Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-31

Associated Pres, TO all the world-the
astronomers from the city Of Wash
Ington-that another world had been
discovered. Within a comparatively
short space Of time, astronomers
tell us, thirteen worlds have
burned down. From their observatory
thew 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 hat even the
ashes we're scattered. Now, ! say, if
God can start q world, and swing q
and destroy a world, he could
stop one or two of them without q
great deal of exertion, or he could by
unusual ~refraction of the suns rays
continue the illumination. But iniidel
scientists say it would have been be.
lifting for other worlds TO stop on
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-G German war, and what Wat
erloo was in the Napoleonic destiny
that was this battle of Joshua against
the five allied armies of Gideon. 1t was
that battle hat changed the entire
course of history. 1t was a battle to
Joshua as important as though a bat
tie now should occur in which Eng
land and the United States and France
and Germany and Italy and Turkey
and Russia should fight for victory or
humiliation. However much any
other world, solar, lunar or stellar,
might be fastened in its GRAND Of
light, il would be excisable if it lin
gered in the heavens for a little while
and put down its sheaf of beams and
gazed on such an Armageddon.
In the early part of this century
there was what was called the Dark
Day. Some of these aged men per-
haps may remember il. Ii is known
in history as the Dark Day." Work.
men at noon went TO their homes, and
courts and legislatures adjourned. No
astronomers have ever been able to
explain that dark day. Now, if God
can advance the night earlier than Its
time, can he not adjourn the night
until after its timer / often used TO
hear my father describe a night
think he said it was in lS33-when his
neighbors aroused him in great alarm.
All the heavenly bodies seemed TO be
in motion. People thought our earth
was coming 10 its destruction. Tens
of thousands Of stars shooting. Nc
astronomers have ever been able to
explain that star shooting. Now,
does not your common sense teach you
that if God could start and stop tens
OF thousands of worlds or meteors, he
could start and stop two worldsi II
God can engineer a train of ten thou
sand worlds ormeteors, and stop them
without accident or collision, cannot
he control two carriages of light, and
by putting down a golden brake stoI
the sun, and by putting down a silvei
brake stop the moonl Under this ex.
PLANTATION, instead of being skepticaI
about this sublime passage of the Bible,
you will, when you read il, feel moro
like going down on your knees before
God as you read; ''Sun, stand thou
still above Gideon, and thou moon in
tho valley of Ajalon."
POINT THAT is MUCH DISCUSSED.
Then there is the Bible statement
that a whale swallowed Jonah anC
elected him upon the dry ground il
three days. II you will go to The
museum at Nantucket Mass, you viii
find the skeleton of a whale largt
enough to swallow a man. / said tC
the j~anitor, while i was standing il
the museum, why it does not seen
from the looks of this skeleton thai
that story in the Book Of Jonah is 81
very improbable, does it9" ''Oh, no.
he replied, 1T does not" There is {
cavity in the mouth OF the common
whale large enough for a man to live
In. There have been sharks founc
again and again with an entire human
body In them. Beside that, the Bible
says nothing about q whale. II says
THE Lord prepa' d a great fish" and
there are scit .tists who tell us
that there were sea monsters in Other
days that make the modern whale
seem very Insignificant. l know in
one place in the New Testament il
speaks of the whale as appearing in
the occurrence l have just mentioned,
but the word may justas well be trans.
lated sea monster"-any kind Of q
sea monster. Procopius says, in the
year $50, q sea monster was slain
which had for fifty years destroyed
ships. suppose this sea monster that
took car Of Jonah may have been one
Of the great sea monsters that could
have easily taken down a prophet, and
he could have lived there three days
II he had kept in motion so as 10 keeI
the gastric juices from taking hold OF
him and destroying him, and at the
end Of three days the monster
would naturally be sick enough tc
r~egurgitate Jonah. Beside that, my
friends, there is one word which ex.
plains the whole thing. II says, ''The
Lord prepared q great fish" liza shir
carpenter prepare a vessel TO carry
Texan beeves to Glasgow, / suppose Il
can carry Texan beeves; if a ship car
penter prepare a vessel TO carry coal tc
one OF the northern ports, / suppose il
can carry coal; If a hipcarpenterp pre-.
pare n vessel 10 carry passengers &c
Liverpool, ! suppose II can carry pas
sengers TO Liverpool; and II the Lord
prepared a fish 10 carry one passenger,
/ suppose 1t could carry a passenger
and the ventilation have beer all right.