The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-08
The Record Engraved on the Ever
lasting Rocks by the Hand
of Time.
No Man Was Able to Read r.
Until the Present Cen
tury.
All G%eologists Agree Tint Eight Great
Events Described In tho Bible
Did Occur.

should govern our lives, and which will
control our destinies. II it be the word Of
an infinite, loving father, it becomes q
matter of the first Importance that we re-
ceive it as such, and that we take it 90 tho
guide of our lives and the basis of our
hopes Of Immortality and OF an inheritance
eternal in the Paradise of God. It makes q
great difference whether we die a. a brute,
or die to rise to q glorious Immortality.
During the last 600 years there have been
certain facts established in regard to the
physical universe, recorded in the asst, on
omioal records of the nations, and accepted
as the correct deductions of the modern
science called astronomy, aud there are
other facts deduced from the study Of the
laws, which control the matter around US.
called physics; and still another series OF
facts revealed by the record Of tho rock
strata of the earth, called geology. Now,
all these records and discoveries relied upon
in this discussion have been made in the
last 500 years and those in geology within
the last hundred years, and all are accepted
as proved. ..#... ....
Now there are certain portions of this
book, as parts of Genesis, Of the Psalms
and Of Job, which treat Of the creation st
the universe. of the modes and conditions
Of its existence and of the relations OF the
various worlds, and Of the order in which
animals were created, which constantly in
volve facts pertaining to the modern
sciences of astronomy, physics and geology.
Now the books of Genesis and Job were
written fully 5000 years ago and delivered
into the care of one of the most ancient
peoples as containing the principles and
laws which would control the destinies Of
individuals and nations. These books have
been most carefully preserved as the most
sacred gifts of God to man. More than
1000 years ago these books were translated
into the Greek language by seventy learned
men at Alexandria i'll Egypt and were thus
given to the world in a version that would
ever after prevent any changes or alte,a-
tions that would adapt them to the dis
%coveries Of modern science. This version
OF the Bible. known as the Septuagint or
A~lexandrian version. was followed by
others into the various languages of the
nations, thus precluding all designed or
careless alterations of any important fact
or principle contained in the originals.
Now, Genesis and Job and the Psalms,
are full Of statements pertaining to the
physical universe, involving and enunci-
world until the present century. or
twenty-five or certainly twenty centuries
after the writer's OF these books had nut
them on record. and twenty centuries after
these books had been given to the world in
tho S~eptuagint and other versions, preolud-
ing any changes of the original. Other
ancient writings, such as those of Hesiod,
Homer and Virgil and Pliny, contain many
most glarlnR errors. when compared with
the principles of modern science. Now
these books of the Bible are still moro an
cient, and they treat more fully of matters
pertaining to modern science. and, il they
are the works of men. they must contain
many glaring errors. when examined in the
light OF modern science. But. if inspired
by tho omnicient God as claimed, we shall
find no errors scientific.
It is, therefore. proposed to make a crit
cal examination of these portions of the
Bible treating of scientific matters, and
compare them with the deductions of mod
ern science. If these ancient biblical au-
thors have treated of scientific matters,
and stated facts not known even to sci
ence till 5000 years later, it is deemed an
lrretntable argument in favor of the in
SEPARATION Of the Bible BY the great God
himself. In treating Of the bible we shall
adopt the interpretations of the best COM
mentators, and in science principles gener-
ally accepted by the best scientific world of
to-day.
The Book of Genesis, written by Moses.
contains many facts which he did not
one knew until 5000 years after Moses
time, unless revealed by the supernatural.
Moses did not know there was a time when
all the waters of the earth we're in the at
mosphere, that some Of the water,
a part remained in the air, and tina these
two, that in the air was divided from that
IN the earth by the clear sky, the TRINA
ment. But Moses said, God made the
armament and divided the armament from
the waters, which were above the frma-
nauf5 Can ~ He ooiI <k;u ,rl n,k
the wonderful declaration on record {, 900
years before science had proved it true.
Moses did not know that the waters under
the armament covered the whole earth;
that
IA shoreless.ocean tumbled round the globe.'
But ne certainly made the wonderful
record, God said, let the waters under the
heavens be gathered together into one
place and let the dry land appear; and it
was So" Gen. go. Moses put this bold
declaration on record thirty centuries be-
fore science had proved it true, before any
could Moses say there was a time when the
waters were collected into ono place and
when dry land appeared? Moses declares
the next grent event in the work OF fitting
up the earth for man, was the production
of plants, "And the earth brought forth
tender plants, herbs yielding seed and fruit
trees bearing fruit after its kind" Con.
l:l2. How did Moses know the tender
plants grew before the animals and the
fruit trees before man, who eats the fruit?
Yet Moses put the fact on record thirty
cent u ries before science had proved that
pla nts grew, before animals lived, before
IN an lived. The next event in the progress
OF the development of the earth was the
clearing up of the dense clouds of vapor
above the armament, which surrounded
the earth like swaddlinR bands, Job $3.50,
SO the sun, moon and stars might sh ed
their light upon the earth, ITO rule The
day and the night, to separate the light
from the darkness" Gen. i:l4-l9.
How did Moses know the light of the sun
was necessary to clothe the earth with
green plants and ripen the fruits to sustain
the animals to COME? And still Moses nut
the fact on record many centuries before
science had proved the light of the sun was
necessary to mako the grass green and to
rlpen the fruits.
Moses declares "a the next thing in the
order of the six days work God filled the
sea with swarms of living creatures and
grent sen animals. 1t was thirty centuries
after Moses time before any hu imam being
knew that the lower animals of the sea APP
peared upon the earth after the plants and
before the higher orders of land animals.
Inc next act of creation mentioned in this
wonderful record ia that of Tying creatures,
AND lot winged creatures fly nbove the
enrth IN tho open armament Of heaven"
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