The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-25
TINBERvILLE LETTER.
LEAvESwoRTH, March l9, 1875.

LtAN ESNcRlH, March Is, 1919.
SISTER JERUsHA: Last night Abiram
asked Melinda and to 60 with him to the
Academy OF Science and Art, place, he
said, where the most learned men of the
town met to discuss importar: matters. We
went early, so as to have time TO look
around. There were great many queer
things there. Lots OF stones with papers
stuck on them, butterflies and bugs fatened
to paper and put in cases with glass over
them, ferns pasted on paper, stuffed birds,
mostly ducks and owls, and few bones
These were called fossil remains" and some
Indian equipments. So much for science.
The only evidence of art | saw was the
spelling on some OF the labels of the speci-
mems, and that was wonderful. I'd like to
have Noah Webster see it, and then hear
the art. The President, smart, good-na-
tured looking man-Judge somebody-call-
ed the meeting to order. Then man came
forward, and in the name of the handsome
minister heard preach Sunday, presented
great lot of copper coins. l said to Me-
linda, "If that man wanted to give anything
to the Academy, why didn't he give it in
paper money, so it would be of some Use ?"
Melinda said, copper money don't pass
here, and SO people have been in the habit
of putting all the pennies they got hold Of
into the contribution boxes, and the man
had really got so many on hand, he didn't
know what to do with 'em, lots of such
things have been given to the Academy"
Just then pleasant looking M. :, with a
Scotch face, and bit of brogue, ,me for
ward and read a real nice l. per, all
about dry goods, and things, and how they
came by their names. This was rc " to me,
because l always thought Adam named 'em
when he named all the animals. Well,
when he was through, and they talked a
little about what he said, they called that
minister forward that preached against
the Free Religionists. 1t seems somebody
wanted to know if there had ever any men
lived before Adam some bones-I mean
fossil remains-had been found, which look
ed as though there had
The minister seemed to think if any such
men had lived, it would injure the Book Of
Genesis.
Now would like to know how? If God
had a mind to create a race of men and an
| imals, and have iem travel their little
rounds, and he had got all through with
'em, and made 'em into fossils, and then
created Adam after that, I'd really like to
know if it was any of Adams business, or
ours? II he didn't choose to tell Moses,
have We any right, I'd like to know, to call
Moses to account, or God either? But the
minister didn't take it 20. He worked it
real ingenious, tell you, to get those
mems bones mixed Ia with the fossil re-
MAINS"
WHY he sent lot of fishermen into the
caves and made fossilsout of 'em. He smote
the rock as Moses did, only instead of water
| gushing out, the men gushed in |; bot, Jeru-
sha, I've Just thought how it happened
You remember wicked Korah, and all the
rest Of 'em,-how Moses made them and
their families sand at the door Of theil
tents, and then he asked God to open the
ground and let 'em in, and the ground did
open, and they and their families, and
household implements, were swallowed up
and do believe God made 'em into @fossil
remains" in the "twinkling of an eye
| But the minister didn't seem to think Of
that. Then he said we couldn't depend on
the chronology Of the Bible. asked Abb
ram ''what chronology was; if it had any
thtng to Go with our plan of salvation ?
because wanted to know if that couldn',
lie depended on. But Abiram said j,
was only the Science of computing time,
and that the minister thought the world
might be older than six thousand years
Then the minister said all that Bible chron
ology was for Was to trace the lineage oi
Christ back to David and Adm. Nov,
would like to know if that is 70, Why tkey
trace the descent down through Joseph Al
l understand, Joseph wasn't blood relatiog
at all, and his lineage is of no consequence
whatever.
Ibelieve, Jernsha, I'd like to come home
Things get awfully mixed in Leaveu
worth.
The minister sat down, and some otl,en
talhsa, and thn We came home.
! We ne al I'LL With mach love,
- = W., 60 Hs~n..