The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-27

Jnre0 ubNs Ue1Oto tuo 1uu bAuho may AsN-~
In our carts light that will burn on long
Of or the sun hrs 0 ;pired; nnd that the G'd
who ordered the ark built and kept open
more than one hundred yearsin order that
u o antediluvians mt 1t enter II 'rshelter,
may graciousv incline us to accept the IN
yitation which this morning rose In music
from the throne, saying: "Come tnou ana
all thy house into the ark"
Another hard thing To he understood.
The story that the sun and moon stood still
to allow Joshua to complete his victory
Jnfidel scientists declnre that an impossi-
bility. But II a man have brain and strength
enough to m Ike clock, can he not startit
and stop II, and start u AGAIN and stop u
agninl II a mach mist have strength and
brain enough TO make q corn thresher can
he not s. art IL and stop II, and start II again
and stop IL againl II God have strength
and wisdom TO make the clock OF the uni
vcr e. the great machinery OF tie worlds
has lie not strength enough and wisdom
enough to start II and ST. p II, and start 1t
again and stop IL ag iini Or stop one wheel,
or stop twenty wheel. or storall the wheelsi
| Is the G. stronger than the clock makeri
Does the corn thresher know more than
the machinistl Is the universe mightier
the moon have been seen 10 stop In the day.
timel Well II you have never seen the
moon in { ed vtine, II Is nca' sc YOU have
not 10 n very dill gent obs river Of the
4 heaveus. Resid "a that IL was not necessary
for the word literally to stop. by unusual
refraction Of The SUMS rays he dav might
have been III, onrcd. 30 hat willis the
@ ! tn cou,n Ell on it. path In the heavens,
| a. Ro,,.,tt,, 1u aIOnn,d Vnn mn a uemn0r
that H. e'e Pible an,hors u 'edt o nacul r
o. their own day, ju as you and 'av tho
su went down. The sun ever goes down.
We sim " dc rlhe what penrs to the
human eye. Beside thNt { e. world, onr
world. ronl h W literally St ne without
thro ing he ur'v re out OF balance. Our
world hus t,o mo tho one around the
'un md the t .nr o. | own AXIS 1t might
h We s opncd It's own x s, while at the
zane time IL X p on i'spath through the
heavens. So there was M need Of stel ar
confusion becaus' our world slackened
is sod or N irely stopped in Its
revelation on f., own Xxi That Ia none
Of tho brsnes 4 Jupiter, or Mars,
or Nero ry, or S,urn. or the Diprer.
Be- d that, within tine memory OF man
the e hnve been worlds tlat we're b rn and
that died. A fav years ago astronomers
'elrqraphed. through tho A ISOLATED Press.
" all tic worl 1.-The as rnnomers from the
city Of Washil at ,n--that mother world had
been Discovered wit In a comparatively
short p CO Of time, rs ronomers tell US,
thir' cen rlds have b. n, down. From
their observatory they uoi'ce first tn the
IDS look Hire other rda. I en- they be.
cam deep rel showing they wer on fire;
then hey became hen. showing they were
burned down; thon they entirely disip-
pearcd showing that even the ashes were
scatterei Now. say. II God can start
world, aud swing world, and
! destroy word. He cou'd stop
one or two Of them without a
q co. deal Of xer'ion or he could BY un-
usthl refrartion Of the suns rays conti"u
the ill., ,nation. But infidel cientists say
It would have been belitting for other
: worlds 70 stop on account OF such battle.
why slrs. what Yorktown was for Revo.
lutionary times. and what Gettysburg was
In our civil contest, and what Sedan was In
the Franco erman war. and what Water.
loo was In the Napoleonic destiny-that was
this battle Of Joshua against the FIVE allied
armies Of Gibcon. II was that battle that
changed the entire course OF history. II
| IA
though battle now should occur In which
' England and the United States, and France
3 and Germany, and Italy. and Turkey and
4 Russia should fight for victory or annihila
Z tion. However much any other world
solar, lunar, or stellar, might be hastened Ia
? It's errand Of light. IL would be excusable II
IL fingered In the heac ems for little while
! and put down its sheat OF beams and gazed
: on such an Armaeeddon.
In the early part OF this century there wa,
{ what was called the Dark Day. Some Of
. these aged men perhaps NAV remember II
q tits known In history as the Ozark Day
. workmen at noon went 10 their homes and
s courts aud legislatures adjourned. M
astronomers have ever b,en able 10 explain
v that dark dny. Now II God can advancs
y the night earlier than It's time, can he mol
u adjourn the night until af or It's timei
o often used 10 hear my father describe ,
:. night-I think he said II was In 1S33-wher
d his neighbors aroused him In great alarm
Q All the heavenly bodies seemed 70 be IL
v motion. People thought our Garth wa
Q coming 10 lis destruction. Tens Of thousands
u Of stars shooting No astronomers have evei
y been able to explain that star shooting. Now
u does not your common sense teach YOU thai
h II God could start and stop tens OF thousand
8 OF worlds OF M teors, He could start ant
u stop two w6r dsi II God can engineer
d train OF ten Thousand worlds or meteors
d and stop them without accident or collision
Q can not He CO ltrol two carriages Of light
and BY pu ting down golden brake stoI
d the sun, and by putting down silver brak'
o stop the mo nj Under this explanation
o In stead Of being skeptical about this sublime
2 passage Of tho Biblo you will, when yos
Q read It. fe moro like going down on youi
knees b fore God as you read; "Sun, stant
o thou stlll above Gibeon. and thou moon II
!. the valley Of Aialon."
% Then there Ia the Bible statement that {
o whale swallowed Jonah and elected hin
J. upon the dry ground in three days. II yOr
!. will 20 70 the museum at Nantucket, Mass.
v you will find the skeleton Of a whale lnrgt
! enough 10 swallow q man. | said TO thu
n janitor, while was standing In the mu
d scum: "W ~ II does not seem from the look
Il Of this skeleton that the story in the bool
Of Jonah Is so very improbable, does itp
Is 10, no,n he replied, sit does notn Thers
o IL cavity IN the mouth Of the common
S whale large enough for man 10 live In
o There have been sharks found again anC
0 again with an en- ire human body In them
s Besides that, the Bible says nothing abou
s O whale. II says, "The Lord prepared I
Q great hsh." and there are scientists who
y toll us that there were ecu monstersin othel
n days that make the modern whale seem very
insignihcant know In one place IN The