(1.) That everywhere, and with each new discovery in science, the evidence is accumulating that our globe is essentially an immense ball of cold water, with a crust of earth covering the under waters as with a stone; while a portion of water above is held in the earth’s lap.
(2.) Until recently, the continents and islands were together in one vast body, with the axillary center pointing to the sun.
(3.) That fragments of the broken hemisphere have been spread out upon the seas, often standing with just their tops out of water as islands.
(4.) Inasmuch as this Earth is a magnet, the deposit about the pole was of the nature of a load-stone. This existed as a mountain, which by the force of the waters was bodily removed to the present north, nearly three thousand miles. It was thus we had a change of times and seasons.
(5.) That the alternation of day and night, heat and cold, summer and winter, seed-time and harvest, are results following this great change in the Earth’s polarity.
(6.) That the existence of the rainbow, caused by the declination of the sun toward the horizon in the Earth’s present motion, is a reminder of what is, and will remain to be, in contrast to what was, and would have been, until the end of time, had no cause occurred making it necessary for this radical change.
Earth’s climate was changed,
(a) By changing the magnetic currents of Earth, in removing the pole locally three thousand miles away.
(b) By withdrawing the attraction the former pole had for the sun, and pointing it to an empty place in the north, now one degree and a half from Polaris.
(c) By inclining the Earth’s pole twenty-three and a half degrees to the ecliptic. “He changeth times and seasons.”