THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 4

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

Reference is made by a correspondent, iG." Read, to an article in "The Post" of October 24, quoting the statement :of Dr. W. D. MacMiHari, "that science has no record of the Star of Bethlem." The correspondent quotes against this an article published in the "English Review," July, 1933, by A. H. T. Clarke. He quotes a passage from "Allies of Religion," by E. Worcester, which refers to the discovery of certain Egyptian astronomical heiroglyphs embracing the period 17 8.C.-A.D. 10, thus covering the time of Christ's birth "This contemporary chart records the conjugation of Jupiter with Saturn in Aries. And it also records that several other such conjugations took place in. Aries ... and that one of these periods began April 15, 6 8.C.. and that Jupiter became stationary and stood in Aries on December 27 in the same year.1"--' ■ • .- ■ ■-. : '■■■ . ■ • '" "That date (writes the correspondent) gives us/two years for; the Wise Men's j aurney before some meteor-like apparition conducted them to the actual house of the Infant Messiah. Thus there is an initial harmony in the records of j Scripture and science. In the light of-this I do not think that Dr. MacMillan;is justified in saying that the story 'is the theme for a beautiful religioua legend, but astronomy agrees _the star never existed." , ..