Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-06-20


for one unaccusiomed to ii, aud the arctic
and arctic circles receiving the suns in
duence more ohIiqusly would tie in the same
proportion cold, yet neither would the one
BIO Us hot nor the other cold in the sup
posed case as now and almost any portion
OF the earth would have formed most con
venient and delightful abode 10 man. Be-
eides i, is evident from some relics OF antedi-
luvisn Astronomy, that their years COASTS
ted OF 300 days, from which without dis
pute, we have taken the hint of dividing |
circle into 360 degrees, 81 " hich can easily lie |
accounted for on The principle assumed. but
on no other and SO may also the fact oi the
ieng.hening Of our years 10y five days and
fraction be accounted for from the oLliuuity
OF the ecliptc OF our earth since the flood.
and which fact being so long unk nuwn 10 The
post. diiuviaus, has produced nii the conlu
sion Of ancient chronology in reckoning the
number OF days TO the year.
The equality Of climates and seasons NAV
be further proven by the organic and fossil
remains which are found in high northe IN
istitudes, and which are known now only as
the products of equatorial and tropical re-
gions. IT is certainly the more naiura, and
easy way TO account for these fossils by sup
posing that they we're the products OF the re
specUve climes in which they are found, and
buried by Noah's deluge, than 10 suppose as
as often done, that they we're washed from
Africa to Siberia md Greenland, and there
buried by the course OF time.
The longevity of The antediluyans is a.
mother argument in favor of our petition
The longest lie was 900 years, the frs, man
lived $50 years; all the others recorded, ran
Eed in the same neighburhood more or less.
Now there was nothing arbitrary ia all this.
The great health and vigor OF their consii>
tutions, together with the adaptation OF their
Climates and seass.s for lis preservation, are
reasons sufficiently strong and clear 10 ac
count for all thus. The life of Noah fell vo-
ry little short OF his ancestors, but the lives
OF his descendants gradually shortened until
they settled down TO about 70 years. Nor
is there any thing arbitrary in this. The
arrangement Of climates, The rigors of sea.
sons and the afliction and toll and anxiety to
which man was subjected through the de.
engagements introduced by the flood, are al.
so causes sufficient 10 produce such effects,
and this 10 the only rational way 10 account
for them
Now We ough: ever 10 remember that the
lille OF man upon earth, from first TO last had
more glorious aim than simply the enjoy
ment oil Paradisica! pleasures il was lie
oil probation in reference 10 sublime state
OF nnalserable felicity in the celestial world
Now stale OF probation, however harry is
not Tree from incnHYe icnces and dangers,
sa;. therefore Incompatible with the ultimate
design Of The Almighty in the creation Of
man. Thus also the present organization of
our bodies, being subject 10 hunger, thirst
fatigue, sleep sc. is a necessary hindrance To-
the most perfectly rational and intellectual
enjoymenis, from all Of which we think we
are warranted in the conclusion that present
things, even Paradisical state was not de-
signed 10 last forever; probation was To have
IN hDft,n
and fitted Tor more celestial region.
From the fact then that man even ar,er
his apos,acy, but before any material change
was effected in our globe, lived nearly 1000
years, may we not safely infer that had he
never sinned he would have lived still Ions
ger, probably round thousand, in q Pa.
radisical world; the effect Of SIN, OF IN
holy passions, OF hard labor and occasional
pIiyation, may be readily admitted as the
means OF curtailing his life as much as he
Lacked oil the one thousand years We fur>
sther suppose that had he finished his 1000
years of probation in state OF inHexible ODE
-diencei 10 his God, he would not have died
r(deah being no part OF ouroriginal nature bui
violence done 10 I'D but like ijnoch ofthe old
world& Elijah ofihe new he wotsld have heen
translated, and in his translation, in a mo
menf, IN The twinkliny OF an eye, he would
have experienced that happy trans orma, ZION
In ms BODY itom terrestrial 10 celestial,
which believers on earth shall experience at
:he sound o! the last trumpet, when they
shall be caught up together TO meet The
lord in the air, and be forever present with
The Lord"
The last evidence shall alduce in favor
OF uniformity OF climates aud seasons be
fore the flood, is from some Of the oldest TIA i.
diiIons o! The pagan world, and out Of which
traditions their first poets formed their Eli
sian fields, and their golden age, some parts
OF which they thus describe:
." no change Of seasons, no excess was there,
40 winters Oh lied, summer $ parc!,ed the air
Gat with consaa: spring nature was fresh and fair
Rough winds aud rain, that region knew,
"Vaiered BY rivcrsand The morning dew,
7 hc ky still clear, the fields silllgreep aud raw
No clouds above, the earth decay
Trees kept their Leaves and yer iurc all the year
And fruits out OF season tiereu
We now come 10 treat OF the food
This has always been u suffice! OF great per.
plexity to theorists, and almosteyefy scheme
and absurdiiy OF all likely 10 account for il
has been resoried 10, until inventinr genius
itself has become tired. Thus when cor.
lain one is OF q loss for tho quantity OF wafer
sufficient TO cover the highest mountains. he
brings j. from The tail Of some comet. hicb
no supposes to have come in contact with
dbe earth al that lime and 10 have condensed
upon ii in the form Of a deIuge. lie has
however failed Ia tell us what became of
The water after the dclugo was over. Per.
haps he might think that some other comet |
svithouta tail passed over The earth abon,
that time and swallowed il Up again, thus |