The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-01

Ii the MOBalc account OF Jno UOOu
myth Skeptics say II IL. Our Lord
endorsed the Mosaic narrative. He
spoke OF 1t thus: 'But as the days OF
Noe were so shall also the coming OF
the Son of man be. For as in the days
that were before tho flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day, that
Noe entered into the ark, and know
mot until tho flood came and took them
all away etc. Matt. XIV, 37-39. }
Paul In Heb. ri, and Peter In Peter
LII, 20, also allude to the same circum-
stances.
The population OF the world at TINT
time must have been as great az II Ia
f,400, 100000, and such a
vast multitude can BIO comfortably
seated In u space twenty miles square.
ION account of the universal prevalence
|of great wickedness God sent the flood
TO destroy the ungodly. He preserved
Noah and his family, eight persons In
all, in an ark that was prepared by d.
wine direction.
The 6keptio wants to know where
all the water came from. Mr.. niger
soil, whose biblical knowledge is ex-
Iceedingly scanty, declares that Moses
informs that the windows of heaven,
or, in other words, the clouds in tho
heavens furnished all the water that
Ideluged the earth. Moses declares that
9 all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and the windows
lQilood-gates) OF heaven were opened"
Mr.. /. ignores the fountains OF the
great deep as one of the sources Of
the deluge. Not only did vast quanti-
ties decend upon the earth from above,
but also other vast quantities poured
forth from the bowels of the earth
from beneath the land and beneath the
water, and the land was teluged.
The highest mountain on the earth
is Mt. Hercules in New Guinea. II is
~, 565 feet In height, or more than
$500 feet higher than Mt. Everest In
Asia. The land surface of the earth Is
equal to about one-third of its water
Surface. Artesian wells furnish great
quantities of water. There are more
than seventy-five in the Sahara desert,
and their aggregate yield iG about Is,
900, goo gallons daily. One al Pesth, at
IA depth Of 300 feet sent up 175, 900 gal
Ions in day.
Geysers are natures artesian. wells.
They are found in Iceland, New Zeal
and, Colorado, New Mexico, Califor-
mia, in the Yellowstone Valley, etc.
The Giantess geyserin the Yellowstone
Valley throws stream OF water TWEEN
lty feet in diameter, to the height of
Islxty feet, and through this stream
Ihalf-a dozen smaller Jets are sent up
ito the height OF $50 feet.
Volcanic mountains when in erup-
Ition throw up vast quantities OF
watery vapor. In 1872 Vesuvius sent a
Iculumn OF vapor 10000 feet in height
Iron its summit. Etna has thrown up
enough vapor'in ono hundred days to
make eco. 0J0, 600 barrels .of water, or
Z, 900, 900 barrels per day.
| The artesian wells, the Geysers, and
the volcanoes, show that the fountaiIt
of the great deep beneath the land ard
Inot yet exhausted. Tie ocean has
been sounded in a number OF places,
land depths corresponding with the
heights of the loftiest mountains have
been reached. With the upheavai OF
1.-The oceans bed and subterran an dis.
charges of water, and with the down
pour of the floods from above, an
abundance of water, even enough to
cover the highest mountains, was Sc
lcurod.
| So far as tho ark is concerned, we
learn that it was three hundred cubits
long. and fifty Quilts wide, and thir-
lty Quilts high, and had three stories Its
lhurthen VAS about Az, 900 tons. HECK
Ioning the Guilt rs twcnty-iine inches
1.-The ark was five huf dred aud twenty
live feet long, eight y-seven and a hall
teet wide, aud tifty-two and half
/ feet high.
Prof Hitchcock says, 'AllowinG
That there arc thousand species OF
|mammalia, six hundred kinds of birds
two thousand ofreptiles and one hun.
Idred and twenty Thousand insects
allow million cubic feet for mamma,
! IN dhat is chiefly the four-footed
tbeasts,) eight hundred thousand Gu,
Ne feet for the birds, ono hundred
Thousand for reptiles, and one hun.
ldrcd thousand for Insects, and there
would be five hundred thousand cubic
Get Tor NOAH and his family The
lark, then, was sufficiently large to
Inject all needs.
| After the food the ark rested on
one of the mountains OF Arurat.n Mr..
ingerslll says HAT tho Bible informs
lus that it rested on Mount Ararat,
| That was his mistake. There is quite
/ difference between the Specification
ut the expressions The mountains OF
IArafut' ard Mount Aralut.' Tie lat
ter expression does not occur in lie
Ibibie. There is a mountainous dis
trict called Aralat in Armenia, Asia,
land mp on one Of the mountains the
art rested when the Hood was sulsld.
ling; but upon which one, 10 one
knows.
After the food God appointed the
lrjint ow as HE sign OF the covenant
between Him uEd the human family
lthnt he would no more destroy tic
word 10y u flood.
Traditions of n great food exist IN
Imany nations. Some of these tradi
lions are mixed up with myths. Up
IhurIle says: 1T Is remarkable fact
concerning the deluge. that the mem
Iury OF almust all nations ends III tho
HISTORY of 1t"
Many learned Christians hold thai
1.-The Hood was universal only where the
race liNcd-not all over the great con
IlnentS.
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