Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-20
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The Deluge.

A sci les of subjects of a literary, seien-
tifc ant religions nature. will appear
hereafter in the REPUBLICAN,
The t1ll owing is one of some interest
at this tim. 2, to all students of the Inter
national Sc res Of Bible Lessons, and is
worth readii ,g by Literary and Scientific
men. of WHOM there are not a few, that are
believers in tn word of God Its one of
a regular cous, of sabbath morning sey-
mons, and was delivered at the N. e.
church, Februsry I'd, 1873, by Rev. J. l.
Boyd
The Sunday sh Dol Lesson, on which the
sermon was BASEL, II ,ay be found in Gen
VI. 1918
The text for the erm on, and its applica-
ton, on Sunday eve hing IS found in
Hc5. XI T.
In erecting buiIdi lg, it is essential
to clear away the rubbi ii or the founda-
ZION thereof, as to lay ia So in present
Ing any system or subje, It . some minds
The rubbish in our way t. his morning, is
the deduction of impure S, lie ice, > which
OF them are ever a.den ION stration OF
the inspired truth, that GO, l uade man
upright. but he hath sought 1t, many ID
ventionsN The sacred narrati We declares
thee was deluoe and the l'rel onder-
anee ot.its testimony shows it was uni
versal as to the inhabited world, nd pcs
sialy SO to the entire surface of the 81 1be.
If we concede this to be anything 7sS
than literally true-what will not be a. SKI Vi
OF US: Some men feign to be salts det
with the doctrine of a partial deuge, nd
| then what followed? Nothing but til e
false deduction there aoas no food" VIVA.
next is demanded of US? Nothing else,
but that Revelation is no authority
whatever" Noah and his Ark is only a
highly wrought description of some Pa
gan Deity, and his great deeds according
to the views of some modern thinker. |
think the inventions of men are as vet,
unequal to the -evelation of God, which
fixes the deluge as fact of the strongest
historical vercity. What are the objec- |
tons. urged against the fact
LIST. That MIN was not universally
scattered, and therefore no necessity of
submerging the world for a purpose that
could be accomplished by partial SUBJ
n1ergence.
| This is assuming a. great>d deal. Is it
safe assumption? Does it not lie in the |
| assumed and unproven thought, that hui |
mainly were few and closely settled to-
gether? The word declares ''that all the
| high hills under the whole heaven, were |
covered" Are we at Liberty to abridge |
the expression. Has this utterance limi-
ted meaning as some others? Is it not
phrase of the widest signi6cation?
That humanity were but few is not /,
easily demonstrated. Some mer consider |
the accepted chronology of the christian
church, gives too limited number of the |
human race, (chief among whom are the |
advocates of no deluge,) but according to /,
it, and the rapid multiplication of the hui |
name family to 953 B.. (Which is I'M
derstood to be an equivalent in.time as to |
how long man had been on the earth !
previous to the flood. We have a popu-
lation scattered into Armenia, China,
East India, Italy, Spain and Western At
RIGA" Assyria is represented in great
power, and Tyre in the height ofcommer-
I cial prosperity
If it is reasonable to suppose the ante
dilnvians can equal facilities for emigra-
ton and multiplication with the sons of |
Noah; it is reasonable to suppose they !
were not few, nor thinly settled In some !
| valley subject; to inundation more than |
tthe rest of the earth's surface There |