The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-27

as TO the skeptical suggestion that in order
IN have the water as deep MS the Bible
states, IL must have rlincd $50 feet every
day, ] reply the Bible distinctly declares
that the most OF the h0cd rose instead
Of falling Before the account where 1t
says "the windows of heaven were opened"
IL says, ''all the fountains OF the great deep
were broken up" All geolo gists agree
In saying that there are caverns In the earth
filled with wafer, and they rushed forth,
and all the lakes and rivers forsook the'r
bed. The fountains Of The great ep were
broken up, and then the windows If heaven
were op ned Is 1t strange hing that we
should be a,kel to believe In this flood II
the Bible when geoogists tell us that aqain
and again, and again the dry earYh has been
drowned outi Just open you geology, and
you win reud OF twenty foods. Is 1t not
strange that infidel scientists, wanting US
to believe In the twenty fio'ds Of g ologich
discovery, should, as 500 we believe in one
food Of the Bible, pronounce us non compos
mentisl
Well. then, another thing, In regard to the
size OF the ark Instead Of being mud
scow. as some OF those sAepticS would have
us understand, 1t was MAGNIFICENT snip,
n arly as large rs the Great Eas'e n three
times the size OF an ordinary mln.of-warJ !
At the time In the world wien shipb ilding
was unknown. God had this "e'sel con-
struct VIII ch turned ou' 10 he almost In tho
same oportio rs our staunchest modern
vessels. After thousands OF yenrs OF ex'
perimenting In naval architecture aud In
shin carpsntery, we have at last got up to
Noah's ark, that ship lending all the fleets
Of the world on all the oceans. Well, Noah
saw the animal ere ition & ing into this ark.
pe gave the account Of an eyewitness,
! They were the animals from the region
where he lived. for the MI s. part thy were
animals useful IT, man. and II noxous In
| sects or poisonous reptiles went in 1t was
| only TO disciri ne the patience and 10 keep
| aert the generations after ih' flood. He
| saw them ing in. There were great
number OF them and no gives the acrount
Of an eyewitness. They went in two and
and two Of all flesh
Years ago was on steamer on he river
| Tay and / came TO Perth, Scotland. ] rot
| of and saw the most wonderful nRricuI
tural show that had ever witnessed. There
were horses and title su h as Rosa Bonhcur
| never sketched, and therc were do~s such
as the loving pencil Of Fdw'n landSeer
never portrayod, and thcro were .hoep and
fowl and creatures OF oil SORTS Suppose
that "two and two" OF all the creatures OF
that agricultural show W re put upon the
Tay steamer to hc trans ortr d IN Dundee,
and the next dav should be writing home
TO America and living an account OF the &C
currence. would have ueed tho snme
phraseology thai Noah II ell in regard IN the
embarkntion df the brute creation In the ark
Il would have said that they went IN two
and two of every sort ] would not have
meant six hundred thousand. A common
sense man my,elf, won d supnose that the
people who read tho letter were common
sense people.
"But how could you get them into the
arkr' asked infidel scientists. How could
they be induced 10 70 into tho arki He
would have to pick them out ani drive then
In. and coax them in" Corld not the samt
God who gave instinct TO the animal inspire
that iustinc. TO seek for shelter from the
stormi However nothing m1re than or
binary animal in Jinct was necessary. Have
YOU never been In the country when az
August thunier storm was coming up and
heard the cattle moan at the bars N get In
and seen the affrighied 70 vi 20 upon th'
perch at MONDAY. and heard the affrighteS
dog and cat calling at the door, supplicatinl
entrancei And arc you surprised that II
that age OF the world, when there werI
fewer places Of shelter for dumb beasts a
the muttering and rumbling and flashing
and qualzing and darkenlnT OF an approach
ing deluge the animal creation came moan
ing and bleating IN the sloning embankmen
reaching up TO the ancient Great Easter
and passed int hay" owned horses AM
cattle and sheep and dogs but never bad
horse or COW or sheep or q dog that wa
so stupid II did not know enough TO come Il
when II rained. And then. that one windoy
in the ark which afforded such poor ventiia
tIon 10 the creatures there assembled -tha
small window In the ark which excites o
much mirthfulness on the p rt OF infdel'
II they knew as m ich Hebrew as you coul
nut on your little I'm 'er nail they would hav
known that that word trar slated windo'
there means window course, whole rang
OF lights. Those Ignorant in6dels do no
know q window pane from twent
windows. SO II there Is any criticism O
tho ark, there seems 10 be too muc
windows for such long storm. And a
10 the other charge that the windows Q
the ark must have been kept shut an
consequently all inside would have perishe
from suffocaticn, Ibave 10 say that there ar
people in this houss to-day who. all the wa
from Liverpool 70 Barnegat lighthouse, an
for two weeks have kept under deck, tn
hatches battened down because OF th
storm. Some OF you In the old time sailin
vessels, were kept nearly month with IN
matches down because OF some long storm.
Then infidels say that the ark landed on
, mountain seventeen thousand feet higt
and that, OF course. as soon as the animal
I came forth they would all be frozen In tn
Ice. That 10 geographical ignorance
Ararat is not merely the namo for mour
tain. but for a hilly district and II ma
have been hill one hundred feet high, o
five hundred, or q thousand feet high o
which the ark al!ghted. Noah measure
the depth Of the water above the hill, and
Is fifteen cnbits, or twenty-seven feet.
Ahi my friends. this story OF the ark
no more Incredible than II you should say :
me: Last summer was among the hill
OF New England, and there came on th
most terrific storm ] eyer saw, and th
|, whole country was flooded. Tho water
came up over the hills and 10 save our live
, we got In boat on the river. and even th
dumb creatures were so afrighted the
. came moaning and bleatlng until we let ther
In the same boat"
. We are not dependent upon the Bible 70
the story OF the food, entirely: All ages an
all literatures have traditions, broken trad
tIons, indistlnct tradi ions, but still trad
tlons. The old books OF the Potsans te