The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1844-01-04


earth would have been thrown IN nieht
for forty days and the waves of IN,
ocean, when they came in contact will
ihe shore would have rolled back. anc
broken The force of The succeed n,
waves and 'hns there would hla?ye been
mand of Joshua: for when Joshua co m
msnded the sun to stand still, it was
nothng more nor less, than the earth
that was stopped in its revolution. -
| Those who maintain this theory say,
hat ia this case The earth beiog stopped
would cause The water TO gush out of the
bowels of the earth, and spout up IN the
same manner thai the Whale spouts ou'
water q, the sea; but, how come there
such vast quantities Of water in the bow
els Of the earth, as 10 cause ii 10 rush to
| the surface with such violence, as 10 up
hesve the mountains. II such had beet
llhe case, the caves which are found both
| in the mountains of the Old and New
Worlds would exhibit greater marks Of
violence than they do at present And,
moreover; the amount Of that wa,
then or is now in liquid state, is not
sufficient to cause a universal deluge.
mus, here remark ,hs, l do not suppose
hat a single dIop of water has been lost
or added, since the creation or forma
ion oi this planet called the Earth
which we inhab,. That there was no
more water a, the time of :ha deluge,
than there was thousand years before,
nor more than there ID at the present
iime in and upon the earth. Having
his fact, VIII the rotundi'y of the earth
fairly established; and having also The
fact Of its daily revolution from west 10
east, duly established, | shall now
enquire wha, may be termed the "foun-
lains OF the great decp;"lor we are told
nat these were broken up. These
|codslder TO be nothing more nor less
han the poar ices; and | lhiak tha, we
ave jast grounds for this conclusion,
"; the vast mountains Of ice with
which the palos are loaded being The
fountains Of the great deep" because ia
hose moan,ains of ice, consider there
3 water suiIicien, TO deluge The earth
1t any time. | shall now endeavor 10
show how the two poles 50 loaded with
ce were brought under the immediate
action Of The suns rays. And here LEI
nc remark that at the time of the del
lge the seasons were changed, tor this
s implied in The promise that "seed
| time and harvest shonld remain" now
| il is The regular change OF The season,
which causes seed time aud harves' .
and therefore the seasons were changed
or in other words there was only one
season, and that was rainy one which
prevented seed from being sown.
Now, this earth being only speck
in the innumersble fsmi Y of planets, il
was only necessary for the Almighty to
bid il to spin round 10 The direction Of a
meridian, instead Of following degree
Of latitude. This would throw the po.
lar ices under the immediate inhuen ce
Of tha suns rays, and cause great fu-
sion of The polar ices which would in
deed, be breaking up Of The "founlain
Of the deep" This loo would cause
he vapors to rise IN such 9rofuson that
they would form materials for heavy
and prolracled rains,
This 'heory is, | think in harmony
both with nature, reason and revelation.
Because nature teaches that the poles are
Ioaded with mountains Of ice. aud here
$ natural process by which they are
brought into the liquid stale. And this
process would continue while the polar
ces would remain; and as The poles
would be thus exposed, it is easy to ac-
count for the "orty days rain" All
know what vast quantities of vapor rise
from the melting of the ice in our small
creeks, and even when The frost is com
ing out of The ground in the spring OF
the year; and il is a we'll established
fact, that these vspors form clouds and
fall again in rain. Then when we take
into the account, that these polar ices
are in themselvee not only mountains,
but vast continents, containing noun
tslns higher than any mountain in the
United States; or perhaps in North A
merics. Here would be real increase
of water, and that by the simplest
means in nature, viz; The fusion OF The
polar ices, and that in the same manner
\ that the ices, on our rivers and creeks,
are converted into water. And sll whe
have witnessed the effects of This in.