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August 4, 1901
The Caucasian
Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana
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Preacher John Jasper delivers a fervent sermon using Bible verses to argue that the sun moves, the earth is flat with four corners, and scientific claims about the planet's shape and distance to the sun are false.
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THE SUN DO MOVE SERMON
John Jasper's Arguments For Discrediting the Scientists.
One Sunday about 15 or 20 years ago after a long series of his typical sermons John Jasper arose in his pulpit, looked significantly about him and took his text from the book of Exodus, chapter xv, verse 3. "The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name."
Beginning with Genesis and going through to Revelations, he collected together all the verses that seemed to teach that the sun moved and that the earth was not a ball. He felt absolutely certain that the Bible was true, and he could not see why anybody could disagree with its plain teachings.
"Brethren," he said, "ef de Bible say de sun rise an set, den it do rise an set. An how ken it rise an set ef hit don' move?
"In de tenth chapter o' de book o' Josh-wy an de twelf, thirteenth an fo'teenth verses dar is proof strong ernuff fer us all. De Lawd said: 'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon staid until the peo-ple avenged themselves upon their en-emies. And there was no day like that before it or after it.' " The old preach-er stopped there and paused a long time. Finally he said:
"Brethren, ef de sun stood still once when 'twas a-movin an den stahted to movin ergin hit is a-movin now!
"Dey say de earth is roun'. Dat ain't so, brethren. It can't be so, for de book o' Revelations, chapter vii, verse 1, read, 'And I saw four angels standing on the four corners o' the earth.' An now, brethren an sisters, we is livin on a fo' cornered earth, an ef de earth is got fo' corners how in de name o' Gawd ken it be roun'?
"Ef de worl' is roun' an turn over ev'y night, how we hol' on? Is we got claws on our feet like peckerwoods?
"Dey say 'tis so many billions an squillions o' miles fum hyar to de sun. How dey know? Is anybody been dar? How dey know it take a cannon ball a mont' to go dar? Ken a cannon ball carry a cookin stove an victuals to s'port a man on de way dar? Gawd, folks, is dat any argymint?"—Leslie's Monthly.
John Jasper's Arguments For Discrediting the Scientists.
One Sunday about 15 or 20 years ago after a long series of his typical sermons John Jasper arose in his pulpit, looked significantly about him and took his text from the book of Exodus, chapter xv, verse 3. "The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name."
Beginning with Genesis and going through to Revelations, he collected together all the verses that seemed to teach that the sun moved and that the earth was not a ball. He felt absolutely certain that the Bible was true, and he could not see why anybody could disagree with its plain teachings.
"Brethren," he said, "ef de Bible say de sun rise an set, den it do rise an set. An how ken it rise an set ef hit don' move?
"In de tenth chapter o' de book o' Josh-wy an de twelf, thirteenth an fo'teenth verses dar is proof strong ernuff fer us all. De Lawd said: 'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon staid until the peo-ple avenged themselves upon their en-emies. And there was no day like that before it or after it.' " The old preach-er stopped there and paused a long time. Finally he said:
"Brethren, ef de sun stood still once when 'twas a-movin an den stahted to movin ergin hit is a-movin now!
"Dey say de earth is roun'. Dat ain't so, brethren. It can't be so, for de book o' Revelations, chapter vii, verse 1, read, 'And I saw four angels standing on the four corners o' the earth.' An now, brethren an sisters, we is livin on a fo' cornered earth, an ef de earth is got fo' corners how in de name o' Gawd ken it be roun'?
"Ef de worl' is roun' an turn over ev'y night, how we hol' on? Is we got claws on our feet like peckerwoods?
"Dey say 'tis so many billions an squillions o' miles fum hyar to de sun. How dey know? Is anybody been dar? How dey know it take a cannon ball a mont' to go dar? Ken a cannon ball carry a cookin stove an victuals to s'port a man on de way dar? Gawd, folks, is dat any argymint?"—Leslie's Monthly.
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Biography
Curiosity
Historical Event
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Providence Divine
Moral Virtue
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John Jasper
Sun Moves
Flat Earth
Bible Verses
Anti Science Sermon
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John Jasper
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John Jasper
Event Date
One Sunday About 15 Or 20 Years Ago
Story Details
John Jasper preaches a sermon citing Bible verses to prove the sun moves and the earth is flat with four corners, ridiculing scientific assertions about the earth's roundness and distance to the sun.