The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-28

witness. God speaks after the manner
OF men when he says everything went
uisder, and Noah speaks after the man
ner OF men when he says everything
did go under. An eye witness. There
is no need of thinking that the kanga-
roo ieaped the ocean or that the polar
bear came down from the ice.
Why did the deluge Gomez It came
for the purpose of destroying the out
rageols Inhabitants. of the then thinly
populated earth, nearly all the popula-
tior1 Aprobably very near the ark
before 1T was launched. What would
have been the aseof,submerging North
and ASolithl America, or Europe, or
Africa; when they were not inhabited2
And rs tothe sizeptical suggestion that 4
! IN order to have. the water as deep as
!. tic Bible states, it must have rained
300 feetscvery day, reply, the Bible
distinctly declares that the most of the
flood rose inst ad of falling. Before
the account where it says ''the win
dows of heaven were opened it says,
''all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up All geologists agree
ia saving that there are caverns
in the earth filed 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 strange
thing that we should be asked to be-
liego in this flood of the Bible, when
geologists tell us that again and again
and again the dry earth has been
drowned out2 just open your geol-
ogy and you viii read of twenty
floods. Is it not strange that infdel
scientists wanting us to 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
TIE BEASTS ON THE ARK OF NOAH.
Well, then, another thing, in re-
gard to tie sizc of the ark. Instead of
being C mud scow, as some of these
skepticS would have us understand,
it was a magnificent. ship, nearly as
large as tho Great Eastern, three times
tho size of an ordinary man-of-war.
| At tho 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, wo have at last got up to
Noah's ark, that ship leading all tia
| fleets of the world on all the oceans.
Well, Noah saw the animal creation
| going into this ark He gave the ac.
count OF an eye witness. They were
| the animals from the region where he
II
mails useful to man, and ii noXious in
sects or poisonous reptiles went in, it
was only to discipline the patience
end to keep alert the generations after
| the Hood. Ho 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 | was on a steamer on the
river Tay, and came to Perth, Scot
land. l got off, and / saw the most
wonderful agricultural show that
| had over witnessed There were horses
and cattle such as Rosa Bonheur never
slzetched, and there were dogs such as
! the loving pencil of Edwin I.andseer
never portrayed, and there were sheep
and fowl and creatures of oil sorts.
Suppose that two and two of all the
creatures of that agricultural show
were put upon the Tay steamer to be
transported to Dundee, and the next
day l should be writing home to
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 III the ark-I would
havo said that they went in two and
two of every sort. | 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 wero common sense people.
''But how could you get them into
tho arlll' ask inidel scientists. How
could they be induced to go into the
arll2 He would have to pick them
out and drive them in, and coax them
in." Could not the same God who
gavo instinct to the animal inspire that
instinct to seek for shelter from the
storm2 However, nothing more than
ordinary animal instinct was ncces
sary. Have You never been in the
4 country when an August thunder
storm was coming up and heard tho
cattle moan at the bars to get in2 and
seen the aifrighted fowl go upon tllc
perch at MONDAY, and heard the af
frighted dog and cat calling at the
, door, supplicating enTancea And arc
YOU surprised that inthat age of the
world, when there were fewer places
of shelter for dumb beasts, at the NUT
tering and rumbling and flashing and
quaking and darkening of an approach
ing deluge, the animal creation came
, moaning and bloating to the slopins
embanlment reaching up to the an
cient Great Eastern and passed in2
have owned horses and cattle an1
sheep and dogs, but | never had ;
horse or a cow or q sheep or n dog
that was so stupid it did not know
enough to come in when it ralned
And then, that one window III the arl
which afforded such poor Ventilation
to the creatures there assembled-tha
small window in the ark which eX
7 cites so much mirthfulneSs on tn
part of infidels. If they knew q
much Hebrew as you could put OF
your little finger nail they would hay
known that that word translated WIN
l dow there means window course,
whole range of lights. Those lgnc
rant infidels do not know windoN
2 pane from twenty windows. 50
l there il any criticism of the ark, ther
4 seems TO be too much window for sue
> a long storm And as to the othe
: charge that the windows OF the ar
must have been kept shut and cons'
; quently all inside would have perlshe
from suiiocation, have to say ths
, there are people in this house toda
who, all the way from Liverpool
2 Barnegat lighthouse, and for tw
! weeks, were kept under deck, th
matches battened down because of til
" storm. Some of you, in the old tim
f. sailing vessels, were Kept nearly
" month with the matches down b
"a cause of some long storm.
" Then iniidels say that the ark lan'
4. cd on q mountain seventeen thousan
of feet high, and Chat of course, as 500
al as tho animals came forth they woul
N all be frozen in the ice. That IS ge
" graphical ignorancel Ararat is II,
n merely the name for mountain. b,
,c for a hilly district, and il may hay
n been hill ono hundred feet high.
" five hundred, or a thousand feet hie
a on whlchl the ark ahglned. lNua
ct measured tho depth OF tho water abo'
10 tho hill, and it is fifteen cubits,
10 twenty-seven feet.
ii Ahl my friends, this story OF Il
st ark is no more incredible than II yc
in should say to me: Last summer i w
&c among the hills of New England, al
" there came on the most terrific stcr
le ever saw. and the whole country 81