The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25


earth, nearly all the population, probably
very near the ark before it was launched.
What would have been the use of submerg-
ing North and South America or Europe,
or Africa, when thew were not inhabltedf
And as to the skeptical 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 1t says
'sthe windows Of heaven we're opened" 1t
saws, "all the fountains of the great deep
we. e broken up" All biologists agree IN
saying that there are caverns IN the earth
filed with water, ard they rushed forth,
and all the lakes and rivers fcrsook their
bed. The fountains of the great deep were
broken up, and then the windows Of heaven
were opeued. Is it a strange thing hat we
should be asked to believe in this flood of
the Bible, when biologists tell us that again
and again and again the dry earth mas
been drowned out? Just open your geology
and You will read Of twenty foods Is it
not strange that iufidel scientists wanting
us to believe in the twenty floods Of geolog
ical discovery, should. as soon as we believe
in one food Of the Bible, pronounce US non
co1npoS nienttS?
Well, then, another thing, in regard to
the size of the ark. Instead of being mud
scow, as some of these skeptics would have
us understand, it was a magnificent ship,
nearly as large as the G. eat Eastern, three
times the size of an ordinary maa-of- war.
At the time in the world when ship build
ing wa unknown, God had this vessel CON
struCted, which turned out to be almost in
the same proportions as our stanches5
modern vessels. After thou sands of years
of experimenting in naval archite ture and
in ship Carpentery, we have at last got Mp
to Noah's ark, that ship leading all the
@f .flt AF.,tl
Noah saw the animal creation going into
this ark. He gave the account Of an eye
witness They we're the animals from the
region where no lived for the most part
they were animals useful to man, and if
noxlouS insects or poisonous reptiles went
In. it was only to discipline he patience and
to keep alert the generations after the flood.
He aw them going IN. There wee great
number of them, and be give the account
of an eye witness. They went in two and
two Of all flesh.
Years ago | was on a steamer on the river
Tay, and | came to Perth, Scotland. l got
off and | saw the most wonderful agri-
cultural show that I had ever witnessed
There were horses and cattle such as Rosa
Bonheur never sketched, and there were
dogs such IS the loving pencil of Edwin
Landseer never portrayed. and there were
sheep and fowl and creature of all sorts
Suppose that two and twon of ali the
creatures of that agricultural show were
put upon the Tay steamer to be
transported tosDundee, ami the next day
should be writing home to America ard
giving an account of the occurrence. |
would lave used the same general phrase
ology that Noah used III regard to the en-
barkation of the brute creation in the ark
] would have said that they went in two
and two of every sort. | would not have
meant six hundred thousand. A common
sense man myself, | would suppose that
the people who read the letter were com
mon sense people
But how could you get them into the
arkN ask intidel scientists. ''How
could they be induced TO go into the
ark9 He would have to pick them out and
drive them IN, AID ak them in" Could
not the same God who aave instinct to tho
animal inspire that instinct to seek for
shelter from the stormi However, nothi G
more than ordinary animal instinct was
necessary. Have you never been in the
country when an August thunder
storm was coming up and heard the
cattle moan at the bars to get in, and sesn
the affrlghted fowl go upon the perch at
MONDAY, and hear the affrigdted dog and
cat calling at the door, supplicating en-
trances And are you surprised that ia that
age of the world, when there were fewer
places of shelter for dumb beas s, at
the muttering and rumbiing and flashing
and Quaking and darkening OF an ap-
proacbing deluge, the animal creation came
moaning and bleatiDg to the sloping EN-
bankment reaching up 10 the ancient Great
Eastern and passed ias have owned horses
and cattle ana sheep and dogs. but | never
had horse or COW or a sh ep or dog
that was so stupid it did not kn1w enough
to come in when it rained. And then, that
one window in the ark which afforded
such poor ventilation TO the
creatures there assembled that
small window in the ak which ex-
cites so much mirthfuln IS on the part of
infdels. If ney knew as M ch Hebrew as
you could put on your little finger nail thew
would have known that the word translated
window there means window course, a
whole range Of lights. Those ignorant in
fidels do Uot know q window-Dane from
twenty windows. So if there is any criti-
cism Of the ark, there seems t. bs too much
window for such long storm. And as to
the other charge that tie windows of the
ark must have been kept shut AMI conse-
quenty all inside would have persisted from
sutfocation, have to say that there ara
people in this house day who, all the way
from Liverpool to Barnegat lighthouse. aud
for two weeks, were kept under deck. the
matches battened down because of tie
storm. Some Of you, in the cid time sail
Il g vessels, were Kept nearly a month with
the matches down because of some long
storm.
Then infiels say that the ark landed on a
mountain seventeen thousand feet high,
and that, OF course, as sool as the animals
came forth they would all be frozen in the
ice. That is geographical ignorance! Ararat
Is not merely the name for a mountain,
but for billy district, aud It may have
been hill one hundred feet hIgh, or five
hundred, or thousand feet high on which
the ark alighted. Noah measured the depth
OF the water above the hill, and it is fifteen
cubits, or tweDty-Ssveu feet
Ali my friends, this st ry OF the ark is
no more incredible than If you should saw
60 me: Last summer was among tho
hills Of New England, and there came on
the must terrific storm | ever saw, aud the
whole county was flooded. The waters
came up over tie hills, and t. save our lives
we got in a boat on the river, and even the
dumb creatures were SO affrighted 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 all iteratures have traditions, broken
traditions, indistinct traditions, but still
traditions. The oil books Of the Persians
tell about the food at the time Of Ahriman,
who so polluted the earth that it had to be
washed by great storm. The traditions
of the Chaldeans say that in the time when
Aisuthrus was king there was a great food,
aud he put his famlly and his friends in a
large vessel and all outside of them were
destroyed, and after while the birds went