TWO CIRCLES AND A GRECIAN CROSS

That wonderful sights in the heavens have not yet ceased, the following from the Louisville (Ky.) Evening Post of Feb. 28, 1898, will show:—LDT 133.3

“There were strange happenings in the heavens last night.... The appearance of two large circles of light, followed by a large Grecian cross, with the moon in the center, is not an every-night occurrence.LDT 133.4

“The first circle appeared at about eight o’clock, when the moon could be seen about seventy degrees above the horizon. It stretched from the south-west corner of the heavens over the center to the north.... In about half an hour, as the clouds became heavier in the east, the other circle appeared. For a while the circles remained apart, but toward the end they arranged themselves at right angles, with the moon in the center, thus forming the cross. While the display was remarkable, it is thought, as was stated, that it was due to the refraction of the moon’s light on the thin layers of cloud and mist that covered the heavens last night, but which were so light that even the starlight penetrated them.”LDT 134.1

The Louisville Courier-Journal of February 28 said of the moon’s appearance: “No similar phenomenon was ever before witnessed in this vicinity. Its appearance was enough to cause more than a passing notice. It [the moon] was first surrounded by a small circle, and then there was a segment of a second circle that made a magnificent sweep around the zenith. The large circle cut the little circle in two, and when they finally faded away, a little before midnight, they were followed by a well-developed Grecian cross, with the moon in the center. This was the phenomenon every one who looked at the moon saw.LDT 134.2

“It was an extraordinary phenomenon, which, for all that is known, may have transcended the domain of meteorology. The general impression isLDT 134.3

PICTURE-CIRCLES IN THE MOON, KENTUCKY AND NEW YORK

that it was a ‘lunar rainbow.’ In its earlier stages of development, a greenish tinge was quite perceptible; but there were numerous other phases about it that were difficult to reconcile with the theory of rainbow. It was, in all probability, due to the reflection and refraction of the rays of moonlight upon the thin stratum of cirro-stratus clouds at the particular altitude at which they were flying during those hours.”

If, according with this theory, this phenomenon was such an ordinary affair-simply the rays of the moon shining upon clouds so thin that stars shone through them-why so rare that no such sight had ever been seen there before? Why not acknowledge the power of God so combining the rays of light at that time as to produce this “wonder” in the heavens?LDT 136.1