ADVENTURING FOR CHRIST IN PERU (Continued from Page H )
WHERE DID JOB LEARN THE FACTS OF SCIENCE? (Continued from, Page 22) the human eye. Now exactly as there are color rays that cannot reach the eye, so there are also sound waves which do not reach the ear. Recent ex periments have convinced the physicist that every ray of light as well as every shade of color has a definite phonetic value. The light of the sun or the light of the stars speeding through space carries with it a note of sound. If our ears were tuned to hear these melodies, we too could enjoy the music of the spheres. Job was scientifically and aca demically correct when he said that the morning stars sang together in the in stance of creation, for where light is, sound accompanies it. Perhaps the reader has seen the fa mous color organ now operating in the dining quarters of the new Radio Cen ter in New York City. There upon the dome above the diners and the dancers, soft and marvelous colors blend and cross each other in ceaseless play, as the notes of an organ caress the ear. These brilliant rainbows are occasioned by transmitting the sounds of the organ into the equivalent color value of each note of the scale. This value is constant. The phonetic value and the color value of a given note never vary. So as the light rays blend their colors in a fan tasy of brilliant splendor, the melody of these same physical rays enchants the ear in an equally delightful har mony of sound. We are all familiar with the phenom enon of “talking film.” Upon the in animate strip of film there are forms or divisions of pictures. By the side of these frames there is a jagged, serrated line which is commonly called the sound track. When this film is set in motion before a light source in a projector, one beam of light passes through the pic ture and the sound track. This beam of light casts upon the screen the ani mated action of the scene. This same beam of light, by the aid of the modern Aladdin’s lamp called the photo-electric cell,, is transmuted into sound. So the one light source brings to the delighted eye of the beholder all the movement and action of the film, while at the same time it brings to his ear the con versation, the melody of song, and the accompaniment of a philharmonic or chestra ! It would be the crassest folly to sug gest that Job knew this. Of course he did not. But when the stars were cre ated and their light rays of varying lengths swept out across the void of sidereal space, they blended into a har mony which might be apprehended by ears attuned to shorter wave lengths than the ears of humanity. Of this we cannot be sure. Our only certainty now comes from the science of physics. Either Job anticipated all of this mar velous knowledge, or else the Spirit of God directed to Job these queries. J U L Y , 1 9 5 1
water froze into a solid coating of ice on the inside of the windows. Our clothes were dripping wet with perspi ration when we got into the plane, and long before they could dry it was down below freezing, so it really made us feel the cold. We flew at 24,000 feet, breath ing oxygen from a tube, and for the first half of the trip the mountains be low us were covered with thick clouds. As we went over the summit, the clouds cleared below us, and by scraping the ice from a peep hole in the window, we could see the beautiful snow-capped peaks of the Andes below. Once over the top, we soon lost altitude to a place where we could breathe the air again. The ice melted, and we were much more comfortable and could enjoy the beauty of the rest of the trip. We arrived in this beautiful city of Lima shortly after noon, and were very gladto see our old friend, Mr. Cameron Townsend, await ing us at the air field. Soon we were taken to the Wycliffe home here and en joying the fellowship of the workers here, including Biola graduates Janice Bailey Townsend ’42, and Janice Hunt. We got our first glimpse of the city in the afternoon as Cameron Townsend took us around to see some of the beauty of this “ City of the Kings”. That is the home of the oldest univer sity in the western hemisphere, San Marcos, which is currently celebrating its 400th anniversary. Another unusual thing about this city is that it rarely, if ever, rains. In fact, we were told that the last time it rained here was in 1925! It is foggy most of the time, but all of the country around is bare desert sands; even the mountains on this side of the range are bare and treeless. Sunday, May 6th through Tuesday, May 8th, 1951: Sunday was taken up with two church services, and a visit to the Peruvian Bible Institute in the afternoon. This is a fine new school, now in the midst of a building program that will give it a modern plant capable of meeting the needs of training Peruvian Christian leaders for service with all mission groups working in this area. In the evening church service, Dr. Talbot brought a message to a group of about one hundred missionaries and business people of the foreign community of the city. The next two days were spent in the necessary business of making on ward flight reservations with PAA, and of going through the endless red tape necessary to mail home the films we had taken in the past few weeks. (Continued on Page 26) Page Twenty-three
By DONALD G. DAVIS, Ph.D. Head of the Church History Department of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles
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