OUR CALENDAR.
The Julian Calendar and Its Errors.
HOW CORRECTED BY THE GREGORIAN.
Rules For Finding the Dominical Letter,
AND THE DAY OF THE WEEK OF ANY EVENT FROM THE
DAYS OF JULIUS CÆSAR 46 B. C. TO THE YEAR OF
OUR LORD FOUR THOUSAND—A NEW AND EASY
METHOD OF FIXING THE DATE OF EASTER.
HEBREW CALENDAR;
SHOWING THE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE DATE OF
EVENTS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE WITH OUR
PRESENT GREGORIAN CALENDAR.
Illustrated by Valuable Tables and Charts.
BY REV. GEORGE NICHOLS PACKER,
CORNING, N. Y.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in 1890, 1892 and 1893,
By Rev. George Nichols Packer,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
All Rights Reserved.
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.:
FRED R. MILLER BLANK BOOK CO.
1893.
TO
HON. HENRY W. WILLIAMS,
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WHOM
I HAVE FOUND A TRUE FRIEND IN POVERTY AND IN SICKNESS,
AND
FROM WHOM I HAVE RECEIVED WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
AND COMFORT DURING MANY YEARS OF ADVERSITY,
AND AT
WHOSE SUGGESTION THIS LITTLE VOLUME HAS BEEN WRITTEN,
AND BY
WHOSE ASSISTANCE IT IS NOW PUBLISHED,
THIS
HUMBLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED
AS A
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
BY THE
AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
any yearsago, while engaged in teaching, the writer of this little volume was in the habit of bringing to the attention of his pupils a fewsimple rules for finding the dominical letter and the day of the week ofany given event within the past and the present centuries; further thanthis he gave the subject no special attention.
A few years ago, having occasion to learn the day of the week of certainevents that were transpiring at regular intervals on the same day of thesame month, but in different years, he was led to investigate the subjectmore thoroughly, so that he is now able to give rules for finding thedominical letter and the day of the week of any event that has transpiredor will transpire, from the commencement of the Christian era to the yearof our Lord 4,000, and to explain the principles on which these rulesrest. When the investigations were entered upon he had no thought ofwriting a book; but having been laid aside from active labor by illhealth, he found relief from the despondency in which sickness and povertyplunged him by pursuing the study of the calendar, its history, and themethod of disposing of the fraction of a day found in the time[Pg 6] requiredfor the revolution of the Earth in its orbit about the Sun.
He became so much interested in the study of this subje