August, 1939
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View of the back side of the '-¿Oil-inch telescope mirror being ground at Cali fornia Institute of Technology, Pasa- dena, Calif. (Photo by F. Ellerman.)
EXPLORING INFINITY! Man’s insatiable desire to reach out into the unknown is creating a gigantic 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain in Southern Cali fornia This great scientific undertaking will be discussed in the SEPTEMBER “KING’S BUSINESS.” Peter W. Stoner, a Christian pro fessor who is Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Engineer ing Astronomy, and Architecture at Pasadena Junioi College, Pasa dena, C a l k will write on “A VIEW OF GOD THROUGH OUR GREAT TELESCOPES.” For the benefit of KING’S BUSINESS readers who may not have at hand factual material concerning the 200-inch telescope, a member of the magazine staff has visited John A. Anderson, Executive Officer of the Observatory Council at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., to secure information to be -incorporated in the article which will accompany Mr. Stoner’s message. WHY__are men grinding the lens of the great reflector with such precision that over its entire surface, 16 2-3 feet in diameter, the variation from the specifications will be no more than one millionth of an inch? WHY__has the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Founda tion given $6,000,000 to the California Institute of Technology for this observatory apd telescope? These questions, and others, will be discussedl in the¡SEPTEMBER “KING’S BUSINESS,” under the title EXPLORING INFINITY.
Other Good Things In Store for KING'S BUSINESS Readers SHALL WE SHOW FRIENDSHIP TO MEX ICO? by W. Cameron Townsend. A straight forward .message -by. a long-time student of Mexican affairs. . . THE STRANGE GOD—by Grace Livingston Hill. A story that grips the heart. THE VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS NESS OF GOD, by James R. Graham, Jr. A searching study dealing with great elemen tal principles. THE GOSPEL IN CELLOPHANE, by Elmer L. Wilder. A new approach to an old op portunity. A SERIES ON PETER’S EPISTLES —By Roy L, Laurin
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