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name given to the people, or nation, OF

lidlhe gwen W lne pooplc, or utliOlI, VI
country corresponds with the Bible ac-
count. except in the spelling. The "IIin-
doc kush refers quito clearly to Cush,
the first son of Ham. and to whom the
family no doubt deferred. The iliudoo
Kusl, and the Cush who was the progeni-
tor of the wife of Moses. Jethro, the Md
ianites and other neighboring nations, must
have been one and the same. The early
historians frsm whom the former name
was derived, coupled with the Aryan APP
pellation. probably intended to refer the same
family. or race the Cushtes, the Assyrians,
Bahylonians, or whatever name was orig
inally given to the various families of Ham.
Assyria and Babylon, and the various pro-
vinces of these kingdoms, went under the
general name Of Chaldeans, and Chaldea
received its name from Chasdim, or Caslu-
him, another DESCENDANT Of Ham. The
fact, then, that the original country of the
Aryan natiuns was the same as that Of the
dec :ndants of this family, Slinar, and that
one of the appellations given is Kush, is
sufficient, sustained, rs it is, by the sacred
historian to prove the position here taken
is correct. With this explanation, there is
no particular objection to the Aryan theory,
except to the name, as both refer to the de-
pendants of Ham.
For what period of time did these king
doms maintain their supremacy? 1t is
doubtful whether Egypt or Assyra WAS the
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the ruling kingdom of the Cllaldeans at an
earlier day than ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. But as
the history of Egypt was, to a great extent,
destroyed in the destruction of the Alexan-
history we have in the sacred record, and
begin with Assyria. 1t is evident this
kingdom began Soon after men had multi
piled sufficiently on the earth after the
hood The Bible does not give us the
chronology, but it is quite probable that it
was many centuries earlier than Csher'S
chronology would indicate. From the be-
ginning, however, it would seem plain this
kingdom exercised predominant; influence
in the werld, containing the same, or at
least the country occupied by the same
people, until the prophet Micah wrote,
for he calls AsSyria the land of MINI
rod, and predicts great calamitics that
should come upon them as 4 judgment for
their many sins. And his predictions were
fulfilled, or began to be, when Nabop"las-
ser, a Babylon prince or satrap, and the
father of Ncbucladnezzar the great, took
Nincveh, its capital, 10y assault, subverted
the kingdom of Assyria, and established
that of Babylon six hundred and twenty
five years before Christ.
| The length of time in which this suprc-
macy continued is quite uncertain. There
has been great dispute as to the age of the
world. Some are ready to adopt the Chi
nese claim to antiquity, some three and
half millions of years, more or less. Con-
| fuciuS, the Oldest Chinese historian, lived
and wrote only about five hundred years
before Christ, and yet the absurdity of his
giving reliable history of millions of years
before he existed seems never to have oc-
CURED to them. And the case is still worse
with the Indian historians. 1t is we'll
known that their Pundts do not hisitate to
| invent even thousands of verses when to
them it seems desirable. The astronomi-
cal accounts in the Surpa Sydhauta are
known to be fabricated
But in these days it is not difficult for
the learned to see positive proof that
the world is vastly old already. Geology
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one sort or another, is all that is required.
| At 4 recent meeting of scientific men ut
Chicago, 4 skull found under peculiar cir
cumstances i'll California, was sufficient
prsef that men ilourished in that country
more than ten Thousand years ago. And
with others, the Rosetta stone found among
rubbish in one Of the cities Of Egypt is con
elusive, that astronomy was carried to 4
! high degree OF perfection there, long before
Moses, OF even Abraham. To others, some
articles of pottery found in a cave with
human bones is positive proof that there
were not only men, but 4 high degree OF
civilization, in the world thousands of years
before Adam, when the Me.aloSaurus and
portions over sea and land, and through
mud and water.
Leaving all such wise men to their thcor-
les and their belief, it is enough for our
purpose to show, as we have done, that
Ashur, or Nmro.l, the grandson of Nsah.
laid the foundation of tho Assyrian empire,
peopling it with his children and brethern
ind, although there were many wars, ans
the kingdom perhaps almost overthrown,
yet it substantially maintained its super
lority until Micah predicted its downfall,
and until Nabopalasser took Ninevph, the
capital, and subverted the Assyrian. anu
established in lis place the Babyloniai
kingdom. All the darkness there is in his
tory lies back OF that period. What follows
is comparatively light and plain.
Nec Era.