The national leader., 1889-04-13

before it was launched. What would
have been the use OF Submerging
North and S)uth America. or Europe, or
Africa. when they were not inhabited
And as to the sceptical suggestion that
the Bible states, it must have rained
eight hundred feet every day, reply,
the Bible distinctively declares that
the most of the flood rose instead of
falling. Before the account where
it says ''the windows OF heaven we're
opened" it says, ''all the fountains OF
the great deep were broken up" All
the geologists agree in saying that
there are caverns in the earth filled
with water; and they rushed forth, and
all the lakes and rivers forsook their
bed. The fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and then the windows
of heaven were opened. Is 1t strange
thing that we should be asked to
believe in this flood of the Bible, when
geologists tell us that again and again
and again the dry earth has been
drowned outp Just open your geology
and you will read of twenty floods. Is
it not strange that infidel scientists
wanting us to believe in the twenty
floods of geological discovery. should.
as soon as we believe in one flood of
the Bible, pronounce us non compos
mertis2
Well, then another thing, in regard
to
THE SIZE OF THE ARK.
Instead Of being a mud-scow, as
some Of these sceptics would have
us understand. it was a magnif-
cent ship, nearly as large as the
Great Eastern, three times the size
Of an ordinary man-of-war. at the
time in the world when ship-builiing
was unknown, God had this vessel
constructed, which turned out to be
almost in the same proportions as our
stanchest modern vessel. After thou
sands of years of experimenting
in naval architecture and in ship-car-
pentry, 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 ac-
count of an eyewitness. They were
lived; for the most part they were ami
mails useful to man, and il nOxiOus in
sects or poisonous reptiles went in, it
was only to discipline the patience. and
to keep alert the generations after the
flood. He saw them going In. There
were a great number of them, and he
gives the account of
AN EYEwITNESS
They went in two and two of all flesh.
Years ago 1 was on steamer on the
river Tay. and l came to Perth, Scot
land. got off, and l saw the most
wonderful agricultural show that had
ever witnessed. There were horses and
cattle such as Rosa Bonheur never
sketched, and there dogs such as the
loving pencil of Edwin Landseer
never portrayed. and there were sheep
and fowl, and creatures of all
sorts. Suppose that ''two and two"
of all the creatures of that agricultural
show were put upon the Tay steamer to
be transported to Dundee, and the
next day / should be writing home to
America and giving an account of the
occurrence, l would have used the
same general phraseology that Noah
used in regard to the embarkation of
the brute creation in the ark-I would
have said that they went In two and
two of every sort. would not have
meant six hundred thousand. A COM
mon sense man myself, l would sup
pose that the people who read the letter
were cOmmOn-Sense people.
''But how could you get them into
the ark?" ask infidel scientists. ''HOW
could they De induced to go into the
ark? He would have to pick them out
and drive them In, and coax them In"
Could not The same God who gave IN
stinct to the animal inspire that
INSTINCT TO SEEK FOR SHELTER
from the stormp However, nothing
more than ordinary animal instinct
was necessary. Have you never been in
the country when an August thunder
storm was coming up, and heard the
cattle moan at tie bars to get in. and
seen the affrighted fowl go upon the
perch at MONDAY, and heard the
affrighted dog and cat calling at the
door. supplicating entrance2 And are
you surprised that, in that age of the
world, when there we're fewer places of
shelter for dumb beasts, at the
muttering and rumbling and flash
Ing and quaking and darkening
OF an approaching deluge, the AMI
NAL creation came moaning and
bleatlng to the sloping embankment
reaching up to the ancient Great East
ern, and passed in2 l have owned
horses and cattle. and sheep and dogs.
but l never had horse or cow or a
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 so poor ventila-
tion to the creatures there assembled
that small window in the ark which
excites so much mirthfulness on the
mart Of infidalS If thew kDaw az much