p. 131 | A Moonless Month

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1866

A Moonless Month.

The month of February 1866, was marked in the astronomical calendar as the month which has no full moon! March will have two, but February had none. Of course this peculiar conjecture of periods that makes the full moon show her face but a few hours before the month comes in, and again a few hours after the month goes out, is a rare thing in nature—but how rare, do you suppose? It has not occurred before in your lifetime, nor ours—not since the time of Washington; not since the discovery of America by Columbus; no, nor since the Christian era, nor since the fall of Adam, nor since the creation of the world, unless that be placed back myriads of years, and it will not occur again, according to the computation of astronomers, for two millions and a half of years.

N. Y. Evangelist.