Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-31

Gutl udN III piNh1E tlldN AARhN
teen cubits above the hills. They say
that the ark could not have been large
enough TO contain 1.-TWO Of every
sort, " for there would have been hun
dreds of thousands and hundreds of
thousands OF creatures. They say that
these creatures would have come from
all lands and all one They say
there was only one small window in
the ark, and that would not have
given fresh air to keep the animals in
side tine ark from suifocation. They
say that the ark finally landed on a
| mountain seventeen thousand feet
| high. They say they do not believe
| the story. Neither do j. There is no
such story in the Bible. l will tell
you what the Bible story is. i must
say that | have changed my mind in
regard to some matters which once
were to me very mysterious. They
are no more mysterious. This is the
key to the facts. This is the story
of an eye witness, Noah, his story
incorporated afterward by Moses in
the account. Noah described the
scene just as ii appeared to him. He
saw the flood and he fathomed its
depth. As far as eye could reacn
everything was covered up, from ho-
rizon to horizon, or, as il says, under
the whole heaven" He did not refer
to the Sierra Nevadas, or to Mount
Washington, for America had not been
discovered, or, if il had been discoy-
cred, he could not have seen so far of.
He is giving the testimony of an eye
witness. God speaks after the manner
of men when he says everything went
under, and Noah speaks after theman-
ner of men when ho says everything
did 90 under. An eye witness. There
is no need of thinking that the kanga-
roo leaped the ocean or that the polar
bear came down from the ice.
Why did the deluge Gomez Itcame
for the purpose of destroying the out
rageous inhabitants of the then thinly
populated earth, nearly all the popula-
ton, probably very near the ark
before il was launched. What would
have been the use of submerging North
and South America, or Europe, or
Africa, when they were not inhabitedl
And as TO the skeptcal suggestion that
in order TO have the water as deep as
the Bible states, it must have rained
500 feet every day, / reply, the Bible
distinctly declares that the most of the
flood rose instead of falling. Before
the account where il says ''the win
dows of heaven were opened" il says,
''all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up" All biologists 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 it a strange
thing that we should be asked TO be.
lieve in this flood of the Bible, when
biologists tell us that again and again
and again the dry earth has been
drowned out2 Just open your geol.
ogy and you will read Of twenty
floods. Is it not strange that iniidel
scientists wanting us 10 believe in the
twenty floods of geological discovery,
should, as soon as We believe in one
flood of the Bible, pronounce us non
compos mentisl
THE BEASTS ON THE ARK OF NOAH.
Well, then, another thing, in re.
gard TO the size of the ark. Instead Of
being q mud scow, as some of these
skeptics would have us understand,
it was a magnificent 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
building was unknown, God had this
vessel constructed, which turned out
TO be almost in the same proportions
as our stanchest modern vessels. After
thousands of years of experimenting
in naval architecture and in ship car.
pentery, We have at last got up 70
Noah's ark, that ship leading all the
fleets of the world ON oil the oceans.
Well, Noah saw the animal creation
going into this ark. He gave the &C.
count of an eye witness. They were
the animals from the region where he
lived; for the most part they were ami.
mails useful 10 man, and ii noxious in.
sects or poisonous reptiles went in, il
was only TO discipline the patience
and TO keep alert the generations after
the flood, He saw them going in.
There were O great number of them,
and he gives the account of an eye wit.
ness. They went in two and two OF
all flesh.
Years ago l was on a steamer on the
river Tay, and / came TO Perth, Scot.
land. | got of, 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 were dogs such as
the loving pencil of Edwin Landseer
never portrayed, and there were sheer
and fowl and creatures Of all sorts.
Suppose that 1.-TWO and two" of ali the
creatures of that agricultural show
were put upon the lay steamer to be
transported to Dundee, and the mex,
day ! should be writing home &c
America and giving an account of the
occurrence, / 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. l would not have
meant six hundred thousand. A com.
mon sense man myself, l would sup.
pose that the people who read the let
ter were common sense people.
But how could you get them into
the ark9n ask inhdel scientists. "Hoy