Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-05
IONS: .I,1I IN TIE BIBLE.
WARES AN INGENIOUS
TAlsterloS OF THEM

Wakes AN INGENIOUS
r'n n,ssterlos OF THEM
.c...ary to Believe That the
Not ouly $500 Years o'd-''"sh"a's
ord Is '"'E .,,. sun and Moom-Th.
"''''. swallowing jonah
r.ooklvn Tabernacle Sunday
the b ,t,er sxpounding some pas
5 of SEPT De Witt Talmage, d.
:. s., lD ont the hynn beslhn. my, ~,
gave W., ,nietion, We saints OF the Lord,
arln Il tpll NH, in his excellent Word.
ID f'F ,:'a. Of his sermon was, Tough
Nc SURF .Sa Bible" and his text. III
NJ III -. ~ In which are some things
to nj lie e. understood Dr. I"lmase
,.,.,, y the most common sense
be PHI ,i me world. But there are
N , ~. in it which require ex-
'h'A II all depends on the mood
alton n ro =, q" come to this grand old
FA'E Va, !, may take hold of the handle
law or It's sharp edge. You may
be sN"' ~ mysteries the rule of null
10y W. w or subtraction. There are
fa'' ~" my text suggests, hard to I'M
g. ~ h w, shall solve some ofthem,
taat a, G leave upon all honest minded
u u III, impression that if four or
r .h .., can be explained. perhaps
ma W all be explained.
si I;h | the first: The Bible says
M .1 II WIS created in six days, while
", u. s.y, it was hundreds of thou
- sHf wears in process of building.
H., ,h@ ,,eeinning, God created the
u, and the earth. In the begin
VI There You can roll in ten mill
,,rs If Won want to. There is no
rmlar date giyen-no contest be-
W." In;ance and revelation. Though
royld may have been in process of
,,n for millions of years, suddenly
rn;ck)v, and in one week, it may
Ihreu fitted up for mans residence.
as a great mansion may have been
Years in building, and yet in one
I NAV be curtained and chande-
and cushioned and upholstered
bride and groom.
n are not compelled to believe that
,orld was made in our six days. 1t
nat have been day of twenty four
the day spoken of in the first
Ter; it may have been Gods day,
thousand years with him are as
lv, And the evening and the
inc were the first day"-God's day.
the evening and the morning were
scond day"-God's day. And the
Inc and the morning were the sixth
Gods day. You and 1 living in
seventh day, the Sabbath of the
the day of Gospel redemption,
nndcst day of all the week, in
beach day may have been made up
ousands of wears. Can you tell me
aman can get his mine and soul
such blaphemous twist as to scott
bat first chapter of Genesis, its
sbllows of light surging up from
hire seas of glory?
Bible represents that light was
ed on Monday, and the sun was not
ed until Thursday. Just think of
book declaring that light was
ed three days before the sun shone!
don't YOU know that heat and cleo
y emit light independent of the
Besides that. when the earth was
ocess of condensation, it was sur
led by thick vapors and the dis
Be Of many volcanoes in the pri-
period, and all this obscuration
have hindered the light of the sun
falling on the earth until that
|sdaymorning. Besides that, David
ster and Herschel, the astronomer,
II the modern men of their class,
in the fact that the sun is not
that it is an Opaque mass, that it
y the candlestick that holds the
Il phosphorescent atmosphere
hg round it, changing and chang
10 is not to be Mt all wondered at
bot until that Thursday morning its
fell on the earth. Besides that,
Ocks in equalization emit light.
ELS light from a thousand surfaces,
lkalles, for instance. The metallic
emit light. There was q time in
history of the world when there
thousands of miles of liquid gran
aiming with light. Besides that, it
cen found that there are burned
olcanoes in other worlds which,
they were in explosion and activ-
pust have cast forth an insufferable
throwing a glare all over our
besides that, there are the Au-
b,orealis and the Aurora Anchalis.
ok on physical science says:
'pt' Bonnycastle, coming up the
OF ST. Lawrence on the 18th of
FMDer' 1926. was aroused by the
ol the vessel in great alarm from
usual appearance. 1t was a star
night when suddenly the sky be-
overcast: In the direction Of the
lana OF CORVALLIS County an in
aneous and intensely vivid light,
ioilhs the aurora, shot out on the
ITO gloomy and dark sea on the
~. ~, that was SO brilliant it lighted
'nl ing distinctly, even to the mast
ine ll9ht spread over the whole
s'.Seen the two shores, and the
which before had been tranquil,
le agltated. Capt. Bonnycastle
' oe the scene as that of blazing
VI awful and most brilliant light
Edg ana vivid line of light that
e el lne face of the high frowning
aefeast. The sky became lowering
I 0f n,y obscure. Long, tortuous
VI light showed immense numbers
HIM st nsh darling about as if in con-
a,'1n' The top-sail, yard, and
a u 1oom We're lighted by the glare
stmsnshts had been burned directly
men, and until just before day
w q, = o . clock, the most minute OBJ
L "ere distinctly visible" My hear
HIRE Ha;9 are ten thousand sources of
inside aIsloes the light of the sun.
,suef hard thing: The story of the
"a ana Noah's ark. They say that
V sno account there it must have
'o 3V ), leet Of water each day in or
i IL. II might be fifteen cubits above
1io. lav saw that AZ. -. !