Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-31

Gent Great Eastern and passed int l
have owned horses and cattle and
sheep and dogs, but / never had a
horse or n COW or a sheep or a dog
that was so stupid it did not know
enough 10 come in when 1t rained.
And then, that one window in the ark
which afforded such poor ventilation
10 the creatures there assembled-that
small window in the ark which ex-
cites so much 'nirthfulness on the
part of iniidels. II they knew as
much Hebrew as you could put on
your little iincernail they would have
known that that word translated win
dow there means window course, a
whole range OF lights. Those igno-
rant inidels do not know o window
pane from twenty windows. So If
there is any criticism Of the ark, there
seems 10 be too much window for such
a long storm. And as TO the other
charge that the windows Of the ark
must have been kept shut and ons
quently all inside would have persisted
from ~suffocation, ] have TO say that
there are people in this house today
who, all the way from Liverpool to
Barnegat lighthouse, and for two
weeks, were kept under deck, the
matches battened down because OF the
storm. Some Of you, in the old time
sailing vessels, were kept nearly a
month with the matches down be
cause of some long storm.
Then infidels say that the ark land.
ed on a mountain seventeen thousand
feet high, and that, of course, rs soon
as the animals came forth they would
all be frozen in the ice. That is geo.
graphical %ignorancel Ararat IS not
merely the name for a mountain, but
for q hilly district, and it may have
been a hill one hundred feet high, or
five hundred, or q thousand feet high
on which the ark alighted. Noah
measured the depth of the water above
the hill, and it is fifteen cubits, or
twenty-seven feet.
Ali my friends, this story Of the
ark is no more incredible than if you
should say 10 me: Last summer was
among the hills of New England, and
there came on the most terrific storm
/ ever saw, and the whole country was
flooded. The waters came up over the
hills, and 10 save our lives we got in a
boat on the river, and even the dumb
creatures were so aifrighted they came
moaning and bleating until we LET
them in the same boat"
We,are not dependent upon the
Bible for the story Of the flood, en-.
tirely. All ages and all ~literatures
have traditions, broken traditions, in
distinct traditions, but still traditions.
The old books Of the Persians tell
about the flood at the time Of Ahri'
man, who so polluted the earth that il
had 10 be washed by a great storm.
The traditions Of the Chaldeans say
that in the time when Xisuthrus was
king there was a great flood, and lac
put his family and his friends in q
large vessel and all outside OF them were
destroyed, and after a while the birds
went forth and they came back and
their claws were tinged with mud.
Lucian and Ovid, celebrated writers,
| who had never seen the Bible, de.
| scribed a flood in the time of Dcu.
Gallon. He took his friends into q
boat, and the animals came running
TO him in pairs. SO all lands, and al
| ages, and all li~teratures, seem 10 have
a broken and indistinct tradition Of q
calamity which Moses, here incorpo-
rating Noah's account, SO grandly, SC
beautifully, 80 accurately, so solemnly
| records.
My prayer is that the God who ere.
ated the world may create us anew in
Christ Jesus; and that the God who
made light three days before the sun
shone may Endle in our hearts a 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 gr%aciously incline US to &C
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 OIL
TESTAMENT WONDER.
Another hard thing TO be under
stood: The story that the sun and
moon stood still to allow Joshua tc
complete his victory. Infdel scien.
fists declare that an impossibility
But if a man have brain and strength
enough 20 make a clock, can he not
start it and stop it, and start il again
and stop it again2 II q machinist
have strength and brain enough tc
make a corr thresher, can he not start
ii and stop it, and start il again and
stop it againl II God have strength
and wisdom 10 make the clock of the
universe, the great machinery of the
worlds, has he not strength enough
and wisdom enough TO start II and
stop il, and start it again and stop il
againi Or stop one wheel, or stoT
twenty wheels, or stop all the wheels
Is the clock stronger than the clocl
makerl Does the corn thresher know
more than the machinist2 Is the
universe mightier than its God
But people ask how could the
moon have been seen 10 stop In
the daytime3 Well, il you have
mover seen the moon in the daytime,
II Is because you have not been a very
diiigent observer of the heavens. Be
side that II was not necessary for
the world literally 20 stop. BY unu.
sual ~refraction Of tho suns rays the
day might have been prolonged. Sc
that, while tho earth continued on Ii
path IN the heavens, it figuratively