The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-11

the hfute creation In lac aFE-l wnllt hoyi
said that thsv want in twa aal twp ut svsrv
sort, would not have mssrt six hnniret
thousand, A common sense man mysalt, !
would suppose that the psople who re1l the
etter were common sense people,
But how could you get them into the
ark" ask indisl scientists "How could
they be induced to 60 into the ark He
would have 10 pick than ont and drive them
In and coax them i'm Could not the same
God who gave instinct TO the animal inspire
that Instinct to seek for shelter from ths
Storm However, nothing more than
ordinary animal instinct was nsces
sary, Have you never hssn In the country
when an August thunder storm was coming |
dp and heard the cattle moan at the bars 10 |
got in and seen the affrlghtsi fowl go upon
the perch at MONDAY, and heard the affrightsd
dog and cat calling at the door, supplicating
entrancsl And are you surprised that in that
age OF the world, when there were fever
places OF shelter for dumb beasts, at the NUT,
tering and rumblng and flashing and quak'
Ing and darkening OF an approaching deluge,
this animal creation cams moaning and
beatng to the soping embankmeut reach.
ing up to the ancient Great Eastern and
and sheep and dogs, but | never had horse
tha, = was SIS So stupid Il lid not know
enough to come in when it rained.
And then, that one window in the ark which
AfIOrueQ Sucn poor ventlaulOn TO tn6 Croa-
lures there assemblsi-that small window In
the ark which excites so much mirthfulness
on the part Of inAdsls, II they know as
much Hebrew as you could put on
your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated win
whole range of lights Thoss ignorant In
nuels DO not know window pane from
twenty windows. So If there Is any criticism
Of the ark there seems to be too much win.
dow for such long storm. And as to the
other chargs that the windows of the
ark must have bsen kept shut and con-
ssquently all inside would have persisted
from suffocation, | have TO say that
thsrs are people in this house today who,
all the way from Liverpool to Barnegat
lighthouse, and for two weeks were kept
under deck, the matches battened down be.
cause of the storm. Some of you in the old.
| time sailing vessels were kept nearly a
month with the matches down because of
some long storm
| lnsn Inudels say that the ark landed on a
mountain seventeen Thousand feet high and
! that, OF course, as soon as the animals came
| forth they would all be frozen in the ice,
! That is geographical ignorance, Ararat is
not merely the name for mountain, but for
| billy district, and it may have been hill
ons hundred feet high, or five hundred, or q
thousand feet high on which the ark alighted.
Noah measured the depth Of water above the
hii' ci'l ~ ls III -eSN EttIltS w s"eHIN -stNch
feet
Ali my friends, this story of the ark is no
more incredible than If you should say to me:
Last summer | was among the hills of New
England, AMI there came on the most terrific
srotm ever saw, and the wa),e country was
Hooded. 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 50
anrlghted they cana moaning aud beating,
until we let them in the Same boat
we are not dependent upon the Bible for
the story of the food, entirely. All ages and
all literatures have traditions broken trad
tions, indistinct traditions, but still tradi-
tons The old books of the Persians to-!
about the food at the time of Ahriman,
who so polluted the earth that 1t had
to be washed by a great storm
Ths traditions of the Chaldeans say
there was great food, and he put his family
and his friends in large vessel AMI all out
side of them were destroyed, and after a
while thu birds went forth and they came
back and their claws were tingsd with
mud, Lucian and Ovid, celebrated writ
srs, who had never sean the Bible
described a Good in the time Of Deu-
Gallon. Hs took his friends into boat and
the animals came running to him in pairs
So all lands, and all ages, and all literaturas,
seem to have broken and indistinct tradi
ton of a calamity which Moses here incor-
beautifully, so accurate V. so soiemnly re-
cords
MY prayer is that the God VINO created the
world may create US anew IN Christ Jesus
and that the God who made light three days
before the sun shoue may kin IN our dearr'
light that will burn on long after the SUI
has expired; and that the 60 VINO or
dered the ark built and kept open
more than one hundred years that thu ants
diluvians might enter it for shelter, may
graciously incline US to accept the invitation
which this morning rose in music from ths
Throne saying; Come thou and all .lr
house into the ark
Another hard thing to be understood Tn.
story that the sun and moon Stood still t.
allow Joshua to complete his victory. lni
del scientists declare that an imposs!bilitv
But il man have brain and strength
enough 70 make clock, can he no;
start it and stop it, and start it again
and stop it againa IL machinst have
strength and brain enough to make corr
threshsr, can he not start it and stop it, and
start it again and stop it again? If God hav,
strength and wisdom to make the clock Of
the universe, the great machinery Of th
worlds, has He not strength enougi
and wisdom enough to start it anC
stop it, and start it again and stop il
again? Or stop ons wheel, or stop twenty
wheels, or stop all the wheels Is the clock
stronger than the clock-maker. Does th.
corn threshsr know more than the machinist
Is the universe mightier than its Col
But people ask how could the moon have beer
seen to stop in the daytime! Well, il you hav
nsver seen the moon in the daytime, it is be
cause you have not been very diligent OBJ
server of the heavens. Beside that, it wa
not necessary tor the world literally Il
stop. By unusual refractious of the sun
rays the day might have been prolonged
So that, while the earth continued O
! its path in the heavens, it tigurativel
stopped. You must remember that thes
Bible authors used the vsrnacular of thei
,, own day. just as you and say the sun wen
,, down The sun never goes down We sim
,, ply describe what appears to the human eye
!. Besides that, the world, our world
;; -oud have literally stopped withou
THROWN, the universe out OF balance
Oar world has two mo1ions-th
one around the sun an / the other on its owl
. axis. IL might have stopped on its own axis
r while at toe SAM tina it kept on its pat
+ through the heavens. So there was NJ nse
n Of stalisr confusion because our world slack
q ened its speed or entirely stopped in its rave
# lutions on its own axis. That is nons of tn
:, business of Jupiter, or Mars, or Mercury
n or saturn, or the Dipper. Bssd
II that, within the memory o. ma
z there have been worlds that wei
t born and that died A few years ae
astronomers telegraphed, through tt
. Associated Press, to all the world-tl
I. ASTRONOMERS from Cne city OF w aSnlng COn.
/, that another world had been discovers
# Within comparatively short space of tin
d astronomers tell US, thirteen worlds hay
b burned down. From thsir observatoi
a, they notice first that the worlds Loo
ID like other worlds, then they became
1t deep red, showing they were on fire; til:
10 they became ashen, showing they were burn.
:, down; then they entirely disappeared, sho,
10 ing that even the ashes were scattered. No,
e. | say, if God can start world and swing
l. world, and destroy world he could ST.
3, one or two of them without gre
,p deal of exertion, or he could by Il
De usual refraction of the suns ra
th continue the illumination. But infid
ID scientists say it would have been belittlin
g. FOR oUnsr worlds TO stop on account of such
II battle. Why, srs what Yorktown was fc
re revolutionary times and what Gettysbur
De was in our civil contest and what Sedan WI
e. in the Franco-German war, and what Wa
in srloo was in the Napoleonic dsstiny-thi
ID was this battle OF Joshua against the fi'
III allied armies of Gideon. 1t was that bait
at that changed the entire course
ie history. 1t was battle