The Red Cloud chief., 1889-03-29

able to Explain that dark day. Nov, II
God can advance the night earlier . is
time. . He not adjourn the night until
after its time: ! often usei to hear ny
father describe Q night think he said Il
was in ls;3-when his neishbors aroused
him in great alarm. All the heavenly
bodies seemed T. be in motion. People
thought our earth was coming TO its de.
sErucfion. 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 thai il Col could start and stop
tens Of thou sands Of words or me.eor..
He could start and stop two worlds: II
God can engineer Q train Of 1900 worlds
or msteors. and stop them without acci-
dent or collision, can not He cOn,rol two
carriages Of light, AMI by putting down .
golden brake stop the moon: Under this
explanation, instead Of being skeptiral
about this sublime passage Of the Bib'a
you will, when you read it. feel more like
going down on your knees before God as
you read: ''Sun. stand thou still above
Gideon, and thou moon in the valley OF
Ajalon."
AhC1 A1csc - VIZ DtosC -.
whale swallowed Jonah aud elected him
upon the dry ground in three days II
you will 20 the museum at Nantucket,
Mass, you will find u whale large enough
to swallow a man. l said to the janiior.
willis ! was standing in the museum:
WHY il does not seem from the looks OF
this skeleton that that story in tho book
q Jonah is 50 very improbable, does iH"
U. no." he replied. lit does not" There
is n cavity in the mouth OF the common
whale large enough for q man to live In.
There have been sharks fou \ again aud
again with an entire human body In
them
Beside that, the Bible saws nothing about
a whale. 1t says, 1.-THE Lord prepared a
great fish," aud there are scientists who
tell Us that there were sea monsters in
other days tha. make the modern whale
seem very insignificant Know in one
place in the New Testament it speaks OF
the whale as appearing in the occurrence
! have just mentioned, but the word may
just as we'll he translated ''sea monster
any kind of sea monster. P~rocupius says.
in the year $50. . sen monster was slain
which had for fifty years destroyed ships.
! suppose this sea monster that took care
OF Jonah may have been one IT the
great sea monsters that could have
easily taken down q prophet, and
he could have lived there three days IL
he had kept in motion so 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 enough to r~egurgitate Jonah. BE.
side that, nv friends, there Il one word
which ex plains the whole thing. 1t says:
'The Lord prepared a great fish" Ia
shin carpenter prepare a vessel To carry
Texan beeves TO Glasgow, l suppose it can
carry Texan beeves; il a ship carpenter
prepare q vessel to carry coal TO one OF the
Northern ports. ] SUPPOSE il can carry coal;
II q ship carpenter prepare a vessel To
carry passengers to Liverpool. l suppose
Il can carry passengers to Liverpool; and
if the Lord prepared n fish To carry one
pass-ng.r, | suppose il could carry u pas.
senger aud the ventilation nave been all
right
So all the strange things in the Bible
can be explained il you wish to have them
explained. And you can build them into
n beautiful and hcalthful fire for your
hearth. or you can with them put your inn
mortal interests into conf igration. But
YOU had better decide atou, the veracity
of the Bib!c very soon. want this morn.
ing TO caution You against putting of
making up your mind about this hook.
Ever since l.,2 there has been great dis
cussion rs To who was the author of
Junius' Letters, those letters SO full Of
sarcasm and vituperatiou and power.
The whole English Nation stirred up
with it More than a hundred volumes
| written e. discuss the question:: VINO
| was Junius:" WHO wrote the letters Of
Junius." Well. il is an interesting ques.
ton to discuss. but still. after all. il makes
but little practical difference to you and
TO me who Junius was. whether Sir Philip
Francis. or Lord Chatham. or John Horne
Tooke, OF Horace Walpole. or Henry
Grattan. or any one Of the iOrty-four men
who were seriously charged with the
authorship. But il Ia an at'sOr hing ques-
ton, it is . practical question. il is Al
overw helminc question to you and TO me
The authorship OF this Holy B,bIe-whether
the Lord God Of Heaven aud earth or IA
pack II dupes, scoundrels or impostors.
We can not aford 70 adjourn that question
n week or n day or an hour, any more
than n sea captain can afford to say:
We'll, this is a very dark night. I
have really lost my hearings: there 10 .
light out there. I don't know whether II
is . lighthouse or a false light on the
shore; I dom, know what it is; but I'll
just go To sleep and in the morning I'll 6nd
out" In the morning the vessel might be
on the rocks aud the teach strewn with
the white faces OF the dead crew. The
time for that sea captain to find out about
the ugh house 10 before he goes TO sleen
q. my friends. ! want YOU "a understand
L .l.s -. ..- k-a al mai
We are no, Mt calm anchorage. but We are
rapidly coming toward the coast coming
with al! the furnaces ahlaze. coming at the
rate OF seventy hear, throbs q minute. and
l must know whether il is going to be har.
Dor or shipwreck.
Twas so giai to read in the papers of
the fact that the steamship Eiam hal
come safely into haIbor. A week before
the Persian Monarch. plowins its way to-
ward ia. Narrows, q hundred miles out.
saw signals o; distress, bore down upon
the vessel. and found II vas che steamship
Eiam She had lost her propeller. She
had eO passengers on board. The merci-
ful captain II the Persian Monrrch en-.
deavNrcd to bring her in, bat the tow line
broke. He fastened it asain. tu: the sea
was rough and the tow line broke again.
Then the might came on and the merciful
captain OF tbs Persian Monarch LAY to-"
think 'nS in the morning he could give
rescue TO the passengers The morning
ing came. but during the night the steam.
ship Edam had disappeared. and the
captain of the Persian Monarch brought
his vessel into harbor saying how sad he
felt because he could not give complete
rescue to hat lost ship. am glad that
afterward another vessel saw her aud