Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-03-28
THE FLOOD AND THE ARK.
A Hard-Shell Methodist Sermon OH
nature and Noah. ~ .#
Fron, Me'Independent

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In the autumn of 1880 I attended 6
Methodist camp meeting in the inter
ior of Georgia, and heard a sermon
which I have never been able to for
get or describe. ,.
The speaker had just been licensed
and it was his first sermon. In person
he was small bullet headed, of fair
sandy complexion, and his countenan-
ce was indicative of sincerity and
honesty. He was taking up the Bi-
bic in regular order for the first time
in his life, and had gotten as far as the
history of Noah, the ark, the flood, &c.
Besides, Gust before his conversion he
had been reading Goldsmith's Ami
mated Mater and the two together,
by the aid and assistance OF the Sperit,
had led hii.a into powerful train OF
thinking as he stood at his worl,
bench, day in and day out The
text was: Gas it was in the days OF
Noah, 50 shall the coming Of the Sen
Of Nan be- and he broke ont in the
following strains:
"Yes my brethren, the hcavcns Of
the windows was opened -ah, and the
foods OF the great deep kivered
The wstcrs-ah and there Shem, and
there Ham and there Japheth ah ali
a-gwine into the ark -ah.
"And there was the clephantah,
that g-r-e-a-t animal -ah, CT which
Goldsmith describes in his Animated
Mater -ah, what is as big rs a house
ah, and his bones as big as tree-ah,
depending somewhat upon The size Of
the tree-ah, a-l-l-a -gwine into TIN,
ark -ah. And the heavens Of the wiz :
dows was opencdah, and the floods of
the s-r e-a-t deer kivered the waters
all, and there was Shem, and there
WAS Ham, and there Was Eapheth-ah
A-l- ! agwine into the ark all
And there Was the hjppopotamns-
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