The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-01-31
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE WATERS OF THE DELurGE.

Mr.. EDTOR:-In the Summer of 1877, spent some
time among the mountains of Colorado and in Of
my letters to you spoke of those mountainous for
nations evidenceing the fact of general and
tinuous food, such is spoken of in the Bible and
that it evident to my mind that all the rivers
vines &c, formed by the subsing waters, much
find them To these remarks, my friend,
d. j. NJ, of Severance, seems to take exception, and
asks, "What became Of the waters that overtopped
these mountains g. He intimates, too, that such a
food would require-and go far to prove-the exist
istence of "Symmes Hole,- as fitting place to swal
low up those waters. Now, to answer my friend in
full, would require more time and attention than
am willing to give this subject Mt present. believe
the Bible statement of this food, because it comes
nearer harmonizing with the facts of geology than
any other theory whatever l admit all the facts
shown to exist in the earths crusts, but utterly
pudate the theories of those 'men of science" who
seek to impugn the cosmosony Of Moses. True, they
have ''shown themselves wiser in their generation
than the children of light, ,sfor they have sought, by
every means, to lead captive the minds of men, They
have filed the minds OF with the teachings of
matcralistic thinkers many of whom write as if they
banded together in grand conspiracy against
truth and revelation, and this bond of union they call
science Hence, that any vagary of the hu
man mind-when thus styled-is acceptable to those
men who reason without reason, to the existence
Of creating God, and who ready to proclaim all
things God but God. And, alas, find that even
Bbleoving men arc pointing to this weathercock of
science, and saying. This shall supplant the teach
ings of Moses" Should La Place point this weather
cock to nebula floating in space. and proclaim
the gaseous production of matter science bids US bow
down and adore. Should Lyell or O Cuvier tell us
this earth was an incandescent mass, and vet that
with light and heat life began, the Mandayns bid us
nod And so, when Mohr tells us that the wells of
Grenell and Sperenberg show that, at the depth of
5l70 feet heat ceases, or, he says, is mil = and
when find that the deep sea soundngs of the last
few years show that at the depth of three miles the
ocean waters colder than polar ice as report of
Challenger expedition verifes-I ask is it not high
time should discard the teachings Of Noses for
that of science!
The man Of science. when he gains the public ear
Has bnt to scen 'tis evidence most clear
That Moses was an 80, and he . seer.
And So when Tyndalf and his kindred tell ms that
matter is eternal and selfexsten we are expected
to believe it; and when they say, The universe Of
matter is multiplicity of worlds in infinite space
succeeding each other in infinite time, sequence of
events without beginning end We are expected to
accept this statement a. conclusive and not inquire
into the how and the wherefore of the same. Now,
there are minds too weak to comprehend how clod
our solar systen and hold its place through all mu
tations of its existence that its times and periods
are kept perfect and harmonious, without grand
inst caase, God. such g Moses speaks Of, and ve
sdore just think "f this universe Of matter drepprs