The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-28


distinct traditions, but still traditions
The old books of the Persians tell
about the food at the time of Ahri-
man, who SO polluted the earth that it
had to be washed by great storm.
The traditions of the Chaldeans say
that IN the time when Xisuthrus was
king there was great flood, and he
put bis family and his friends in
large vessel and all outside of them were
destroyed, and after while the birds
went forth and they came back and
their claws were tinged with mud
Lueian and Ovid, celebrated writers,
who had never seen the Bible, de-
scribed q flood in the time of Deu-
Gallon. He took his friends into
boat, and the animals came running
to him in pairs. So all lands, and all
ages, and all literatures, seem to have
a broken and indistinct tradition of
calamity which Moses, here incorpo-
rating Noah's account, SO grandly, so
beautifully, SO accurately, SO solemnly
records.
Ny prayer is that the God who cre-
ated the world may create us anew in
Christ Jesus; and that the God who
made light three days before the sun
shone may kindle in our hearts light
that will burn on long after the sun
has expired; and that the God who
ordered the ark built and kept open
more than one hundred years that the
antediluvians might enter it for shell
ter, may graciously incline US to ac-
cept the invitation which this morn
ing rose in music from the Throne,
saying: Come thou and all thy house
into the ark. ="
AN EXPLANATION OF ANOTHER OLD
TESTAMENT WONDER.
Another hard thing to be under
stood: The story that the sun and
moon stood still to allow Joshua to
complete his victory. InfideL scien-
fists declare that an impossihility.
But if man have brain and strength
enough to make clock, can he not
start it and stop it, and start it again
and stop it again2 Ii a machinist
have strength and brain enough to
! make corn thresher, can he not start
it and stop it, and start it again and
stop it again2 If Gcd have strength
and wisdom to make the clock of the
universe, the great machinery of the
worlds, has he not strength enough
and wisdom enough to start it and
! stop it, and start it again and stop it
again2 Or stop one wheel, or stop
twenty wheels, or stop all the wheels9
Is the clock stronger than the clock
maker2 Does the corn thresher know
moro than the machinist2 Is the
universe mightier than its God2
But people ask how could the
moon have beer seen to stop in
the daytime? Well, if you have
never seen the moon IN the daytime,
1T is because you have not been very
diligent observer of the heavens Be
| side that, it was not necessary for
the world literally to stop By unu-
sual refraction of the SUMS rays the
day might have been prolonged. So
that, while the earth continued on its
path IN the heavens, it Gguratively
! stopped. You must remember that
| these Bible authors used the vcrnacu-
lar of their own day, just as you and
l say the sun went down. The sun
never goes down. We simply de-
| scribe what appears to the human eye
| Besides that, the world, our world
could have literally stopped without
throwing the universe out of balance.
Our world has two moticns-the
one around the sun and the other
on its own axis 1t might have stopped
on its own axis, while at the same time
| it kept on its path through the heavens
! So there was no need of stellar con-
| fusion because our world slackened its
speed or entirely stopped i'll its revolu-
ton on its own axis. That is none of
the business of Jupiter, or Mars, or
Mercury, or Saturn, or the Dipper.
! Beside that, within the memory of
man there have been worlds that were
born and that died. A few years ago
astronomers telegraphed, through the
Associated Press, to all the world-the
astronomers from the city of Wash
ington-that another world had been
discovered. Within comparatively
short space of time, astronomers
tell us, thirteen worlds have
burned down. From their observatory
they notice first that the worlds look
like other worlds, then they became a
deep red, showing they were on fire
then they became ashen, showing they
were burned down; then they entirely
disappeared, showing that even the
ashes were scattered. Now, ] say, il
God can start world, and swing 6
world, and destroy a world, he could
stop one or two of them without 6
great deal of exertion, or he could by
unusual refraction of the suns rays
continue the illumination. But infide
scientists say it would have been be
lifting for other worlds to stop Oh
account of such a battle. Why, sirs
what Yorktown was for revolu
tionary times, and what Gettys
burg was in our civil con
test, and what Sedan was in the
Franco-Germau war, and what Wat
erloo was in the Napoleonic destiny
that was this battle of Joshua agains
the five allied armies of Gideon. 1t wa
that battle that changed the entir
course of history. 1t was q battle t.
Joshua as important as though bat
tie now should occur in which Eng
land and the United States and F'ranc
and Germany and Italy and Turke,
and Russia should fight for victory o
annihilation. However much an,
other world, solar, lunar or stellar
might be hastened in its errand o
light, it would be excusable if it lin
: gered in the heavens for little Will
: and put down its sheaf of beams ant
; gazed ON such an Armageddon.
In the early part of this centur,
there was what was called the Dari
Day. Some of these aged men pei
haps may remember it. 1t is know
in history as the Dark Day." Work
men at noon went to their homes, an
7 courts and legislatures adjourned. n
astronomers have ever been able t
explain that dark day. Now, if Go
j can advance the night earlier than IT
7 time, can he not adjourn the nigh
until after its time7 | often used t
;, hear my father describe q night
] think he said it was in 1S33-when hi
! neighbors aroused him in great alarm
: | All the heavenly bodies seemed to b
0 in motion. People thought our cart
was coming. TO its destruction. Ten
c of thousands of stars shooting. n
e astronomers have ever been able
@ explain that star shooting Now
a does not your common sense teach yo
: that If God could start and stop ter
of thousands of worlds or meteors, b
!, could start and stop two worlds9
q God can engineer train of ten thol
q sand worlds or meteors, and stop thel
d without accident or collision, cannc
y he control two carriages of light, an
y by putting down golden brake sto
u the sun, and by putting down silvs
Q brake stop the moonf Under this G,
n PLANTATION, instead of being skeptics
h about this sublime passage of the Bibl
d you will, when you read it, feel moi
Q like going down on your knees befol
" God as you read: Sun, stand tho