Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . Bebold, tomorrow is the new ~i Sam. 2c s^. ft* ^ C Q. o &.<2 « w ^ I- ASTRONOMY AND THE BIBLE. 33 sun period; and the reasoning seems to begood, that in course of time all the sunsnow lighting the heavens will one daycease to shine. It is believed that the solar-system was once in a nebulous condition;:and we know that, at least, some of the plan-ets are now in the dark stage, at which the-sun himself will finally arrive in futura-ages. But what evidence have we of the exist-ence of dark suns ^ (1). Variable S
Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . Bebold, tomorrow is the new ~i Sam. 2c s^. ft* ^ C Q. o &.<2 « w ^ I- ASTRONOMY AND THE BIBLE. 33 sun period; and the reasoning seems to begood, that in course of time all the sunsnow lighting the heavens will one daycease to shine. It is believed that the solar-system was once in a nebulous condition;:and we know that, at least, some of the plan-ets are now in the dark stage, at which the-sun himself will finally arrive in futura-ages. But what evidence have we of the exist-ence of dark suns ^ (1). Variable Stars, These are the bod-ies that have periodic changes of brilliancy^and of those, there are several types. Algolsin the constellation of Perseus, is a remark-able variable, and it seems evident that it:has a dark companion. This star remains?bright for most of the time; but at times itsuddenly decreases in brilliancy for aboutfour hours, then it rekindles and in aboutfive hours is again as brilliant as ever. Thefollowing is from Prof. Youngs Manual ofAstronomy, p. 531: ^^As to stars of the AW-gol type, the most n
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