Who Can Tell What a Day May Bring Forth?—
Day before yesterday, as it were, we were gravely told by Science that the interior of the earth was a molten mass of melted rock and other earthly elements, of which volcanoes were vent-holes to relieve the enormous pressure. Yesterday Science assured us that the old view of the day before was wrong, and that the interior of the earth, tho intensely hot, is densely solid on account of the tremendous pressure; and if this were not so, if it were liquid as was formerly declared, the attraction of sun and moon is so great that it would wrinkle its crust as the wind does a tent-wall. To-day Mr. Garret P. Serviss informs us that French scientists, Messrs. Loewy and Puiseaux, have been studying the moon by means of photography; that the moon is an image of the earth in past ages; and that a study of the photographs of the volcanic regions of the moon shows that the day-before-yesterday view of the earth was correct after all. What next? Science seems to accommodate itself to almost everything save Bible truth.