Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-04-03


even the dumb creatures were 80 affrighre'
hey came moaning and bleating until W.
let them in the same boat"
We are not dependent upon the Bib
for tho story of the food, entirely. A
.ges and all literatnres have tradition
broken traditions, indistinct traditions, bn
still traditions. The old books of tn
Persians tell about the food at the time o.
Ahriman, who 40 polluted the earth that i
had to be washed by great storm. Th.
traditions of the Chaldeans say that in th
time when Xisuthrus vas king there was
great food, and he put his family and hi
friends in a large vessel and all outside Q
them were destroyed and after while tn
birds went forth aud they came back ami
heir claws were tinged with mud. Lucia
and Caid, celebrated writers, who had neve
seen the Bible, described floor ir the tlm
os Dencaiion He took his friends into
boat, and the ANIMALS cnme running to hin
in pairs. So all lands, and all ages, ar'
all Ii eratures, seem to have broken al
,nds met tradition of Calamity wh,c'
Moses, here inco- porating Noah's accouu
so grandly, so beautifully, SO accurately, S.
s ,lemnly records.
NV pray er is that The God who crs ater
tue world may create us anew in Chris
Jesus, and that the God who made ligh
three days before the sun shone may klndl'
in our hearts light that will burn on lona
after the sun has expired; and that tb
God who ordered the ark built and kep'
open more than one hundred years that The
antedlluvians might enter it for shelter.
may graciously incline US to accept the invi-
tation wh .ch this morning rose in musit
from the Throre, saying "Come thou
and all thy house into the ark"
Another hard thing to be understood:
The story that the sun and moon stood
still to sllow Joshua to complete bis victory.
Infidel scientists declare that 40 impossi
biity. But if man have brain and
strength enough to make clock, can he
not start 1t and stop it, and start it again
and stop it again? If machinist have
strength and brain enough to make corn
thresber, can he not start it and stop it,
and start it again and stop II again? IL
CID have strength aud wisdom to make the
clock of the universe, the great machinery
of the worlds has he not strength enough
and wisdom enough to start it and stop 1t,
aud start it again and stop it again? Or stop
one wheel or stop twenty wheels, or stop
all the wheels9 Is tho clock stronger thau
tho clock-make? Does the TD-threshei
know more than the machinist? Is the uni
verse miohtier than its Goo? But people
ask how could the moon have been seen to
stop in the day-tlu. Well, il you havt
never seen the moon ip the daytime, II l.
b,Gause gen have not been very d''igen
observer of the heaveos. Beside thai, II
wss not necessary for the world lii orally to
stop. BY unusnal reiractlon of the suns
rays the day might have been prolonged
. y 1ad y
path in the heavens, it fguratively stopped.
You must remember that these Bibit
authors used the vernscular Of their own
day, just as you and say the sun "en'
down. The sun never goes down. We
SIMPLY describe what appears to the human
eye Besides that, the world. our world,
could have literally stopped without
throwing the universe out of balance. Oar
s. or,d has two inotioDs-the one around
the sun and the other on its own axis. Il
might have stopped on its own axis, while
at the same time it kept on its path
through the heavens. So there was nc
need Of stellar confusion because our world
slackened it's speed or entirely stopped in
It's revolution on its axis.-1fhat ii
none of the bnsiness Of Jupiter, or Mars, ol
Mercury, Or Saturn, Or the Dipper. Beside
that. within the memory OF man there
have been worlds that were born and thai
died A few years ago astronomers tele
eraphed, through the Associated Press, T.
iii the world-the astronomers from tbt
c,ty of Washin 9ton--that another woTlc
| had been discovered. Within compara
lively short SPACE of time, astronomers tel
us. thi:teen worlds haye burned down -
| From their observatory they notice firs
| lat the gorlds look like other S0rlGs
then they hecsa aie deep red, showing me!
were on fire; then IhsS BECAME ashen
shn wing they were burned down; then the,
e,tirely d,sappeared. showing that ewes
the ashes were scattered. n W, | say, !
| God can start e eorld, and swing world
and desrrny world, be could stop one o
two of ibem without d great deal Oh exer
ton, or he could by unusual refracfon
The SUMS rays Continue the Illumination
But iuGdel scientists say 1t would hav
been bel,tttipg for other worlds to stop o
accnunt of such battle. Why, sirs. wha
| Yorktown was tor revolutionary times an
what Getty sburg vas in our civil contest
and what fseial was in the Franco-Germal
war, ard what Waterloo vas in the Napo
ieonic drstiny-that was this battle Q
Joshua against the five allied armies O
Gideon. 1t was that battle that change'
the entire course of history. 1t was bat
tle to Joshua as important as though BAT
lie now should occur in which England All
the United States and France and German
and Italy and Turkey and Russia shoul
| epht for victory or annihilaiion. Howeve
| much any other world, solar, lunar or ste
liar, might he basieped in its erGand
light, it would be exsaaabls if it lipgere
in the heavens for little while aud pp
down its sheaf of beams and gszed on sue
an Armage ddon.
In the early part of this century there wa
what was called the Dark Day. Same q
these aged mea perhaps may ranen Der !.
1t is known in history as the ozark Day.
Workmen at mo- went to their bones, an
oaarts aud legislatures adjourned. No as
tronnuers have ever been able to explai
hat dark day. Now. # God can advanc
the night earlier than its time, eau he DC
adjourn the night until after its time?
offen used to hear my father d'scriba
night-I think he said it was in 1S33-"he
his ueighbDis aronsed him IN great alarIl
/ All the heavauly bodies seemed to bs !
motion. People thought cnr earth wa
coming tc IT'S de trncuon Tens of tb9u
sacd Of stars shooting. No az :rnuoros'
have ever he-u alba to explain that sta
sense teach you that if God could start an
srop tens of thousands of worlds or mett
,rs, he could start AID stop two worlds?
q d can engineer trains If ten thousan
worlds or metenrs. aud stop them with"u
accident or collisions cannot he control tw
carriages Of light, and by putting down
golden brake stop the sun, and by putin
down a silver brake stop the moon? Unde
this explanation, Instead of being skeptlos
about this sublime passage of the Bible,yo
will, when you read 1t, feel more like gnin
down on Your knees before God as 20
read: s.Suu, stand thou still above GibeoI
and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." "
RI Tnen there is the Bible statement that
, whale swallowed Jonah and elected hii
upon the dry ground 10 three days. II so
!, will go TO the museum al Nantucket, Mass
YOU will End the skeleton of q whale lare
, enough to swallow man. l said to th
[ janitor, while was standing in the mi
, scum, "Why, it does not seem from tsl
looks of this skeleton that that story in th
, Book of Jonah is go very improbable, doc
-. ,, ho stit does not