 
proof of the earth's rotation, and even less proof of its revolu- 
tion round the sun. The doctrine is but a feasible mode of 
accounting for apparent changes of position of heavenly 
bodies, deemed too vast to gravitate at varied focal distances 
to the centre of our little spot of earth. But "whether the 
earth be small or large in comparison with the remote bodies 
of the starry heavens is a matter of not the slightest moment. 
Value and excellence are not even with us estimated by 
magnitude ; and no one would think of bringing into com- 
parison, with a view to such estimation, the Kohinoor 
diamond and a block of granite ;"* or the scene of the vica- 
rious sacrifice of the Son of God, with the mass of combus- 
tible matter granted by the Almighty as a mere luminary. 
Incidentally the Word of God declares certain matters as to 
the subordinate conditions of the starry sphere, with reference 
* Professor J. R. Young, in " Science and Scripture." 
