Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-04


vessel constructed, which turned out
to be almost in the same pronortions
as our stanchest modern vessels Aftsr
thousands of years of experimenting in naval
architecture and in ship carpentry we ia I've
at last got up to Noah's ark that shin 49,
ing all the fleets of the world on ali no
oceans. Well. Moan saw the animal crea-
ton going into this ark He gave the ac.
count OF an eve witness They were
the animals from the region where he
lived; for the most part thsv ware animals
useful to man, and il noxious insects or
poisonous reptiles went in, it was only 30 ais.
cipline the patlenca and to keep alert the
generations after the ho1d. He saw than
going in. There were a great numrer Of
them. and he gives the account OF an -,
witness They went in two and two of all
flesh
Years ago | was on a steamer On thu ,4x.r
Tay, and l came to Perth. Scotland. fgot
off, and / saw the most wonderful acricsil-
tural show that have ever witnessed There
were horses and cattle such as Rosa Bonhsur
never sketched. and there were dogs such a.
the loving pencil Of Edwin Landsser never
portrayed, and th.re were sheep and fowl
and creatures OF all sorts. Suppose
that two and twon of all the
creatures of that agricultural show
were put upon the Tay steamer to DO
TRANSPORTED to Dundee. and the next dav
should be writing home to America and Civ.
ing An account of the occurrence would
have used the same general phraseoiogv that
Noah used in regard TO the embarkation Of
the brute creation I'm the ark would have
said that thew went in two and two ot every
sort. / would not have meapt six hundred
thousand. common sense man mysalf !
would suppose that the people who read tn,
letter were common sense paople
But how conld Won get them into tho
arkt" ask infidel scientists. GLOW eoull
they be induced TO 60 into the ark He
would have to pick them out and drive them
in and coax them in. ~ Could not the same
God who gave instinct TO the animal inspire
that instinct to seek for shelter from the
Storm However, nothing more than
ordinary animal instinct was neces.
sary. Have Won never been in the country
when an August thunder storm was coming
ND and heard the cattle moan at the bars 10
get in. and seen the afrrighte1 fowl go upon
the perch at MONDAY and heard the affrightei
dog and cat calling at the door. supplicating
entrancei And are you surprised that in that
age of the world. when there were fever
places OF shelter for dumb beasts at the NUT
tering and rumhlng and flashing and auak-
ing and darksning Of an approaching deluge,
the aumal creation came moaning and
bleating to the sloping embankment reach
ing up 10 the ancient Great Eastern AMI
passed inl have owned horses and cattle
and sheep and dogs, hut never had horse
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 sssemblel-that small window in
the ark which excites so much mirthfunsss
on the mart of intidels. IL they know ms
much Hebrew as you could put on
your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated win
dow there means window course a
whole range OF lights. Those ignorant in
fidels do not know window pane from
twenty windows. So il there is any criticism
Of the ark, there seems TO he too much win
dow for such long storm. And as TO the
other charge that the windows of the
ark must have been kept shut and con
sequently all inside would have persisted
from suffocation. | have TO say that
there are people in this house today who.
all the way from Liverpool to Barnegat
lighthouse. and for two weeks were kept
under deck, the matches battened down be-
cause of the storm. Some OF you, in the old
time sailing vessels were kept nearly
soma long Storm
Then infidels say that the ark landed on
mountain seventeen thousand feet high, and
that, of course. as soon as the animals cams
forth they would all be frozen in the Ice
That is geographical ignorance! Ararat II
not merely the name for q mountain, but toi
a hilly district, and it may have been hi.
thousand feet high on which the ark alighted
Noah measured the depth Of water above TIN
hill, and il is fifteen cuoits, or twenty
feet
Ali my friends. this story OF the ark is no
more incredible than il you should say to me
Last summer was among the hills of New
England, and there came on the most terrific
storm ever saw, ar the whole country was
flooded The waters came up over ths hills
and to save our lives we got in boat on the
river, and even the dumb creatures was SO
affrighted they came moaning and bleatlng,
until we let them in the same boat.
We are not dependent upon the Bible Tor
the story of the Hood, entirely. All ages ana
all literatures have traditions, broken tradi-
tions, indistinct traditions, but sun traai.
tons The old books of the Perslans tell
about the flood at the time of Ahriman,
who SO polluted the earth that IL had
TO be washed by great storm.
Tho traditions of the Chaldeans say
that in the time when Xisuthrns was King
there was a great flood, and he put his family
and his friends in large vessel and al out
side of them were destroyed, and after
while the birds went forth and they came
back and their claws were Hinged with
mud, Lucian and Ovid, celebratei writ
ers, who had never seen the Blole
described a food in the time OF Leu,
Gallon He took his friends into a boat, ano
the animals came running to hlm IN pairs
80 all lands, and all ages, and all llteratures,
seem 60 have broken and indistnct tradi
tion of calamity which Moses, here moor
norating Noah's account, so grandly' sc
beautifully, SO accurately, SO solemny re
cords
Nv prayer is that the God who created tns
world may create us anew in Chriss Jesus
and that the 60 who made light three days
before the sun shone may kiniie IN our near.s
a light that will burn ON long after tne sur
has expired; and that the God VINO or
dered the ark built and kept opsi
more than one hundred years that the ante
diluyians might enter it for shelter: may
Oraciously incline us to accept the invltaSol
which this morning rose in music rom Ine
Tbrone. saving "Coms thou and All tny
house into the ark -. ~,
Another hard thing to be understood; IN
story that the sun and moon STOOD sun .
allow Joshua TO complete his victory, IN, I'M
del scientists declare that an Imposslolhey:
,i Bus Il 70 md niass CLOCK, can ne not
start it and stop it, and start It again
and stop it againl II machlnlst nave
strength and brain enough to MAKE corn
thresher, can he not start it and stop ~ anu
start it again and stop it agains II COO nave
strength and wisdom TO make tue Coca o.