Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1881 — The Sun Do Move. [ARTICLE]

The Sun Do Move.

The Rev. John Jasper, Richmond’s well-known colored preacher, repeated his celebrated lecture in Richmond Sunday evening before a large audiedee. ; Tbe renowned “sun "orator preached from the book of Exodus: “The Lord Isa man of war; the Lord Is Ms name. M> In a very graphio manner the preacher oasrled nfc.fafge and very attentive audience _ovor ihe times when Israel of hi * hearers that Jeshha did command the ‘foun and gbing down of the sun. His logic about the distance of the sun from the edHti was very-fine, when, with contempt, he said some wise men, SooaMl stated i the dlstano e to be forty mljlfons others fifty mTOfons, and one could a man get up close enough to the sun to hitch it on bp as

uIS, ufat wise men we are one hundred and fo«r millions of miles from the son. It to too foolish to believe such stuff'.” divines in Vlrffiniaand one of the best cWll-engineers >n 4bto«uan*iyl Mr. isesw&s ■s&pxsrJs: was not satisfied srtth"the plain Wd of God, but mutrgo outside to teach thinn that no qm can laaro. To his mind tlie idea ofthe earth being round Is sb foolish that he would not insult his hearers with any argument on the subject. The scriptures say the e rth has four oorners—and that was proof to him that it was not round. f ‘How could men be under their feet? How could they stick to the earth? Dey must be like flies, that ean walk on the walls. I don’t believe any such staff.” Mr. Jasper is a most earnest man. He fuliy believes all he savs, and wields a powerful sway over, his people, who regard him as the rnoet powerful preacher of their oolor.— Norfolk Virginian.