Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-05

| a. us testimony of an eyewitness
wHa SPEAKS after the manner of men
an NY" NE ne says everything went under.
NV, nv" N"ah speaks after the manner of
49, M "neh he says everything did 90
unue e An eye witness. There is No
need OF thinking that the kanoaroo
ieaped the ocean or that the polar hear
came down from the ice.
Why did the delupe Gomez II coro
Tor the purpose of destroying the ont
rageous inhabitants of the then thinly
poPulated earth, nearly all the popula.
:.on. PROBABLY very near the ark before
~ was launched. What would have been
a.. a.. use OF submerging North and South
america. or Europe, or Africa, when
eh,ey were not inhabited? And as to the
ssheptlcal suggestion that in order to
nave the water as deep as the Bible
states, II must have rained 800 feet a day.
reply the Bible distinctly declares
.nas the most of the flood rose instead
ol 1alialng. Before the account where it
says the windows of heaven were
opened, it says, all the fountains of
the great deep were broken up" All
biologists agree in saying that there are
cayerns in the earth filled with water.
and they rushed forth, and all the lakes
ana rivers torsook their bed. The
FOUNTAINS of the great deep were broken
up, and then the windows of heaven
We're opened. Is it strange thing that
we should be asked to believe in this
Hood of the Bible, when biologists tell
us again and again and again the dry
earth has been drowned out? just open
your geology and you will read of
twenty Hoods. Is it not strange that in
ldel scientists wanting us to believe in
the twenty floods of geological discoy-
cry, should, as soon as we believe in the
flood OF the Bible, pronounce us non
compos mentis?
Well, then, another thing, in regard
to the size of the ark. Instead of being
mud scow. rs some of these skeptics
would have us understand, it was mag
nlticent ship, nearly as large as the
Great Eastern, three times the size of an
ordinary man-ofwar. At the time in
the world when ship building was un-
known, God had this vessel constructed,
which turned out to be almost in the
same proportions as our stanchest mod
ern vessels. After thousands ofyears of
experimenting in naval architecture and
III ship carpentery, We have at last got
up to Noah's ark, that ship leading all
the fleets of the world on all the oceans.
Well. Noah saw the animal creation
going into this ark. He gave the account
OF an eye witness. They were the ami
mails from the region where he lived;
full to man, and if noxious insects or
poisonous reptiles went in, it was only
to dicipline the patience and to keep
alert the generations after the food.
He saw them going in. There were
great number of them, and he gives the
account of an eye witness. They went
IN two and two of all flesh.
Years ago was on a steamer on the
river Tay, and I came to Perth, Scot
land. I got off, and 1 saw the most
wonderful agricultural show that had
ever witnessed. There were horses and
cattle such as Rosa Bonheur never
sketched, and there were dogs such as
the loving pencil of Edwin Landseer
never portrayed, and there were sheep
and fowl and creatures of all sorts. Sup
pose that 1.-TWO and two" of all the crea-
lures of that agricultural show were put
upon the Tay steamer to be transported
to Dundee, and the next day 1 should be
writing home to America and giving an
account of the occurrance,I would have
used the same general phraseology that
Noah used in regard to the embarkation
of the brute creation in the ark-Iwould
have said that they went in two and two
of every sort. 1 would not have meant
six hundred thousand. A common sense
man myself, would suppose that the
people who read the letter were COM
mon sense people.
But how could you get them into the
ark?" ask infdel scientists. How could
they be induced to go into the ark. He
would have to pick them out and drive
them in, and coax them in" Gould not
the same God who gave instinct to the
L. T. e.
shelter from the storm? However, moth
ing more than ordinary animal instinct
was necessary. Have you ever been in
the country when an August thunder
storm was coming up and heard the cat
tie moan at the bars to get in? and see
the affrighted fowl go upon the perch at
MONDAY, and heard the affrighted dog
and cat calling at the door, supplicating
entrance? And are you surprised that
in that age of the world, when there
were fewer places of shelter for dumb
beasts, at the muttering and rumbling
and flashing and quaking and darkening
of an approaching deluge, the animal
creation came moaning and bleating to
the sloping embankment reaching up to
the ancient Great Eastern and passed in?
I have owned horses and cattle and
sheep and dogs, but never had horse
or a COW or sheep or dog that was SO
stupid it did not know enough to come
in when it rained. And then, that one
window in the ark which afforded such
poor ventilation to the creatures there
assembled-that small window in the
ark which excites so much mirthfulness
on the part of infidels. If they knew as
much Hebrew as you could put on your
little finger nail they would have known
that that word translated window there
means window course, whole range of
lights. Those ignorant infdels do not
know window pane from twenty win.
dows. SO if there is any criticism of
the ark, there seems to be too much
window for such long storm. And as
to the other charge that the windows OF
the ark must have been kept shut and
consequently all inside would have per-
ished from sutfocation, l have to say
that there are people in this house to-
day who, all the way from Liverpool to
Barnegat lighthouse, and for two weeks
were kept under deck, the matches bat
tened down because of the storm. Some
of you, in the old time sailing vessels,
were kept nearly month with the
matches down because of some long