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The Vanishing Pianet
The following account assumes
that there is life on Venus, and
that the story is related by a per
son on that planet. It is a prophecy
of what might become of our
world if its nations continue to
rain destruction on each other in
useless wars that only bring sor
row and death to the.r people.
The time is the future.
Wynne Whitley
Many millions of years ago there
existed another world much like
our own. This world was a planet
called Earth, and on its crust lived
a prosperous people who had de
veloped a high standard of living.
These people were a greedy group
who nursed a desire for power and
sought ways of destroying each
other. Their knowledge of science
had progressed far beyond their
civilization and developed until it
had uncovered the primary unit
of energy that made up the.r
world. The scientists harnessed
that energy and without giving
thought to what the future might
hold in store for them used that
energy in a global war. Great
cities were leveled to the ground,
millions of people were killed, and
whole continents were destroyed.
One nation now controlled the en
tire world, but that controlling
power did that nation little or no
good. Vast stretches of barren
land could not be entered because
of the free destructive energy
that radiated from every stick,
and stone, and piece of twisted
steel. The war was only the be
ginning of the destruction that was
. to follow. The releasing of that
primary energy unit that con
trolled Earth had set up a series of
chain reactions that were slowly
to destroy the entire planet.
lava. Intense pressure was built
up under the surface of the
sphere; the face of the planet split
open and the white hot mass of the
melted rock gushed from the open
ings; immense tidal waves covered
the land. Earth looked as if it
would turn inside out. Death
covered the planet, and the re
mainder of the population of
Earth was soon destroyed.
Earth was now a barren waste
scarred with deep cracks, towering
volcanoes that spit up liquid rock,
and jagged craters. Large bodies
of water covered some portions of
the distorted world.
Even with all the past destruc
tion the elements were not satis
fied. The heat that had destroyed
life on Earth had also destroyed
part of its gravitational attraction
for other planets and stars, and
Nutshell
Thoughts
Billions of radioactive neutrons
now filled the air and bombarded
Earth’s crust with innumerable
gamma particles. These particles
penetrated the surface and stimu
lated many radioactive elements
into action. Immense heat was gen
erated, and over a long period of
time great formations of rock that
lay deep under the crust of Earth
melted and turned into molten
Jealousy is a small green cater
pillar who uses your heart for a co
coon and feeds upon imagination.
This wee animal eats until he is
big enough to break out of his
cocoon, which proves to be your
broken heart. Does this caterpillar
turn into a butterfly? No, only a
little gray moth who continues to
eat away at the entire fabric of
your world.
—Betty Sanders.
it was gradually pulled toward the
sun. Earth passed through the
orbit of our planet, Venus, in the
fifth month, but it was too far
away to affect it. The orbit of
Mercury was enlarged about ten
million miles as Earth drew closer
to the tiny planet. Earth had
stopped spinning by the time it
pas.sed into the realm inside of the
orbit of Mercury and had burst
open at each pole because of the
lack of force exerted from the
center of the planet to the equa
torial line. The absence of this
force caused Earth to contract
around the equator and the sur
face at each pole to crack open to
make room for the matter that
was forced to move. As Earth ap
proached the sun, its temperature
increased, and at a distance of
about twenty million miles from
the sun the land began to melt,
and the great bodies of water be
gan to boil. The clouds broke up
into their primary elements and
burned. The waters were turned
into steam which was consumed
by the fire in the same manner as
the clouds. Earth was now a bub
bling mass of liquid rock that
was traversing its orbit around the
sun in less than a month.
All things must have an end and
so did Earth, for when it came
within about three-hundred-thou
sand m.les of the sun a great fiery
arm reached out and gathered in
the tiny mass of fire. Earth had
then returned to its origin in the
reverse order from which it came.
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If man could but realize the
tragedy of foolishly raising his
umbrella of indifference to ward
off the bountiful showers of bless
ings from Heaven.
—Allen Brown.
Do rays of God’s eternal love
break through
The mists of doubt and fear that
shroud your way;
Or have you blindly groped while
seeking truth.
And never thought to pause and
kneel and pray?
—Allen Brown.
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