Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-07-27

[u1ed up from OF the earth. "-S, Ii. I" And
in the second month, on the seven and t,yentieth
day of the month, was the earth dried. '-S, Il
So it appears that the year was divided then
as now, into months, in which there were a.
least twenty seven days, and that there Were
not less than twelve of those months in the year.
For, after the tenth month, spoken of in verse
5th, we have at least ffty-four days mentioned
and fully accounted for, besides a certain indif-
mite interval, before VIC arrive at the six hun
dred and first year of the patriarchs life. With
such an array of evidence as this, neither Hens
Ter nor any other man can be considered excu-
sable for putting forth SO puerile suggestion
as that which u simple reading of the text SO
easily refutes. The truth is, that philosophers,
or those who arrogate to themselves this title,
as we'll as sinners generally, hate the Bible. And
they are SO eager to pick flaws in its history,
chronology, or science, that they can scarcely
stop long enough TO inquire what it really does
teach If anything which it seems to teach
initiates against their theories, instead of re-
vising those theories, they undertake to remod-
ell the Bible. If Moses teaches that the crea-
tion of the world was effected in six day, while
they imagine from the skin-deep Investigations
Of here and there spot on the surface of the
earth, that at the rate of present or recent for
nations, much longer time would be required
to make it what it is, they ignore altogether
the creative power of its Author, and proceed
to multiply Moses by as many thousands or mill
ions as may be necessary to exalt him into har-
mony with themselves. If, on the other hand, /,
Moses assigns to the patriarchs of the old world
q length Of life which staggers their philosophy,
or jostc some favoritc theory, they proceed no
less boldly to divide and reduce Moses, till they
bring him down to the level of their unbelief.
But there is still another difficulty which
these candid critics have quite overlooked If
the year consisted of three months, till the birth
of Abraham, then the tower Of Babel was built,
and the confusions of tongues took place, in
twenty-five years after the flood, when there
could not by any process of multiplication, have
been fifty adults, of both sexes, on the face of
the earth. Babylon and Nineveh were built
about the same time. And in about fifty years
after these events, Egypt had become a king
dom, Canaan was settled by numerous tribes and
nations, Damascus was known as u city of emf
nence, and many other places and people had
already become established and powerful. To
such absurdities does skepticism stoop, rather
than admit that the Bible is of God, and that
its history, chronology and biography is as little
to be disputed as its doctrines Truly, there is
now, as in the days of Paul, ga philosophy
falsely SO called" 1t was to just this class Of
theorists that he appealed in Athens Why
shoa Id it be thought thing incredible to.you
that God should raise the dcadl" Jehovah
was to them an " unknown God" They thought
him " altogether such an one as themselves. "
Modern philosophy does the same, Or denies the
God altogether. With such living mirices
as ourselves always before our eyes, why should
it be thought incredible that He who created
life, should sustain it hundred Or thousand
years Life is itself infinitely greater miracle
than any possible extension Of it. SENIOR.