Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-25

which excites so much mirthfulness on the
part Of inidels. If 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, o whole range of lights
Those Ignorant infidels do not know p win
dow pane from twenty windows. So if
there is any criticism of the ark, there
seems to be too much window for so long
storm. And as to the other charge that
the windOwa of the ark must have been
kept shut and consequently sill inside
would have perished from suffocation,
have to say that there are people in this
house to-day who, all the way from Liver
pool TO Bsrnegat lighthouse, and for two
weeks, we're kept under deck, tire matches
batteued down because of the ttorm. Some
of you, in the Old-time sailing vessels,
were kept nearly month with the matches
down because of some long storm.
JONAH AND THE WHALE.
Then there is the Bible statement that
a whale swallowed Jonah and elected him
upon the dry ground in three days. If
you will 90 the mueeum at Nantucket |
Mass. yOu will find the skeleton of
whslslarge enough to swallow man.
said to the janitor, while 1 was standing
in the museum, "Why il does not seem
from the looks of this skeleton that that
story in the Book Of Jonah is 80 very i'm
probable, does it," 'Oh, no, " be replied,
sit does not" There is cavity in the
mouth Of the common whale large enough
for man 70 live in. There have been
sharks found sgain and sgsin with az en-
tire human body in them. Besides that,
the Bible says nothing about whale. It
says, "The Lord prepared a great fish,"
and there are scientists who tell us that
there were sea monsters in other days that
make the modern whale seem very insig-
nificant. know in one place 10 the
New Testament it speaks Of the whale
appearing in the occurrence l have
Just mentioned, but the word
may Just as well be trans
lated "Gea monster"-any kind Of sea
monster. PrOcopius Gays, in the year 532,
a sea monster was slain which had for fifty
years destroyed ships. l suppose this sec
monster thai took case of Jonah may have
been one Of the great sea monsters that
could have eaeily taken down a prophet,
aud be could have lived there three days
il be had kept in motion 20 as TO keep the
gastric juices from taking hold of him and
destroying him, and at the end Of three
days the monster would naturally be sick
CROUCH to regurgitsie Jonah. Besides that,
my fri nds, there is one word which ex-
plains the whole thing. 1t ssys, 'The
Lord prepared a great fish," If ship
carpenter prepare vessel to carry Texan
beevee to Glasgow, suppose it auppOse it
can carry Texan beeves; if a ship carpen-
ter prepare vessel to carry coal tj one Of
the northern ports, suppose it can carry
coal il ship carpenter prepare vessel
to carry passengers to Liverpool, I suppose
it can carry passengers 10 Liverpool; ard |
if the Lord prepared fish TO carry on pas |
sengsr, 1 suppose it could carry pss;e1- |
ger and the ventilation have been ali
right.
STRANGE THINGS IN THE BIBLE.
So all the strange things in the Bible
can be explained if you Yish to have them
explained. And you can build them into |
2 heaUiiful and healthful fire for your |
hearth, or you can with them put your
immortal interests into conhsgratiOn. But |
you had better decide about the veracity
Of the Bible very soon. want this morn
ing g. 6suiion yen against putting Off |
making up your mind sbOut this book.
Ever since 1772 there has been great IS
cussion az to who was the author of Junius'
Letters, those Letters so full Of sarcasm and |
vitupera;ion ard power The whole Eng |
lish nation stirred up with it. More than |
H. ,-o1r, IN a
question: who IVES Junius?" "Who
wrote the letters of Junius?' Well, it is
an interesting question to discuss, but
STILL after ali, II makes but little practical
diff renee to you and to me who Juni1s
was. whether Sir Philip Francis, or
Lord Chatham, or John Horne TOOke,
or Horace Walpole, or Henry Gratiao,
OF any one of the forty-four men
who were seriously charged with
the authorship. But it is an absorbing
question, il is practical question, it is an
overwhelming question TO you and 10 me-
the authorship of this Holy Bible
whether the Lord God of Heaven and earth
or u pack of dupss, soouudrels or impos-
tors. We canro. afford 10 adjourn that
question a week or a day or an hour, any |
more than q sea captsia can sffGrd to say |
"Well this is very dark night. have
really lost my bearings; there is light
out there. l don't know whether it is
lighthouse or false light on the shore, / |
don't know what il Is; but I'll just 90 TO |
sleep and in the morning I'll lind out"
In the morning the vessel might be on the
rocks and the beach strewn with the white
faces Of the crew. The time for that sen
captain to find ont about the Lighthouse is
before he goes to sleep. Oh, my friends, l
want you to understand that onr delibera-
ticns about this bible we are not at calm
anchorage, bat we are rapidly coming to-
ward the coast, coming with all the far
nacss abllze, comirg at the rate Of seventy
heart throbs a minute and 1 muat know
whether it is going to be harbor or ship.
wreck.
THE CABLE OF THE GOSPEL.
I was 50 glad TO read in the papers of the
fect that the steamship Edam hsd come