THE CAUSE OF THE SUN AND MOON

 STANDING STILL.
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Last evening, the first of series of lec- lures on the cause which produced the mira cle of the sun and moon standing still, and also of the sun moving backwards on the snn-dial ot Ahaz, as recorded ill the Holy Scriptures, to be demonstrated astronomically and experimentally, and illustrated by dia- grams and apparatus-was delivered by Mr. Linton at the Royal Academy Rooms, Great George street. The lecturer commencetfby stating that the phenomena he was about to illustrate were recorded in the 10th chapter oi Joshua, and l2th verse, the 20th chapter ot Second Kings and 10th verse, and the 30th chapter of Isaiah and 8th verse; and that If he could make it appear that the mira cle ln the case of Joshua had been produced without at all interfering with tl,e fixed laws oi nature, but, on the contrary, with the pre- sent acknowledged solar system, the cavils of the seeptic and the infdel would be silenced, and Gods unlimited power magniiied. He