The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-04-24

North ana SOOtQ America, OF EUROPE, OE
Africa, when they were not inhabitedf And
as to the skeptical suggestion that IN order
to have the water as deep as the Bible
states, it must have rained 800 feet every
day, I reply, the Bible distinctly declares
that the most Of the food rose instead
Of falling Before the account where 1t
says "the windows of heaven were opened" "
it says, call the fountains Of the great deep
were broken up" All 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. Is it strange thing that we
should be asked to believe in this flood OF
the Bible, when geologists tell US that again
and again, and again the dry earth has been
drowned out2 Just open your geology, and
you will read Of twenty foods. Is it not
strange that infdel scientists, wanting US
to believe in the twenty foods Of geological
discovery, should, as soon we, believe in one
food Of the Bible, pronounce Us non conpos
mentis2
Well, then, another thing, in regard to the
size of the ark. Instead OF being a mud
scow, as some of those skeptics would have
US understand, it was a magnificent snip,
nearly as large as the Great Eastern, three
times the size Of an ordinary man-of-war
At the time in the world when ship building
was unknown, God had this vessel con-
tructed:swhich turned out to be almost in the
same proportions as our staunchest modern
vessels. After thousands Of years OF eI-
perimenting in naval architecture and IN
ship carpentery, we have at last got mp to
Noah's ark, that ship leading all the fleets
Of the world on ali the oceans. Well, Noah
saw the animal creation going into this ark
He gave the account Of an eyewitness.
They were the animals from the region
where he lived, for the most part they were
animals useful to man, and il noXioUs in
scots or poisonous reptiles went ips it was
only to discipline the patience and to keep
alert the generations after the food. He
saw them going in. There were great
number OF them, and he gives the account
Of an eyewitness. They went in two and
and two of all flesh.
Years ago I was on steamer on the river
Tay and came to Perth, Scotland. / got
of and saw the most wonderful agricul-
tural show that had ever witnessed. There
were horses and cattle such as Rosa Bonheur
never sketched, and there were dogs such
as the loving pencil Of Edwin Landseer
never portrayed, and there were sheep and
fowl and creatures of all sorts. Suppose
that "two and two" OF all the creatures Of
that agricultural show were put upon the
Tay steamer to oe transported to Dundee,
and the next day should be writing home
S~Sn NJ onnNOnt
currence, I would have used the same
phraseology that Noah used in regard to the
embarkation of the brute creation in the ark
u would have said that they went IN two
and two Of every sort. I would not have
meant six hundred thousand. common
sense man myself, would suppose that the
people who read the letter were common
sense people.
"But how could you get them into the
ark?n asked infdel scientists. "Eow could
they be induced to 90 into the ark? He
would have to pick them out and drive them
in. and coax them I'M 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 or
6iparv 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 seen the afrighted fowl 90 upon the
perch at MONDAY, and heard the afrighted
dog and cat calling at the door, supplicating
entrance? And are you surprised that IN
that age Of the world, when there were
fewer places Of shelter for dumb beasts at
the n,uttering and rumblins and flashing
and ouaking and darkenlng Of an approach
ing deluge, the animal creation came moan
ing and bleating to the siopin2 embankment
reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern
and 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 1t raine6 And then, that one window
in the ark which afforded such poor ventlla-
ton to the creatures there assembled. that
small window in the ark which eXcites so
much mirthfuluess on the part OF lntde!s.
II they knew as much Hebrew as you could
put on your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated window
there means window course, whole range
Of lights. Those ignorant inidels do not
know window pane from twenty
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the ark, there seems to be too much
windows for such long storm. And as
to the other charge that the windows OF
the ark must have been kept shut and
consequently all inside would have persisted
from sufocaticu, Ihave to say that there are
people in this house to-day who, all the way
from Liverpool to Barnegat lighthouse, and
for two weeks have kept under deck, the
matches battened down because Of the
storm. Some Of you in the old time sailing
vessels, were kept nearly month with the
hatches down because of some long storm.
Then iufidels say that the ark LANDED on q
mountain seventeen thousand feet high,
and that, Of course. as soon as the animals
camc forth they would all be frozen IN the
ice. That is geographical ignorance!
Ararat IS not merely the name for noun
tain, but for hilly district, and it may
have been hill one hundred feet high, or
FIVE hundred, or thousand feet high on
which the ark alighted.. Moan measured
the depth of the water above the'hil, and 1t
is fifteen cubits, or twenty-seven feet
All! my friends, this story OF the ark IS
no more incredible than if you should say to
me: Last summer was among the bills
of New England, and there came OF the
most terrific storm I ever saw, and the
whole country was flooded. The waters
came I'D over the hills. and to save our lives
we got in q boat on the river, and even the
dumb creatures were 50 afrighted they
came moaning aud beating guntil we Let them
in the same boat"
We are not dependent upon the Bible for
the story Of the food, entirely. All ages and
all literatures have traditions, broken tradi-
lions, indistinct traditions, but still tradi-
tions. The old books Of the Pcrsans tell
about the food at the time of Ahriman,