Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-12

tural show that have ever witnessed. There
were horses au1 cattle such as Rosa Bonheur
never sketche1 and thers were dogs such as
the loving pencil of Edwin Landsssr never
and creatures OF all sorts Suppose
that 1.-TWO and two OF all the
creatures ~ that agricultural show
were put upon the Tay steamer to be
transported TO Dundee, and the next day |
should be writing homo TO America and Civ
ing an account Of the occurrence, | would
nave ussu Une same general phrassologV that
Noah used in regard to ths smbarkation OF
the brute creation In the ark-I would have
said that thew went in two and two of every
sort. | would not have meant six hundred
thousand. A common sense man myself |
would suppose that the people who read the
letter were common senss people.
"But how could YOU get them into the
ark" ask infdel scientists. CHOW could
they be induced to go into thu ark He
would have Co pick them ont 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
storml However, nothing mora than
ordinary animal instinct was necss.
sary. 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 affrighte1 fowl go upon
tina perch at MONDAY, and heard the affrighteI
entrancei And are you surprised that in that
age of the world, when there were fever
places OF shelter for dumb beasts at the nut.
terng and rumbling and flashing and quak
ing and darkening Of an approaching deluge.
the animal creation came moaning and
bleating to the sloping embankment reach.
ing up to the ancient Great Eastern anil
passed inl have owned horses AMI cattle
and sheep and dogs but | never had horse
or COW or sheen or a dog
enough to come in when it ralnsd
And then, that one window in the ark which
afforded such poor ventilation to the crsa.
lures there assembls1-thst small window in
the ark which excites so much mrthfulnecs
on the part of inadels. If they know as
much Hebrew as you could put on
your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated win
dow there means window course,
whole range Of lights, Those ignorant in.
fideis do not know a window pane from
twenty windows. So if there is any criticism
Of the ark, thsre seems to be too much win
dow for such long storm And as to the
other charge that the windows OF the
ark must have besn kept shut and con-
sequently all inside would have persisted
from suffocation, | have to say that
there are psopIe in this house to, day who
all the way from Liverpool to Barnsgat
| lighthouse, and for two weeks were kept
uuder deck, the matches battensd down be-
cause Of the storm. Some of you, in the old
time sailing vessels, vera kept nearly
month with the matches down because OF
some long storm.
Then inFideIs say that the ark landed on a
mountain seventeen thousand feet high, and
that, Of course, as soon as the animals came
forth they would all be frozen in the ice.
| That is geographical ignorancel Arsrat is
not merely the name for mountain, but for
billy district, and it may have been a hill
one hundred feet high, or five hundred, or a
thousand feet high on which the ark alighted,
| Noah measured the depth of water above the
hill, and it is fifteen cubits, or twenty seven
fest
All! my friends this story Of the ark is no
more incredible thauif you should say to me:
Last summer l was among the hills of New
England, and there cana on the most terrific
storm ever saw, and the whole country was
flooded. The waters came up over the hills,
and to save our lives we got in boat on the
river, and oven the dumb creatures was 50
affrightsd they cana moaning and bleating
until we let them in the same boat
We are not dependent upon the Biblo for
the story of the flood, entirely. All ages and
all litsratures have traditions, broken tre3i
tions, indiStinct traditions, but still tradi'
tons The old books of she PersianS te,.
about the flood at the time of Ahriman
WHO 81 pOllubeu blS odGOu buAL ~ ndl
to be washed by great storm.
The traditions of the Chaldeaus say
that in the time when Xisuthrus was King
there was a great food, and he put his family
and his friends in a large vessel and all out
side of them were destroyed and after 6
while the, birds went forth and they cams
back and their claws were tinged with
mud. Lucian and Ovid, celebrated writ
srs, who had never seen the Bible
described a food in the time of Deu
Gallon He took his friends into boat, ant
the animals came running to him in pairs
So all lands and all ages, and all literatures
seem to have a broken and indistnct trad
ton of q calamity which Moses, here incol
porating Noah's account, so grandly, S
beautifully, so accurately, SO solemnly re
cords.
My prayer is that the God who created tn
world may create us anew in Christ jesus
and that the God who made light three day
} before the sun shone may kindle in our heart
light that will burn on long after the SUI
has expired; and that the Col who o.
dered the ark built and kept ope
more than one hundred years that the ant
diluvians might enter it for shelter, ma
: graciously incline us to accept the invitatio
which this morning rose in music from th
Throne, saying; Come thou and all tn
, house into the ark
3 Another hard thing to be underStood Til
, story that the sun and moon stood still t
t allow Joshua to complete his victory mi
del scientists declare that an impossbility
Put If man have brain and stran4i
enough 60 make a clock can he N
7 start it and stop it, and start it aga
, and stop it againl IL machinist ha'
! strength and brain enough to make COZ
{ thresher, can he not start it and stop it, ar
. start it again and stop it again9 If God ha'
strength and wisdom to make the clock
s the universe, the great machinery Of 81
q worlds, has He not strength enous
! and wisdom enough to start it al
n stop it, and start it again and stop
0 sgalni Or stop ons wheel, or stop twent
d wheels, or stop all this whsslsi Is the cloc
b stronger than the clock makerl Do5s IL
J. corn-thresher know more than tho machinis
"a Is the universe mightier than its Go
10 But people ask how could the moon have BET
4 seen to stop in the daytimo Well, if you ha
t never seen the moon in the daytime, it is
n cause you have not been very diligent o
n server of the heavens. Beside that, it W
II not necessary for the world literally
{, stop. By unusual refractions of the SUI
n rays the day might have been prolonge
IL So that while the earth continued
z Its path in the heavens, it fguracve
It stopped. You must remember that tht
Bible authors used the vernacular of th'
.s own day. just as you and say the sun we
t. down. The sun never goes down. We sill
4, ply describe what appears to the human ey
IT Besides that the world, our wor
ID could have literally stopped witho
ID throwing the universe out of balan(
a, Our world has two motions-t
I'd one around the sun and the other on its ov
at axis 1t might havs stopped on it's own ak
lie while at the same tims it kept on its pa
y, through the heavens. So there was no ne
ls of steller confusion because our world slac
4. ened It's spesd or entirely stopped in its rev
a. buttons on its own axis. That is mons OF I'll
30 business Of Jupiter or Mars, or Msrcur
GO or Saturn, or the Dippsr. Best
th that, within thu memory OF M
ld there have been worlds that we
a born and that died A few years a
On astronomers telegraphed, through t
re Associated Press, to all the world-i