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CHAPTER VII—Continued
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To ny’s hand came down firmly on
man's snoulder. "It’s marvelous,
h In shifts All of
you boys work now.
need sleep. ’
An
The electrician nodded. “We will.
„ me of the big shots are inside. Shall
f te ii them to come out to see you?”
Kn idea suddenly struck Tony. “Look
he Why shouldn’t 1 go and see
re t0? Why ls lt
them If * want you
nect them to come out and see me?"
ex '-•You’re boss, aren’t you?”
the
-What makes you think I’m the
The man looked at in him the quizzically. Instruction
, v it said so
book we got when we were all sent out
tierP Everybody got a copy. It said
,
0U were second in command in any
x Hendron and this ls
emergency to Mr. ;
go emergency, isn t it?
Tony conquered his surprise. It
dashed through his mind that Hendron
was training him to be in command of
those who stayed behind and launched
the Space Ship. He was conscious of
a naive pride at this Indication of
the great scientist’s confidence in him.
• I won’t bother the men here.” he said,
“Just so long as we get as many lights
t g possible, as fast as possible.”
Nest Tony went to the kitchen.
Fires were going in two stoves; more
coffee was ready, the supply of sand
wiches had overtaken the demand, and
kettles of soup augmented it. Taylor
was still in charge, and he made his
report as soon as he saw Tony.
“The big storehouses are half under-
ground, as you probably know, and I
don’t think the food in them has been
hurt much, although ft has been shaken
up. There's apparently a large herd
of live stock and a lot of poultry
about a quarter of a mile in the woods.
I’ve sent men there to take charge.
They already reported that the sheep
and'goats and steers didn't budge, al¬
though their pens and corrals were
destroyed. They’re putting up barbed-
wire for the time being. The water
and mud spoiled whatever they got
Into, but most of the stuff was in big
containers. The main that carried the
water from the reservoir is smashed,
and I guess the water in the reservoir
isn’t any good anyway. I’m boiling ail
that I use, but somebody has just
got the bright idea of using the fire
apparatus and hoses from some of
those young lakes.”
“You’ve done d—d well, Taylor,"
Tony said. “Do you think you can
carry on for a few hours more?”
“Sure. I’m good for a week of this."
When Tony went outdoors again,
was four o’clock, though he had
means of knowing the time.
again he noticed that the air
cooler.
Slowly he walked to the top of
small hill from which he had
the Bronson Bodies on the evening
fore. He felt a diminution of the
phur and other vapors in the air.
For the moment, calm had
The Bronson Bodies not only
passed and withdrawn toward the
but they shone no longer in the
sky. If atmospheric conditions
mitted, they would be visible
by day; but only by day.
The night came on clear—clear
almost calm. The mists had
and the clouds moved away. Dust
gases hung in the air; still the
show T ed.
The moon, too. should be
Tony thought. Tonight there
be a full moon; but only stars
In the sky. Had he reckoned
He was standing alone, looking
when some one stopped beside him.
*'Vhat ls lt, Tony?” Hendron said.
"Where's the moon tonight?”
“Where—that’s it: where?
what we’d like to know—exactly
happened. We had to miss it,
see; probably nowhere in the
were conditions that permitted
vation when t'lie collision
and what a thing to see!”
‘ The collision!” said Tony.
“When Bronson Alpha took out
moon! 1 thought you knew it
G "uig to happen, Tony. I thought
toid you.”
“Bronson Alpha took out
moon! . . . You told me that it
fake out the world when we meet
flext on the other side of the sun;
ymi didn’t mention the moon!”
"Didn’t I? 1 meant to. It
nhnor, of course; but I’d have
much to have been able to see it.”
Tony was silent. Strange to
into a sky into which never again
moon would rise!
However,” said Hendron, “when
' wor ’d encounters BronsoD Alpha,
see that, I hope—from space, if we
ceed with our ship —from space on
wa y to Bronson Beta. What a
dnu will be, Tony, from space
i10 clouds to cut it off! And then
ing on that other world, whose
have seen!”
" Y es,” said Tony.
1 trough the darkness of that
nst night, Tony continued to
e mustered new gangs for the
THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING
t’avid Ransdell arrives at New York from South Africa, bearing a casa
lining photographic plates to Dr. Cole Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the
irons’ apartment. Ransdell arrives and Eve Hendron, with whom tony is
In love. Introduces Tony to Ransdell. Newspapers publish a statement
iendron saying that Professor Bronson has discovered two planets, which
•been brought under the attraction of the earth’s sun. The result of the
♦ table collision must be the end of the world. The approaching bodie
fred to as Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but
other will hit the earth and demolish It. To devise means of transferring
ronson Beta is what is occupying the minds of the members of the league
he Bast Days. Hendron nlans to build a "Space Ship,” with the idea of
>ng on Bronson Beta. He has not been able to find a meta! which will
stand the heat and pressure of atomic energy which must be used in Pr°*
'* the Space Ship. Earthquakes change the entire surface of the earth,
•hocks** 1 * U wo,ld ‘« Population. The Hendron settlement survives
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PHILIP WYLIE
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tasks of salvage, and of rehabilitating
and reconstructing the shelters.
He organized, directed, exhorted and
cheered men on as rain poured down
again.
When light began again to filter
through the darkly streaming heavens.
Hendron re-awoke. He found Tony
drunk with fatigue, carrying on by
sheer effort of will, and refusing to
rest.
Hendron called some of the men who
had been taking Tony’s commands and
had him carried bodily to bed. . .
.
Tony opened his eyes. One by one
he collected all the disjointed mem¬
ories of the past days. He perceived
that he was lying on a couch in Hen-
dron’s offices in the west end of the
machine shop and laboratory building.
A slight noise in one corner of the
room attracted his attention. A man
sat there at a desk quietly scribbling,
a tall, very thin man, with dark curly
hair and long-lashed blue eyes. His
age might have been thirty-five—or
fifty. He had a remarkably high fore¬
head and slim, tactile hands. He
smiled at Tony, and spoke with a trace
of accent.
“Good morning, Mr. Drake. It ls
not necessary to ask if you slept well.”
Tony swung his feet onto the floor.
"Yes, I think I did sleep well. We
haven’t met, have we?”
The other man shook his head. “No
we haven’t; but I’ve heard about you.
I am Sven Bronson.”
“Good Lord!” Tony walked across
the room and held out his hand. “I’m
surely delighted to meet the man
who—” he hesitated.
The Scandinavian smiled. “You
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were going to say, ‘the man responsi¬
ble for all this.’ ”
Tony chuckled, shook Bronson's
hand, and then looked down at the
bedraggled garments which only par¬
tially covered him. “I’ve got to find
some clothes and get shaved.”
“It’s all been prepared," Bronson
said. “In the private office there’s a
bath of sorts ready for you, and some
clean clothes and a razor.”
“Somebody has taken terribly good
care of me.” Tony said. He yawned
and stretched. “I feel fine.” At the
door he hesitated. “What’s t'lie news,
by the way? How are things? Howls
everybody?”
Bronson tapped his desk with his
pencil. "Everybody is doing nicely.
There are only a dozen people left in
the hospital now. Your friend Taylor
has the commissary completely re¬
habilitated. The spot on which we
now reside was very considerably
raised last week. It has apparently
been lifted again, together with no
one knows how much surrounding ter¬
ritory. The radio station has been
functioning again.”
“Good Lord!” Tony exclaimed. “I
for got all about the radio station last
night— what day is this?”
“This Is the twenty-ninth." Tony
realized that he had been asleep for
twenty-four hours. “The man In the
wireless division went to work on the
station Immediately. Anyway, not
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935
much has come in, though we picked
up a station in New Mexico, and a
very feeble station somewhere in Ohio.
The New Mexico station reports some
sort of extraordinary phenomena, to¬
gether with a violent eruption of a
volcanic nature In their district; the
one in Ohio merely appealed steadily
for help.”
“Only two stations in all this coun¬
try?” Tony said.
“The static is so tremendous still
that It would be impossible to hear
anything from any foreign country;
and doubtless other stations are work¬
ing which we will pick up later, as
well as many which will be recondi¬
tioned In the future; but so far, we
have received only two calls.”
After having bathed, shaved and
dressed in his own clothes, which had
been brought from his quarters In the
partly demolished men's dormitory,
Tony went to the laboratories and
found Hendron.
“By George, you look fit, Tony!”
were Hendron’s first words. “Eve ls
impatiently waiting for you. She’s at
the dining hall.”
Tony found Eve cheerful and bright-
eyed. She went out on the long ver¬
anda with hitn.
“Notice how much clearer the air
is?” Eve asked. “Most of the fumes
have disappeared. . . .
“I heard you were safe, Eve,” Tony
said, “and then when I could hear no
more, I supposed you were safe. You
had to be safe.”
“Why, Tony?"
“If anything was to keep any mean¬
ing for me.” He stared at her, him¬
self amazed at what he said. “The
moon’s gone, I suppose you know!”
“Yes. It was known that It would
go.”
“And we—the world goes like the
moon, with the return of Bronson
Alpha!”
“That’s still true, Tony,” she said,
standing before him, and quivering as
he did.
He gestured about. “They all know
that now.”
"Yes," she said. “They’ve been
told it.”
“But they don’t know it. They can’t
know a thiDg like that just from being
told—or even from what they’ve just
been through.”
“Neither can we, Tony.”
“No; we think we—you and I, at
least—are going to be safe somehow.
We are sure, down in our hearts—
aren’t we, Eve?—that you and I will
pull through. There’ll be some error
In the calculations that will save us;
or the Space Ship will take us away;
or—something.”
As she nodded, Tony seized and held
her with a fierceness and with a ten¬
derness in his ferocity, neither of
which lie had ever known before. He
looked down at her in his arms, and it
was difficult to believe that anyone
so exquisite, so splendidly fragile,
could have survived the orgy of ele¬
mental passion through which they ail
had passed. Yet that—he knew—was
nothing to what would be.
He kissed her long and deeply; and
when he drew his lips away, she very
gently treed herself from him; for, far
more faithfully than he, she heeded
her father.
He sighed. She looked up at him.
“They tell me, Tony, that you kept the
whole camp going single-handed," she
returned him to practical affairs.
“Did you know Professor Bronson is
here?”
“Yes; I saw him—spoke to him.
How did he happen to come?”
“He’d arrived in the country and
was almost here when the storm
struck. He's known about what was
to happen, and he’s been figuring it
out for a longer time than anyone
else. He’s had the highest respect for
Father. You know lt was to Father
that he sent his results. They had
to get together, Father and he. They
agreed lt was better to work here than
In South Africa; so he did the travel¬
ing. Hell ae nmlnaMe—If *% it
get sway.”
“You mean, If we get awajr from th«
world."
“Yet. You see, Father’s chief work
has been—and will be —on the Space
Ship; how to get away from the world
and reach Bronson Beta, when It re¬
turns. That’s all Father can possibly
arrange—if not more. He can’t take
any time to figuring how we'll live, If
we reach that other world. But Pro¬
fessor Bronson has been doing that for
months. For more than a year he
practically lived—in his mind—on
Bronson Beta. So he's here to make
the right preparation for the party
that goes on the ship; who they should
be, what they should carry, and what
they must do to live—If they land
there."
In three days the static in the al“
vanished to such an extent that mes¬
sages from various parts of the world
became audible. Out of those mee
sages a large map was constructed in
the executive offices. It was a specu¬
lative map, and its accuracy was by
no means guaranteed. It showed
islands where Australia had been, two
huge Islands in the place of South
America, and only the central and
southern part of Europe and Asia
There was a blank in place of Africa,
for no one knew what had happened to
the Dark continent. A few points of
land were all that was left of the
British isles, and over the air came the
terrible story of the last-minute flight
from London across the Channel, in
which the populace was overwhelmed
on the Great Lowland plain. Among
tiie minor phenomena reported was the
disappearance of the Great Lakes,
which had been inclined from west
to east and tipped like trays of water
into the valley of the St. Lawrence.
On tiie fifth day they learned that an
airplane flight had been made over
what was the site of New York. The
Hudson River valley was a deep
estuary; the sea rolled up to New
burgh; and the entire coast along its
new line was scoured from east to
west with running valleys which were
piled high with the wreckage of a
mighty civilization. Everywhere were
still foetid plains of cooling lava; and
in many areas, apparently, the flow
from the earth had been not molten
rock but metal, which lay in fantastic
and solidified seas already red with
rust.
It was impossible to moke any esti¬
mate whatsoever of the number of peiv
pie who had survived the catastrophe.
Doubtless the figure ran into scores of
millions; but except in a few for¬
tunate and prearranged places, they
were destitute, disorganized and
doomed to perish of hunger and ex¬
posure.
On the tenth day the sun shone for
tiie first time. At the end of two
weeks it would have been difficult to
tell that the settlement in Michigan had
undergone any great cataclysm.
For fifteen days the earth did not
cease trembling. In all those fifteen
days, furthermore, there had been no
visitor to the camp from the outside
world, and the radio station had con¬
tented itself for the most part with
the messages it received, for fear that
by giving its position and broadcast¬
ing its comparative security, lt might
be overwhelmed by a rush of des¬
perate and starving survivors.
At the end of three weeks one of
the airplanes which had escaped the
storm was put in condition, and Eliot
James and Ransdell made a flve-hun-
dred-mile reconnaissance. At Hen¬
dron’s request the young author ad¬
dressed the entire gathering in the
dining hall after his return. He held
spellbound the thousand men and
women who were thirsty for any
syllable of information about the
world over the horizon.
CHAPTER VIII
“Mr. Ransdell and myself," Eliot
James began, “took our ship off the
ground this morning at eight o'clock.
We flew due north for about seventy-
five miles. Then we made a circle of
which that distance was the radius,
covering the territory that formerly
constituted parts of Michigan and Wis¬
consin.
“I say ‘formerly’ because our flight
was like a Journey of discovery. You
have already been told that the Great
Lakes have disappeared. They are,
however, not entirely gone, and I
should say that about one-third of
Lake Superior, possibly now land¬
locked, remains in its bed.
“The country we covered, as you
doubtless know, was formerly heavily
wooded and hilly,” the young author
continued. “It contained many lakes,
and was a mining center. I will make
no attempt to describe the astonishing
aspect of the empty lake bed, the
chasms and flat beaches which were
revealed when the water uncovered
them, or the broad cracks and crev¬
ices which stretch across the bed. Most
of the forests have been burned
away. Seams have opened underneath
them, which are in reality mighty
canyons, abysses in the naked earth.
Steam pours from them and hovers Id
them. All about the landscape are
fumaroles, hot springs, geysers and
boiling wells.
“In the course of our flight we ob¬
served the ruins of a moderate sized
town and of several villages. We also
saw the charred remains of farms,
lumber and mining camps. Not only
have great clefts been made, but hills
have been created, and in Innumerable
places the earth shows raw and multi¬
colored—the purplish red of iron veins
the glaring white of quartz, the darh
monotony of basalt Intermingled in a
giant’s conglomerate. I can only sug
gest the majesty and the onearthllnesi
of thp scene by saying lt closely re
sembled my conception of what Uu
lunar landscape must have been.
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Lesson for March 10
PETER PREACHES TO GENTILES
LESSON TEXT—Acts 10:1-11:18.
GOLDEN TEXT—Of a truth I per¬
ceive God is no respecter of persons:
but In every nation he that feareth
him, and worketh righteousness, is ac¬
cepted with him. Acts 10:34b, 35.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Peter Learns That
God Loves Everybody.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter Learns Some¬
thing New.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—The Gospel for All.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Overcoming Racial and National Prej¬
udices.
Tiie missionary program of the
church having broadened to Include tiie
Samaritans in Philip’s preaching In
Samaria, we see in this lesson the pro¬
gram still widening and embracing the
Gentiles. Through tiie conversion of
Cornelius, tiie middle wall of par¬
tition was broken down (Eph. 2:11).
I. The Man Cornelius (10:1, 2).
1. His official position (v. I). Be
was n centurion, a Roman officer over
a company of one hundred soldiers.
2. His character (v. 2). a. “A de¬
vout man.” b. A benevolent man. c.
A praying man. d. Highly respected
by his family.
Tiie Lord chose Cornelius as the
channel of the transition of the gospel
to the Gentiles because of his character
and position.
II. Supernatural Preparation for
the Transition of the Gospel to the
Gentiles (10:3-35).
In order to bring this about, ob¬
serve :
1. Two visions were given.
a. The vision of Cornelius (vv. 3-8).
While engaged in prayer, an angel of
God instructed him to send to Joppa
for Peter, who would tell him what to
do. Cornelius sent at once for Peter.
b. The vision of I’efer (vv. 0-10).
While Peter was praying (v. 0) he saw
a certain vessel containing clean and
unclean animals let down from heaven,
and heard tiie command. “Rise, i’eter;
kill, and eat.’’ Peter protested that he
had never eaten any unclean tiling.
God replied, “What God hath cleansed,
that call not thou common.” This ves¬
sel, let down and taken back, indicated
that both Jews and Gentiles were ac¬
cepted on high.
2. A messenger sent from Cornelius
(vv. 17-22). Peter was greatly per¬
plexed over what he had seen, tmt not
for long, for a messenger from Cor¬
nelius made inquiry at the gate for
him. Tiie Spirit informed Peter of tiie
matter and bade him go, nothing doubt¬
ing.
3. The meeting of Cornelius and Pe¬
ter (vv. 23-33).
a. Peter took six witnesses along
(v. 23 of. 11:12). In a matter of so
great Importance he must have wit¬
nesses.
b. Cornelius waiting for Peter (v.
24) called together his kinsmen and
near friends.
c. Cornelius, about to worship Peter
(vv. 25, 20), was told by Peter that he
himself was but a man.
d. The reciprocal explanation (vv.
27-33). Peter explained how God had
taken from him his Jewish prejudices.
Cornelius explained how God had in¬
structed him to send for Peter.
III. Peter's Sermon (vv. 34-43).
1. Tiie introduction (vv. 34, 35)
showed that God is no respecter o^Ar¬
sons (see Golden Text).
2. His discourse (vv. 30-43) touches
briefly upon tiie mission of Jesus, show¬
ing that lie was qualified for his work
ns a Mediator. He then exhibited the
work of Christ.
a. In his life (vv. 36-39). He went
about doing good, even casting out
demons, as a proof of the fact that
God was with him (v. 38).
b. In his death (v. 39). The just
suffered for the unjust that he might
bring us to God (I Pet. 3:18).
c. In his resurrection (vv. 40, 41).
God raised him up the third day, show¬
ing openly that Christ was his Son
(Rom. 1:4) and that his sacrificial
work was satisfactory (Rom. 4:23). In
this discourse Peter sets forth
(1) The basis of salvation—the sac¬
rificial death of Christ (vv. 39, 40) (2)
The scop* of salvation—“whosoever”
(v. 43). (3) Tiie method appropriat¬
ing salvation—“believeth on him” (v.
43).
IV. The New Pentecost (vv. 44-48).
As the gospel was entering upon its
widest embrace the Holy Spirit came
in new power. .
V. Peter Vindicates His Ministry to
the Gentiles (11:1-18).
Being called to account for visiting
and eating with Gentiles Peter’s de¬
fense took the foris of logical argu¬
ment, showing how God had set his
seal on tiie work by the miraculous
gift of the Spirit.
Religion of Love
Self-confidence is good, and one can
do very little without it, but It is some¬
thing that needs watching, in order
that its tendrils do not overgrow ‘the
vital’; and one of the things In life
which are vital is love, and from love
springs happiness.
A* a Little Child
“When Israel was a child, then I
loved him,” (Hosea 11-1). Aim to be
ever this little child, contented with
what the Father gives of pleasure or
of play.
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