> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:57:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: "H. Paul Jacobson" <hpj3@u.washington.edu>
>
> A while ago I had asked for references on the 'Missing Day' legend.
> Several people sent me information, including pointers to early
> discussions in the ASA journal. Here's a newspaper account (rather old
> I suspect) of Harold Hill's version of the legend that recently appeared
> on one of the newsgroups.
>
> Paul Jacobson 'A facility for quotation covers the absence
> hpj3@u.washington.edu of original thought.' [Lord Peter Wimsey]
>
>
> >From tnally@csci.csc.com Tue Mar 5 11:48:41 1996
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:31:47 CST
> From: Tyler Nally <tnally@csci.csc.com>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
> Subject: The Missing Day...
>
> Greetings Saints in Jesus Name!
>
> I was with a good nazarene friend of mine of the weekend that loaned
> me a copu of the following. I had a photocopy of it a long, long,
> time ago. I seem to have lost it. I was looking for it the other
> day and couldn't locate it. When he (my nazarene friend) mentioned
> it when I was with him, I asked if I could borrow it. He'll get it
> back in a couple of weeks. But, for the time being, this is the
> contents of what I had lost....
>
> Bro. Tyler
>
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> The following is copied from "The Evening World" in Spencer, Indiana.
>
> "Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has
> been called a 'myth' in the Bible is true?" Mr. Harold Hill, President
> of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Md., and a consultant in
> the space program, relates the following:
>
> "I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today
> happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green
> Gelt, Md. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and
> planets out in space where they would be 100 and 1,000 years from now.
> We have to know this so we don't send a satellite up and have it bump
> into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbit in
> terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so
> the while thing will not bog down. They ran the computer measurement
> back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer
> stopped and put up a red signal, which means that there was something
> wrong either with the info fed into it or with the results as compared
> to the standards. They called the service department to check it out
> and they said, "It's perfect." The IBM head of operations said,
> "What's wrong?" "Well, we have found there is a day missing in space
> in elapsed time." They scratched their heads and tore their hair.
> There was no answer."
>
> One religious fellow on the team said, "You know, one time I was in
> Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." So he
> got the Bible and went back to the book of Joshua, where they found a
> pretty ridiculus statement for anybody who had 'common sense'. There
> they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not I have delivered
> them into thy hand: there shall not a man of them stand before thee."
> Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if
> darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to
> make the sun stand still. That's right. "The sun stood still and the
> moon stayed...and hasted not to go down about the whole day." The
> space men said, "There is the missing day." Well, they checked the
> computers going back into the time it was written and found it was
> close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in
> Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes...not a whole day. They read
> the Bible and there it said "about a day."
>
> These little words in the Bible are important. But they were still in
> trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you'll be in
> trouble in 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found
> because it can be multiplied many times over in orbit. Well, this
> religious fellow also remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said
> the sun went BACKWARDS. This space man told him he was out of his
> mind. But they got out the book, and read these words in II Kings,
> chapter 20, "Hezekiah, on his death-bed was visited by the prophet
> Isiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah did not
> believe him and asked for a sign as proof." Isaiah said, "Do you want
> the sun to go ahead ten degrees?" Hezekiah said, "It's nothing for
> the sun to ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten
> degrees." Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten
> degrees BACKWARD. Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes. Twenty three
> hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus forty minutes in II Kings
> make the missing 24 hours the space travellers had to log in the
> logbook as being the missing day in the universe.
>
> Isn't that amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in HIS Truth.
> That's right."
>
> (Rev. George Lake, Pastor of Clovis, N.M. Church of the Nazarene,
> personally talked to Mr. Hill by long-distance on the afternoon of
> February 13, 1970 and Mr. Hill confirmed the truth of this article.)
>
>