West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-04

osnsr world, solar, lunar or stellar. might ba
nastened IN is errand Of light it would be
s.xcusablef it fingered IN the heavens FOR a
little while and put down its shear OF beams
ana gazed on such an Armageddon
In the early part OF this century there wa,
VIVA. what was called the Dark Day. Some ol
THESE aged men may perhaps renember it I,
Is known in history as the 1Dar[ ne,
Norkmen at noon went 20 their homes. an
courts and legislatures adjourned ~,
AsIIononers have ever been able h
explain tnst dark day. Now, n God
can advance the night earlier than n,
time, can he not adjourn the nfoht ,,rtI
AFTER IT'S timer l often used 20 baar -.
Iatner describe a night-I think he aa,d u
vas was IN IooS-when his nSighbors aroused
seemed 70 be in motion. People tbo,,~bt 80
earen was coming to It's destr,iction
Tens or thousands OF stars shooting No
astronomers have ever been able To
explain that star shooting Now, does not
your common sense teach you that III God
could start aud stop tens OF thousands OF
worlds or meteors, he could start and stou
two worldsi IL God can engineer a train 81
ton thousand worlds or meteors and stop
snena without accident or collision, cannot
ne control two carriages OF light, AMI
by putting down golden brake stop the sun.
ana Dy putting down a silver brake stop ths
mooni Under this explanation, instead OF
being skeptical about this sublime passage
OF the Bible, you will, when you read L. feel
NOR more Ike going down on your knees before
goa as you read: Sun, stand thou stiIl
above Gioeon, and thou moon in the valley
Of Ajalon.n
Then there Is tho Bible statement that q
whale swallowed Jonah and elected him
aP on the dry ground in thres days. II you
Will go 70 the museum at Nantucket. Mass.
you Will find the skeleton OF a whale Large
enough TO swallow a man / said TO
the Janitor, while L was standing IN
the museum: why il does not seem
from the looks OF this skeleton that
that story in the Book of Jonah Is so
very improbable. does itf' "Oh, no.n he re
piled, ut does not. There is a cavity in the
mouth OF tho common whale large enough
Tor q man to live I'm. There have been
SHARKS found again and again with an en-
tire human body in them. Beside that, the
blDie says nothing about a whale. IL says
Ihe Lord prepared q great fish, and
there are scientists who tell us
t t tnere were sea monsters in other days
That made the modern whale seem very in.
significant. | know in one place in ths
New Testament it speaks OF the whale as an.
pearing in the occurrence have lust men.
TONED, but the word may just as we'll be
translated sea monsterh-any kind OF
sea monster. Perceptions SAYS. In the
year 532, sea monster was slam
which had for fifty years DESTROYED
ships. suppose this sea monster that took
care of Jonah may have been one of the
taken down a prophet, and he could have
lived there three days IL no had kent In
motion so as to keep the gastric Juices from
taking hold OF him and destroying him,
would naturally be sick enough Ia
regurgitate Jonah. Beside that, my
friends, there is one word which explains the
whole thing. IL says. 1.-The Lord prepared
great hsh." II ashiP carpenter prepare a
vessel to carry Texan besves to Glasgow. !
suppose it can carry Texan beeves; IL a ship
carpenter prepare vessel to carry coal te
one OF the northern ports, l suppose It can
AIRY coal; IL ship carpenter pre-
pare a vessel to carry passengers 10
Liverpool, suppose IL can carry passengers
20 Liverpool; and il the Lord prepared a fish
20 carry one passenger, 1 suppose it could
carry a passenger and the ventilation have
been all right
So ali the strange things in the Bibls
can be explained il You wish In
have them explained. And Won can
puild them into a beautiful and health.
-. .ul hre for your hearth, or your can with
mem sa put your immortal interests into con
dagration. But you had better decide about
tue Veracity OF the Bible very soon | want
TINS morning to caution you against putting
OH making up Your mind about this book
ever since l172 there has been great
discussion as TO who was the aiitbor
Of Junius's Letters. thoss letters so full
2t sarcasm and vituperation and power
The whole English nation stirred un with is
more imam a hundred volumes written to
discuss that question: "Who was Juniuslp
Who wrote the letters OF Juniusn Well
10 Is an interesting question to discuss but
ethl, after all, it makes but little prac.
tlcai difference TO You aud TO me who
Junlus was, whether Sir Philip Francis or
LORD Chatham, or John Horne Tooks, or
horace Walpole, or Henry Grattan, or anV
one OF the forty-four men who were seriously
charged with the authorship But it Is an
n5toSgrolnS question, It Is practical question,
and to me, the authorship OF this
holy Bible-whether the Lord God OF
heaven or earth or a pack of dupes, scoundreIs
or tmpostors. We cannot afford to adjourn
that question week or a day or an hour,
any more than SSa Captain can afford TO
say; We'll, this is a very dark night.
nave really lost my bearings; there Is
light out there. L doa't know whether
u IS a lighthouse or a false light on
the snore, don't know what IL is. bnf
III just go to sleep and in the morning mi
ind out In the morning tho vessel might
Do on Jne rocks and tine beach strswn with
She white faces o. the dead crew The time
ior Suat sea Captain % find cut about tho
nguthouse IS before hs goes to sleep. Oh,
my friends, / want you to understanJ
ShaS IN our deliberations about this Bible we
are not at calm anchorage, but we are
raP,dly coming toward the coast. coming
WIN All the furnaces abaze, coming at ths
rate OF seventy heart throbs a rninute and I
OF shipwrsck mo- '''
l was so glad TO read in the papers OF thu
iact That the steamship Fdam had coma
sately INTO harbOr. week before fbe
nersian Monarch, Flowing its way toward
we NsrfoWs' hundred miles ont, saw sig.
hals OK distress, bore down upon the vessel
sh9 round u was the steamship Edam. She
h ha1 losJ her propeller. She had two
hundred passengers on bo1r.L The msrciful
captain or tho Persian Monarch endeav.
2rea 70 oring her IN, but the tow lins broge
ne fastened It again, but the sea wa rouoh
and the tow line broke again. Tbs1 ths
nl8uJ came on AMI the merciful CANAAN ~
the fersian Monarch LAY to = tbfnk
ing Ia the morning he could give rescu,
20 the passengers. The morning came Ina
during tho night the steamship Eda4i bsd
qisaPpoarsd, and the Captain OF Tia
Fersian Monarch brought his vessel into
haroor saying how sad he felt he.
cause ne could not give comp,st,
rescue to that lost ship am Glad
snav aIJerWard another Yesssl saw hsr and
OrOusnb hsr into safety But when saw
Sns story OF that steam5lip Edam. dr.ftioz
drifting, drifting, / do not know where hi
"ltn no ruddor, no Lighthouse. NJ harbor. no
1eiP, J SAID; That is a szsptic. that is An ln.
u9oi, drifting, drifting, drifting. not KNOWING
Whore ne drifts" And then, whom Thought oh
tne ferslan Monarch anchored In harbor I
stloi mat IS a Christian. that "a man who
lo8s Az ne can on the was, crossing ths ssa Ia
h9ip others, coming perhaps through n very
roagh voyage into the harbor. thsrs eafs and
sste forever" WoIld God that there might
5oIee one today vino would 70 forth
~ Dting in these s1Iis that are drifting.
~ IN tnis a;ssmbiago how many q
GORE snall say, or hun lr.d Or =
thousand mot rfttffo ~.-f.f. 49,. 80 ~