Also, it must be regarded as very strange, to say the least, that an almost identical story is related in the book The Harmony of Science and Scripture by Harry Rimmer. But that book was first published in 1936! In a chapter entitled “Modern Science and the Long Day of Joshua” Rimmer refers to a book written in 1890 by a Professor C. A. Totten of Yale and claims that it “establishes the case beyond the shadow of a doubt.”
Wow! The WT debunked the 'missing day' story ??? Quick...where is their article that debunks that old WT story that Jehovah lives on a planet in the Pleiades constellation ?
On the other hand, it is possible that the sun, moon and earth all continued on in their regular movements, but that the light from sun and moon ceaselessly shone by some form of refraction that we do not now understand.
Three possibilities out of how many unknown? It is IMPOSSIBLE to say.
Judge Dread
Possibility #4. WUI (Writing Under the Iinfluence) i.e., plain old drunk, wormwood wine, pot, shrooms...take your pick.