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PRIVATE EDITORIAL WORKING DRAFT — lightly normalized transcription. Historical claims below are attributed to The Flaming Sword and are not independently verified.
Recently, a member of the engineers’ staff of the B. C. R. & N. Railroad, and an ex-county surveyor of Du Page County, Illinois, took a leveling instrument onto the top of the Auditorium tower, two hundred and sixty feet above the water level, and having adjusted their instruments, they found that their horizon point, as indicated by the theodolite, touched the water of Lake Michigan, and when they turned their instrument in the direction of the tower of the crib of the old water works, which was three miles away and not less, but probably considerably more than fifty feet high, above the water, they found the waters of old Michigan, in the distance, rising far above the top of the tower.
What say the doubters as to the truth of Koreshan Science to such facts as these? Ridicule will not laugh them down. Their silent appeal will be heard.—O. F. L.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 2, No. 39 · 29 Aug. 1891 · PDF p. 4