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


who ordered the ark built and kept open
more than one hundred years in order that
the antediuvians might enter it for shelter,
may graciously incline US to accept the ia
vitation which this morning rose in music
from the throne, saying: "Come thou and
all thy house into the ark"
| Another hard thing to be understood
The story that the sun and moon stood still
to allow Joshua to complete his victory
Infdel scientists declare that an impossi
biiity. But if a man have brain and strength
enough to make clock, can he not start II
aud stop it, and start it again and stop il
again? # machinist have strength anG
brain enough to make corn thresher, car
he not start it and stop it, and start 1t again
and stop it aeainl If God have strength
and wisdom to make the clock Of the uni
verse, the great machinery Of the worlds
has he not strength enough and wisdom
enough to start it and stop it, and start il
again and stop it again2 Or stop one wheel,
or stop twenty wheels, or stop the wheels
Is the clock stronger than the clock maker
Does tho corn thresher know more than
the machinist2 Is the universe mightier
than its God? But people ask how could
the moon have been seen to stop in the day.
times Well, if you have never seen the
moon in the daytime. it is because you have
not been very diligeut observer of the
heavens. Besides that, it was not necessary
for the world literally to stop. BY unusual
refractior of the suns rays the day might
have been prolonged. SO that while the
earth continued on its path in the heavens,
it fguratiyely stopped You mustremember
that these Bible authors used the vernacul2r
OF their own day, just as you and say the
sun went down. The sun never goes down.
We sim,ly describe what appears to the
human eye. Besides that, the world. our
world could have literally stopped without
throwing the universe out Of balance. Our
world has two motions-the one around the
sun and the other on its own axis. 1t might
have stopped on its own axis, while at the
same time it kept on its path through tic
heavens So there was no need OF stellar
confusion because our world slackened
its speed or entirely stopped in its
revolution on its own axis. That is none
of the business CT Jupiter, or Mars,
or Mercury, or Saturn, or the Dlpper.
Beside that, within the memory OF man
there have been worlds that were born and
that died. a few years ago astronomers
telegraphed, through the Associated Press,
to sll the world-the astronomers from the
city of Washington-that another world had
been discovered. Within a comparatively
short space of time, astronomers tell US,
thirteen worlds have burned down. From
their observatory they notice first that the
worlds look like other worlds, then they be-
came deep red, showing they were en- hre
then thsy became ashen, showing they were
burned down; then they entirely disap
peared, showing that even the ashes were
scattered. Now, say, if God can start
a world, and swing world, and
destroy world, He could stof
one or two Of them without {
great deal Of exertiou, or he could by un.
usual refraction Of the SUMS rays continue
the illumination. But infidel scientists say
it would have been belittling for other
worlds to stop on account Of such battle
Why, sirs, what Yorktown was for Rero'
lutionary times, and what Gettysburg was
in our civil contest, and what Sedan was IN
the Franco-G German war, and what water
loo was in the Napoleonic destiny-that was
this battle of Joshua against the five allied
armies of Gibeon. It was that battle that
changed the entire course Of history. II
was a battle To Joshua as important as
though battle now should occur in which
England and the United States, and France
and Germany, and Italy. and Turkey and
Russia should fight for victory or annihila'
ton. However much any other world,
solar, lunar, or stellar, might be hastened in
its errand of light, it would be excusable II
It fingered in the heavens for little while
and put down its sheaf OF beams and gaZec
on such an Armaged don.
In the early part of this century there was
what was called the Dark Day. Some OF
these aged men perhaps may remember IT.
It is known in history as the Ozark Day. u
Workmen at noon went to their homes, and
courts and legislatures adjourned. Nc
astronomers have ever been able to explain
that dark day. Now. if God can advance
the night earlier than its time, can he no,
adjourn the night until after its time!
often used to hear my father describe q
night think he said it was in 1s33-when
his neishbors aroused him in great alarm
All the heavenly bodies seemed to be in
motion. People thought our earth was
coming to its destruction. Tens OF thousands
Of stars shooting No astronomers have ever
been able to explain that star shooting. Now,
does not your common sense teach you that
if God could start and stop tens of thousand:
Of worlds or meteors, He could start and
stop two worlds! II God can engineer q
! train of ten thousand worlds or meteors
and stop them without accident or collision
can not He control two carriages Of light
and by putting down a golden brake stor
the sun, and by putting down silver brake
stop the mooA2 Under this explanation
instead of being skeptical about this sublime
passage of the Bible, you will, when you
read it. feel more like going down on yous
knees before God as you read: "Sun, stand
thou still above Gibeon, and thou moon ir
the valley Of Aialon."
Their there is the Bible statement that a
whale swallowed Jonah and elected bin
upon the dry ground in three days. II you
will 60 to the museum at Nantucket, Mass,
you will find the skeleton OF whale large
enough to swallow man. l said to the
janitor, while ] was standing in the mu'
scum: "Why it does not seem from the looks
of this skeleton that the story in the book
of Jonah is so very improbable, does it?''
20, no,'' he replied, s'it does not" There
is a cavity il the mouth of the common
whale large enough for a man to live in.
There have been suarks found again and
again with an entire human body in them
Besides that, the Bible says nothing abou;
whale. 1t says, "The Lord prepared Z
great fish," and there are scientists who
| tell US that there were sea monsters in other
| days that make the modern whale seem very
insignificant. know in one place in the
New Testament it speaks Of thewhale as ap
peasing in the occurrence have just men.
toned, but the word may just as well be
translated "sea monstern-any kind of sea
monster Procopius says, in the year 532, a
sea monster was slain which had for fifty