News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-04

the animal creation came moaning and
bleating to the s'oping embankment reach
ing up to the ancient Great Eastern AMI
passed in? / have owned horses and cattle
and sheep and dogs, but never had horse
or COW or sheep or dog
that was SO stupid it did not know
enough to come in when it rained
And then. that one window in the ark which
afforded such poor ventilation to the crea.
lures there assemble THAT small window in
toe ark which excites so much m:rthfulness
on the part of ini1als. If thew know as
much Hebrew as YOU could put on
your little finger nail they woull have
known that that worl translated win
dow there means window course, a
whole range of lights. Those ignorant in
fidels do not know window pane fiGn
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 charge thas ths windows of the
ark must have been kept SHUT and con-
sequently all inside would have persisted
from sufocation, L have to say that
there are people in this house to-day who.
all the way from Liverpool to Barneyat
lighthouse, and for two weeks were kept
Under deck, the matches battened down be-
cause of the storm. Some of you, in the old
line sailing vessels, wers kept nearly a
month with the matches down because O..
sGsas long storm.
Then infidels say thai the ark landed on 3
tnat, of course. q soon as the animals cams
forth they would all bo frozen in the ice.
That is geographical ignorancei Ararat Is
not merely the name for a mountain, but fol
a billy district, and it may have been hill
hundred feet high, or five hundred, or
thousand feet high on which the ark alighted
Noah measured the depth OF water above thf
hill, and it is fifteen cuoits, or twenty sever
feet.
Ali my friends, this story Of the ark is M
more incredible than if you should say to me
Last summer was among the bills of N5x
England, and there came on the most terrific
storm ever saw, an. the whole country was
flooded. Tie waters caua up over the hills
and to save our lives We got in n boat on the
river, and even the dunno creatures was 50
afrightsd they canls moaning and beating,
until we let them in the same boat"
We are not dependent upon the Bible for
the story of tae flood. entire V. All ages and
all hteratureS have traditions, broken tra1l-
tons, indistinc5 traditions, but still tradi.
tons. The old books of the Persians tell
about the food at the time of Ahriman,
who so polluted the earth that it had
The traditions Iaio9s of the Gh haa sav
that in the Tina when Xisuthrus was King
there was great flood, and he put his family
and his friends in large vessel and all out
side of them were destroyed, and after
while the birds went forth AMI they cana
bacS and their claws were tingei with
mud Luciaa and Ovid, celebrated writ
erS, vino had never seen the Bible
described a fool in the time OF Deu
Gallon. He took his friends into boat, and
the animals came running to him i'll pairs,
SO all lands, and all ages, aci all literatures,
seem to have a broken and indis1inct tradi
ton of calamity which Moses, here incor.
porating Noah's account, SO grandy, sc
beautifully, 50 accurate Y, so so.emnly re
cords.
My prayer is that the Gcd who created tbs
world may create US anew in Chris5 Jesus.
AMI thai the 90 who made light three day2
before the sun shone may kin lie in our hearts
a light that will burn on long after the sur
has expired; AMI thai the Col VINO
derei the ark huii5 and kept opeI
more than one hundred years that the ante
diluvianS might enter 1T for shelter, may
graciously incline US to accept the invitation
which this morning rose in music from tbs
Throne, saying: "Coms thou and all thy
house into the ark &"
Another hard thing to be understood: The
story that the sun AMI moon stood still tx
allow Joshua 10 complat tie his victory. Inf
del scientists declare that an impossi5ility.
Sut i man have nrSIp end stoengt
start 1t and stop it, and start it again
and stop it again? If machinist have
strength and brain enough to make a corn
can ne not start it and stop it. and
start it again aud stop it again? If God have
strength and wisdom to m IKE the cock of
worlds, has He not strength enough
and wisdom enough to start it and
stop 1t, and start it again and stop it
iSalnt Or stop ons wheel, or stop twenty
wheels, or stop all tae wheels! Is tue clock
stronger than the ciocz-maker! Does the
,orn thresher know mora than tbs machinista
s the universe E1iyhtier than its Col!
But people ask how could the moon have been
zen to stop in the daytime? Well if you have !
lever seen the moon in the daytime, it is be-
haEn .alf haa Il IL.
river of the heavens. Beside that, it was 1
lot necessary for the world literally to
Top. By unusual refracsioas of the suns |
avs the day might have been prolonged. /
20 That, while tue earth continued on
IS path IN the heavens, it fguratively I
topped You must remember that these /
Sible authors used the vernacular of their /
1wn day. just as you and l say the sun went
ply describe what appears to the human eve
Besides Tat, the world, our world,
could have literally stopped without
throwing ths universe out of balance.
One around the sun and the other on its own
AXIS 1t might have stopped on its own axis,
while at the sams time it kept on its path
through the heavens. So there was no need
Of steIler confusion because our world slack
snad its speed or entirely stopped in its revo-
business OF Jupitsr, or Mars, or Mercury,
'r Saturn, or the Dipper. Beside
hat, within the memory OF man
hero have been worlds that were
'cra and that diel. few years ago
astronomers telegraphed, through the /
Associated Press, to all the world-.he !
astronomers from the city of Washington
hat another world had been discovered
" ithln comparatively short space of tina
Istroaomers tell Us, thirteen worlds have
lurnsd down From their observatory
hey notice first that the worlds look
Ike other worlds, then they became q
ieep red, showing they were fire; then
hey became ashen showing they were burned
Town; then they entirely disappeared, show
ug taat even tine ashes were scattered. Now
say, if God can start a world, and swing a
world, and destroy q world, he could stop
me or two of them without a great
ieai OF exertion, or he could by I'M
isual refraction of the suns rays
continue the Illumination. But infidel
c.enelsts say 1T would have been be'ittling
or Other worlds to stop Oh account OF such
)atsle. Why. sirs, what Yorktown was for
evo utionarT times, and what Gettysburg
vas in our civil contest. and what Sedan was
n the Franco-Ger.n1n war, and what Wat !
'rioo was in the Napoleonic destiny-that
vas this battle of Joshul against the five
.llied armies of Gibson. It was that battle /
hat charged the entire course of
history. 1t was battle to
hoald occur in which England and the Uni
cd States and France an / Germany and /
italy AMI Turkey and Russia should fight for (
1ictory or annihiiation. However much any
'sner world, solar, lunar or stellar, might be .
fastened in 1t erraud of light, it would ba /
xcusab'e if it fingered in ths heavens for /
lite while and put down its sheaf of beams .
mi gael on such an Armagel doa.
In the early part oe this century there was
What was called the Dark Day. Some of .
nese aged men may perhaps remember it, It .
known IN history as the Ozark Day"
" orknlen at noon went TO their homes. and
0urts and legislatures ad journed. No
s'ronomers have ever been able t.
xpiain that dark day. Now, if God
an advance the night earlier than its
tter its timer | often used to hsar INV
ataer describe a night think he said H.
Ias in lS33-when his nsighoors aroused
i'm In great alarm. All the heavenly toiieS
'emed 70 be in motion. People thought our
lrth was coming to its destruction
ems OF thousands of stars shooting. No
5tronom ars have ever been able to
xp'ain that star shooting Now does nos
our common sense teach you that if Cod
ould start and stop tens of thousands of
1orlds or mateors, he could start and stop
wo worlds, II Col can engineer a train OF
an thousand worlds or msteors, and stop
hem without accident Or collision, cannot
3 control two carriages of light, AMI
y putting down golden brake stop the sun,
nd by putting down a silver brake stop the
ioonF Onu-r unIs exp instead or
cling skeptical about this sublime passage
the Bible, you will, when you read it, feel
lore like going down on your knees before
cd you read: "Sun, stand thou still
Dove Gideon, and thou moon in the valley
{ Ajalon."
Then there is the Bible statement that q
hale swallowed Jonah and elected him
p on the dry ground in three days II you
'ill go to the museum at Nantucket, Mass,
GU will fnd the skeleton of a whale large
nough TO swallow a MAJ | said TO
1e janitor, while | was standing in
40 museum: Why it does not seem
rom the looks of this skeleton tina