The Red Cloud chief., 1889-03-29

lmaI inspire that instinct to seek for shell.
ter from the storm: However. nothing
more than ordinary animal instinct was
necessary. Have you never been in the
country when an August thunderstorm
Was coming up and heard the cattle moan
ut Inc bars to get in: aud seen the az
irighted fowl 60 upon the perch at noon.
and heard the a~drighted dog and cat
calling at the door, suppi.cating entrance:
Aud are you surprised that in tina, age OF
the world, when there were fewer places
OK shelter Tor dumb beasts, at the mutter.
ing and ru,nbling and flashing and qaak.
ing aud d~arkening Of an approaching
deiuge, the ANNA. creation came mOauin:
and bleating to the ~sloping embankment
reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern
and passed in: / have owned horses and
cattle and sheep n dogs, but ! never
had . horse or a cow or q sheep or a dog
that was SO stupid it did not know enough
to come in when it rain.d.
And then. hat one window in the ark
which afforded such poor ventilation to
the creatures there assembled that small
window in the ark which ex cites SO much
mlrthfulness on the part OF infdels. Ifthey
knew as much Hebrew as you could put
on your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated means
Widow course. a whole range OF lights.
Those ignorant infidels do not know Q
window pan from twenty windows.
Then the infidels say that the ark landed
on a mountain Il 900 feet high. and that.
nf course. Is soon rs the animals came
forth they would all be frozen in the ice.
That is geographical i~gnorance! Ararai
IS not merely the name for a mount
ain, but for q billy district, and IL
may have been a hill 100 feet high, or 800.
or 100 feet high on which the ark al,ght.
ed. Noah measured the depths OF the
water above the hill, and it is fifteen
cubits, or twenty-seven feet
All. my friends, this story Of the ark is
no more incred bile than Il YOU say to me
Last summer ] was among the hills al
New England. and there came On the most
terrific storm ! ever saw. and the whole
country was flooded. The waters came
up over the hills, and to save our lives We
got in n boat on the river. and even the
dumb creatures were SO affrightened they
came moaning AMI bleating until We let
them in the boat"
We are not dependent upon the Bible
wi ~" sNSAN VI bhC tpV" 90
ng IS and all literatur-s have traditions,
broken traditions. indistinct traditions,
hut still tradit Ons. The old book, Of the
Persians tell about the food at the time Of
Ahriman, who SO polluted the earth that
Il had to be washed by a great storm.
The traditions of the Chaldeans say tina t
in the time when Xisuthrus was King
there was a great flood. and he put his
..-.l- --l - ..N -. I.w. ~A.a.
and all outside OF them were destroyed,
aud after a while the birds went forth and
they came back and their claws were
tinged with mud. Lucian and Ovid, cell
ehrated writers, who had never seen the
Bible. described . food in the tine OF
D.ucalion. He took his friends into a
boat. and the animals came running "a
HIM in pairs. So all hands. and all ages.
mud all ~literatures. seem to nave a broker
and indistinct trad ton OF a calamity
hich Moses, here incorporating Noah's
account 80 grandiy, SO beautifully, 50 ac-
cuIat-ly, SO solemniy records
NY prayer j. that the God who created
the world may create Us anew in Christ
Jesus; and the God who made light three
days before the sun shonc may kindle in
oar hearts a light that will barn on after
{ he sun has expired; and that the God
who ordered tn ark built and kept open
more than 100 years that the antediluvians
might enter il for shelter. NAV Grac,Ously
incline US to accept the invitation which
this morning rose IN music from the
throne. saying: 'Come thou and all thy
house into the ark"
Another hard thing to bs understood :
The story that the sun aud moon stood
still to allow Joshua to complete his vic
tory. Infii.l scientists declare that an
imPossibiiitv. But if a man have brain
and strength enough To make a clock, can
Le not start it and stop it, and start IL
again aud stop it again: Ii God had
strength and wisdom 10 make the clock OF
the universe. the great machinery Of the
worlds. has he not strength enough and
wisdom enough to start il and stop il, aud
start il again aud stop i: again: Or stoV
one wheel. or stop twenty wheels, or st -
ali the wheels! l. the clock stronger than
the c!ockmakery Does the corn thresher
know more than the machinist. Il the
universe mightier than its God: But peo-
pie ask how could the moon have been seen
To stop in the daytime: Well, il you have
never seen the moon IN the daytime il is be.
cause you have not been a very diligeni
observer of the heavens. Beside that. il
Wa moi, necessary for the world literally
To stop. by unusual refraction Of ,he
suns rays the dav might nave bsen pro-
louged. 80 that, while the earth continued
on its path in the heavens, II figuratively
stopped. You must remember that these
Bible authors used the vernarular Of their
own day, Iust rs YOU aud 1 saw the sun
5000 1., Ina .sr vA oAA. l...,
We simply describe what appears TO the
human eve. Besides b tn. world. our
world. could have literally stopped with
out throwing the univeTs. ont of balance.
Our world has two moiions-;hc one
around the sun and the other on its own
axis. Ii might have stopped on its own
axis, while at the same time it kept on its
path through the heavens. $, there was
no need of stellar coniu son because our
word slackenei its speed or entirely
stopped in its revolution on its own axis.
That is none OF the BUSINESS % Jupiter, or
Mars. or Mercury. or Saturn. or the Dipper.
Beside thar. within the memory Of man
there have been worlds that were born
and that died. \ few years ago astrom-
ers telecraphe3, through the As scciated
Press. TO all the woyli-the
from the City of Washington that an
other world had been discovered. Within
q comparatively short space Of time,
astronomers tell Us. thirteen worlds have
turned down. From their observatory
they notice first that the worlds look like
other worlds, thea they become . deep
rel. showing they Were on fire: then they
became ashen, showing they were burned
down; then they entirely disappeared.
showing that ever the ashes were scat
tered. Now. l say. il God can start q
world. and swing a world. and destroy .
world, He could stop one or two Of them
without q great deal OF exertiou. or He