The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-04

COVERED, ne could not nave seen so far on.
He is giving che testimony Of an eye-wit-
ness. God speaks after the manner Of
men when He says every thing went un-
der, and Noah speaks after the manner of
men when he says every thing did go un.
der. An eyewitness. There il no need
OF thinking that the kangaroo leaped the
ocean or that the polar bear came down
from the ice.
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 mag
nificent ship, nearly as large as the Great
Eastern, three times the size Of an ordi-
nary 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 same pro-
portions as our staunchest modern ves-
sells. After thousands of years of expe-
rimenting in naval architecture and in
ship carpentery, we have at last got up
to Noah's ark, that ship leading all the
fleets OF the world on all the oceans.
Well, Noah saw the animal creation 60
ing into this ark. He gave the account Of
an eyewitness. They were the animals
from the region where he lived; for the
man, and if noxious insects or poisonous
reptiles went in it was only to discipline
the patience and to keep alert the gener-
ations after the food. He saw them 60
ing in. There was a great number of
them, and he gives the account of an eye-
witness. They went in two and two OF all
flesh.
"But how could you get them into the
ark" asked infdel scientists. "How
cosld they be induced to go into the ark?
He would have to pick them out and drive
them in, and coax them in" Could not
the same God who gave instinct to the
animal inspire that instinct to seek for
shelter from the stormS However, MOTH
ing more than ordinary 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
affrighted fowl go upon the perch at noon.
day, and heard the affItghted dog and cat
calling at the door, supplicating entrance!
And are you surprised that in that age OF
the world, wien there were fewer places
of shelter for dumb beasts, at the mutter-
ing and rumbling and flashing and quak-
Ing and darkening of an approaching dell
uge, the animal creation came moaning
and bleating to the sloping embankment
reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern
and passed ini / have owned horses and
cattle and sheep and dogs, but never had
horse or a COW or a sheep or dog that
was so stupid it did not know enough to
come in when it raineG. And then, that
one window in the ark which afforded
such poor ventilation to the creatures
there assembled-that small window in
the ark which excites so much mirthful-
ness on the part of infidels. 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, a whole range for
lights. Those ignorant infdels do not
know window pane from twenty win
dows. So if there is any criticism of the
ark, there seems to be too much window
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 periShed from suffoca-
ton, have to say that there are people
in this house to-day who, all the way
from Liverpool to Barnegat lighthouse,
and for two weeks, were kept under deck,
the matches battened down because Of the
storm. Some of you, in the old-time SAIL
ing vessels, were kept nearly month
with the matches down because of some
long storm.
Another hard thing to be understood:
The story that the sun and moon stood
still to allow Joshua to complete his VIC
tory. Iufidel scientists declare that an
impossibility. But if a man have brain
and strength enough to make clock can
he not start it again and stop it again? If
machinist have strength and brain
enough to make crop thresher, can he
not start it and stop it. and start it again
and stop it again? 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 AL stop it.
and start il again and stop it
again? Or stop one wheel, or stop twenty
wheels, or stop all the wheels? Is the
clock stronger than the clock makers
Does the corn thresher know more than
the machinist? Is the universe mightier
than its God? But people ask how
could the moon have been seen to stop
in the daytime? Well, if you have
never seen the moon in the daytime,
it is because you have not been
very diligent observer of the heavens.
Besides that, it was not necessary for the
world literally to stop. By unusual re-
fraction of the SUMS rays the day niight
have been prolonged. So that, while the
earth continued on its path in the heavens,
it fguratively stopped. You must remem-
ber that these Bible authors used the ver-
nacular of their own day, just as you and
l say the sun went down. The sun never
goes down. We simply describe what ap-
pears 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 mo-
tions-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 the heav-
ems. So there was no need of stellar con-
fusion because our world slackened its
speed or entirely stopped in its revolution
on its own axis. That is none of the bus
mess of Jupiter, or Mars, or Mercury, or
Saturn, or the Dipper.
Besides that, within the memory of man
there have been worlds that were born
and that died. A few years ago astrono-
mers telegraphed, through the Associated
Press, to all the world-the astronomers
from the city of Washington-that an
other world had been discovered. With
in 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 became deep
red, showing they were on fire; then they
became ashen, showing they were burned
down; then they entirely disappeared,