Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06

AueJ Say tHtt tHSsc creatures WOulu
have come from all lands and all zones.
They say there was only one small win
dow in the ark, and that would not have
given fresh air to keep the animals inside
the ark from suffocation. They say that
the ark finally landed on a mountain
seventeen thousand feet high. They say
they do not believe the story. Neither
do /. There is no such story in the
Bible. will tell you what the Bible
story is. l must say that | have changed
my mind in regard to come matters which
once were to mi very mysterious.
They are no more mysterious. This
is the key to the facts. This Is the story
OF an eye witness, Noah, his story incor-
porated afterwards by Moses in the
account. Noah described the scene just
as it appeared to him. He saw the flood
and he fsthomed its depth. AS far as
eye could reach everything was covered
up, from horizon to horizon. or, as he
says, under the whole heaven" He
did not refer to the Sierra Nevadas, or to
Mount Washington, for America had
not been discovered, or, if il had been
discovered. he could not have seen SO far
off. He is giving the testimony of an
eye witness. God speaks after the man
ner Of men when he says everything went
under, and Noah speaks after the man
ner of men when he says everything did
go under. An eye witness. There is 10
need of thinking that the kangaroo
leaped the ocean or that the polar bear
anne down from the ice.
Why did the deluge come? 1t came
for the purpose of destroying the out
rageous inhabitants of the then thinly
populated cartii, nearly all the popula-
ton, probably very near the ark before it
was launched. What would have been
the use of submerging North and South
America, or EGrope, or Africa, when
they were not inhabited? And as to the
skeptical suggestion that in order to have
the water AZ deep as the Bible states, it
must have rained $40 feet every day, |
reply, the Bible distinctly declares that
the most of the flood rose instead Of fall
ing. Before the account where II says
the windows Of heaven were opened,
"all the fountains Of the great deep were
broken up" All the ~geologists agree IN
saying 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. ls it a strange
thing chat we should be asked to believe
in this food Of the Bible, when biologists
tell US again and again and sgain the dry
earth has been drowned outY Just open
youc geology and you will read oftwenty
floods. Ia it not strange that inhdel
| scientists wanting US to believe in the
twenty floods Of geological discovery,
uIN,,tJ 90 ~ as xyp hpliaun in nna pDn1
OF the Bible, pronounce US non compos
mentis?
Well, then, another thing. in regard to
| the size Of the ark. Instead Of beflg a
nud sCow, as some Of these sleptics
would have us understand, it was & mag
lnitcent ship, nearly as large as the Great
Eastern, three times the size of AZ ordin-
airy man. of-war. At the time in the
world when ship building was unknown,
God had this vessel constructed, which
turned out TO be almost in the scme pro-
portions as ourgtaunchest mode"a vessels.
| After thousands of years Of experiment
ing in naval architecture and In ship car
pentery, we have at last got down to
Noah's ark, that ship leading all the
fleets Of the world on all the oceans.
Wen, Noah cav the animal creation go
ing into thiE ark. lie gave tle account
OF an eye witness. They were the ami
mails from the region where lie lived; 70,
the most ps-t they were animals useful
to man, anC if nOXious insects or poison
Gus reptiles went in, II was only To dis.
cipline the patience and to keep alert the
generations after the 6oed. He saw
them going in. There were a great NUM-
Der of theE,, and he gives the account OF
an eye witCess. They wen. in two and
two of all flesh.
Years ago / was on a steamer on the
river Tay, and | came 10 Perth, Scotland
| got off, and | saw the me | wonderful
agriculture, show that | had ever wit
messed. There were horses and cattl,
such as Rosa Bonheur never sketchcd
and there we're dogs such as the loving
pencil of edwin LandseeT never por
trayed, auG there were sheep and fow
and creatures Of all sorts. suppose tina
1.-TWO and two of al the creatures o:
that agricultural show We're put upon tht
Tay steamer TO be transported TO Dun
dee, and tn next day | sts8uld be writ
ing home t. America and giving an &C
count of the occurrence, | would have
used the same general ptfs9eology tina
Noah uscd IN regard to the embarkatiot
! of the brute creation in the srk-l woulC
have said ,iat they went liz two and tive
! OF every sort. | would not have meant
! 500, 600. Acommon sense Raan myself,
would suppose that the peop-e who reat
the letter were common se9se people.
but how could you get them into tn
Lark" ask infdel scieatiGts. "How
could they he induced 10 GO into the ark
He would hsve to pick them out anC
drive them in. and coax thcH m" Coult
not the same God who gave instinct t.
the animal ina pire that instinct to seel
for shelter frOxn the Storm However
nG:hing more thar ordinary animal in
stinct was necessary. Have you eve
been in the country when al Angus
thunderstorm was coming up hearl
tho. cattle moan 1T the bars TO get INF anC
seet.he affrighted fowl go upon tie perch
at E%Gonday. and heard the affrighted dos
and. cat calling AZ the door, supplicatins
e~ntrancep And ore you surprised that il
that age Of the world, when theze wer'
fewerplaces of shelter for dumb beasts
at the muttering and rumbling andtf ash
ing and quaking and d%arkening Of an ap
proachiEg delugc. the animal creation
came moaning and Heating to the Stop
ing embankment reaching up to the EN-
cient Great Eastern and pass INF i hax
owned horses and cattle and shee,
and dogs, hut | never had a horse r 4
COW or a sheep or a dog that was 30 stu
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