The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28


just imagine Divine Being separat
ing light from darkness; THROWN!
chunks of darkness on this side ant
sections of light on that side, till tn
two were separated. Moses didn'
know, poor, ignorant soul, that dark
ness was simply the absence of light
But then those ancients had som,
very quaint and curious ideas Of dark
ness. In another part of the Bibl,
we read that darkness overshad
owed all the land Of Egypt t.
such a thickness that it couli
be felt. Until lately there was bot
tie kept in Rome said to contain som,
of this celebrated Egyptian darkness
Moses and his contemporaries mad,
the same mistake about cold
Science had not then taught him tina
cold was merely an absence of heat
and that twenty degrees below zero i.
simply twenty degrees warmer than
forty degrees below. IN.
ABOUT WATER.
| Next Mr.. Moses I call him Mister
because 1 don't want to be considered
as treating him without respecD-Mr
Moses says God made the armament
and divided the waters that were un.
der the armament from the waters
that were above the tirmament. This
was another mistake of Moses. He
thought God kept water up in heaven
which he could pour down whenever
necessary. Even to this day there
are people who think it is only neces-
sary to pray for rain, and an Angel
will pull a string, opening up the
flood-gates of heavens reservoir and
let down just what is wanted. They
like Moses, have no realization Of the
laws of evaporation. They know not
that the sun woos the waters from the
surface of the seas until in clouds of
mist they 1oat up toward their sun.
lover until, disappointed, they resolve
into tears of remorse and fall to the
earth again.
ANOTHER MISTAKE.
Now, mark what Moses tells us. In
the next place the grass, just sprung
up, got to work and climed up the
shoulders of the hills, and covered all
the green valleys, while the trees bud
ded and put forth leaves and blossoms.
And, mark you, all this was done, if
we are to believe Moses, before the
sun was made. 1 don't believe it. I
must think that Moses was mistaken.
My mind teaches me that grass never
grew without the suns warmth and
bright rays-without a scintiilation of
its nurturing powers strikes first into
the root. But Moses said these thugs
happened without the sun, and Moses
was inspired. This was on the third
day.
THE SUN.
On the fourth day God saw that it
was good to have light, and Moses
says he made the sun and the moon to
rule the day and night. And God set
them in the heavens to give light to
the earth, says Mr.. Moses. And right
here may remark that Moses was
also mistaken in this statement. This
grew out of his ignorance. He evil
IDENTIFY believed the sun was about two
feet and half wide. Science had not
taught him what we know-that the
sun is as much larger than the earth as
the earth is larger than Sir Isaac New
tons apple. If Moses had known this
he would have hesitated before maxi
ing the assertion that the sun was
made especially for the sake of giving
light to the earth. The sun was, how
ever, very insignificant thing in
Moses mind, for we read that both it
and the moon stood still one day to
accommodate King Nebuchadnezzar.
who was afflicted with boil. What
was the use of stopping the moon also,
if the sun was shining7 Moses alone
knows.
SOME STARS.
In the very same breath we are told
as an afterthought that God also made
some stars. This worker in nothing,
after making the earth, and the sun,
and the moon, had some nothing left
over, and, rather than let it go to
waste, he made the stars and stuck
them around in the heavens to, look
pretty. That's what Moses said; but
we know he was mistaken, even if he
were inspired. Our telescopes inform
US that these stars are every one nigh
tier than the carthage, than ten
thousand earths - and are not, as
Moses thought, few points of orna-
mentation stuck into the armament to
finish off the job.
THE CREATION OF NAN.
This man Moses wrote another chap
ter, which is known as the second
chapter of Genesis. In this he tells
us about how man came to exist. God
made HIM ont of dust, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life. He
pretty nearly forgot to make man, did
this God of Moses. 1t was only q
happy after. thought of this mechanic.
al worker in nothing that man had an
existence, And, after man was made
that's Adam-the Lord saw that he
looked lonely, and needed helpmeet
and companion. So he made Eve.
But my friends, did you ever realize
how nearly Eve escaped being left out
of the Creation. Moses says, though
don't believe him, that God wanted
Adam to select helpmeet from the
animals; for he says God caused all
the beasts to pass before Adam; 'but
tor Adam there was not found help.
meet for him. So when God saw
that Adam wasn't partial toward
beasts (and I am glad he wasn'D, he