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Sound, electricity, heat, color and light are the results of vibration. The ear does not detect color as it does sound because the auditory nerve is less sen sitive. The optical nerve, or eye, takes it up. L ight sings, bu t our ears are not able to h ear its harmonies, b u t we see them. L ight and sound are pro duced by the same vibrations, like th e \ chords of a musical instrum ent. Bible I language anticipates th is rem arkable discovery. Job says: “When th e morn-I ing stars SANG ( “ gave fo rth vib ra-i tions,” like a musical in strum en t) to gether and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (3 8 :7 ). The book of Revela tion speaks much of music. God’s g reat orchestra of n atu re can be heard by the angelic host as it sends fo rth its won d erful peals of musical anthems. We could h ear it, too, if our ears were tuned high •enough. In our glorified body we will (1 Cor. 15 :41 ). The R efraction of L ight is a com -f/ paratively modern discovery. Ptolemy, th e astronom er, hinted a t it, b u t who told Job? He says: “H ast thou com manded the morning since thy days; and caused the day spring to know his place, th a t it m ight ta k e hold of the ends of the earth ? It is tu rned as clay to th e seal and they stand as a gar- 1 m ent” (38:12, 14). Refraction is the. bending of th e ray out of its direct course as it meets th e media of tran s- 1 mission, If th e sun rays were not thus refracted, only th e direct rays would reach the earth, th e others glancing off and reflecting into space so th a t man would not get the benefit. The atmos phere s'urrounds th,e earth in stra ta or layers, and when th e indirect rays en counter these a t an angle they are caught and bent round like the fingers 'of the hand for us. This is th e fact foretold by Job. The original language suggests th e d iu rn al ro tation of the earth on its axis. Verse 14, “TURNED as clay to a seal,” verse 13, “th a t it m ight TAKE HOLD of the ends of the
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HAS been said th a t the Book £ Job contains more science la n all literatu re in the ^ rorld up un til comparatively
modern times. Personally I believe th a t th is is true. The ancients had many improvements and enjoyed many advantages which are ordinarily not suspected by th e modern mind. Cosmology, o r th e stru ctu re and sup po rt of th e earth . Job taugh t th a t the earth hung out in SPACE. “He stretcheth out th e north over th e empty place and hangeth th e earth on nothing’’ I (2 6 :7 ). We only found th is out a few hundred years ago. Who told Job 3,500 years ago? Notice w hat he says about th e “ empty place” in the north. Some clear night look a t the sta rs and you will see th a t th e re are b u t few in th e north. This doubly rem arkable scienti fic statem en t shows the absolute vera city of the Scriptures. Job also says: “The pillars of heaven trem ble and are astonished a t th e reproof” (2 6 :1 1 ). Again he says: “Which sh aketh the earth out of her place and th e pillars hereof trem ble.” (9 :6 ). Universal Haw of Motion V ibrations per second run from 16% to 480,000,000,000, which is th e violet ray of light. Beginning a t the lowest audible note, the lim its of sound are reached a t 38,000< vibrations per sec ond. Passing an unknown region, elec tricity is reached a t about 100,000,000 vibrations. D ark heat about one hun dred and th irty thousand million vibra tions. Then comes th e octave of color, corresponding to th e octave of sound, the red rays, w ith about 400 thousand millions, and so on up the spectrum to violet, w ith 480 thousand millions.
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