The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-01-31


into place all by chance As II we're and holding ITS
place by chance and closing IL. periodic time to the
very minute and all by reason Of sosue oceuit power
within; and this is science
Now ms am sure INV Severance friend is not one OF
those scientific men, shall attempt the answer to ms
question and yet, 1 have thought and now think,
that to this question satisfactorily wonld
require to he set out a. Is done in my lecture Bib
lieal Cosm.-ony.- As that cannot be done, shall
expect my friend to coincide with mc, when deny
tat every separate deposit of the esrts crust was
transition time. and marked an epoch in the age of
tue world But do NOT cxneet him to affirm with
me- that there is no evidence To be found this
eart nor in the earth nor uper the earth, to show
there ever was one fossilifrous rock formed before
Noah went into the Ark or ope after he came ont
And vet to my mnl this evidence Is clear and the
strate rocks all point To and are in harmony with
one general deluge and no more: and it is equally
clear to me that the waters oyertoppcd the highest
mountains. as they now stand. and these facts
think geology abunlan,lv nrove. and to say they
we're thrown up by internal heat or force, is, to
sav the least of it, har tn prove for if this was DONE
il must have been done after the flood or floods and
if why is there 10 break in the straed rocks at
the mountains foot where it rises from the plain
and why is it VIC often find the rocks on side of
mountain on a plane with the horizon, whilst the
other they lie at an angle more or less great
Again: If this infidel teaching be true and there
were different perio.ls and epochs Of time how
we account for the fact of the existence of vegetable
and animal matter in the different strata. up to the
very line of contact and perfect in every case yea,
and even passing through from one to another, and
sometimesas Cuver says of the ferns in the basin Of
Paris-with their boughs in one stratum. and their
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that these ferns stood thus for millions of ages and
mt decay in the open airf and If under water, then
the flood continued this million of ages! Well, this
ia a wonderful science. And why il it such matter
cannot Inc fouud pox in fossil state near the earths
surfaeet All, YES science finds them the earths
surface i'm petrefactions and hence science is true.
Again: Science tells MS these different strata were
formed ..by the siltings of quiet ocean, in long
interval of time Then, would ask why is it that
each locality is not marked alike Why is it, the
pernian rocks come to the surface in Kansas, excud
ing the tertiary formation entirely and closing with
the secondary, Could not the .'stings of quiet
ocean, in this aloug interval of time have left
mark of its last and greatest return Is strange
that these deposits are quietly piled the noun
tain's top and the plains torn and washed, if by
-, A., = ;, th;,t ,f th;s ,,,;a, oeean,s
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siltings falling over whole schools OF hshes Whilst
they quietly held themselves and died FOR the sake
Of so;a,.. w. .,, find M sucb doe;l;tv pow among
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the hnny tf1oe. eah inc ocean ""u sho" sue" "e
posits now, anywhere much less mp to its very sur
face, M sir never one. And can any man tell
.,'1...-. -. .a g., ,hos. ;r
US now 'ncse ""'efs ".i' """a "a iio. - -
ternal basins such as those OF the Shenandoah ana
the upper Columbia and vet leave no mark of its
o,;. ,r,;, ,h. ,.st oaot f,oo, or ;,;ng time p, No
Gait "",'i VI. '"s 'e
sir and neither can they
Prof Lecont. State Gcoloeist of California. tells
,,,, b fo,rd the tran rocks spreod over space of
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5V,VoV square niieS Ifon 'he .ase'oe hooh'"ins "
the Rocky Range inelusive-aId this he calls lava
flood and saws that great Mountains are built upon
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II. lie says in''i Mh'ie ''e N"'"ioia nv ei 'ts INC
Cascade Range, this trap matter Is 4ooO feet thick,
and oyerayina fossiliferos sandstone and that sra-
,;s., -, 90. ILL mo, !, nm N ,h. .;ors of
'iie" roehs arc pn,' JPN "p ~ ,'' y.
eternal snow. Nheh inns river broke over this
mountains top after the ood it tore its way through
,,,at ,htv mass and Ievell;no le,,pe after leJpe
'l,'' ~ $40. - :, -, =. -, - =,
pomiing across the ehhsh 10 us hihfea ieose' grim
sentinels of that lonely valley, pointing to a time
when there was no ebasm there: to time when they
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were one continuous n'asS, no'n p'se u ,oPihos'