PRINTING ON THE SKIES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 42.

"PRINTING ON THE SKIES."

THE following is from the pen of Dr. L. A. Banks in the N. Y. Voice; it is suggestive of a higher truth:—

A man in Cincinnati has invented an apparatus by which it is proposed to print in letters of fire news or bulletins on the sky. The apparatus is worked by electricity. First, a shadowy sheet regulated to suit the size of the bulletin or telegram is cast upon the heavens by an electric camera, and then, with another camera, words in letters of fire are cast on this. It is the dream of the inventor that the time will come when the important news of the day will be spread out on the skies every evening, so that every toiler can read them in comfort and at his leisure. These news bulletins will be prepared by conscientious, intelligent, and incorruptible public officials, and the result would be the abolition of ignorance, misinformation, and prejudice. Whatever may be the result of this invention, we know that there is an invention as old as the human race that has been registering matters of infinite moment in the skies. Jesus said to his disciples when they were rejoicing that even the devils were subject to them, that it would be more appropriate to rejoice because their names were written in heaven. We may know that our names are written there if we have within us the Spirit of Christ; but Paul declares that if we have not the Spirit of Christ we are none of his.

In Ps. 50:3-6 is set forth the second coming of our Lord, and the final judgment. The sixth verse reads: "And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God is judge himself." God's law is the rule of his righteousness (Isa. 51:6, 7), the standard of his judgment (Eccl. 12:13, 14; James 2:8-12). What more reasonable to suppose than that God will in that day emblazon his holy law, revealed in his Word, kept by his Son, which men now deny, on the very heavens in sight of all beholders?