ONE of the strange happenings in the skies noted by the Wise Men of the East before the coming of Christ is recurring this year and early in next, though it has not happened in all the years between.
Three times in the six months following August of this year the planets Jupiter and Saturn will have met and passed one another. Jupiter, traveling at eight miles a second, and Saturn at two miles a second slower, caught up the ringed planet on August 15th. The two appear to pass and repass, meeting again on October 11Th and for the third and last time on February 20th next year. This is the final stage of this triple conjunction, which last occurred in the year 6 B.C. By some astronomers, notwithstanding the uncertainty about the exact date of the coming of our Lord, the event has been associated with the Star of Bethlehem.
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