"The sun do move!" The celebrated theory of the sun's rotation around the earth
Jasper, John, 1812-1901
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A o ‘.Wf;* Oo % ‘ », /’cii;. %'•" v'» "' /,.-j^.*'- % ;'^fe'. \,S .-Mi-. \<f • AX^ o * V ^ * ® » 0 ° a ‘ $ ~v^. •• •f. ^ • * • ®A o **7fV a0 .0^ .•**'* ■♦o "' 4*' .»'•.%*’”* : -of -W f • *0 ^ * A cr * 0 ^ VaXS^* ^ o ^ * • » 0 ’ %> * • ©. The Sun do Move !” THE CELEBRATED THEORY OF THE sun’s rotation around the earth, AS PREACHED BY REV. JOHN JASPER, If OF RICHMOND, VA. WITH A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE. Price 25 Cents. nC. NEW YORK: V BRENTANO’S LITERARY EMPORIUM, 5 UNION SQUARE. 1882. B La 5-5 ■ ' .X3 Z. This is a special, verbatim report of the cele¬ brated “Sun "do Move” sermon as preached by Rev. John Jasper. The argument has never been published until now. # COPYRIGHT BY Brentano’s Literary Emporium, 1882. "The Sun Do Move!" Brethren and Friends: The text is found in Exodus, chapter 15, verse 3: "The Lord is a man of war; The Lord is his name." I will begin the argument by making a few broadcast remarks upon the origin of the Jews. I shall start at Abram, the father of the Jews. After the flood, we read in the 10th chapter of Genesis, how the world became settled with people, and how they multiplied, and what they went into the different parts of the earth. We find out that Abram was residing in Haran, where his relations were divided. They were idolaters. Abram was 75 years old when he was called out of Haran and the Lord showed him into the land of Canaan, which was to be his inheritance. It was the Lord’s purpose that the Jews should go amongst a strange people and be afflicted for 400 years. About 25 years after Abram came out of Haran, he had the pleasure of looking on his lawful Heir, Isaac. He had another son, by his maid-servant. When after he had the pleasure of looking on this lawful heir, Isaac advanced on, like other children, until he got to a certain age. And God said to him on this occasion to take his son Isaac, to whom he was very much devoted, and carry him to a mountain, called Moriah, and offer him up for a burnt sacrifice. After Abram attempted to do so, when he had bound his son on the altar and drew his knife, and war about to give the stroke, he was called by the angel of the Lord out of Heaven, and the angel said: "Lay not thy hand upon the lad, for thy faith are tried, and I see thou are willing to sacrifice; but, instead of Isaac, take the ram that’s caught by the horns on the mountain, and offer him in the place of Isaac, and let Isaac be released." When Isaac advanced on and felt desirous to change the single state of life and try the married state, he was fortunate in getting the one he had made his choice, Rebeccah. Then Abram begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot twelve sons. Each of these sons war the head of a family, which are called the twelve tribes of Israel. Out of those that lived, there was seventy and five souls that went down into Egypt, so journed there, and they multiplied considerably, though they were afflicted by the king of Egypt 400 years. And when the time expired that they started to come out, God commissioned Moses to state to Pharay to let his people go, that they might come out to serve him. Pharay hardened his heart and declined to do so, and God visited him with frequent judgments. In making Pharay's obstinacy to yield, God caused several miracles to be performed. I could illustrate the point by a good many, but I will only mention three. First he caused Moses and Aaron to smote the waters, so they became full of frogs; then they smote the dust of the earth, and that became lice on man and beast; and the other miracle war that the Lord sent a grievous swarm of flies to bother and pester the Egyptians, and you know how flies pesters, specially in summer time! These war some of the plagues that God sent upon Pharay to make him submit. Then Pharay be-seech-ed Moses for to ask God to remove the flies, and he would let them go. That war various other Plagues, but, as I said a while ago, I omits them, because it makes the time too lengthly, and it would be tedious, also, for the argument I propose to calculate. After God done so severely visited him by destroying angels, and he found out that God war about to display his power, and that he warned no match for God, then Pharay consented to let them go. So he came out into the wilderness with 600 chariots, and colonels with them, to capture them and carry them back: he came out to fight a battle against Jehovah! God disappointed him in his expectations, and Pharay and his men war drowned in the Red Sea. Joshua and the Israelites went round the walls of Jericho six times, once a day, and, when they went round the seventh time, then Joshua commanded them to give a shout, and they blew the trumpets of rams’ horns, and the walls of Jericho fell — so that war captured: they captured Jericho and the king of Jericho. At Ai Joshua sent up 3,000 men to spy out, and they went up, and the Amorites slayed 36 men out of the 3,000. Those that remained came back to Joshua, and when he heard what the Amorites had done, he fell on his face and cried out to the Lord. The Lord said, “Wherefore liest thou on thy face? Get up, for Israel hath sinned and hath amongst them the cursed thing.” And that cursed thing was a Babylonious garment, 250 shekels of silver, and a golden wedge that Akon, the son of Kami, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zero, had carried to his tent and mixed amongst them the cursed thing. His own spoils. So Joshua had these things laid down before the children of Israel for to be destroyed, and he called Akon to account for having those things, and he acknowledged it truthfully. And they stoned Akon to death, and cast him into the valley of Akon, and he is there until this day. And after they had got the cursed thing from amongst them, Joshua led so many thousand men into an ambush to lay in wait for the city. He took so many thousands and went up to Ai, and told them he was going up there, and war going to run, and the Amorites would for sure chase him, just as they did the first; and, as he drew them from the city, then his men that war lying in ambush were to rise up and seize on the city. They did so. He went up and they immediately got after him, and they were so warmly after him that they did not forget to shut the city gates, and left them wide open; then the men lying in ambush rose up and captured it. After he had captured Ai, the Gibeonites feared that Joshua was going to capture them and take their lives. So some on them disguised themselves; they put on old shoes, and old hats, and old coats, and took with them moldy bread and meat, and bottles of wine, and went amongst Israel, and got in amongst them and made allege that they were furriers that come from a far country, and they had heard of the fame of Israel, and how they had conquered the two kings of the Amorites on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, and they said, “the whole land is faint-hearted on account of the fame of Moses and of yourself since you have been here” — (for you recollects that Joshua had got the children of Israel on this side of Jordan by this time); — “we are furriers,” they said, “we come from a far country, and we are willing to be hewers of wood and drawers.” Of water, to save our lives. Under that allege, Joshua recognized them as furriers and took them then for that purpose. But, two or three days after that, some of the neighbors sent word to Joshua and said, “These are not furriers; they are Gibeonites.” And Joshua called them to account, and asked them why they did tell a falsehood; and they affirmed that they did tell a lie, but they did it because they were in fear of their lives, and that, as they said at first, they would be willing to become hewers of wood and drawers of water to save their lives. And the five kings of the Amorites heard of it, and feared lest things would turn out too strong against them, they concluded to make war against great Gibeon. So that the five kings of the Amorites combined themselves together to fight against great Gibeon, because the inhabitants of great Gibeon had gotten among Israel and represented themselves as furriers under a falsehood. When they had gathered themselves together and had fixed themselves in array of battle, — it was a very warm battle. And Joshua was sent for. He was at Gilgal, and they sent for him to come immediately, and to slack not his hand. And when he came and saw the array of battle, Joshua found out that the sun was advancing rapidly to go down and that he could not avenge himself on the enemies before the sun did go down. He beseech-ed God that the sun should stop. The Lord commanded him to stand in the sight of Israel and speak to the sun, and say unto the sun: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the Valley of Ajalon, and the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, and hasted not to go down for a whole day.” And there had never been a time when God harkened to the voice of a man to stop the sun until this occasion. After the battle, war fought, and Joshua achieved a victory over the enemies, he turned Back and commanded the five kings of the Amorites (who had concealed themselves in a cave) to be brought out; and they brought them out, and he caused his valiant men to put their feet upon their necks, and said unto them: “Thus shall you do unto all your enemies.” And they took them five kings and hung them upon five trees, and they hung upon them five trees until the going down of the sun. Now then, I have proved to you all these things as they are laid down in the Bible, chapter and verse. According to the text, Joshua showed in the sight of all Israel that The Sun Do Move, because he stopped it, by God’s command, for a whole day, as the text states. If he stopped it, that proves that the sun was moving, and moving over Joshua and the Amorites, and of course they were now harbors elsewhere than on this here earth, and consequently it was moving around the earth, and after the battle war over, it began moving again in its regular course. Therefore it is proved that the Sun Do Move around the earth. Now then, this great fact of the sun’s rotation may be illustrated by many powerful texts in the Bible: I will confine myself to the most striking ones. Notice Malachi, chapter 1, verse 2 — and that come from God’s own mouth, and that can be no properer authority than God’s authority. With His own lips, he said, “For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles.” What strikes us here is that the Sun Do Move! “My name shall be great among the Gentiles” — (and we people of today is the Gentiles) — that, is an evidence that the Sun Do Move, for it’s God that says it. And take Ecclesiastes, 1st chapter, 5th verse: “The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.” That’s an evidence that he arose, for if he had not done left the place, he could not haste to where he arose. Again, in Psalm 1, verse 1: “The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the Lord.” The earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof." I illustratifies this as an evidence that the Sun Do Move, for the psalmist is the inspired writer, authorized by the Almighty to say this. The following texts I put in evidence: Psalm 113, Verse 3: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised." Isaiah, Chapter 38, Verse 8: "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward; so the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down." And Judges, Chapter 14, Verse 18: "Before the sun went down —." Now, from the expressions of all these texts, that is evidence that the Sun Do Move, for they were all inspired and written of God, of the Holy Spirit of God, who authorized to write these things. See, also, Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 37: "Thus saith the Lord, if heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord." Here is more evidence. Therefore, the sun’s rotation can’t be overthrown. The Filosofers’ reasons to the contrary is a matter of impossibility. They say that there is a nation that at 12 o’clock in the day has their foots opposite us; now it is an utter impossibility for them to know that there is any nation under that doing so, as, witness in Jeremiah, 31st chapter, verse 37, where it says the foundations of the earth can’t be measured. Now then, brethren, let us pass on. Notice this from Revelation, chapter 7, verse 1: “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” Now the four angels that stood on the four corners of the earth are an evidence that the earth is square and not round, for anything that has got four corners is not round, but square! So we are living on a four-cornered earth set steady. “I saw four angels,” etc., — now this text means the overthrow of the Pagans’ power, or the fury that the unsanctified monarchs war about to pour out on the Christian Church. Those four angels standing on the four corners war sent to hold in check the rage of those unsanctified men that war seeking to pour out their rage on the Christian Church. Some persons say, Revelation war a dream of John. Now, it was not a dream, but a vision. And there is a mighty great difference between a dream and a vision. A dream am an empty thing, but a vision are a reality. The Apostle Paul was converted by a vision — that shows you what a vision am! Revelation war a reality authorized by God; what the Apostle saw there, he was authorized by God to write. Now, in summing up the whole argument, the conclusion I desires to impress upon you am, stick to the Bible! Stand by it in every word and line, read it, meditate over and believe it as a white book, unmixed of errors. It am God’s Reveal-ed Will, and it am our duty to obey it as a guide that will tell us all what we got to do, conduct us through this life, and lead us into heaven. It am an all-sufficient guide for all persons, nations, climes. Therefore, cling to the Bible and don’t depart from it in the least. All that God desired that men should know and do is that in that book, to prepare us for heaven; and it can’t be got out of no other book, I don’t care what you call it! Whatever God in his providence has laid down, that we must believe in and obey. Yet often we murmur against God’s providence, not knowing that his providence is all for the best. It ’s like if we look on a leaf of this book (the Bible); if we only read what is on one page, without looking underneath, on the other side, we can’t understand its meaning; so we can’t see through the ways of his providence. For instance, take death! If every man had to say when he should die, he would live on to a hundred, a thousand years — he never would die. Extract from the remarks made by Rev. John Jasper, in his pulpit, at Richmond, Va., on Sunday morning, January 22, 1882: Now, on one pint I want this morning to set myself squar before this church, which has been slandered through an attack on my person. Some bad men in Ebenezer Church that has formed themselves into a ring against this church, and against me as its pastor, are going about telling everybody that I preach “a base fabrication,” and they call us “Jasperians.” I know who is at the head of that ring: Dick Wells and Nat Jones! Now, all I have to say is, that those men tell a lie, and they know it, too! I mean it, and I say it, here before the world, and if they dares to, they can come right here, and I’ll tell it to their face. I’m not afraid to speak out what I have to say, if I were going to be killed for... It is two minutes afterwards. I sticks to the Bible. I has taken nothing from it and added nothing to it. I takes my stand by Joshua and John, Before those men can get at me, for to attack me, they got to attack God himself, and then after God, the prophets, and after the prophets, the inspired writers of the Gospels, before they come to me! I’m ready for them! My views have gone throughout the United States and into the interior. I likes to see a man in earnest! But, as for double-faced men, such as they is, I won’t sit down by their side in no council, for who can trust men who one day says one thing, and the next day does another? Besides, this church, whether invited or not, is nowise compelled to send delegates to a council called by Ebenezer Church — no church in this city is! The Rev. John Jasper, who now enjoys a worldwide fame — thanks to the foregoing sermon — is the pastor of the Sixth Mount Zion Colored Baptist Church, at Richmond, Va. He was born in that city on the 4th of July, 1812. He is a tall, powerfully-built man, jet black, and, in spite of his age, still strong and well preserved. He has been preaching during the last forty-one years, having been converted when a youth. He has been married twice and has several children; from his first wife he was divorced, and his second wife is dead. He resides in a comfortable little house in the suburb of Richmond, and passes most of his time studying the Bible. He has been well provided for by his congregation, who are devoted to him and constantly desire to raise his salary of $750, which offer he as persistently declines on the ground that he is not preaching for money, but to save souls. His originality, earnestness and dignity are conspicuous, despite His lack of fluency in the ordinary stock of schools, lay and clerical. Twice every Sunday he delivers a sermon, and, on special occasions, as per request, preaches his famous sermon on the Sun. During his month’s vacation every summer, he leads protracted meetings in the counties adjoining Richmond. He says: “I have seen the time when I could preach a sermon every hour in the day, and not feel more tired than a man going to bed after a good day’s work.” Black Ink BRENTANO’S IT WRITES BLACK INSTANTANEOUSLY. CAN BE BOUGHT IN ALL SIZES. 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