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

- ears ago was on steamer on the river
lay, and i came 70 Perth. Scotland got
or. and saw the most wonderful a0rIciil
tural show that have ever witnessed There
were horses and cattle such as Rosa Bonhsur
never skstchsd. and there wore dogs such az
the loving pencil OF Edwin Tandseer nsver
portrayed, and there were sheep aod fowl
and creatures OF all sorts Supposs
that two and two of ali ths
gestures OF that Agricultural show
transported to Dundee and the next dav I
should be writing hons to America and Civ.
ing an account OF the Occurrences. I would
have used the same general phraseoloRy that
10! Noah used In regard 70 the embarkation of
the brute creation in the ark would have
said that thew went In two and two OF every
sort would not have meant six hundred
Thousand. common sense man myself.
WOULD suppose that the people who read tho
letter were common sense people.
But how could you get them into thu
arkf' ask inddel scientists. Glow could
they be induced to GO into the artl He
would have TO pick them ont and drive them
God who gave instinct 10 the animal inspIre
that instinct 10 seek for shelter from tbs
storms However, nothing moro than
ordinary animal instinct was neces
sary Have you never been in the country
whom an August thunder storm was comino
up and heard the cattle moan at tho bara h
get IN! and seen the aRrighted fowl 90 upon
tine perch at monday, and heard the aRrighted
entrancel And are you surprised that in that
age OF the world. when there were fever
places OF shelter for dumb beasts at the nnuk.
tsring aud rumbltng aud flashing and oualr.
ing and darkening OF an approaching dsluge.
the animal creation came moaning and
bleating TO the sloping embankment reach.
ing up to the ancient Great Eastarn AMI
passed int have owned horses and cattle
and Sheep and dogs, but | never had horse
that was so stupid It did not know
enough to come I'm when it rained
And thcn, that one window I'm the ark which
anordod such poor ventilation 60 the croa.
lures there assemblsd-thRt small window In
the ark which excites so much mirthfulnssg
on the part OF infidsls IL they know no
much Hebrew az you could put on
your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated win
dow there means window course a
whole range OF lights. Those ignorant In.
ndsis do not know a window pane from
twenty windows So il there Is any criticism
OF the ark, there seems to be too much win.
DOW Tor such long storm. And as 20 the
other charge that the windows of this
ark must have been kept shut aud CON
ssquentiy all inside would have persisted
from sunocation, l have TO say that
tnere are people in this house to-day who.
Al the way from Liverpool to Barnsgat
lighthouse, aud for two weeks were kent
undsr deck, the matches battaned down ba.
cause OF the storm. Some Of you. in the old
r
month with the matches down becauss Of
some long storm.
Then infidels say that the ark landed on
mountain seventeen thousand feet high and
snat, OF course, as soon as the animals cams
forth they would all be frozen In the ice
That is geographical ignorancs Ararat IA
nos merely the name for a mountain but for
hliiy district, and it may have been a hill
one hundred feet high, or five hundred, or a
thousand feet high on which the ark alighted
Moan measured the depth OF water above the
feet. 0''"
Ahl my friends, this story OF the arb 70 No
more incredible than IL you should saw To ma.
Last summer was among the hills of New
England, and there came ON the most terrific
storm ever saw aud the whole country was
nooded The waters came up over the hills
and to save our lives we got in boat on the
river, and even the dunno creatures was 80
anrighted they came moaning and bleating,
until we let them in the same boat"
We are not dependent upon the Bible for
the story OF the flood, entirely. All ages and
AL hteratures have traditions, broken tradi-
tions, indistinct traditions but still tradi.
irons. The old books OF the Persiaus tell
ABOUT the hood at the time of AhrimaR,
who 80 polluted the earth that it had
TO be washed by great storm
The traditions of the Shaldeans sav
that In the time when Xisuthrus was King
there was great flood, and he put his family
and his friends in large vessel and ALI out.
side OF them were destroyed, AMI after
while the birds went forth and thev came
back and their claws were tinzei with
mud. Lucian and Ovid celebrated writ.
ers, who had never seen the Bible
described a flood in the time OF Den
Gallon. He took his friends into boat. and
the animals came running to him in pairs
30 all lands, and all ages, and all literatures
seem to have a broken and indfstinct trad3
ton OF calamity which Moses, here incor
porating Noah's account, so 0randIv 40
beautifully, 20 accurately, 80 solemnly re
cords
Ny prayer is that the God who created tbs
world may create us anew in Christ Jesus.
ana that the God who made light three days
before the sun shone may kindle in our hearts
nGnt tnat viii burn on long after the sun
has expired; and that the God who or
dered ths ark built and kept open
more than one hundred years that the anti
dhuyians might enter il for shelter. NAV
graciously incline US to accept the invitation
which this morning rose IN music from thu
throne, saying; Come thou and All thy
house into the ark
Another hard thing 90 be understood: The
story that the sun and moon stood still 10
SHOW Joshua TO complete his victory Inf.
del scientists declare that an impoSsibiIitv
oat II man have brain and strength
enougn 20 make a clock can M no.
hIAft ~ and stop IT, aud start e again
ana stop u AGAIN. IL a machiuist 6avo
sstsrongth and brain enough 20 make a corn
al 10 sAVs abAfE ~ aud stop IL and
start it again aud stop it aRainl N God bsvs
strenRtn and wisdom 70 make the clock 81
the universe, the great machinery az t,e
worlds has He not strength enosgb
and wisdom enough to start h anS
stop IT, and start it again AMI stoo h
again Or stop one wheel or stop ty1sntv
Wnesls, or stop All the whsslsl Is tue ciosR
stronger than the clock-uakerl Doss ~
Gorn.thFesner know more than the rnachinfet9
- tns universe mightior than its Coll
bub people ask how could the moon have bean
sen % sbOptn the daytimsl Well ff Won have
hsVer seen The moon ia the daytime h IL ba-
ceuss you nave not bean a very di1igspt or
server OF the heavens Beside that h vs.
not necessary for the world Iitsrailv ~
stop ny unusual rofractions Of TIE epu's
rays the day might have bson proionSsd
20 That, while the earth Continued 90
lta path 10 the baavena h Gourafiveis
TOPPED on must rsmsmbsr that 49,,
blDis authors used tho vernscular Of theif
~ oAyi Just az you aud say the sun vent
oOWn. The sun nsVor goes down. We aim
~ eS1cFloe what appears 70 the human ave
D.1,9@ tnati tue world our world
couia have literally stopped without
tnroWinR the universe out OF baiancs
Our world has two nnotiopq-tts
One around TIE sun aud the other On nj ovgn
etia ~ might have stopped on its own 80
VINE e5 the sams tins 10 kept on its uatb
tarough the heavens. So there vas no nssJ
% assler confusion because our world siacF-
ened IT, speed or entirely stopped 10 ia ravo.
iutiona on IL own axis. That is none al "a
business Ot Jupiter, or Mar. or Marrurv
or saturn, or The Dippsr. Bsqids
mat within the memory o. man