Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-03-04

contracts, bargains and euch like, they
still continued to go by the old form, and
began their year from. the first of Tisri,
(which happened shout the time Of the
Autumnal equinox as all other nations
then did, &c, and all their jubilses and
sabbatical years began with It; s,il ,it be-
ing reckonsd their New Y ar's day, they
celebrated it with festij And this
festival being solemnized the sounding
of trumpets, from the morning Of That day
to the end Of it. thereby toproclaim and
give notice to all Of the Beginning Of the
New Year, it hath from hence been call
ed the feast of tFumpets.
And this seems to be o accordance
with the Bible. Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, In the seventh month,
in the first day of the month, shall 70
have Sabbath, l memor;al of the blow
ing Of trumpets-a holy convocation"-
Lev. 1924. And again: .In the seventh
month, on the first day of the month, 70
shall have holy convocation: Ye shall
do no servile work therein; it 10 dav of
flowing the trumpets unto you" Mum.
2o:L These authorities deem sufficient
TO show that the Creation commenced a.
bout the time of the Autumnal equinox;
and to show that the Mosaic account of
tho Creation is correct, will read from
Luke ll:51. sThat the blood of all tho
prophets, which was shed from the foun-
datien of the world, may be required of
this generation; from the blood of Abel to
the blood Of Zacharias," &c. These ar,
the words of the Lord himself; and this
shows the foundation or Creation Of the
world took place near the time of Abel,
who is spoken Of by Moses in the old les-
lament. Then we are warranted in say
ing that the chronology of the world, rs
recorded by Moses, is substantially cor
rect. This conceded, and we will again
recur to the Dominica Letters
| have already shown you that the 23J
of September falls on Sunday under the
Dominica Letter G, and no other. And
| have also shown from the Bible that the
Creation commenced on the first day Of
the week. Sunday. And / have shown
from the most reliable history that all the
ancicnts were of opinion that the Crea-
ton commenced about the time of the Au-
tumnai equinox Now all that we have
to do is to find in what year tho Autumn
al equinox fell on Sunday near the time,
according to the Bible chronology, Moses
says the Creation commenced BY exam
mining the Dominical Letter table, we
discover that the 23d of September, the
day of the Autumnal equinox fell on Sun
day just 400 years before the Christian
era; and that it did not fall on Sunday Ia
less than eleven years before that time
nor In less than seven years after that Pc
riod; and that if you start the cycles just
1000 years before the Christian era, they
--.'h cvt,-;eiat. hnt if Won start the m
at either of the aforesaid times, II years
before, or seven years after, or at any 9TH
er time less than 400 years from that time
they will not come out right This per-
fectly annihiates the chronology of Peter
Akers, who makes the world to be 5549
years old at the Christian era hEers'
chronology is also refuted by the Bible
itself According to the Bible chronolo-
gy and genealogy, there had passed bat
nineteen generations from Adam to Abra-
ham, and the world was then by the BIZ
BILE chronology, at the birth Of Abraham,
1913 years old; averaging but fraction
over hundred years to the generation !;
Thlle many Of the fathers were said to
live many hundreds of years. Then from
Abraham to David, including but IA gen
erations, hkers adds in his supernumer-
aly 1916 years, which would swell the
ages Of the fathers of those generations,
at the birth Of their sons, to an average
of $50 years each, more than double the
entire age of Moses and his temroraries,
unless We give the lie to the Bible, as Ak
ers, in effect does, when he says there
were more generations between Abraham
and David than the Bible gives an account
Of