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A JOURNAL OF F A C T H O P E A N D C O U R A G E

in this issueTHE SECOND ND

aNTHE TIMEPIECEOF

GODAn explanation respecting a complete change of calendar,with suggestions as to how theCalendar sf Jehovah Godcan be put in to effect easily andnaturalIy, without any confusion

every otherWEDN E S D A Yfive cents a copyone dollar a year. Canada B Foreign 1.25VsH. XVL - NO. 404March 13, 1935


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T a x SECOXD LXDK TH Er"BIMEPIECE OF GO D ( P a r t 1 ) . 355" 'lir: Precisi:.s Thi ngs P n t F or th ' 355A n In trica te, Confu.sir?g Snbje ct . 356The Gregorian Calendar . . . 356Gregor ian Cala ldar A!,s._:i!cs 357m~ h cld Bosllafiilear . . . . . 35 7The Dlonth of Mains . . . . . 355

o r 0?'he BIonth cf .Anga:;t . . . .T he Days 2 n d the Bi;:rs: . . . 3.j8. .Hlet& Eccles:asi:cal I.,inddlill;. . 359A C m s i d ~ c i i o l ~f t h e Tc? . ~ . 359TV11eli Do the Seasons E q i i ~ . : 353O n So lomon's Pcrel~-izl . 36 1The Lc ngth of t he Ye . . . . 36 1Extending the Gregor ia :~Cdendlar . . . . . , . , 361Pro jec t ing the C a lenda~Backward . . . . . . . . 352Calcvla i ing the Eqainoscs . . . 362O u t h e of V e r n a l E qu . ii lo s e~ . 36 3Re s-dt of Some Calculations . . 354Notes onProblems . . . . . . 364

1111CXate of k a t ~ m n a l qr'4129 B.C. . . . . . . . , 36 5God's Love of tile Beantifu! . . 365A Study of God's Months . . . 356'A F z i th f ~ d Yitness in E1eaven9' 366Calendar for 6,062 Years . . , 367God's W i l l R e g a r d i ~ gBlonihs . 367

PIojcotion of the C rzgoriailCalendar Back to Creation . 368Lanet ions Us'nctl i n 2 In f ear3 orPer isds of I m yo r t x~ t ; ve-nts . 370L e a r n i n g S o m ~ t h i ~ gYbout,God's Biontlis . . . . . . 370Lunation E::per;cl:ce T;:,le . . 3 7 1dstronolrrers 2Iust I iove T ru th . 371% ha 3loon E n ~ sr s t . . . . , 37 2-7Ietonic Cycle andtil o God of Orc"er . . . . . 37 3Chart of liullalions1885-1911 A.D. . . . . . . 374Char t of Lu~lat io l is 0 -r1912-1937 A.D. . . . . . , a 12Getting Eeady to E~.rpiorot'ne Past. . . . , . , . . 376BIethod of Czlculating Lnnations 347Calcn!ation Tables , . . . . . 379Char t for Changing Over Daysan d Ho urs of Gregoriar , Calen-dar to Days and Ho urs ofCalendar of Jehovah God . . 380" So Teach Us to N ~ ln be rOnr Days" . . . . . . . 380The Calendar of Jehovah God . 380Calendar

Jehovz h's Pe a r of Ransom 1903 381"Nan Became R Living Soul . . 382Zs ing the Six-Thousand-YearCalendar . . . . . . . . 38 2Published every other l17ednesday byGOLCEX AGE PUGLISHISG COJIPAKY, IPITC.

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Volume XVI Brooklyn, N. Y.,Wednesday, March 13 , 1935 Number 404

The Second Hand in the Timepiece of God(In3 Parts-Part 1)

AN EXPLANATION RESPECTISG A COMPLETE CHANGE O F CALENDAR, WITH SUGGESTIONS AS T O HOW THECALENDAR O F JEHOVAH G OD C A S BE PUT INTO EFFECT EASILY AKD NATURALLY, WITHOUT CONFUSION.

Copyright, i935, by Golden Age Publishing Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., U.S.A,All Rights Reserved.MAT TERS have arisen recently to call sharp daie Noah and his family went into the ark, andattention to the Gregorian calendar and it s the day they came out, a.nd the probable dayconfusions, and to direct artention to the MTord of Adam's creation, all from the silent move-of God on the subject of time, 11~itl1 considera- ments going on constantly by m-hich the sun andtion of what nlay be called the timepiece of the moon never get out of place or out of order,God, the beautiful and orderly arrangement of as do other clocks, but ar e fa r enough away thatthe sun and moon a s tile? 11-ere set in the heavens no mischief-maker can get at them to interfere?by the Creator "to rule over the day and over I t is so simple, ly\.hen olle gets into the sull-the night" (Genesis 1 18), 'to be for s i p s , and ject, that it is passing strange that. Jehovah'sfor seasons, and fo r c la ~s , nd for years.'-- people never became interestecl in it before.Genesis 1:14. Though the nloon has its variations in speed,This is no nonsense, or 11 -OTS~han nonsense yet the meall Innation, 29 days 12 hours 44 min-Prom the Great Pyramid in Egypt (built with utes 2.864976 secollds (2551442.864976 secollds),unpaid slave labor), but there is 1101v a ~vealth is one of the definite fixtures of the heavens, andof information regarcling the exact length of its re1iabilitSr is such that astronolners meet aIldthe year, and the exact lengtli of the Innation gravely discuss the reasons for differences of(from one new moon to another) , tvhich malies so small an alnonllt as 1/1000th of a second inall past his tory an open boo!


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Jlldebtedness is aclinox-ledged to 220 workson astrononiy ; also to Dr. Clyde Fisher, Ph. D.,LL.D., curator of the Department of Astrono-my, The American Mnseum of Natural History,77th street and Central Pa rk \Vest, New Yorkcity. Dr. Fisher is rated the ablest astronomerin New Porlc.An Intricate, Confusing SubjectGentile scholars of eminence sadly say thatyears are '(incommensurable" ; an incorrect butexcusable statement, in vien. of the dificultiesinvolved. Tbere is only one way out: God'sway; mhich may is simplicity itself, as mill ap-pear in due couyse.That, the Jews are confnsed is self-evideilt.Here is what the International dictionary saysof their efforts: '('The cornmoll year is said to bedefective, reg~alar r perfect (or abundant) ac-cording as it has 353, 354 or 355 days. Theleap year has an intescalary month, and a totalof 383 (defective), 3@ 4(regular), or 385 (per-fect, or abundant) clays. The calendar is coin-plicated by various rules providing for the har-monious arral~geli~entf Festivals, etc., so thatno simple perpetual calenciar can be construct-ed." I11 their calendar the Jews shom only 3,761years in the era B.C., whereas the Scriptures,preservecl in their midst, shom that sollle;\7here9someho~v, hey have lost aeconlit of at the verrleast 267 years. Jehovah's people ha\-e nothingto learn from the .Te\r~son this subject; the Jex-shave lost the "key of knowledge".-Luke li 52.Jel~ovah's people a re xot interested in theold Bornail calendar of ten molltlas in a yezlr,even though "Christendom' still aees the orini--nnl narnes of the last four months of tha t >-ear:September, October, Novern::er, Decen~ber.They are not inteze~ted n the old Greekcalendar, the use of which cansed such confusionin the Roman empire that in the year 46 B.C. itT~lmecessary to add two months to the yesr,making it fonrteen months long, in order tobrilzg the Peasons back to tl ~e ir roper position.They are not interested in the Julia:i caleil-dar, vlzic11 follo~rred,~mle ss hey cl~ance o lir.in Greece, or unless they are astronomers. Thefirst of the year, with the Greelrs, is thirte~iidays behind the one now in general me. Thereason why the astroilomers cling to the Jalianreclconing is that it has been in use constantiy,in some sections of the world, 1,950 years, Theymerely use it as a convenient nleasaring rod,to connect up ;vith the past. Jnl ian days, used

by all astronomers, begin to couat 250,310 daysprior to the day of Adam's creation, and are tothat extent in error. In this article the Edenicday, LC., the day from Adam's creation, is s ~ ~ b -stituted fo r the Jnlian day ; and it is hoped thatall as tronon~ers, n the interest of pure t ruth,vil1 adopt and accept and use the Edenic dayexclusively.Jehovah's people disdain to consider for anoinent the Mohammedan calendar, ~17llichakesits s ta rt in Ju ly of the year 622 (A.D.), andwhich ere11 the Jlohanlnzedans no longer takeseriously.Kaisoleon put an end to the Frencl~ evolu-tion calendar, which began in November, 1793,and perished in 1805. Everything was supposedto be done by the decimal system. There mere1 2 months of 30 days each, and five or six fetedays a t the end of the year, to balance things up.T h e G r e g o r i a ~ a alendar

But though Jehovah's people ignore all of thefcjregoing, they cannot quite, in the irnmediaiepresent, ignore the Cregorian or papal calendari~laagurated n October, 1582, a t which timet~rr ays \7;ere dropped from the J~ililian alen-dar, the fifteenth of that month hooking up nextto the fourth. I t was not until 1752 that, Eng-land adopted ihe Gregorian calendar.Tn this series of articles it mill be sho~%-nhatal l the fo;egoing calendars are calendars of theCeril. If that is sl1ovn to be true regarding theGregoriaa, it ~7i ll ertainly be true of all theo~llers. Please, now, take the time to examinescille of the necessary details of this intricate- .su1;~e.l.Zehovah God is no~r!iere mentioned in theGlegcxiaa calendar, I t ~ ~ o u l dnit Satan wellto hai-e Bin1 lost sight of altogether. Christ is~neiitioned, ut the year 1935 is not the year ofour Lord at all, for 61e was born in 2 B,C, anclGied ill A.D. 33*-I:]these articles the Gregorian calendar i s s y -:~!antecl 3.11~1discarded by the unique espedielztof extending it into the past, as if i t hac! alwaysbee11 in operation, using i t to establish hist o~ic alpoiilts in terms that will be uilderstood by those-.nor:- Ilriilg, and the11 letting it die an ignomini-om death.The present pope is not sure, even, as to inv-l i~t ear Christ died. One of lzis alleged rea-soils for extending the ' ' ~ o l y ear" to 1934 wasthat, so he said, he was not sure v~hetherChrist


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died in A.D. 33 or in A.D. 34. Of course, thereal reason why he was making both ends ofthe year "holy" was that thus he could get col-lections at both ends.The Gregorian calendar 'iTrTas the work of a

eouncil of theologians, professedly the succes-sors of the apos'cles, but eager to hide theapostles from sight except as they might wishto shine in their reflected glory. One can see thisin what the council did, and in what they failedto do.Gregordan Catendas and ApostlesLet it be supposed that the Gregorian councilhad really desired to honor the apostles whosesuccefsors tliey claim to be. What a fine chancethey had! For instance, they c o u l d h a v echanged January to James, in honor of the manto whom the Scriptures refer as the Lord'sbrother. But they preferred to have niillionsof people everlsstiiigly writing down a namei i ~0i10r of Janus, the original Roman "father".J ~ L I Sas two-faced. His snccessors have beenlike tlreir "father". He T - a s worshiped as thegod of gods, supreme janitor of heaven andezrtil. The word "janitor" takes its derivationfrom tlie word "Jsnus". A writer who macle astudy of this subject sa5-s: "Sut here i s t11c im-portant fact that , till the pope 177a.s invested v iththe title, which for a tliousand years had hadattached to it tlie r,onTerof the keys of Jana s andCybele, no snch claims to pre-eminence, or any-il ~i ng pproaching to it, was ever publicly madeon his part , on the ground of his being the pos-sessor of the Beys besto~ved n Peter." In otherwords, he was Ju~iter,he Devil, and naturallythose who claim to rule heaven, earth and hell,and ~~7h oove the nanle "father", did not wishto part with anything that so well uplzeld theirclaims.The theologians had a seeond opportunitymith regard to the second month. On or aboutwhat is now February 15 the ancient paganRomans had heathen priests, called the priestsof Faunus, who clad themselves in goatskins,and made a circuit of the Palatine Hill, strik-ing with goatskin thong5 all women encountered.The ostensible object was to insure fertility andeasy delivery; the real object was to enable thegrafting priests to keep their hold on the super-sti tious people. This ceremony mias supposed to"februare", or purify, the women. One canreadily understand why the Roman Catholic

theologians wanted to retain this connectionmith heathenism.In connection wit11 tlle "februation" of thewomen the priests held a festival, the Luper-calia, in honor of Eupercus, the god of fertility.There is a brief account of a similar "festival"in Numbers 25 :1, 2 : "And Israel abode inShittim, and the people began to commit whore-dom 'i~cith he daugliters of IvIoab. And theycalled the people unto the sacrifices of their gods :and the people did eat, and bowed down to theirgods."These alleged successors of tlie apostles whomacle the Gregori~ln alendar could have namedthe second montli Boanerges, in meniory ofJames the brother of John, the one x7ho had thehonor of being the first martyr among theLord's chosen tmelve, but they preferred theold pagan name.The Old BZomtk~kHear

The old Roman year began with Ifarch, andits first mouth in the year was nzmed llartins,af ter Bfars, the god of war. The war priests ofancient Bome were the Salii, or leapers. Theirjob (contrasted with their present successors)was not so mnch the encouragement of the pro-duction of more Roman soldiers, but to see toit that Mars was well bribed by their leapingsaiid other gymnastics. Their chief ceremonywas on Ilareh i9 .The Gregorian ecclesiastics hacI another goodopportunity here. They might have nemed thismonth after Peter, for whom they profess tohave so much attachment. But as betweenfollo~vinghe advice of Peter to "seelr peace, andensue it" (1 Peter 3 : 11) his alleged successorshaye done all possible to keep the world in warsaud turmoils throughout their entire history,aucl tomorrow, if another world Tar were tostart, the Roinal~Catholic theologians would bethe very first to climb on the band wagon, fortheir full share of chaplaincies or whateverother graft was to be had, in every country in-volved. And the Protestant clergy would bescarcely one whit behind. And so one can seewily the Gregorians desired to retain the martia lspiri t, nlartial law and martia l music of Marsrather than to have a month named after thehumble fisherman who, in his writings, counseledpeace at least five times.

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'to open', an d probably signifj-ing that this wasthe mo:lth in ~7;hieh he buds opea. There is r,oobjection to tkis, surely, but, as this was thenlonth in w\rl~cilhe Sr,vior died, what a chancethere was liere to coaimemorr,te that event upons\-liich all human life depends. The month conldhave bee21 calied Christ , and i t ~-ou-ld ave bee;?2n annual remiIider of man's deb', thz t can neverbe repaid.

S31-16, thc th~clogians refgr~cd h e old 112111:_c,with ~ ~ h i e h ,o donbt, some god. or goddess wesin sonie xTay ii:7olved. Inciden+?ily, 2s ariil laterbe shom~i n this series of articles, there isground for Ihe tradit ion t hzt Christ x;as nailedto the tree on Ap i l 1, and that the so-called"April fool" prailks on that dzy are intended loythe Devil t o biing ridicde 611 the h e whocounted not His life dear unto Eimeelf, But gaveit all up in tlie doing of Jeho~ah's i-ill and in thevindication or' Elis nenie. >la:- God l!eQ a11 ofJehovah's people to be like IZeii. ?,laster, and66fools" for His sake.--l Corinthians 4 : 10.The Month 0.6 figaimThe nlonth of IPaius in the old Roman calen-dar, the present ?day, refers to Master Jup ite r,the great father god, v7ho had more wives thanHenry V II I . I t ~-vould ave been a rath er nicething far the theologians TT-hopretel~ded tothinlr so nzndi of the apostles if tliey had calledthis mo:?th Isylatthe;v. But it n-as l i a t t h e ~ ~ ~ ,nthe 23d chapter, that specially dr e n~ ttentionto the Lord's warning: "Gall no man your fatherupon the earth: for one is your Father, ~vliichis in heaven. Iqeither be ye called [?&aster]:fo r one is J-onr Master , eyen Christ." (Verses9 and 10) A i d the theologians knew better thanto draw the ettentioll of the people to the wordof God which exposes their paternalistic methodof gaining control of the nxn throug!i controlof tlie ij7cnien.Juno, so the encyclopedia discloses, ~vas themost exalted divinity of the Latin races in Ita lynext to Jupite r, of vhom she was the sister andsvife. She was tlie queen of heaven and underthe name of Regina (queen) was worshipedin Ita ly a t an early period". I t would have beennice for the Gregorian tTieologialis to name thesixth month afte r John, the one whom the Lordespecially loved, but th at JT-ould have been ahar d blow at nnariolatry; and so the Gregori ai~ecclesiastics, vho are so strong for the paganclueen-of-heaven idea, prefer red to let t he u aneJun e stand as it is.

I11 t.he old Woman calermdar the fifth monthwas aa.mecl Qninti!ie, which merely meant t h a tit was the fifth monih of their year . WhenJuliils Ga.esar reconstructed the calel;da,r, mak-ing the year one of twelve l~ionths nskeaci often, m e 0-f the new ~ i l l ~ l ~ t l i ~2 s named afterhimself, ancl Qnintiiis hecsme July. PIere againt h e -i-l.,eol~giaii~ad n fine oppor-tnliity to elloosehetween a great w a r ~ i ~ rnd the hmnb!! andfuft.hfn1 Jude, ~~ ~\ .! io sehort e2istle ccntains somnch; aad so, because they more adnl:ireh niili-tary conquerors than a hnn?b!e inessenger ofpeace, they chosc to retain tlie name of the7:;ai.rior, born i n thaJi liionth.The Month o f AUQELIIt v a s ?,lark dnionp, the politician, tha t fixedit up to have tlie sevenJ;h mcath of the year

nai-ned after Ji11iv.s Caesar, l x ~ t uEns' sncces-SOY i ln g~ et cs 2 sess mcclcsl. He cllianged thename Sextilis, sixth month, to iln


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alle GOLDEN AGEprophet or apostle, is represented in the days ofthe weel< as now in colnrnon use. Sunday isnanied after the sun god; lionday, after themoon god; Tuesday, afte r Zeus, or Tyr ;TJTednes-day, alter the god TVoden; Thursday, afterThor, the god of thunder; Friday, after Frigg,or Friga, Woden's wife; and Saturday, afterSaturn. The theologians could have changed allthis if they had wished to do so, but they did iiot.God made the day to 1:egin a t sundown, andso the Devil has changed that in almost everyplace, but not quite. In most countries thebeautiful robe of star lit aight is rent in twainand the day begins a t midnight, which practicelyas handed do117n Iron1 the Egyptians and Ro-mans. The Babylonialls began the day at sun-rise. Astronomers make i t begin a t noon, andnumber the hours froin 1 to 24 consecutively,This system is follox-ed in some par ts of I taly.I n all of these mat ters the theologians have gonealong vi th every schenie to dishonor the Makerof the sta rs and to stray fa rthe r and fartherfroin the TYord of God. They have seemed toinstinctively realize that their protection con-sists in lieeping as close as possible to the Deviland the Devil's w ay of doing things.Lates t Ecclesiastical Hudd l ing

Under the leadership of Doctor Cadman, ex-president of the Federal C o ~ ~ c i lf [Protestant]Cllurches in America, a still fu.rther mix-up inrespect to calendars is in sight. Folloming abig get-together council of all the most pompousPrctestant theologians, at Fanoe, Denmark, in1934, the proposition was launched to malieevery year one of 361 days, adding the 365tlzday a s a11 "extra" Saturday, coming aln~ ays e-tween Becenlber 30 and Jai lnary 1 ; then whenthe year would have 366 days the "extra" dayn-ould be inserted as an "extra" Sa turday be-tveen June aiid July . By this plan, in which theScriptural arrangement of the days into weeksa-onld be entirely ignored, there would be fourquart ers of the year identical in length, eachcontaining three nionths of 31, 30 and 30 days,and, if one is foolish enough to believe it, "anygiven date will fall on the same day of the week."It is thus seen that the Devil and the childrenof the Devil are greatly interested in havingeverything different from the way God arrangedit, not only as respects the years and the months,but as respects the weeks, the days, and eventhe hours, and the reason fo r it is clear. The

Devil is determined to leave no stone unturlleclto dishonor God, and he also 117ell kno~vs hatas one error leads to another so one truth alsoleads to another, and is in terror lest greattruths long covered should be brought to light.And so, with this preliminary examination,please turn to make a s tz~dy f the various itemstha t enter illto the making of calendars, a Scrip-tural a s well as a scientific study, to which is in-vited the closest scrutiliy of astrononlers, mathe-maticians and others, as well as Jehovah's peo-ple. Should any errors be discovered in state-ments of fact or in calculations, be so good asto transmit them to The Goldeqz ,4ge as promptlyas possible. In this material, high-school 2ndcollege teachers have abundant opportunities toput the sliill of their pupils to the test and a tthe same time exalt the llaine of Jehovah, the

true and living God.The methods that will be pursued will be en-tirely different froin any ei-er before used. Tileplace to begin is :I-ith tile year.A Consideration o f t h e Yearhcccrding to Genesis 1: 4 God made 110th ihesun and the n~ooil o be "for signs, and forseasons, niid for days, and years". The thoughtthat the signs here inentioned have anytl~ingodo with the signs of the zodiac is ali ~lonsense,demonism. Tile word "signs" signifies "en-sips", as if here is sonie stmlciard thnt needsthe attentioi: which mill now be given to it.

The seasons recognized in the Scriptures arebut two, the sunllner and the x-inter, ~ ~ h l c hea-soils will continue forever. "TThile the ea-rth re-maineth, seecltilne aiid harvest, and cold anclheat, and suilinler and winter, and day andnight, shall not cease."-Genesis 8: 22.Jehovah's people are fanliliar n-it11 the in-structions to Israel to '(keep the passover at hisappointed season" (Numbers 9 :2 ) , and knowwhy Jehovah spoke of it as "the season thatthou cainest forth out of Egypt". (Deu'ieronomy16 : 6 ) They k110147 that the Lord, in the parableof the vineyard, spoke of "fruits in thei r sea-sons" (illatthew 21: 41), that the apostle alsomentioiled "fruitful seasons" (Acts 1 4 : 17) ; theprophecy of Zechariah ( I4 :8) speaks of sum-mer and winter as ever contiiiuing; and thereare other references to the seasons in the Scrip-tures, and yet the clergy have never recognizedin any va y these grand divisions of time in anyof their calendars. One would ha re thought


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that they ~ronlcl t least Kave named one nlontlzafter the opening oE the vernal season or oneafter the opening of the autumnal season, lsut tlieclergy have no zeal for the honoring of any-thing ~~i t I l ~ \- h ic hehovah God has had anythingto do. They are interested oiily in the things thatbring dishoilor to Hiin and do bring honor tonien and to their master, the Devil, tvhose theyare and ~1~11oi:l hey serve. On the other handit seems that the a ttention of the t ruz people ofGod has beell directed to the vernal eqni~ioxfo r centuries, and there must be some reason forit. To this day, Jehovah's people, striving fo rtr ut h and obedience, seek the beginning of Xi-san (the name is of heathen origin), tlie nioilthin lvhich Jesns died, and locate it ~7itlllie ileJ>-ixoon nearest to the said eq~~ in ox .When D s % heSeasons Begin?

For various reasons it is desirable that thenew re ar should have a fixed point s t which :obegin, and to end; and what better point thanthat made by Jehovah himself in the heaveas:~vh ex he days a i d nights are of equal lengtha t every point on the globe? I t is the time oflife, a time when all should specially turn tlieirminds and hearis to the great Creator wiio pi.@-vided such a convenieizt daj7 for the sett!enlentof accouiits tha t a re in the pas t and for theopeiaiilg of nev vistzs for the future. "Tiloncro~vnest he year ~17ithhy goociness."--Fsah65 :11.Years ago many of those ~vho re EOIV J~eho-vah's witnesses had the belisf that the trzetime 01the year's beginning is in the fall, yet,~i~lna,r;everay have been i h e reason, ia the tn-otexts ~7:hei.e the two seasons are nielztionecl to-gether the Punlmer is meationecl first.-SeeGenesis 8 : 22 ; Zechariah 14 :8.ill1 il~te lligeilt persons l;110~~7 that on theequator the days and nights are a l ~ ~ ~ a y sf equallength. They also know that t r ice a year tliesun al~p are nti y hifts its position vi th respect tothe earth, and in lia rch and Septeml~erhere are~vl lat re called eynil~oxes;hat is, the days andnights ar e of eqaal length in every place on theearth. The hnrnala faniily x a s first implantedin the Northern Henlispliere; there the Scrip-tures were ~i?ritl en;hei e the Lord died. Hencethe Scriptures tacitly recogaiae the fact.Aclclitionally, the Northern Hemisphere con-tains most of the land surface.The sunmer season (which men, bnt not the

Scriptures, divide into tn-o parts, one of whichis named "spring") begins in March (in theNorthern Hemisphere) and eolitaine the grow-ing and harvesting seasons of tha t par t of theworld, ~~h er ei i iost of the land surface of theear th is found. The cold seasons ar e inauguratedby the autumnal equinoxes.The Gregorian calendar does not begin ateither equiaos, and does not even beg-in anymonth with eithe~ f them, but it cannot quiteignore these iniportant fixed points in terres-trial history, and so one generally finds in analnlanac a brief inention of the time vhen theeq~~ inoxusually the verna l) occurs. It is mani-fes t that , in the mind of God, the true yearT\-ouldhave i ts beginning at one of these points.TT70uld it not seen1 reasonable, since God madethe sun to rnle the day and the moon to rnle t henight, that H e ~voul d ave the greater of thesetv-o luminaries fix the length of tlie year andthe lesser fix the length of the month9Jehovah puts the mind a t rest on this subjectof His time for beginning the year. As theIsraelites were aboct to leave Egypt (~vhic'n, s- \ d l e s hovn subsequently, v a s abo utt he tinieof the vernal equinox) He said to Moses : Thisllronth sllall be unto you the beginnizg of mo~ltlisit sliail be the first nionlh of the yea r to you."--Exodus 12 : 2.

3incli has been said of tlie observaiice of so-csllled Sex-ish "New Year" a t the au tm ma l equi-nos, but the Devil has been after the Jews asell as after the Christians. Can anybody show11-here the Jems or anybody else n-as ever conl-nlacderl or authorized to begin a new year atany other time than th at fixed by Jehovah God?IIe e~nnot. t is quite true tha t Exodus 34: 22sneaks of "the feast of ingathering at the year'seilc!" (revolution of the year, nznrgi~e) but thereference is manifestly to the crop year, ~~11ichdoes indeed end in the fall, as is well kilown toerer:-body, Exodus 12 : 2 is the lazo on this sub-ject.

The foregoing text, therefore, ought to besufftcient proof that the true time of the be-gi i~nicg f Llie year i s with the vernal equinox;1:ut there i s more, Kine months from the andtnmizal equinox mould be on or about June 23,at nhich time in Palestine it is exceedinglylyarm. Nine months froin the vernal equinox i sabout December 22. Here read Jeremiah 36 :22:' 'XOT~he king sat in the minter house, in theninth ~non th : nd there was a fire on the hearth


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The GOLDEN AGEburning before him." Vvliat time that yearstarted ought to be plain to all.On Solomon's Porch-in WinterWhen Jesus -i17as here oil earth Mis everyx-ord and act mas designed to be an honor to HisFather's name. He va s able to say, "I do alwaysthose things tliat please hi1n.j' (John 8 :29) TlieFather himself sa id: "Thou a rt illy belovedSon; in thee I am well pleased."-Lulre 3 :22.As a result of this close relationship, one maystudy with minute care erery detail of whatJesus said and did and al~~:aysind in it some-thing tha t the. Father is telling Ris people bythat means. There is this itein: "And it mas atJernealem the feast of the dedication, and it wasminter. And Jesus u~alkecliii the temple inSolomon's porch."-John 10 22! 23.

Theologiaas have er~cleavoreci o explain thistext, aimmg to sho-i17 that Jesus was trying insome way to participate in a feast of dedicationnot ment io~ed n the Scriptnres, and in SO do-ing they have missed the ~soint.I n this passage the hea~enl;: Father seems tobe gently hinting to the reader that there is apoint in connection v it h SO~OI~IOII'Semple thatneeds to 7se considerecl: it i e the time of itsdedication. And if one 1ocl;a the lnatter up hefiiids that it as dedicated "in tlie monih E t113.-nim" (the name itself is of heathen origin),

"~vhich s the seven.th il~onth"(ICings8 : 2), andthe "feast of dedication", ide~tifiedwith theseveii-day de dica ti~i i f tire altar , IT-as on the8th to the 14th of that. moiltil. ( 2 Chronicles7 : 9, 10)Tlie s6vent.h illoiltll vxs the first n~ on thof the ~ r i i i t e ~eason. Additioiia!lp, it is 17;e:IIrncxn that the day of atoncmeiit and the feastof tabernacles, vhich occnrred in the seventhmont,h, were observed when the Israelites hadgathered in the fruits of the land afid Feyeentering the 117inter season, (Leviticus23 1 27,39).Pt is t l~ns stablished b ~ -he month of four wit-nesses tliat the true begi:lning of the year isat the vernal equinox.The L e ~ g t h f th e YearThe lexgth 01 %lieyear., fro111 17eri:al equinoxto vernal equinox, is not an exact ~l u~nberf days.Beginning with the verszl equinox of the year9886 (A.D.), he times 11et11~ect1-i he vernal equi-aoxes f or the next succeediiig fifty yeax, clown to1936 inclnsi-qe, are, in their order, 365 days5 hours aid the number of n~innteswhich foi-

10117: 46, 45, 48, 54, 44 , 05, 46, 48, 60, 27, 45, 45,50, 13, 57, 81, 41, 52, 66, 60, 00, 60, 60, 60, 60, 21,49, 53, 40, 56, 51, 48, 61, 40, 52, 58, 40, 51, 53: 49,57, 46, 50, 55, 37, 47, 49, 45, 54, 40. This infor-niatioil u7asgleaned from reference works in theKern Yon.11 Public Lib]-ary. The general averagefoi- this particular period is 365 days 5 hours46 minutes 45.6 seconds.The length of the year is influenced by con-ditions in the earth itself, near the equator, bythe approach and recession of other planets,and by the precession of the equinoxes. In theaccompanyilig diagram (page 363), in the right-hand lower corner is shown in graphic formho~7he influences that inalre one year shorterthsn another are overcome in succeeding years.The small differences are not cumulative; thetotal divergences of less than an hour from themean 117ould ilot be greater six thousand yearsago, ~ h i c hneans that one can tell accuratelythe time of the vernal eql~inoxn any year fromcreation to date. Iforeover, its day in t'ne weekcall he ascertained, which is somet11i:lg qu itsnev in the field of human interest, a pa th neverbefore trodden.Edi%e~dingheGrsgsordan Calendczr

Taking note of the fact that. there are 60 sec-onds in a ~~ia~l 'ce,0 niinntes in an iionr, and24 hours ia a clay, i t follows that in one of God'syears, a so-callecl solar 37ear, or tropial year,o r synodical pear, that is, from one vernal eqai-nox to araotl~ei., there are 31,556,226.15 wc-onde; in a ca!endxr pear of 365 days the ilumberof seconds is 31,536,003 ; so God's year is longerthan man's jTearby 26,926,15 seconds.In the Qregorian calendar arrangement mianputs iil a11 extra day once in fonr years; soin tha t time he has 1,461 days. I11 fo~~lrf God'syears there a re 126,227,704.6 seconds. I n 1,461calendar days there are 12$3,230,400 seconds;so at the end of the fonr Sears man has horro~ved2,695.4 seconds from the future, to niake up forhis extra inse~ te d ay,Alter t~ve ntr -foul eap-year periods of fonryears each, lnan has l:orro~\-ed i~ ear lg day,Accordingly, 11-11cn the e ~ df the cenlary isreached, the leap year is usually omitted. Thenorlnal ce!ltnry of nlail, therefore, has in it 24leap years and 76 years that a re not leap years.The total of d a ~ sn such century is 36,534 days,amounting to 3,155,673,600 seconds. Ia onehundred of God's years E e has 3,f 55,692,615,


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seconds. At the end of a normal century, manhas not used in his calendar all the time thathas been made for his use, by 19,015 seconds.After four centuries, or rather, every fourthcentury, nian dincls it necessary to pnt in anextra leap year. These years, called quadri-centesimal years, go in at the end of suclz cen-turies as are divisible by 400. The next oiiewould be in the year A.D. 2000, but it will notbe needed. The Lord has a much better 1va.i.I11 four of man's centnries he has 146,097days: 97 leap days and 146,000 ordinary days.In seconds this amounts to 12,632,780,800. In400 of God's years there are 12 622,770,460 sec-onds; so at the end of each quaclricentes-imal period of 400 years the inan has againborrowed fro111 the future a ta tal of 10,340seconds.Another shift is necessary after eight qnadri-ceiltesimal periods. In that time man tvill hal-eborro\ved for his calendar 82,720 seconds thatdid not beloiig to him. This i s almost a da:-(there are 86,400 seconds in a daj7) ; according1;-a t this point no quadricentesimal leap day oc-curs. The net difference, then, in 3,203 :-earsainounts to 3,680 seconds, or 1 hour 1 nlillnte20 seconds. A further correction ~vould e necee-sary after 23 such 3,200-year periods; and soon indefinitely.

Project ing the Calendar Backward 3If the Gregorian calendar can be projectedforward it call also be projected Isacli~vasd; ndthis has been done in the accomp~~nyingllnstra-tion. The outline at the top (page 363) S ~ O T T - Sna general way the time of vernal equinox ofevery year from creation to date. Each centni.:-is in a little diamond-shaped section by itself,except where the quaclricentesinlal leap clapoccur, when two sections are merged ilz one.The latest date in each century when the eqni-nox could occur is named, and the earliest one.A lit tle careful study of t11e enlarged diagrams~e useeneath the outline will show horn to mapof the outline. The qnadriceiitesimal leap yearsare fourteen in number; that is, 4000, 3600,3200, 2800, 2400, 2000, 1600, 800,400, and I,B.C.,and A.D. 400, 800, 1200 and 1600. The year1200 B.C. is not a leap year, fo r the reason thati t is one of the correction places in the wholegeneral scheme, as has already been fully es-plained.In using the Gregorian calenidar betweencenturies removed from each other, it is neces-

sary hen finding how far apart any two ~qninoxes are, if one is in a century E.C. and oneis in an A.D. century, to rnnlre the total oiie yearless than that indicated by adding the yearstogether. In compnting time from a B.C. dateto a.n A.D. date the portion of the year that ha selapsed rvnst Ine taken i ~ l to onsideration. Thatthe exact nuniber of years is not to be had bysiniply adding B.C. and A.D. dates togelher, a sso~rleong supposed, can be immediately denioii-strated. In ilie spring of 1E.C. Christ was jhyear of age; He died 33 full years thereafter,but not in the spring of A.D. 32, as would be thecase if it were correct to acld B.C. and A.D.dates together: the 33 years were not up tilltlie spring of A.D. 33. If B.C. and A D . datesare addecl together, the total l iu mb ~r f years isone less than the sum thus olstained.

The year 4 B.C. is a leap year, though onlythree years away from the leap year of 1B.C.( a cluadricenltesimal pear) . This feature iss1io;vii in one of the diagrams ( C ) below theoutline.Ccllculating the Equinoxes: Problem 2Reference to the outline at the top of page 363shows that in the year 1935 A.D. the equinox ison tlie afternoon of Tliursday, JIarcli 21.* Tobe exact, it is at 52 seconds after 3:42 p.m.,Jernsalem time, which is the proper time basisto nee in all human affairs, for reasons to beexplained later. The time of eciniilos a t the75th meridian west, commonly called EasternStaidard Time, is 8: 18 a m , Idarch 21. Thisis 7 hours 24 minutes 52 seconcis later thanJe~asaleinime (used henceforth in calculatingtke equinoxes). Eillarged section of tjne last:-ears of the nineteenth centnrp and the rernain-ing years to date shows more fully the tiines ofeclzinoxesat Jerusalem in t!ie past century. Seethe diagram on opposite page for particulars.Jehovah's people have heretofore thoughtthey had good evidence to be li e~e hat kclam31-as created in 4128 (or fall of 4129) B.C., andProblem 1 is to ascertain tlie time of vernalecl~linox or t he year 4128 B.C. Reference tothe small outline a t top slioms it was in the morn-ing of March 21,4128 B.C. ; he enlarged section(12) of the first period after creation shows it\\-as very close to 10: 00 a.m. Exact ly whattime mas ii"Master chart, from which this greatly condensed outline vasdrarn, is 15 feet 3 inches long; on file at the Golden Ag eofhe, where it, may be seen on application,


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Eniargenent of section (A )showing tiine ofA t,rernal equinox f ~ iach noimal year (@)dnd lennyeer (o)of ills 4213o 4 0 t h centuries a.C..

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vernal equinox) fcr the CIPV yearsIESlB-f935;A.D. Mean lengthofyear, 3656 I! dey5,5 houq48minukes,46.15seconds,,,,, Is shown by stmi$ht horizoniaf line.;


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From 4128 B.C. to A.D. 1935 is not 6,063(4128f 935) years, but 6,062 (4128+1935-1)years. The nuniber of seconds in 6,062 solar years,God's years, is 191,298,086,321.3; in 2,214,098days, the total number of seconds is 191,298,-067,200.0. The difference is 19,121.3 seconds,tvhich is 5 hours 18 minutes 41.3 scconds; to befigured back froin (before) 3 hours 42 minutes52 seconds (3 :if2 52 ) p.m., the 11our of equinoxon March 21, A.D. 1935. The answer is tha t theequinox oil March 21, 4129 B.G., was at 10.7seconds afte r 10: 24 a.m. No~v ,what day ofthe week was it?

The 2,214,098 days f r o n ?!Iarc7i 21, 4128 B.C.,to March 21, A.D. 1935, are found as foll or~s( a ) Eac h of the 6,062 yearshad a t l ea s t 365 dnys . . . 6052x355 = 2,212.620(b) The 60 centuries hzd atleast 24 leap days ecch . . . 6 0 X 2 1 = 1,ilC)( c ) 14 quadrieentesirnal yearshad each a leap day . . . . . 1 4 X 1= 14(d ) 8 leap doys in tllc 20 t hcentury , . . . . . . . , . . . . 8 X 1= S( e ) 6 leap d3ys in the per icdbefore 4100 B.C. . . . . . . . . 6X 1= 6

Total number of days . . . . . . . . . 2,214.098Leap day for the year 4123 3.61. ~oulc l ot be

time of equinox varied from the mean whichthe astronomers have provided.ProblemNo.1 E.C. 4128 Sa t . 10 : 24 a.m, and 10.7 see., Blar. 2 12 '-028 Thu . 3 : 4 1 p.m. '' 5.7 " 2 13 " 2472 F r i . 12: 25 p.m. " 5 . 1 " " 2 11 (.' 2372 Wed. 5 : 4 1 p.m. " 50.1 " " 205 " 2045 " 110:30 p.m. " 21.15 " " 2 16 " 1945 Tue. 3 : 48 a.m. " 56.15 " " 2 17 " 1920 F r i , 5 : 08 a.m. " 9.9 " " 208 " 1615 Sa t . 2 : 0 1 a.m. " 5.65 " '' 2 19 " 115.75 " 6 : 3 1 p.111, " 51.65 " ' ' 2,

Ir) 1515 T l x . 7 : 06 a.m. " .E5 " " 2 111 " 1475 " 11:5 s p.m. " 46.65 " " 2 112 " 1469 F r i . 3 :39 p.21. " 51.12 ' ' " 2 113 " 1035 '": 27 p.m. " 1.3.65 " " 211-4 " 1028 S u n . 6 :08 a.m. " 3.5.7 " " 2115 228 T~~~ 1 2 : 3 1 p.m. l i L.? 0 a ( l 2 2-15 " 7t.5 Mono 7 : 1 0 p.m. " 1 . 5 " z217 " 6 a l Thu . 11:42 p.m. " 15.75 " " 'E1 8 " '60 F r i . 5 : 20 a.m. " 2-1.85" " 2 11 9 " 53 7 Mon. 4 : 1 4 a.m. " 15.35 " " 2220 " 4C8 Tuc. 9 : 2 1 p.m. 110 ' ' 2 12 1 " 455 Thu . 12 : 53 a.m. " 19.65 " " 2 1$g t i 3 Sa t . 12: 16 p.m. " 59.45 " 2 123 S . U . 92 Tne. 9 : 33 p.m. " 45.5.5 " " 2024 33 S u n . 11 :53 p.m. " 51.7 ' ( " 2 125 " 1879 Fri. 2 : 11a.m. " 47.5 " " 21counted, a s the verna l eclninox is iiot as far IIRC!< 26 " 9884 Tliu. 7 : 15 a.m. " 38.35 " " 220in the year as the point at \vhic:1 the leap d a ~ 7 " 1914 Sa t . 1:33 p.m. 4 2 . ~ ~ 5 ' 9 1occurs. (::inns 1 4 min.)

Another method of a,rriving a t the same re- 28 '"9918 Thu. 12: 53 p.m. " 47.2-,5 ea., R'lar. 21( ~ 2 i n n s 4 min.)snlt is to take the number of leap years (l4CS) 29 " 1922 Tue. 12: 08 p.m. " 52.05 set., Msr. 2 1and multiply by 366; and then, deducting t h e (pius 2 min . )ninniber of leap years from the total of 6063 30 ( 1 1926 sun.11:23 a.me " 56.65 Mar. 2 1(6062-3 468=4594), multiply the result by 355, !ml!?i~s. 9 rnin.)as f 0110~17s1,468 leap years ; 146SX366 = 537,2834,594 conlmon years; 4594x365 = 1,676,810

Total number of days 2,214,095I n 2,214,098 days there are 316,299 weeks a::d5 days. I11 the year 1935 the 21st of Marc11 fal lson Thursday. In 4128 B.61. the 21st of 191arc11fell five days earlier in the week, which day isSaturday. Therefore, the vernal equinox of4128 6. 6 . fell on Saturday, a t 10: 24: 10.7 a.m.The Result 09' Some Ca l c u I~ t i o n sUsing exactly the saiile method as above, butwithout going over all the operations, the neststep in order is to give a considerable list ofvernal equinox dates, in the past, and thepresent. Aft er A.D. 1886 there is given a plusor minus number of minutes by which the actual

3 1 " 1931 Sat,. 4 : 27 p.m. " 47.4 sec., ?;Tar. 2 132 " 1932 Sun. 10: 16 p.m. " 33.55 s ~ . ,lar. 2,0(p lu s 1min.)Notes on th e Above Prsblents:Problems Kos. 2, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22,present the same features as Problein No. I,and ar e solved by taking similar steps.Problems 25, 27, 29, 29, 30, nre siniilar toProblem 1, but, being 1~7110lly~vitliin he A.D.period, the years tha t intervene zxe ascertainedby subiracting the year in question from theyear 1935. All other steps are the same as forKO.I.Problems 5, 16, 17, 20, 21, 31, axe simi1z.r toProblem 1,but fractions ar e large and must bewatched; in each of these instances there a resufficient hours in the fractional days to lnalrethem count as complete days.


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Problems 4, 7, 9, 10 , f I, 23, 24, 26, 32, show 1928, Ma rch 20, 11: 10 p.m. Se pfember 23, 9 : 31 a.m.the vernal equinox for the desired year falls on 1929, " 2 1 . 5: 00 a .m, " 2 3 , 3 : l a p . m .March 20. By this trick of the calendar one full 1930, " 21, 10: 55 '" " 23, 9 : 0 2 "day is lost, a~ldmust be accounted for in the lg31, " 21, 4 :32p .m. " 24, 2 :49a.m.answer. This is clearly seen in Problem 26. The " 20, :l9 " " 23, 8 : 4 1 6 '1933, '"1 4 :08 a.m.18,627 days involved a re 2,661 weeks (fractions 1934, ,' 21, 9: 53 " 23, 2 : 26 p.m.in the problem being too small to affect the '' 2 3 , S : 1 1 "answer). &larch 20,I935,4,D., is T$Tednesday. ~ 4 ~ e r a g ea te , ve rna l: Karch 21 ,7 :41: 32 a.m.One migl1t infer rom this that the equilloctial Average date , autumilal i Sept einber 23, 6 : 18 :50 p.m.date of March 20 in the year 188.1:A.L). Average t ime, verna l equ inox fo ~ w ar d o au tumna lis an even number of weeks ax-a? from the equi- equinox, 18 6 d. 10 h. 36 m. 18 see.lloctial date of 1935 A.D.) TI-ould also be on a. Average time, autumnal equinox fonvard to vernalJvednesday, but it is on a Thursday (the sanie equinox, inelnding the th ree leap days , in theas in 1935). (See diagram [B] page 363.) 12 years , 178 d. 19 11. 23 rn. 42 see.Problems 15, 19, s h o ~he vernal equinox for As some l,vill be interested at this point tothe desired year falls on SLarch 22, instead of consider them, two small items are now slightlythe 21st. By this trick of the calendar one full anticipated in the following summary:

day is borrowed, and nlnst be accounted for in Nelv moon rose SepteEber 22, 4129the answer. These tvo prol ~le n~s ,ike those in B.c,, at g :23 :27.594592the paragraph last above, require close reason- ~~~~~~~lquinoxras 54% hours later, T ~ ~ing. day, September 24, 4129 B.C., a t 2 :52 p.m.To aid s tudents of these p~oblellls here is h'ev mooll rose Tuesday, Ifarc11 11,4128 B.C.,published, on pages 368, 369, a calendar from at 12: 47: 44.694448gmacreation to date, occupj-iap t~i-oall pages of TheGolde % Ag e , and grea.tl~- impIi6-ing the arriv- Vernal eyuiilox was 94 hours la ter, Satnrda,y,ing at correct dates in :lie renlote past, hot11 as March 21, 4128 B.C., at 10:24: 10.7 a.m.to the ,jagTs of the nlolldl ancl 8s to the days of DO ally of Jehovah's ~'


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TT;'hen this little old lady was found she \ventinto ecstasies over the messages she had heard.Explaining her environment, and that she couldlive with her children in Xe1.v Yorl; city and inPhiladelphia, if she chose, she said, "I prefer tolive here, like a gypsy, in the illidst of Cocl'sbouquets." The frost had just touched the haresof the forest, tinting them ~ i t holors that beg-gar descriptiol~.

EIols~ inch more God loves beauty ! Ar:d h o ~ ~nmcli the most beautiful things of Xis crextiuiiare all a little diff erent from one another ! Vhenmen try to mnke things beautiful they i r ~onlelie thein ail alilie.

Yo two flo~~ersn a flower garden were everesacily alike; no two roses on a rose hush, n otwo petals on a rose. rlmillion new-born infant.can be fingerprinted, or a billion of them, or tefibillion, for that matter, and no two sets offin~erprints~villbe the sa.me. And thus o wcomes to a conisideration of Cod's beantit'vJmonths, 13;s lovely, exquisite n~ontl is, hat t h eIllore they ar e stt~clieci, he Illore they are to 11eadmired, because, v-liile all subs tan ti all^ alike.they are all slightly different,A Study of God's Months

The word "mor:t'il" co ae s from the n-or:!"moon"; God's months were all arranged fnrhefore man appeared on the earth. I t is nlau'aproper place to inclnire humbly at God's feet re-spectirig the ~ ~ o r i ~f His hands; it is not mnn'sright to discard things ~vhichGod has mzde f o rIl is government, nor to substitute o t h e~ s ntheir place.

"And God said, Let there be lights in tilefiririament of the heaven, to divide the day f n1the night; and let them be for signs, ancl forseasons, and fo r days, and y e a ~ s : nd let thelllbe for lights in the firrnar~~entf the heaven, togive light. upon the ear th: and it mas so. AiidGod made two great lights; the greater lightto rule the day, and the lesser light to rale thenight: he made the s tars also. And Gocl setthen1 hi the firmament of the heaven, to givelight upon the earth, and to rule over the da:-ancl over the night, and to divide the light fromthe darkness : and G-od saw that i t mas good."(Genesis 1:14-18) Herein is the first reference$0 the moon in the Scriptures.

Even though the moon had not been men-tioned a t all in Gods Word, man would be com-pelled to take note of it; it is too conspicnous i;l

the lieavelis t~ be ignored; and too beautiful;and too useful.Satan has endeavored to get men to holdGc3's month a:~d it s iiistrnlnent the riloon in

lit tle esteem; lieilce the terms "lunacy", "luna-tip3D cnoon-struck," and terms of similar import.The cpostle does indeed say, "Let no man tliere-fore jv.dce yon in meat, or i n dril;!;, or in respectcf an holy clay, or of [feasts celel~rat ing] henev,- lmool:, or of the sabbath dwys ; TI-hiehare a~i~aclornf thj.ngs to come; ba t t.he body is ofChrist." (Coloseirns 2 : 16 , 17) But this is farfrom urging me11 to set gside the plain state-~le:itof God's 'iTTolil thnt God "c?y?oi:l!;ed themcon for seasoils" (EPsalm 104: 1.9), rnoiithlyseasons beiilg lnal~ifest'ly hat is here meant."A P.siM%ul8.i/itngss in g e a c e ~ "

I t is true thet the prophet Isaiah lxi:?ys themeesr.ge to an idolatrous and rebellions people,"Tonr new nlooils a i d y o ~ xpyointed feast,smyC O U I liateth" (Isaiah 1:14), but that does notchange the fact that tlzc prophet Ezekiel writesof ':1x fntnre ofYerii~gs f '(the prince" which ar eio take placc "in thi: new moons". See Vi?zdicnt ! ' ~ ? ! ,ook Three, pages 287,.293, 295? for com-me:its and explanetions on references to the1:;eiI- lncjons in Ezekiel 45 :17; 4 4 :1,3, 6. Thesenlii? not be igizored OF set aside.

Tliongli Isaiah llle~ltions n the first chapterGod's disgust with Israel's hypocritical observ-ences of the uev moons, he saj-s in the next tothe last verse of his prophecy: "And if; shall~01112 o pass! th at from one iie~-?loon to al~ot herarld from one sabbath to a~:other, el!all all fleshc o x e to ~vorsh ip efore me, saith [Jehovah] ."(Isniali 66: 23) Of course, tha.t is afte r the on-coxling battie of Srniageddon has doile its W O T ~of clestroying Satan's organization, and thee2rth has been cleansed of all its de~!ements.

Khen the psalmist said, ' T h e n I consider . .the moon" (Psnhn S :3), he mea~ lthat he reallyclicl consider it . Especially sigilifizant is hisstatelllent of David's seed, th at "it shall heestablished for ever as the moon, and as a faith-fnl ~~;it.nessn heaven". (Psa lm 89 : 37) Theno on is, indeed, a faithful ~vitaessn heaven, a~~-i tnesshose testimony cannot be gainsaid.It is the voice of God, spenkiiig throughNoses, that n~entionshe "yrecious things thrustforth by the moons". (Deuteronoliiy 33:14,l izn.i-git2) 1Vlia.t so n~e f t.hose precious thingsar e it i s now the privilege of Jehovah's wit-


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nesses zlld their conpaniocs f i ~he chariot ofJehovah's organization to see and unde~stanc?.Indeed, it is even possil~!e that there may besome direct reference to these p~eeent=lfolpd-i n w s of trnth that God had ifi mfnd. ~~~he7 2e

?sald o::' his day S1la-i; "the ligh~t f ';he mool; sl;ajlka 7ile 2s light O f the snll".-rsn+& 33 : 26.. oAnjq~:ay,it lvas In;ait.::-. i:.-ise of G Q ~ et a- .second hand. in His i~mepixe ,nd to :sat it c:atthere in the si ~ y39,000 ~ r l l e . r.,T::ap, f a r efi3~:g11m a y t@a,t jl n tl.ieo!~gia~sc-.:~ldn o t gee at itio miill it, y;Il~ch t';_?;- i>,-o~~]dare;y

e ,dolie 11 they had beell a5le t o so do. ?ei. of days, nor ofan equal n~~ i; l>e rf hoilrs, aor of an equal nuill-ber of minntes, nor of an erpcl amnber of scc-

. 7 , .aids. &Ian122s 110 rlgil'i TO 1gcs;e these monthsof God. It is his duty t o nnmber them, and tomark them me!l as tlxy go, and to use then] toGod's praise, bni, no t to endeavor t o force themto begin 7i~l;here he years begin or to end ~ i ~ l ~ e r eth! years end.Is it necessary to s t a t a n237 ye2,r 011 July 4,or Thaaksgiviilg Dny, or Cnristn~as, r Wash-ington's Birthds.2-! or Lincoln's Bil-thdayt Notat all. Each of Jek o~ai l's ears properly beginsat a certain p o i ~ t ,lmd, enough, atthe beginning of a specific clay, as in the caseof the monllis, l x t ii eitli e~ he years nor thelnontils nor t,he ~~-ee!;s eed to be inc cc o~d x-actly, nor are t!xy in accord except by man'segotistic and destractive acts.The days in the mmths of God are cever lessthan 29; a.nd they zra never niore than thirty.There is a snre c?ilc! proper methsd of detarlniii-ing how many da::.-s the month fihoulri have.Jeho~~a l io3 fixed ibe n~e thod.$Ie so arrangedand ordered all th e details conaeeted with thesacrifice of I-lis on-n dear Sol1 that. that event, offirst ilxporla~~cen history, occurred at Jern-salein on the fonrteenth day of the month, v.-!lei1the rnoon xas a t it s full. Tile fonrteenth dayof each month, therefore, is 'chat day of theillo~ith when tke moon f s f n ll over Jeru-salela. That automatically makes Jerusalem,not, Qreen~~ich,he time center of the eart'h.

m;be we ek are for mail, bat they are of God,a,ndno mall rniiSr c.llange the arra11gemer:t which


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PROJECTION OF TH E GREGORlAN GALENDAR BACK TO CREATIORTable Shmvino that Data Fal l ing on Sunday in 4128 B.C. wil l , in 1935 A.D.. 6,062Years Later, Fal l an Friday (Leap year columns are in light-faced t y p e )

Fr Sa Sn Fdo We Th Fr Sa Pho Tu We Th Sa 5u Mo Tu Th Fr Sa Su Tu We Th F r Su Mo Tu We Fr Sa Su Mo We Th Fr Sa Mo Tu We Th Sa Su Mo TI! Th Fr Sa Su Tu We Th F r 5 0 Mo Tu We4128 KC . -4101 B.C.4100 B.C..4001 B.G.4028 .G.4000 .C.-3901 B.C.

2 4 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 1 6(4100 B.C. s nol. a leap gear)84 53 82 81 80 79 75 77 7656 55 54 53 62 51 50 49 4828 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20(4000 B.G. is a lcap ycar)4 0 0 0 91 98 97 93 95 94 93 9272 71 70 69 6 8 67 66 65 6444 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 361 6 15 14 13 1 2 11 10 09 04

B.C..E.C.

B.C..C.C.

n.c..E.C.

5.C.-D.C.

KC:B.C.

(lC30 U.C. is no t a96 Si 94 93 '3368 67 66 65 6 44 0 39 38 37 3612 11 10 09 0s

(900 O.C. is not a00 9, 98 97 9672 71 70 9 6s14 43 42 41 4010 15 14 13 1 2

leap year)91 90 5963 62 61

leap year)93 94 9367 66 6539 38 3711 10 G9(GOO B.C. 1s a leap

b9 87 86 85 84GO 59 58 57 56dZ 31 J O 29 180 1 03 C.2 01

(3930 6.C is not a lean year)

(700 B.?. is not a33 91 90 89 3964 03 E2 61 i036 35 34 ' 3%08 G 06 0:) 04(COO B.G. is t ~ c t06 !5 4 93 9 1G8 67 66 65 0 140 39 33 C2 3G12 11 10 09 0 8

3800 B.C.-3701 B.C. (3800 B.C. is no t a leap year) 008 0 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 7252 51 50 49 48 47 46 15 4484 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 163700 ex.-3601 B.C. (3700 B.C. is not a leap year)84 83 82 51 YO 79 '16 77 7 656 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 4838 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20- - - - -. . ." ."". ,"-., .- .3501 B.C. 00 9'j 93 97 91; 95 9 4 93 32 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 :4 83 g:! :(I !I() 79 7s 77 76 75 74 79 401 LC. I l t I $3 9: $;-!I> -9j-: .i)! 1{1 ! 1 79 71s 77 71; 75 74 73 73 51 70 69 iS 67 66 65 64 63 62 617G 75 71 73 ' i : ! 71 70 69 (i s 67 66 8l.i I ; ! I' j' J I 161 I:II . ' , I ' ~ 887 !,I, ' , ' I ! !>:!2ml ~ ~ l l1,) (ill ',-I ' 8 1 1 !>I; ';', 5.1 '1; !,:! .';I 10 117 , IS '11 46 45 1.1 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 3 6 35 34 33


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2600 6 .C. -2501 B.C. (2600 B.C. is no t a le a p y e a r ) nn A 8.GO - (A.D. 503 is nrn a leal1 ~8 8 1 . ) On 01 !2 03 0 4 05 C5 07 0 8 C9 1 0 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19A.D. r59 29 2L 2;; 23 3J 25 E& 27 23 29 30 31. 32 33 34 35 36 37 33 39 40 41 42 43 41 45 46 4748 49 fO 5 1 53 55 54 55 GG 57 58 59 on 6 1 62 63 6-1 65 66 67 65 69 70 7 1 72 73 74 7576 71 73 79 Xi) 51 02 GZ 83 85 86 87 SH G9 90 91 93 93 54 95 96 97 9 8 SYA.D. 600- t A . 0 . COL' is nnt a Ic o n yc 0 0 G1 02 03 0 4 05 06 07 08 C9 1 0 11 12 13 14 15A.D. 699 lfi 17 18 19 20 21. 2 2 23 21 25 26 27 %S 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 0 41 42 434! 45 46 4 7 48 49 50 51 a2 53 54 55 56 57 53 59 GO 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 7173 73 74 35 T tj 77 73 79 8, ) 5 1 82 83 8 4 82 36 87 88 89 90 91 92 33 94 95 96 97 98 99

2500 B.C.-2401 B.C.

2400 B.C..2301 B.C.

(2500 U.C. is no t a lc a p y e a r )84 83 82 81 8 0 79 78 77 7656 55 54 53 52 51 50 47 4828 27 26 25 26 23 22 21 20 A .D . 700- (A.0. 700 'it not, a reap y ? x r ) 0 0 01 C2 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11A.D. 739 13 13 14 15 lii 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 34 25 26 27 2 8 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 86 37 38 3940 41 42 43 4 4 45 45 7 4s 49 50 51 5 3 53 54 55 66 57 58 LY 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67(:S 62 70 71 7 % 73 7.3 75 'iti 27 78 79 SO 8 1 %2 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 9 1 92 93 94 95$1 5 7 3 99(2400 U.C. is a l e a p y e a r )0 0 99 98 97 06 95 91 93 9272 71 70 69 G8 67 66 65 0444 43 42 41 4 0 39 38 37 3616 15 14 13 13 1110 09 OX A.D. ROO- (A.D. 800 is a I~;II y e w )A.D. 89 ( 1 8 1 nl. 02 03 02 05 06 07 0s 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2.3:!I 75 :!5 27 :!;! 2'5, ?,I I1 ::? 33 34 35 ::I; 3 7 33 39 -10 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 4 8 49 50 51

5:: 5 4 '.1 ',5 1.1; !,? 5: : .,9 (;I! 61 62 G3 1 65 66 67 (is 69 70 71 $2 73 74 75 7 6 77 78 79hll :$.I I?:! 83 . ' \I 8.5 A :;I :! :'9 90 9 1 !:293 94 95 DG 97 98 992300 K C . -2201 B.C. (2300 B.C. is no' a le a p y c a r )00 99 ? 8 97 !Ill7fi 75 71 73 72 71 70 63 1184 8 17 46 'I5 44 43 42 41 4 02 0 19 18 17 10 15 14 13 12 n.11 r q c ? - tn .)~ . 0 0 i I~C I I a I!.:IIB czir) II O 1x1 o? u3 0 1 05 06 07 (IS 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19A.1. !XY ::I! > 'I :! :i:i 21 21; : G 27 :::: 29 30 31. ::2 33 31 35 ::ii37 35 37 4 0 41 42 43 4 1 45 46 47

1%; .:') '11 ',:I 6:: 5 : ' j .1 55 : ,I; 57 9 1 59 (;I1 61 62 63 cil 65 G6 67 6 8 69 70 71 72 73 74 757li il 5 '79 Sl l 81 12 C3 3 1 85 86 87 S! i t 9 9 0 9 1 ! 93 54 95 96 97 98 594.R I W f l - (A .5. I 003 ir 11~11, I C : ~OV ) 00 0 1 02 0 3 0 1 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15A.0. TL39 Ill 17 18 1:) :40 2 1 2% 23 "1 25 26 21 38 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 0 41 42 434 1 45 46 47 $8 49 50 5 1 i:!3 5-! -55 56 57 58 59 Go 61 62 63 6.1 65 66 67 6 8 69 70 7172 73 74 75 7( j 77 78 79 8 0 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 58 69 90 9 1 82 53 94 95 96 97 98 99

(2200 U C. is nn t a leap y e a r ) 008 0 79 76 77 7C 75 74 73 7252 51 0 47 4 3 47 46 15 4 124 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16

2100 B.C.-2001 B.C.

2000 K C . -1901BC

(2100 B . C . i s no t a le a p y e a r )8 1 83 82 01 8 0 79 78 / I 7656 55 54 53 52 5 1 50 49 4 828 27 26 25 34 23 22 21 200 0 99 98 9 7 96 95 91 93 !I!?1 90 89 RS 87 86 8575 74 73 72 7 1 70 C9 68 67 65 65 ii! 63 C 2 61 Cil 9Y 5: :747 46 45 4 4 43 $2 4 1 40 19 35 27 Zf i r5 34 33 32 31 50 2919 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 1110 09 08 07 06 05 0 4 93 62 U1 h.0. 110 0- (A.D. 11.03 i s not a lc a p y c a r ) 0 0 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 0 8 09 10 11A.D. 11.9 'I2 13 14 15 16 17 1 ; 1'; 2 0 21 22 23 2 4 25 26 27 38 29 39 3 1 33 33 31 35 36 37 38 3940 41 42 43 41 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 5 2 53 54 55 56 57 53 '9 00 61 62 63 64 65 66 6768 69 70 71 72 13 74 75 7 6 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 SS 89 90 91 92 93 94 95

98 ! 9 59(2000 B.C. is a lc a p y e a r )00 92 93 97 06 95 94 93 0272 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 B P44 45 42 41 4 0 39 38 37 3016 15 14 13 1 2 11 10 69 0 8(1900 B.C. i s no t a leap y s a r )00 93 28 91 9676 75 74 73 72 7 1 52 69 681 8 47 46 45 44 43 $2 41 4020 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12

A D. 7200. ( A D. 12CO a a leap y e a r )A.D. 1249 r7 0 1 (12 C3 04 05 CE 07 0 8 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 25 27 2Y 29 33 31. 23 3.3 34 35 :6 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 18 49 50 5153 53 54 55 6G 51 53 59 60 61 62 63 6 4 65 66 67 GS 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 16 77 78 7980 61 E2 23 8 1 85 ZG 87 8 5 b9 90 91 92 93 94 95 36 97 96 991900 B.C.-1801 B.C.

1860 6.C.-1701 B.C. (1800 B.G. is not a lc a p y e a r ) 0080 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 7252 51 LO 49 4 6 47 46 45 4 424 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 A D. 1lot a le a ? y ? a r ) 0 0 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 0 8 09 10 11A.2. i5 1 3 13 1 15 1G 17 i' 1'; 20 21 F 23 24 25 B 27 2s 29 30 N 1 33 34 35H ? 73 11.6.- li; *hc,?i~y b - : ~ . k 3511 B.C.-lh tt;,u?!::li3s lirth. R 3098 B.C.-Adam's death. E 3041 0.C.-7 :'I ii.:..::::lted. El 2::3 I3.C.---C:"m3s b i r t h . D 2373 [I.!'.-Dc!l;ga a:ld lil: thuse#ah's d:st ll. C 1945 K C . -: i:r.t u;i:il A b r ~ , a , ' l . 1 1 2 0 n.?--lsxc's tirlli. 52 1870 B.C.-Shorn's dtat lt . X 1515 B.C.-Exodus.J 147; tf.C.-.Cr3::illq Jori1.n. U 1469 l3.C.-Judals bccin. 53 1119 6 .C. - Sa u l e n t l~r o n e d . Y 1035 0.G.-1 Ki:;gs 6: 1 ,y . 0 1023 B.".- !!onne P a i s h i d . Dd 1027 0 .C. - Dzd lc a l io n . Hz 745 D.C.--HczcLinIl. V 64 1 B.C.--" . ...,. . . I .:ii cr:at r?::;c:r. G 607 5.C.-Gzntile T i m e s b:nin. G2 537 0 .C. - Ed ic t of Cy r u r . Ez 468 B.G.-Ezra.Nh 455 B.C.-Nohen!inh. 3 B.G.-LGGOS comes. BJ A.D. 12-Boy Jesus in t e mp le . R A.D. 33-Year of Ra n s o m.Z 1879--iio!1's W a t c h T o w e r h"sun. \V 1854--:"atcli T o w s r Eihl. 8 T r a c t S o c i e t y i n c o l n w a t e d . K 1914-.Kingr e t s m s . T 1 9 1 3 -T c m p l c . F 1922-Anaintlng of a l l flesh. B 192G--Time of blessednars. N 1931-New n a me .P 1932-Sanctuary oeansed.

1200 U.G.-1101 B.C. (1200 B . 6 . is no t a lc a p ? a r )8 8 81 86 E5 8.1 83 L;2 3 1 SO60 53 i8 57 56 55 54 53 6232 31 30 W 28 27 26 Z 2104 03 02 01

PO 43 P ' 3: 36 35 94. 93 6 91 9 : - o79 78 77 7~ 75 74 13 11 ? :!I (;>ic;/ c i5 i: f.: 62


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LUNATIOSS UBFZEZISG I N THE YEARS OR PEEIOCS TTyILICRCONTATS TIlE MOST LIPORTANT ETENTS O FI-IISTOI;',Y, STATED I N TERIiIeIS O F TEE G;IESOXI.iS L'-'ILESDAR, "LND ASTROXOXI69LLP EXACT

( I n i k e d a t e s r i t rd kl:a ai e also f i r ~a l y s i s f t :?e Ticc C c n t c n tc i t e d csrtiiin other l 'a t:s , p, , iO? t o or' th r il:ts;i.ci~? Eo?r,s Aeaiysis ofVsrfial Ejeir!os i:e. ZC3, hither to liiter. I s i e r . Frsctic- of v i e : , Days in Inter-much held in ertrss:) vening vecinu W e e k s at E s d s P::i:; Ve!iiso Maor>s S e r i a l s a:,d To? SIartirg vdith tho Mow l o o n Near-B.6. Date #. L Second Yrs. loons & 7th~ . H. I-:. %??ribs Irrtrizi Lp. c s i t h e V ~ i o a lEqei;;ox far the Ysa: 4028 B.6.4123 Se Sp 2% 2 23 27.504538 11 6 25.2 2 4 23 19.155515 176 Ir Ve?n kasz r

4125 Tu Mr 17 12 47 74.694448 P 100 1237 5219-3 3 8 11 3.973312 36505 2 1 Easi Xi:3ni!1 W;sBs D:gs Total Seconds4025 Fr MT 22 8 54 46.65375 P 1556 13245 811.5s-1 0 4 22 55.4E3-12 567911 376

nLl!ue sl!o:r-n in each casz is Jerusalem time, 7 hours 20 ~ns 52 seconds earlier than Ezstem Staudar d time. Eachcrlcu!ation was checkeci to the one preceding aud th e oc? f,-'ll-jn.ing! zd in every instance wit11 the 1035 AD. dates!lon.n, with ~ h i c l l greement is exact. The rxrintions r,? a 11 c ci e f g: nmol~nting esp ect i~ el~o :,bout 8, 10, 14,4 i , 10, 15, acci 3 lloure, after calcuiations extellding eyer 6.rt:jJ year-, ar e nclt due to an x errors i n the calculationstllen~sclrt.~!ilt to variations froin the mean Innation; ez:.lnined in fnll in its propzr place. i n figuring eclipses s l~ lc lotl?!.r geriocis astronomer's calculate the mean time ber1rf;.3 lunations as 25514~3.864370seconCs. (Th eir method ia t oes1)ress the t h e in &ys and decimals thereof, but the req.ilr? are the salile either \my.) These figures, astronom-icnllj- csact to a millionth of a second, are used in all tlie a i o w ca!culetions.

God made. KOman may alter the number of d a yin a week; in ihess days (since the French R e ~ o -lukion calendar fiasco) none but, a theologian,~vic.ithhnge coiiceit and no reverence for God.1s-ould contemplate for a llloment such an act ofpresu.mption, RIan may nn:i~ber his meelisthere is no harm in so doing. Since God is sogood as to give them, it wonld seem that, atleast once a ;-ear, nian iiiight take note of theirnumber.Learning Something Absnt God's Months

I t seenls strange that maa's mo~ ilhs hould 11.uso different from God's months, that the tn70kinds of months could be going along steadilvside by side, overlapping each other, etc., aadyet most people know nest t o nothing about theparticular liilld of months t h a t God providedfor the noctnrl:al government of the earth.On page 371 begins a lnnaiion experience table,

earefally coll~pilecifrom recolZs in the NewTor!< Public Library, covering the fLty grenrsfrom 1886 to date. The nioons are here num-1,ei.ecI by The Goldeqz Age, the o:?e for .Ja;ln-2 s ~ -, 1836, beil;g nunbe red 73131: th r ea f t e rtile:- are in sequence dotvn to 73761, ;he nn~nbeof the lmintion for December 13, 1936, w5ich isa s far a s the compilaiion goes. This table is inJercsalem time, 7 hours 24miimtes 52 secondscr,;Iier than Eastern Standard time. I t is quite?elf-espl~natory.God's months are of 29 or 30clay each; their moons rise at \-asions times oftile day or night, o:~ nriaus days in "iie \y;eeB,as specified in the first eight colmllns, the tebleeoficluding vith the daies grouped under theTT-ord Actual".The (h e a n lunation" is nliiversaily agreed byasti.onomers to be 29.530588715 days. Ot he rwi ~stated, this is 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes2.864976 seconds; or it may be stated altogether


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Lnnation Experience TabIe, Jerusalem Time(Terusalein time is 2 hours 25 minutes* earlier [faster] than Greenwich; or 7 hours25 minutes earlier than Ea ste rn Standard time. To get Jerusalem time, therefore, add7 hours 25 minutes t o Eastern Standard time.) (*24 minutes 52 seconds)

Campared Campared Compared ComparedM i x with next with Mean li ns. with next with Mean

Actual Mean o : .~ Slsw Fajt Slow Fast Actlal Mean over Slow Fast Slow FastMoon Days Date Time Data Time 29 Ds hr mi hr mi hr mi hr mi Maon Days Date Time Date Time 29 Ds hr mi hr mi hr mi hr mi1886 A.D. 1890 A.D.

73131 30 Tu Jan 5 10:13am Tu Jan 5 7:31pm 1170 646 9 18 73181 29 Tu Jan 21 2:18am Tu Jan 21 8:l lam 639 2 05 5 5373132 30 Th Feh 4 5:43am Th Feb 4 8: l j -m 1130 666 2 32 73182 29 We Feb 19 12:57pm We Feb 19 8:55pm 633 2 11 7 5873133 29 Sa Mar 6 1233am Fr Mar 5 8:59pm 586 3 42 3 3 4 73183 30 Th Mar 20 1130pm Fr Mar 21 9:39am 665 1 3 9 10 0973134 30 Su Apr 4 4:59pm Su Apr 4 9:?3cm 792 28 7 16 73184 29 a Apr 19 10:35am Sa Apr 19 10:23pm 733 31 11 4873135 29 Tu Rlay 4 6: llam l o a y 3 10:2:pm 613 2 3 1 7 4 4 73165 30 Su May lS l :4 8~ m W o May 19 11:07am 819 55 12 1973136 30 Wo Jun 2 4:24pm We jun 2 11 :l la m 491 433 51 3 73186 30 Tu Jun 17 12:27pm Tu Jun 17 11:51pm 892 2 08 112473137 29 Fr Jul 2 12:35am Th Jul 1 l :5 5p n 440 5 24 40 73187 29 Th Jui 17 3:19am Th Jul 17 123:pm 930 2 46 9 1673138 29 Sa Ju131 7:55am Sa Ju! 31 12:39pm 413 5 16 44 4 73188 30 Fr Aug 15 6:49pm Sa Aug 16 1:19am 933 2 49 6 3073133 29 Su Aug 29 3:23pm Mo Aog 30 1:23am 564 4 20 10 00 73189 30 Su Sep 14 10:22am Su Ssp 14 2:03pm 912 2 28 3 4173140 30 Mo S E ~7 11:47pm Tu Seg 25 2:07pm 597 2 47 14 20 73190 29 Tu Oct 14 1:34am Tu Oe t 14 2:47am 873 1 4 9 1 473141 29 We Oct 27 9:44a111 Th Oc 28 2:j lam 723 41 17 07 73191 30 We Nov 12 4:07pm We Nw 12 3:31pm 813 49 3673142 ?O Th ,Nov25 9:49pm Fr Nou25 3:35pm 877 1 5 3 17 48 73192 23 Fr Den 12 5:40am Fr Dee 12 4:15am 734 30 1 2 573143 30 Sa Dec 25 12:24pm Su D~c.25 4:19.-m 1027 4 24 15 5573144 30 M J Jan 24 5:31am 83 Jln 24 5:03gm 1119 5 55 1132 1831 A.D.

29 We Feb 23 12:lOam30 Th Mar 24 6:39pm30 Sa Apr 23 11:22am29 Mo May23 1:3jam29 Tu Jun 21 1:22pm30 We Jul20 11:l jpm29 F Aug 19 8:CDam30 Sa Sep 17 4:29pm29 e n oct 17 1Oam29 Tu Nov 15 10:3Bam30 We Dec 14 11:51pm30 Fr Jan 13 11:08am

29 su FC S 12 2:22am30 Mo hlar 12 6:51pm30 We Apr 1111:37am29 Fr May11 3:53am30 Sa Jun 9 7:OQpm29 ruo Jul 9 8:46an130 Tu Aug 7 E :%PX29 Th Sep 6 7:26am30 Fr Oe 5 5:04pn29 su Nov 4 232am29 hlo DC C 3 1231m30 Tu Jan l l:37pnl

1857 A.D.W e Feh 23 5:47amTh Mar 24 6:3l pmSa Api 23 7:lSams u l a y22 7:SCpmTu Jun 21 8:43zmWe Jnl 20 9:27;!11Fr Aug 19 l3 :l la mSa Se p 17 10:jjpmMa Oc 17 11:39am\e l l o b 16 12:23zmTh Dcc 15 1:07pmSa Jan 14 1: j lam

1538 A.D.Su Fet 12 2:3jpmTu Mar13 3:19em\lie Api 11 4OmFr M?jr 11 '?:?TamSa Jnn 9 5:31pmMn Jul 9 6:15amTu Aug 7 6:59pmTh Stp 6 73amFr ect 5 S:27pmSu A 4 9:l lamE n Dzc 3 9:55pmTu Jan 2 103:an

iZ89 A . D .73169 30 Th Jan 31 11:393m Th Jan 31 11 :23p l73170 29 Sa Mar 2 12:3Gam Sa Mar 2 12:37pm73171 30 Su Bar 31 2:CSpm hi0 Apr 1 2:Slam73172 29 Tu Apr SO 4:34ae: Tu Apr30 1:35pm73173 30 We May 29 7:49pm Ti: hia! 30 2:192n73174 30 Fr Jun 23 11:23am We lcn 29 3:C39n73175 29 Su Jul 28 2:30am Sx 121 23 3:4;am73176 30 Mo Aug 26 4:29pm hlo A ug 25 4::lpm73177 29 We Sep25 5:llam We St925 5 : - -~ a n73138 30 Ti1 0ct24 4:55pm Th O it24 5::9pm73179 29 Sa Wov23 4:13am Sa H c v B 6:43am73130 30 Su Dec 22 3:21pm Su Dccl?. 7:27pm

Sa Jan 10 5:54pmBo Fe b 9 4:41amTu hlar 10 2:lOpmWe Apr 8 11:26pmFr May 8 8:45amSa Jun 6 6:55pmMo Jul 6 6:25amTU AU O 4 7:42pmTh Sep 3 10:45amSa Oct 3 3:27amSu Nov 1 9:02pmTu Dec 1 2:14pmTh Dec 31 5:49am

Fr Jan W 7:08pmSu Feb28 6:16amMo Mar 28 3:47pmWe Apr 27 12:16aniTh May 26 8:lBamFr Jun 24 4:36pmSu lu124 2:OOamM o Auo 22 1:28pmWe Sep 21 3:45amTh Oct20 8:53pmSa Nou 19 3:46pmMo Dec 19 10:42am

a Jan 10 4:59pmMa Feb 9 5:43amTu Mar 10 6:27pmTI1 Apr 9 7:llamFr May 6 7:55pmSu Jun 7 8:35aml o Jul 6 9:23~mWe Aug 5 10:07amTh Sep 3 10:51pmSa O c t 3 11:35amMo Nov 2 12:19amTu Dec 1 1:03pmTh Dec31 1:47am

1892 A.D.Fr Jan 29 2:31pmSu Feb 28 4:15a1nMo Mar 28 3:59pmWe Apr 27 4:43amTh Rlay 26 5:27pmSa Jun 25 6:llamSu lo124 6:55pmTu Aug 23 7:39amWe Sep 21 8:2?pmFr Oct 21 9:07amSa Nov 19 9:51pml o Dec 19 10:35am

1893 A.D.771 07 1144 73218 29 We Jan 18 3:57am T Jan 17 11:19pm 889 2 05 4 38816 52 1137 73219 30 Th Feb 16 6:46pm Th Feb 16 12:03pm 737 27 6 43868 14 4 10 45 73220 29 Sa Mar 18 7:03am Sa Mar 18 12:47am 601 2 43 6 16515 23 1 9 01 73221 30 Su Apr 16 5:06 m Su Apr 16 1:31pm 492 4 32 3 33934 2 50 6 30 73222 29 Tu May 16 1:16am Tu May 16 2:15am 424 5 40 59907 2 23 3 40 73223 29 We Jun 14 8:20am We Jun 14 2:5Spm 416 5 48 63 9839 1 1 5 117 73224 29 Th Jui 13 3:16pm Fr Jul 14 3:43am 481 4 43 12 27762 02 73225 30 Fr Aug11 l:17pm Sa Aug 12 4:27pm 617 2 27 17 10704 1 0 0 04 73226 29 Su Sep 10 9:34am Ma Sep 11 5:llam 802 38 19 31578 1 2 6 1 0 4 73227 30 Mo Oct 9 10:55pm Tu O e i 13 5:55pm 950 3 46 18 59668 13 6 2 30 73228 30 We Nov 8 3:?6pm Th Nov 9 6:39am 1123 5 59 15 13657 1 4 7 4 06 73223 30 Fr Dec 8 10:03am Fr Dec 8 7:23pm 1167 6 43 9 14

in seconds as 2551442.S64976 seconds. Thisstating of time in such cletail as to take noteof millionths of a secoilcl seems strange to mostpractical persolis, but is iil regular use amongastrononiers.Astsonorners ,Wust Love Tru thIt niay as well be settled that astronomerslove tru th in the abstract. They must; theirbusiness requires it. It 11-as of grea t interest inNew Yorb city some years ago when an eclipsewas due. The astronomers, as a matter of their

common duty to manliind, announced the exacttime the eclipse 1170nld occur. Additionally, theystated that the edge of to tality of the eclipse~vould e "soniewhere between 145th street and165th street i11 upper New Yorlr". \$Then theeclipse came, it s edge of total ity was at 155thstreet, just halfway between. This 117as not anaccident, but the result of careful calculations.I n the year 1846 two astronomers, Adams inEngland, and Leverrier in France, located theplanet 'Neptune (the existence of which wassuspectecl, but not known) by the use of astro-


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Comparld ComparedMins. with next with LeanActual Mean over slow Fast Slow Fast

Maan Days Date Tlma Da t e Time 29 Ds hr nli hr ml hr mi kr mi1894 A.D.

73230 30 Su Jan 7 5:36am Su Jan 7 B:07am 1118 5 54 2 3173231 29 Tu Feb 6 12:14arn Ffo Feb 5 8:51prn $93 3 49 3 2373232 30 We Mar 7 4:4ipm W e Mar 7 9:35am 822 58 7 1243233 29 Fr Apr 6 6:Eam Th Apr 5 10:19pm 642 2 02 8 1073234 30 Sa May 5 5:ll pm Sa May 5 11:03am 494 4 30 6 0873235 29 Ifio Jun 4 1:25am Su Jan 3 11:47p1n 409 5 55 1 3 373236 29 Tu Jul 3 8:14am Tu Jul 3 12:31pm 399 605 4 1773237 29 We Aup 1 2:53pm Th Aug 2 1:15am 460 5 04 10 2273238 30 Th Aug 30 10:33pm Fr Aug 31 1:5?pm 580 3 04 15 2673239 29 Sa Sep 29 8:13am Su Sep 35 2:43am 733 31 163073240 30 Su 0 ~ 38 6:25pm hlo Oct 29 3:27pm 899 2 13 19 0173241 30 Tu Nos 27 1123am W e Ncv 28 4:llarn 1046 4 42 16 4373242 29 Th De c 27 4:49am Th Dec 27 4:55pn 1146 6 22 12 06

1895 4.D.73243 30 Fr Ian 25 11:55pm a Jan 26 5:39am 1157 6 33 5 4473244 3 0 Su Fe b 24 7:12pm Su Feb 24 6:23pm 1062 4 58 4973245 30 Tu Mar 26 12:54pm Tu Mar 26 7:07am 885 2 02 5 4773246 29 Th Apr 25 3:aOam We Apr 24 7:51pn1 695 1 0 9 7 4973247 30 Fr May 24 3:15~m i r May 24 8:35am 545 3 39 6 4073248 29 S a Jlln.23 12:20am Sa JU!I 22 9:19prn 461 5 03 3 0173249 29 hl o Ju1 22 S:Olam M o Jul 22 l0:03am 444 5 20 2 0273250 29 Tu Aug 20 325prn Tu Aug 20 10:47pm 479 4 45 7 2273251 30 We Sap 18 11:24pm TI1 Sep 19 11:31am 555 3 29 12 0773252 29 Fr C ct 18 6:393m a C ct 19 12:15pm 661 1 4 3 15 3673253 30 Sa Nov 16 7:40pm Su Mov 17 12:59pm 798 34 17 1973254 30 Q o De c 16 8:58arn Tu Dec 17 1:43am 951 3 07 16 45

1896 A.D.73255 23 We Jan 15 12:19am We Jan 15 2 2 7 ~ m72256 30 Th Fe b 13 6 42pm Fr Feb 14 3:llarn73257 30 Sa Mar 14 1:178nl Sa Mar 14 3:55?m73258 29 l o Asr13 652am M o ADr 13 4:39am73259 30 Tu Mag 12 10:16#m Tu l a y 12 5:23pm73260 29 Th Jun 11 l:12am Th Jon 11 6:07am73261 30 Fr Jul 10 10:04ya Fr Jul 10 6:51pm73262 29 Su Aua 9 731am Su Aun 9 7:35sm73263 30 klo Sa p 7 4:12pm hlo Sop 7 8:19pm73284 29 We Oc t 7 12:17am We Oe 7 9:03am73265 29 Th Nov 5 9:56am Tb Mev 5 9:47pm73266 29 Fr De c 4 8:lOpm Sa De c 5 10:31arn

73267 20 Sa Jan 3 5:32an73268 30 Mo Feb 110:42?m73269 30 V:e Mar 3 2:25pm72270 29 Fr AFr 2 1:53am73271 30 Sz r.lay 1 l : l?pn l73272 30 W o ay 31 2:55va73273 29 Wa Jan 30 5:24am73274 30 i h Js1 29 6:17prn73275 S Sa Aug 28 5:5&m73296 30 Su sep 26 4:15prn73277 29 Tu Cc t 26 1:59am73275 29 We Ww24 11:49am75279 30 TI; De c 23 i0:2Spm

73280 29 Sa Jae 22 9:53arn79281 30 SII Feb 20 1b:09pm73282 30 T Mar 22 11:06am73223 29 Th Wp i 21 12:@3am73224 30 Fr h l ~ y 0 3:27pm732-95 23 Su JU!I 19 6:38an173286 30 Mo Ju1 13 10:1611m73287 30 Ha Alig 17 1:03pm73236 29 Fr Sep lG 2:39am732E9 30 Sa Oct 15 3:G6prn73290 29 l o Wo v 14 2:ISam73291 30 Tu De c 13 2:22om

1697 A.D.Su Jan 3 11:15pnlTu Feb 2 11:59amTh Mar 4 12:43-mFr Apr 2 1:27pmSu Mz y 2 2:l lanrvd2 Hajj 31 2:55paWe Jun 30 3:392mTh Jh129 4:233pmSa AIIQ28 5:07a111Su SD P 26 5::pmT Oe t 26 6:35amWe $nu 24 7:19arnFr Dee 24 S:03am, 7l o s s A.D.Ba Jan 22 8:47pm

Mo Feb 21 ?31?rnTu Nar22 10:15pmTh Apr 21 10:59aa1Fr May 20 ll:43prnSu JU 19 12:27pmTa Ju! 19 1:l lamWe Aag 17 1:55prnFr Sep i6 2:33amSa Oct 15 3:21pmMo Nw 14 4:07smTu Ds c 13 4:5:ps

1899 A .D .73292 29 Tii Jan 12 l:18am Th la11 2 5:352m73293 29 Fr Fe h 10 12:10~rn Fr Feb 10 69cm30 Sa l a r 1110:2bpm29 Mo Apr 10 8:49arn30 id ISY 8:07p!n29 Tn Jun 8 8:4?am50 Fi J 7 11:OOpm30 Ss Aus 6 2:17pm29 Tu Ee p 5 6:02am30 WE Oc t 4 9:43grn30 Fr Eov 3 12,5511n129 9% De c 3 5:lEam

S a Par 12 7:03amii?o Apr 10 7:47pmWe May 10 83la 1nTh Jun 8 9:15pma J~il 8 9:59arnS Aug 6 10:43pmTu Sep 5 11:27amT h Oo t 5 12:llamFr Nwd 3 12:55pmSu Ds c 3 13Sam

izomical calculations very similar to those usin this series of articles.In figuring the mean calcuIatiolis shown In tcentral part of the tables, No. 73176, August 21889, was talien as the star ting point, because

was only about 2 minutes amay from the megenerally used by astrononlers for currezt cculations, that is, 29 days 1 2 hours 44 minut(secoiids being dropped). From this startipoint the calculations were carried back~vardJanuary, 1886, and foru-ard to December, 193The next colamn, entitled "Minutes overDays", is a very useful one for purposes study, Each moon is a period of 29 days andcertain number of minntes in addition. The totnnmber of minutes over 29 days between thiiioon and tlie one next following it is giveThus, from the new moon of Tuesday, Janary 5, 1886, at 10: 13 a.m., to tlie new moon Thursday, Februa ry 4, 1886, at 5 : 43 a.m., m729 days and 1,170 minntes. See Nos. 73131 an73133.111 the next txo colum~lseach moon is corpared with the one nest to it. Thus, it beintaken for truth that the normal time from onnem- noon to another is 29 days, 12 hours an44 minutes, that is, 29 days and 764 minutes, a moon takes 29 days ar,d 1,170 minutes, itslow b j b y the difference, which is 406 minnt(6honrs 46 minutes).

The Moon Runs Fas tThe experience tables shov tthi?t the nlosn hathe habi t of running ahead of i ts scliedule (snc!l an e:;pressioii is perniissible). Thus, acording to the "?iIean"'the iiioon on Jaiiuary1896, xTas not due to rise niitil 7 : 31 p.m.th2t day, but, as n matt er of fact, it rose3 onI S liriliutes ear lier; so it was fast by tha t amouof ti12Ie.The lover of Jehoval: God wi!l nonTbe greatiaterested in the accoiilpanging chart of lnntions whie!i silo~i-i-5he beautifnl aid gracefmanner in vh i e h the moon keeps care of thsecontls of tlie great Greator. I t instantly ape2.r~ hat there i s order, not the order of co~nc l ear s and ra'iitliiig machinery, but the ordof rhythnz on a inagnificent scale. Bu t first aother glance 2t the tables.Talie note of the la st four eoluiilns of the tabland iiote hov the iiiooil is usually for seveilioons fast, then for seven moolls slow, etc., compared with those that have gone before;


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he GOLDEN AGEis no t always for seven fas t an'd for seven slow,Mins. w i t h n e x t w i t h MeanActual Mean ovcr s l o w Fast s l o w Fast bu t is so 73 percent of the time, a few sixes,M o a n Day3 Date Time Oatc iime 23 Ds hr mi hr mi hr m i hr m i

1coo A.D. eights and nines being sprinkled in.73304 30 Bo Jan 1 4:21um M o Jan 1 2:23pm 691 1 1 3 1 5 873305 23 We Jan 31 3:52am V/e Jan 31 3:07am 602 2 42 45 Note again fro m the tables tha t the moon is in73205 29 ~h Mar 1 1:54pm ~h Mar 1 3:51pm 545 3 3 9 1 5 7 the habit of running fa st not only with respec t73307 30 Fr Mar 30 10:59aln Sa M u 3 1 4:35an! 533 3 51 5 367323% 29 su Apr 29 7:52am su Apr 29 5:1gpm 567 3 17 to t he previou s moon, but ~7i'ili espect to its73309 30 M o Msy 28 5:19pm Tu Ray 29 6:03am 637 2 07 12 4 4 mean lnnatioll ; o r about 91j2 /21ullations t i s fa s t73310 29 W e Jun 27 3:56nm We Jun 27 6:47pm 736 28 14 5173311 30 Th Jut26 4:12pm Fr Ju127 73i am 850 1 2 6 1519 with respect to i ts mean, and then, for 4 luiia-73312 23 Sa AYO 5 6:223m Sa Aug 25 8:l:jm 954 3 20 13 5373313 30 s u sz p23 10:24pin KO Sep 24 8:jIzo 1050 4 46 1033 tions, slow .rv.ntil the balance is recovered.73314 30 Tu Gct23 3:5611m Tu Oct 23 ??pm 1070 5 C673315 30 Th Mov 22 9:46am Th No v 22 10:27am 1004 4 GO 5471 The way the astroliolners put i t . is that the73316 29 S a D e e 22 2:32am Fr D ec 21 11 : l l ~s 875 15 1 3 19 moon has a maximup1 eccentricity of orbit of

1901 A.D.73317 30 Su Jan 20 5xJpm Su Jan 23 11:5Sam 729--- 35 5 101 ~ 1 5 9 To Fcb 19 5:14am Tu Feh 13 123Sam 603 2 35 43573319 30 W 2 b!ar 20 3:22:!11 Y le M? r 23 l:23p3 524 4 00 15 973320 2) Fr F.pr 19 12:06a:n Fr Apr 19 2:Oizm 481 4 43 2 OP73321 29 Sa R?ay 18 &:07aa 8a h:3y 18 2:5lpm 475 4 49 6 4472322 33 Su J!in 15 4:02pm Pi a Jrn 17 3:?lam 517 4 07 113373323 2) TII Jii l 15 12:32m :a Jo1 15 4:lS:m 617 2 27 E 40-.,-,?~ 2 2 ~ 43 We Aug 14 10:56am T b Ass 15 5:C?sm 77 1 07- " o r ,

13 07133-5 $9 Th Sep 12 11:47~!n Fr Srr 13 57pm 953 3 03 13 0073326 30 5a O c t 12 3:iXpm Eu O c i 13 631am 1103 5 39 14 5 173327 30 Y o Ncv 11 lO:O?no~ k!o No v ll :15?m 1159 6 2 5 9 1273328 29 W e De c 11 5:22em h'% C:c 11 7S9am 1101 5 37 2 37

1552 A.D.73529 30 Th Jan 9 1:43gn1 T1 12.1 9 B:-l;;n 967 3 23 3 0073?30 33 Sa Feb 8 3:5Cjm $8 i z b 8 9:2iaa EG i 45 62.373331 29 Mo Mar 10 5:19am SB h : ~ ? 9 1 : l i pm 60 144 7 08--3332 33 Tu Apr 8 4:19;:r. Su A 3 LC1:51.:;1 525 3 43 5 24-ox . ,~ ~ - 7 39 T May 8 1:14ae He. I , ! :j. 7 11-5S?n S45 5 18 13 573334 29 Fr Jan 6 8:4Cam Fr :?? 6 ::.Zcm 4C: 5 5 6 3 4373335 23 a Jul 5 3:2291il Sii :a! 5 1:Gi-m 438 5 26 9 39j ~ z 3 G 30 Su Atio 3 10:4Gpm K c A x 4 l:5 lvn 522 3 42 15 05,3227 29 Tu Se p 2 7:4Sym W:'4 S:p 3 2:?2n1 7L0 54 18 4773338 30 We Oe t 1 7:38am Ti1 C c t 2 ::Ihn 904 22 3 19 4173339 30 Fr C ct 31 10:42an Sa H:; i ::IS-rz? 1071 50 7 17 2173340 29 Su Mov3O 433nm S u A:;X ?:-;T-@ 1150 63 6 12 1473341 SO M a Oec 29 11:53pm Tu S ic 33 3:51:o: 1154 6 30 5 58

30 W z Jan 26 7:07pm30 Fr Feb 27 1 2 : 4 ~ n29 FU Mar 23 3:552m20 !a hnr 27 4:Olpm29 We Way 27 1:18a3r!29 ~h Jsn 25 6:nOao:23 Fr JuI 21 3:15um30 a Aug 22 10%"2a123 l l lo S- p 21 7:COoa30 TY Oci23 5:598n29 TI1 No v 19 7:3??w30 FF Oe c l S l:55pm

73354 30 S u Jan 17 6:15pm73355 30 Tu Fr b 16 1:33zm73356 ?O ~b Mar 17 8:03am73357 29 Sa Apr 16 12:22am73353 29 Su b!ay 15 1:27pm73359 30 IPo Jun 13 1133pm73760 29 We :ol 13 7:56am73?51 29 Th Au3 11 327pm73362 30 ~r Se p 9 11:123m73363 29 Su Oct 9 7:54am73354 20 Mo Pdov 7 6:OFlm73365 23 We De c 7 6:15am

1923 a . n .B e Jz n 23 6:152nFr i : b 2 T 6:2amBa 1.13: 23 7 : i l ;m6 0 !? 27 8:27amTu i' :" C,:'-

>XL?b' LO 2.--,.,?Th J!.n 25 5:51a,1Fr Jai 23 1::3S;"1Eu Aog 23 11.2533Tti S s 22 l2:Ciam

1931 A . D .Mo Jan 13 ?03:nTu Fb 16 3:+7?mTi1 h!3r 17 4,31rrnFr Apr 15 5:L5pmS1 Wr y 15 E59?mL!o Jnn 13 6:43:mWe J c l 13 7:27amTh A" 11 6 : l l pnSa Srp 10 8:5TamSu Oc t 9 93SpmTu Ho v 3 '10:232mW e Oec 7 11:07pm

1905 A.D.- 73366 50 Th Jan 5 8:46pm Fr Jan 6 11:51am 1009 4 05 15 0573367 30 Sa Feb 4 1:35pm Su F cb 5 12JSpm 1093 5 29 110073355 30 M a Mar 6 7:46am Mu Alsr 6 1:lCpm 1084 5 2 0 5 9973369 29 We Apr 5 1:52am \Ye Apr 5 2:@3am 987 3 43 1I73370 30 Th Yay 4 6:19pm Th Way 4 2:47pm 846 1 2 2 3 3 273571 23 Sa lun 3 8:25am 5 3 Jun 3 3:31am 714 50 4 5473372 30 Su Jul 2 8:19pm Su Jul 2 4:l."pm 612 232 C 0473373 29 Tu Aug 1 631am Tu Aug 1 4:59am 551 33 3 13 273374 30 W e Aug M 3:42pm We Aug 30 5:4?pm 526 3 58 2 01,73375 29 Fr Se p 29 12:28am Fr Se p 29 6:27am 539 3 45 5 5973376 29 S a G e t 28 9:27am S a Oct28 7:llpm 589 25 5 94 473377 30 S u N o v 26 7:16pm l d o 8 0 v 27 755am 676 1 2 8 12 3973378 29 Tu De c 26 6:32am Tu Dec 26 8:39pm 786 22 14 07

1.61959758103203 d-ays. T h at is to say, s ta tin gth is in a manner su i tab le for the general reader ,the va riat ion over an y period of years, no ma tterhow remote, will be not more than 1 day 14~ O L I I - s2 n~ in utc s 3% seconds. Bu t the differ-ences +teed not be of such a n ai~ lou nt, nd byprope r care in teli ing the r ight kind of sta rt in gpoint the total difference over so long a periodas 6,000 years will lse only ail hour or so, aswill be shom~n.Metonic Cycle a ~ dhe God of OrderMen have been studying the nloor, Inany cen-turies. I t is no v about 2,400 yea rs since theastronoiiler nletoli discovered thst after 235lun at iol ~s he neTv moon usually rises on thesam e day of t he n~ o n t l ~l ia t i t d id 1 9 years be-fore. Thus, compare No. 73131, Ja nu ar y 5,1886,with No. 73366, January 5, 1905, or any twomoons 235 lunatioas a pa rt , and i t wil l be foundtl iat this is ?~ea . r l yxact. Tile Callippic cycle i sa refinement of the ljfetonic, in ~vhich1. d a y isdro pp ed eve ry fo ur th Metonic c;rcle, to maliethe Metonics come out more liearly exact overlonc~er eriods of time.Of n iwh greater in teres t i s the saros oreclipse cycle if 223 moons, used by ali astron-om ers in ca!culating time of eclipses. E ve ry223 n~ ool ls he in0011 is back w here i t w as, ifsuch an expression map be used. The cka rt (pag es374-375) helps to make thi s clear. Note a gainthe d at a reya rding the f irst moon mentioned inthe table, KO . 73131, of Ja nu ar y 5, 1886; nownote its position on the chart. Then a dd 223moons, reaching to No. 73354, of January 17,1904 ( a period of 6,585.32 days, or 18 years and10.32 oi- 11.32 days, depending on how manyleap years ar e in the perio d), an d notice oil thecha rt that the moon is in the same relative posi-t ion tha t i t m7as at f irst. Compare al ly twomoons 223 moons ap ar t, and note the results.Take the t ime to pay very special at tentionto this eclipse cycle feature, as it i s the key t o


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376 * CjOLBEN AGE BROOKLYN,. YCompared ComparedMins. with next with Mean unlocking the past, By means of this key astr02

Actual Bean over slow Fasf ~ 1 0 % Fast omers have located many events which occurreloon Days Date Tim% Date Time 29 Ds hr mi hr mi hr mi hr mi1906 A.D. h~uldreds f years before Christ. The chronicler73379 30 We Jan 24 7:3spm ~h Jan 25 9:23am a90 2 06 I? 43 nientioned edipses with much exactness, with73380 30 Fr Feh 23 10:28am Fr Feb 23 10:07pm 953 3 09 113973381 29 s u Mar 25 2:21am su Mar 25 10:51am 374 3 30 30 the result that the dates could be exactly located73382 30 Mo Apr 23 6:35pm Mo Apr 23 11:35pm 954 3 10 5 33

73383 30 We May 23 10:29am We May 23 12:19pm 905 2 21 15 0 Calculations in the Goldcriz Age ofiice show73384 23 Fr JU" 22 1:34am Fr ~ ~ " 2 2 ':03am 834 110 31 that in six thousand years the eclipse cycl73385 30 Sa J d 2 1 3:2Kpm Sa Iu121 1:47pm 748 16 1 4 173386 29 MU A U ~0 3:56am M~ ~ ~ ~ 7 . 0:31am 666 13 8 1 2 3 locates a certain moon with absolute accuracy73387 30 Tu Sep 18 3:02pm Tu Sep 18 3:15pm 609 23 573388 29 Th Oc t l8 lam Th Oc t l8 3:53Am 594 50 $ It is on this wise :There were 73,740 moons from73389 29 FF Rov 16 11:05am Fr Nov 16 4:4 3~m 618 2 26 5 8 the lnaation nearest the sprillg equinox of 40273390 30 Sa Dzc 15 9:23pm Su Dec 16 5:27am 663 1 4 1 & 04 B.C. to the 1u1ial;ion nearest the spring equino1507 A.D.73391 29 Mo Jan 14 8:26am Mo Jan 14 6:l lpm 706 58 9 49 of ,l.D. 1935. There a re 223 moons in an eclips73392 30 T U Feb 12 8:1211m w c F Z ~3 6J5am 742 22 1343 cvcle; i.e., in '73,740 moons there are 330 eclips73393 29 Th Mar 14 8:34am Th Mar l4 7:39pm 781 97 .A OJ73394 30 Fr Apr 12 9:35pm Sa Ayr 13 8:23am 833 1 0 9 IS c~c!es and I50 llloolls Besides. Accordingly73395 30 Su May 12 11:28am Su May 12 9:07pm 891 2 07 c --O73396 29 Tu Jun 11 2:19am Tu lun 11 9am 927 2 43 - -; 2 1.X moo?zs back from moon No. 73740, nioon

73397 30 We Jul 10 5:46~m We Ju110 1035pp 920 2 3673398 29 Fr Aug 9 9:06am Fr Aus 9 11:19am 867 1 4 34 ~ 3 7.3590 (of February 15, 1923) should be in2 13

73399 30 Sa Sep 7 11:33pm su Sep 8 12:03am 797 33 5 ~ r a c t l yhe same position in the heavens as the73400 30 Mo Oct 7 12:50pm Yo Oct 7 12:47pm 738 26 0373401 29 wo NUV 6 1:08am We NUV 6 1:31am 704 100 .j CQIP~onie ,950 years ea'rlier (i n 4028 B.C.) ; and73402 30 ~h Dee 512:52pm ~h Dec 5 2:15pm 680 1 2 4 12 such is the case.

1908 A.D. -It 29.530588'715 days each; 73,590 moon73403 '29 ~a Jan 4 12:12am ~a Jail 4 2:59am 653 1 51 2 4 ~mrinll t, ll total, to 2,173,156 days alld abou73404 29 Su Feb 2 11:05am Su Feb 2 3:43pm 621 22 3 i 3 -, , : I73405 30 Mo Mar 2 9:26pm Tu Mar 3 4:27am 605 239 5 :1 lllillutes over. I n 330 ee!i~pse cycles, at 6,555.37?406 29 We Apr 1 7:31am We Apr 1 5:l lpm 631 2 i 3 5 -3 -73407 30 ~h Apr 30 6:02pm FF Ray 1 5:55am 701 i 03 1 3 ; : :~z?-sper C Y C ~ ~ ,he total days are 2,173,155.12 Sf -3408 29 S.? May 30 5:13am Sa May 30 6:39pm 787 2373409 33 Su dull 28 6:50pn1 Mu Jun 29 7:23am 895 21 1 ,-, i : i ~ ~ s .il 5,950 years the moon i s in the sam73410 30 Tu Ju128 9:45am Tu Ju128 8:07pm 943 2 59 : - -, 7 . - -- - --- - - .:l.~zition, nd positively identifiable, with a tota73411 29 Th Aug 27 1:28am Th Au3 27 8:51am 960 3 16 , L ; =. - ,

73412 30 Fr Sep 25 5:28pm Fr Ssg 25 9:35pm 947 3 03 . .-- ~ :~ ; n e r e n c en the two ca.lculations of less than73413 30 So Oct 25 9:15am Su Oc 25 10:19am 907 2 23 - - .& -77?414 29 TU NOV 24 12:22am nqo NO V 3 11:03pm 836 1 1 2 119 lil hours 3 minutes.73415 30 we Deo 23 2: l~ pm ~e Dec 23 11:47am 742 22 2 5 173416 29 Fr Ja1122 2:40am73417 29 Sa Feh 20 1:20pm73418 31) 8u Mar 21 10:40?m73419 29 Tu Apr 20 6:20an73420 30 We May 19 4:l lpm73121 29 Fr Jue 18 1:57am73422 30 sa Jui 17 1:13pm73423 29 MO AU Q16 2:23am75424 30 Tu SC? 4 5:3791n73425 30 Th Oct 14 10:62am73426 29 Sa Nov 13 4:47an73427 30 Su Dec 12 10:27ps

73428 30 Tu Jan 11 2:20pm73429 29 Th Feh 10 3:42am73430 29 Fr Ma r l 1 2:41~m73431 30 Sa Apr 911:54pm73432 29 Ro l a g 9 8:02am73433 29 Tu JI !~ 7 3:45pm73434 30 We Jul 6 11:4Spn1

1909 A.D.Fr Jan 22 12:31am 640 2 04 2 C3Sa Feb 20 1:15pm 560 3 24 G5Mo Mar 22 l:59am 520 4 04 3 1 3Tu Apr20 2:43pm 531 3 53 ---Th May20 3:27am 586 2 58 1: 15Fr Jun 18 4:ll pnl 676 1 2 8 1- -Su Jui18 4:55am 790 26 1 - 2Mo Auu 16 5:39pe 914 2 30 - - . *L Z - zWe Scg 15 6:23am 1025 4 21 - - . .7::ilch certain thiilgs care said to have taken,-la,e, ,-, r at such and such a time in such ancl suchE. xc?on. The right place t o st ar t inquiry is withr L p nioon nearest at hand, say the one which ilienrest to the verna,l equinox in the year A.D-,3 .-'5. This nen- moon makes its apaearansezsti.onomical1~~pealiing, a t Los Angeles, Calif.FL.,t 4 a.11 a.m., TTTednesday,April 3 ; on the 75thxleridian, near Ne~v York and Philadelphia(Eastern Standard Time), at 7: 11 a.m. on the.73435 29 Fr Auo 5 9:06am Sa Aug 6 2:2%m 688 11 6 li 2273436 30 Sa Sea 3 8:34pm Su Sep 4 3:llpm 867 14 3 1: 27 5ame day, a,nd a.t Jerusz.lei~ia t 2 :35 :52 p.m73437 30 M U O C ~ 11:01am TU 6r t 4 3:55am 1044 4 40 G the same day.73438 29 We Nov 2 4:25am We Rov 2 4:39pm 1154 63 0 12 2:

73439 30 ~h Dec Il:39pm Fr Oe c 2 5:23am 1151 62 7 j;i It. is desirecl to ascsr tain as accurately as73440 30 sa DZ C 3 1 6:50pm Sa DCC 6:07~m 1043 4 39 43 l>assib!e j

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