p. 16 | The Earth's Own Light

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 19.

The Earth's Own Light

Prof. Garrett P. Serviss, the astronomer, tells us in the Examiner of March 30 that recent investigations made by L. Yntema in Germany have determined that the amount of light in the night sky which the earth itself furnishes is in some places from 7 to 15 times as much as comes from all the stars. This light varies not only from night to night, but at different hours of the same night. Its source is not known. It shows however that there is a luminosity in the earth itself. It is thought that if the earth were seen from a distance it would look like a huge comet. Around this fact of the light there cluster some very interesting spiritual truths.