Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-30

of the big treel being struck with an aug
er in boaring an artesian we'll, in Califor-
MIA, near the sea C asst, two hundred fe ct
below the level of the sea.
A verbal account says that the skeleton
of n man sixteen feet high had been dug
up in California. So it seems that Cali
fornia is the place, not only for infidels to
live but to find in. that the Bible is a fc-
ton. Whenever l see such productions
from any mans pen, l.want no other proof
to convince me that he is an infidel. The
California story which | first adverted to
was about tree that was said To be 26 feet
in diamateri the other was said to be but
ii feet in diamater, yet they were both
old enough and only about old enough,
to prove the Bible TO be liel That is the
prime object of all such reports
If a tree that is fou rteen feet in diana
ter be 64S0 years old, one that is twenty
six feet in diamater, if it grew Just as fast
would be more than 10000 wears old But
so great an age as that is more than suffi-
cient to answer the infdels purpose
And when he comes to speak of the stump
being 200 feet below the surface Of all the
great seas, he mnst be grasping after evi-
dence which amounts to superogation to
to prove this point For the stump must
have grown before the seas were made
and must have been cut bv one of the ci-
ants of the Suttee Jogue." Now let us
reason a little on this subject The red
wood is now a growth of California Is
that any proof that it grew there during
the Suttee Jogue 1900 600 years ago !?
But if the question be asked How came
that red wood to be 20O feet below the
level of the sea ? | would rpely, that rs
the red wood is now to be found in that To-
l.
some mischievous boy then living in Cal
i!ornia should drop billet of red wood
into the we'll in the absence of some of
the workmen, than that a boy of the Sut-
tee .Jogue should have cut down red
wood tree before tne great seas were made
Nonsense-it is all atheism or infidelity.
There is a species of infidelity to which
| will now advert. The reverend Peter
Akers, who has published a large book
on chronology, makes out the world to be
5346 years old at the commencement of
the Christian era This reckoning is not
only at variance with the Old Testament
chronology, but it gives the lie to the New
Testament
Matthew tells us that there were but
forty-twO generations from Abraham to
Christ inclusive; and Luke gives the
names OF twenty gener .tions previous to
Abraham, as does the Septu't"int but
the other copies OF the Bible, and also
Josephus, give but nineteen. Therefore,
there were but sixty one generations from
Adam to Christ; and cons quently the
average age of the fathers, at the birth of
their sons according to Mr.. Akers' chro-
nology, must have been ninety years or
more! Prior to to the Flood, the average
are Of the fathers at the birth of their
sons, according to the Bible, was about
l65 years, but we have no account of such
long celibacy since the Flood Such n
thing indeed, would rather initiate against {
an strengthen, Mr. Akers' position Mr.
y lers is therefore, inadvertently no doubt
giving the lie to the sacred volume when
he asserts the age of the world to be 5546
years at the Christian era. Luke it is
true, gives the names Of ffty-six genera
tiuns from Abraham to Christ; but that
does not in the least strengthen Mr. Akers
chronology for Luke gives the same gc-
nealogy precisely that Matthew does,
down to the sons Of David; there they
separate; one giving, it is supposed, the
genealogy of Marv and the other that of
Joseph, so all the additional names, four
teen in number given by Luke, were sub
sequent to David and it was prior to
David that Mr.. Abers adds in his supernu-
merary 1916 years
so Lukes addition Of fourteen names
adds nothing to Mr. Akers supposed old
: are Of the world if Matthew's genealorv
he true. Many persons have notion that
the world never was made; or if made at
all, chat it was made a grelt while AGO
many millions OF years ago, like the Hin
docs. | would merely ask such persons
this question: If the world ever was
made, why not as well be made when the
L l., l.
or ten million years ago? If the world
ever had ii beginning be that when L was.
there was n time when 1t as Just as old
/ as the Bible says it was this time last
year.
The first thing the Bible teaches rs is
this: in the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. This done it is
said, The evening and the morning were
the first day. (Sunday.) The second
day work was making the 'frmameI,r 2"
vs.. 6-S. The third ay's work was making
the grass and tr es, IS. ll-13. And the
the fourth dav's work was making - Two
great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night"
vs. I4l9
Well now, if the first day was Sunday.
the 23rd day of september in the New
Style. on what day OF the week and month
were the Two great lights made 2 An
swer; on Tuesday evening and Wednes-
day morning, the 18th and Doth (And
this | am able to verify in its proper place }
= We'll now according to Furguson's tables
and his rules for calculating therefrom,
at what time did the Moon change in Oc-
tober, Old STYLE, B. C. 1000? Answer ::
on the Doth day, at 3 o clock A, Jerusalem
time Now subtract p days from that TO
change the STYLES and it leaves precisely
what the Bible requires. September 25th
A, for the time of the change, or crea-
ton Of the Moon, placed in conjunction
with the Sun, which has ever since been
c He'd the new moon Thus agreeing pre-
cisely with tile very day on which the Bi-
bic says the Creation commenced, and the
day on which the two great lights were
made.
but let us examine a little further into
this subject, and see if it really he so
We have assumed that the creation WAS
1000 years B. C. and where will they run
to There are three cycles that we will
try; one of 10 years, one of 16 years and
one of 532 years Divide the above s.
{ sumad ava Of rho world 5S5S hy those