Astronomy and the Bible;

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inwhat way itisthat 'attraction' comes about,—is
stillunknown,—apparentlyasinscrutableasthevery
nature andconstitutionof anatomof matteritself;
itissimplyafundamentalfact."—Young's"General
Astronomy."
TheBiblehasitspartinrevealingthetruthofthe
attraction of gravitation. Itdeclares:

1. Thatthere issuchapower;


2. Thatitupholdsallthings; and—
   3.That thecausativeagentisthewordofGod.
   Onthesethreepointsitstands,aboveallscienceand
   scientificresearch; and it always must, in thevery
   natureofthecase, so stand. Science onlyshows its
   utterfollyandweaknesswhenitattemptstoenterthis
   domain of the Word with any other doctrines and
   philosophies.
   Butinthatmatterofthestudyofgravity,science
   hasitslawfulandhelpfulplace. Therearesomefacts
   involvedinthegreatprincipleannouncedintheWord.
   Justwhatthese factsarecannotbeascertainedbya
   studyoftheWordalone,orbytheWordatall;they
   arenot there revealed. Onlythe truth is therere-
   vealed; the factsare revealed elsewhere. Thefacts
   mustbefoundbyastudyoftheworks. Andonlyby
   astudyoftheworkscantheybefound.
   Thefactswhichsciencemaydiscoverandannounce,
   andwhich,indeed,ithasfoundandmadeknown,are
   two: namely, that this force of attraction between
   particles is (i) directlyproportioned tothemass of
   theattractingparticles,and(2)inverselyproportioned
   tothesquareofthedistancebetweenthem.