. Astronomy and the Bible; . of millions of tons; or if youwant it more exactly, it is close to 5,517,823,961,480,-000 tons. Thus we know that the weight of the air is tremen-dous. God gave air this weight. He regulated itwith mathematical nicety to our needs. And He didnot leave us in ignorance of the fact, but told us of itin His Word. The air binds the earth with an elastichoop. If God were to unclasp this air from aboutthe earth, and take off this enormous pressure, wouldnot the pent-up forces within the earth break forth?Some day He will remove it, as one removes the peel-ing from an oran
. Astronomy and the Bible; . of millions of tons; or if youwant it more exactly, it is close to 5,517,823,961,480,-000 tons. Thus we know that the weight of the air is tremen-dous. God gave air this weight. He regulated itwith mathematical nicety to our needs. And He didnot leave us in ignorance of the fact, but told us of itin His Word. The air binds the earth with an elastichoop. If God were to unclasp this air from aboutthe earth, and take off this enormous pressure, wouldnot the pent-up forces within the earth break forth?Some day He will remove it, as one removes the peel-ing from an orange. Some day it will be rolled to-gether as a scroll. Rev. 6: 14. What about yourscience then? Will you, with all your science, befounded on His immutable Word? If so, you maylook calmly up, in that awful hour, and say. We willnot fear, though the earth be removed, and thoughthe mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, thoughthe mountains shake with the swelling CHAPTER V The Power of Gravitation THE work of Sir Isaac Newton in ascertainingthat there is in the universe a mysterious forceacting between all particles of matter, regard-less of how remote, and his work in measuring thepull of this power between given bodies, is somethingno man should belittle. What he accomplished speaksfor itself in the gigantic results that have followed. Yet this was but a development of things alreadygrasped by the inquiring mind of man. For years,men had used pumps; but had they been told that themechanism of the pump, thoroughly understood, wouldexplain the force operating between the heavenlybodies, the announcement would have been met withabsolute incredulity. Yet solving the problem of thepump led to the discovery of the fact that air hasweight; and from this, men came to the conclusionthat all things have weight. But this is universalgravitation, only put in other words. Out of pumps grew the discussion about naturesabhorrenc
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