Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10


declaration recorded in 50 many words
But if these nameess families existed who were 10 accom-
modaDs to Cain, and do such necessary
chronological n6dey where is the table Of their seealogy
and where the record Of herlives In the fifth chapter
Genesis The first Of Is. Chronicles, and the third Of the
Gospel BY Luke We have the geneosy Of the sons Of ADAM
and nowhere in the sacred canon is there record Of any
other than the direct descendants Of Adam and Eve
seems to trouble Backwoodsman" very much that Cain
should be made appear naughty as to marry his sister
But be admits that Eve was the wife Of Adam and the
mother Of Cain, propose that he shall answer the question
TO the instinctve rule" in regard TO taking wives toe
near of kin" by informing whether Eve who was taken
from Adams own flesh, nearer Of kin TO Adam thar
Gains sister and wife was to him
Paul. the inspired declared the Athenians who believed
themselves to be "Antochthones"- of the soil
God that made the world, hath made of one blood Zone
family or kindred all naons of for to dwell on all the
face of the eah The promise Of Saviour was made first
to ADAM after his amentsble spse and the Subsequent de-
caraion Of inspiraon SEA in Adam all die, even so in
Christ sha all be made alive cuts off all that are not the
children Of Adam from the comforts OF the christians hope
IT. therefore, Backwoodsman" is sincere he may exercise
his ingenuity and his casuisty to discover in case be has
some Of the blood Of Adams neghbos in his veins what de.
gree Of claim he has in the salvation purchased by Christ
Or further if those unhoTica people Of Nod" did exist
and the deuge but partial whether his ancestry may not
have oaded through The backwoods Of time even down 10
the present, without having mingled their blood with the cor
rupt sons Of Adam
In regard the attack upon the received history Of the
Deluge shall be brief As the assertion in respect Of
Gains wife and the Nod families has been dsproved the
cessy Of accommodating the Deuge to this chronological
theory 10 removed For the Deuge greatly in the way Of
these daring theorists because hndes the regular and smooth
working Of their scientific machinery; since, If the Mosaic
record Of that event be true the present population Of the
globe, with all its diversity and apparent nconguiy sprung
from the family Of Noah But having denied the unity Of
the race in ADAM necessary deny s unity in Noah
and bis family also This the legitimate result Of all error
false step taken another be assumed the first
good and thus every successive link such deducve chain
is weaker and further from the truth.
Moses has given very definite account Of this awful
visitation Of Divine wrath After informing US that definite
Instructions had been given Noah in reference the size and
construction Of the ark Of the assembly of the animals the
entry into the ark Of the breaking up of all the fountains of
the great deep and the opening Of the windows Of heaven
then oil the high hills that under the whole heaven
were covered and all flesh died that moved upon the ear
both of fowl and Of cae end Of beast and Of every creep
ing thing upon the earth, and every man, and every living
substance was destroyed which upon the face Of the
ground both man, and cattle, and creeping things and The
fowl Of the heaven, and they destroyed from the eah
and Noah Glue, and they that Uer oh
the ark" All this i very plain and definite. Language
cannot convey any facts distinctly and, indeed the
studied breviy Of the sacred writer was here laid asde
and be the efforts that would be made to discredt
his narrative he abors guard it. Where the least ground
for Bsckwoodsnan" and his instructed theolgians
that the deuge Of the Genesis general universal
whole globe Who can can doubt wha, Moses means
when he says anthe high hills that were under The ,ohok
heauen covered that AL flesh died that n,oved upon
the eart and erery If these learned doubers will
read this passage child years DID, be can prove
thcn what means, il they wise above that which
written.
But "Backwoodsman" should be " "emancipated from
the tyranny Of hese words Of Moses, still there other
words equally dficul for him contend with. Writers
against the deuge forget that the fact is referred several
times IN the sacred Scriptures. We, perhaps should say
forget, as might be justified in supposng that their Bible
Of all their books the least studied thorough acquain
ance with would teach them that they have been looking
IN the wrong direction for truth all their lives. As "a
scripture is given BY inspiration Of God and the deuge
mentioned BY several Of the inspired penmen, each ausion
by them to the scfptura accopn is additional testimony
to it's truth issah refers to it Ezekiel twice Paul
once and Peter three times IL however, the testimony of
these should be rejected there is Witness whom
trust even "Backwoodsmsn"5 himself will not ,mpeach.
Both Matthew and Luke have recorded the auson Of our
Saviour to the deuge, in which auson the wickedness Of
the people, the salvation Of Noah and those with him in the
ark and the destruction Of all the wicked anedluvians are
eonimed From this there can be no appeal The history
Of the food which the Jews then had the very same
which Backwoodsman" assails II ehertrue or false.
false the Saviour confirmed that aehood by referring to
it trie But this he could do. We must therefore,
credit the narrative Of Moses endorsed by the authority Of
Christ. &!t @f
We should Be pleased 10 follow this question beyond the
bare assertions Of and take up the scientific grounds Of
objection to both The above points Were it grave
matter in ITSELF and did not bear upon its face the unmis-
taxable mark ofndey. these aopposons of SCIENCE falsely
called would be Of meien to those who trust
in the sure and certain word Of prophecy which shneh as
light n dark place Poor deuded torch are these
learned skepcs, digging and delng in the dark places Of
earth, shutting out the light the Of truth and striving
to veil his brightness that their duh stowwor usre may Be
observed The history Of tells plainly the fact that
grea. not always wise, neither do the aged under
stand judgment" aa ATLANTIC. IL
ArRIL 26, 1851. af tJa
HiLD-SrEALIxe BY THE IsDIA IAxs.-The Camanches in
their msaudng excursions the Souhweste frontier re
quently carry of whe children. We notice in the Fort
smith Herald Of the 18th ultimo that poor named Hart
OF Reugo county, Texas had his oldest boy stolen by the
Csmanche Indians on the llh from within mile or two Of
oafp 49, &.