The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-05
after the food. He saw them going n.
the account of an eyewitness. They went


- Years ago was on q steamer on the River
Toy, and came to Perth, Scotland. I got
oil, and saw tile most wonderful agricul.
tural show thnt evcrhad Witnessed, There
were horses trid cattle such MS Rosa Bonheur
never sketched, and there were dogs such as
the loving pencil 6f Edwin Landseer never
portrayed, and there were sheep and fowl
mud creatures of all sorts. Suppose thnt
"two and two" Of all tho creatures of that
agricultural show were put upon the Thy
steamer to be transported to Dundee, and
the next day should be writing homo to
America and giving IN account Of the occur.
ence, would have used the same general
embarkation Of the brute creature in the
ark-l would hive said that they went in
two and two ofevery sort. would not have
meant 5000. A communicative mftn niyself,
lwot,ld suppose that the people vino read
tho letter were common -sense people.
but how could you get them into the
ark?' asked ihti'lel srientists. How could
they te induced to go into the nrl? He
would hive to pick tlien out and drive them
In, and toax them it," Could not the same
God who gavc instinct to tho animal in
spre that instinct to seek for shelter from
the storm? However. nothing more than
ordinary animal instinct was necessary.
HIVE you never been in che country when
an August thunderstorm wns coming up
and heard the cattle moan at the bars to
get in? ind seen the affrighted fowl go up.
on the peral ut noonday, and lleard the af.
irighted dog and cat calling at the door, spp-
plicating entrance? And anaeyou~sarpr11sds
that In that age Of the world, when there
were fewer places Of shelter for dumb beast,
ut the mnttering and rnmbling md flushing
and Iuaking and dnrkening Of an approach
ing dellrge, the animal creation cnme moan.
ing and bleating to the sloping embunkment
reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern
and passel in? huve owned horses and
rattle and sheep and dogs, but 1nevrr hdd
horse or a COW or II sheep or II dog that was
NO stupid it did not know enough to come
dow in the ark which afforded such poor ven.
tation to the creatures that assembled
that small window in the ark which excites
80 much mirtllfulness on the part of iniilels.
If they knew ns much Hcbrrw as you could
put on your little finger nail they would have
known that that word TRANSLATED window
there means window course, n whole range
OF lights. Those ignorant infide!s do not
know window pun" from twenty windows.
So if there ia any criticism Of the ark there
seems to he too much window for such n
long storm. And us to the other charge
that the windows of the ark must have been
kept shut, md consequently all inside would
have prrishc;l from solicitation. l have to
say that there are people in this house to-
n"gat Lighthouse, and for two wee ks, we're
kept under deck, the matches battered down
because OF the storm. Some Of you, in tho
oll-tiinc smiling vessels, were kept nearly u
month with the matches down because of
some long storm.
Then ntl,lels say that the ark landed on n
mountain 1000 feet high, aud that, of
course, as soon as the aninlnls came forth,
they would all l.c frozen in the icc That is
geographical ignorance! Arnrat is not
merely the nnme iOr II mountain, hut for u
llliy district, md it may have hccn n hill
100 feet high. or 800, or 1000 on which the
ark nlishtrl. Noah measured the depth of
the water above the Hill, and it is Is cubits,
r27 feet. All! my friends. this story Of the
ark is no more Incredible than il YOU should
sny to me: Last summer w;ls among the
hills of New England, and there came on the
most terrific storm evcrsnw, aud the whole
country was flooded. The waters came up
over he hills; aud 10 save our lives we got
in IL boat ON 4 he river, aud even the dumb
creatures were so alrightc,l they came moan-
ing and hlcnting until We let them in the
same hOut."
Wenre not dependent upon tho Bible for
the story OF the fool. entirely. All ages
aud all ltcraturs have traditions, broken
traditions. imlistinct traditions, bnt still
traditions. The old books of the pers,tns
tell about the flood at the time of Ahriman,
who so pollute,l the earth thatit had to be
washed by great storm. The tra.litionsof
Nisuthrns wnr king there was II great food,
md he put his family nrd his friends in n
large vessel, aud all outside of them were de-
stroycd. and after II while the birds went
forth and they came back and their claws
were tingci with mud. I.ucian and Ovid,
celebrated writer's, who had never seen tho
Bible. described flood in the time of Deu-
nuli Iat Il 10 frin Il 70, 4
the animals came running to him in pnirs.
So all lands and all ngcs and nll liternturs
seem to have n broken and indistinct tradi-
tion of IL calamity which Moses, here incor-
poratinE NOnlls account, SO grnndly, go
beautifully. SO accurately, SO solemnly re-
cords.
My prayer is that the God who created
Jesus and TINT the God who ma,le light
three days before the sun shone may kintlle
III our hearts II light that will burn on long
after the sun has expired and that the God
who ordered the ark luit and kept open
more than 100 years that the untetliluvnrs
might enter it for shelter. may graciously
incline us to accept the invitation which Ills
morning rose in music from the throne,
saying: Come thou and nil thy house into
the ark"
Another hard thing to be undcrst oo,l:
The story that the sun and moon stood
still to allow Joshua to complete his vic
tory. lntidcl scicntsts declare tl,at nn i'm
possibility. But ii Il nlan have brain and
strength enough 10 make Il clo#k. cnn he
not start il and stop it, and start it ngnin
and stOpit ngnin? II God have strength
nnd wisdom to mike the clock of the uni
verse. the great machinery of the worlds,
las he not strength enough md wisdom
enough to start !. and stop it, and start it
agnin and stop it ngaiif' Or stop one wheel,
or stop twenty wheels, or stop all the wheels?
Is the clock stronger than the clock maker?
Does the corn tlrrsl.er know more than the
macllinist? IL the universe mightier thnn it's
God? But people ask how could the moon
linve been seen to top in the daytime? Well,
il you hpve never seen the moon in the day.
time it is because you have not been very
diligrnt observer Of the heavens. Besides
TINT, it was not necessary for the world
literally to stop. BY unusual rcfrnction OF
the sun Is rays the day might hive been pro.
longed. So that, while the earth continued
on it's path in the heavens, it ii@,irativcly
stopped. You must remember that these
own day, just ms yon and say the sun went
down. The sun never goes down. We sim
ply describe wInt nppemrs to the human eye.
Besides Tint, the world. our world, could
have literally stopped without throwing the
universe ont of bnInncc. Our worli hns two
motions-tlle one around The sun and the
other on its own axis 1t might have
st oppcd on it's own axis, while at the snme
time it kept on its pnth through the hea vens
cause our world hlackened its speeds or en-
tirely stopped i'll it's revolution on it's own
axis. That is mono of the business of Jupi-
ter. or Mars, or Mercury, or saturn, or the
Dinper.
Besides that, within the memory osman