Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-02


called the ''Old Style" and is twelve
days different, so that, writing from
there, II you wish to be accurate. you
date your letter. January 1st and Janu-
ary 18th, or December 10th and Deem
Der 22nd. 1t is something to thank God
for that the modes are so complete for
calculating the cycles, the centuries,
the decades, the years, the months, the
days, the hours, the seconds. Think OF
making appointments, as In the Bible
DAYS, for the time OF the new moon.
Think Of making one of the watches OF
the night 10 Bible timesl
RosTERs GROWING.
The Bible says, "Before the cock
crow thou shalt deny me thrice;" ST
the Master cometh at cock crowtng;"
and that was the way the midnight
watch was indicated. The growing OF
that BARNARD bird has always been
most uncertain. The Growing is at the
lowest temperature of the night, and
the amount OF dew and the direction OF
the wind may bring the lowest temper
allure at eleven o'clock at night or two
o'clock In the morning and at any one
of six hours. Just before rain the
growing OF chanticleer in the night Is
almost perpetual.
Compare these modes Of marking time
with our modes of marking time, when
twelyeso'cl0ck is twelve O'Clock, and six
O'Clock is six o'clock, and ten o'clock Is
ten o'clock, and independent OF all
weathers, and then thank God that you
live now. But, Notwithstanding all the
imperfect modes of marking hours or
wears or centuries, Bible chronology
never trips up, never falterS, never con-
tradicts itself, and here is Cns OF the
best arguments for the authenticity OF
the Scriptures. II you can prove an
abb in the courts, and you can prove
beyond doubt that you were in some
particular place AZ the time you were
charged with doing or saying something
ia quite another place, you gain the vic
tory, and infdelity has tried to prove an
alibi by contending that events aud cir
cumstances in the Bible ascribed to
certain times must have taken place at
some other time, II they took place at
all. But this Books CHRONOLOGY has
never been caught at fault. 1t has been
proved that when the Hebrews went
into Egypt there were only seventy of
them, and that when they came out there
were three millions of them. Now"
saws infidelity, with guffaw that 1T
cannot suppress, what an absurdity!
They went down into Egypt seventy
and came out three millions. That is Il
falsehood on the face of it, Nations do
not increase in that ratio" But, my
sceptical friend, hold moment. The
Bible says the Jews were 430 years in
Egypt. and that explains the increase
frOm seventy persons to three millions,
for it Is no more but rather less than
the ordinary increase Of nations. The
Pilgrim Fathers
CAME TO AMERICA
in the Maynower, one small shipload of
passengers, less than 300 years ago, and
now we have nation of sixty millions.
Whence then is the so-called impossi-
bilty that the seventy Jews who went
into Egypt in 430 years became three
million? Infdelity wrong and Bible
chronology right.
Now, stop and reflect, why Is it that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
has been so neglected, and that the
most of you have never given ten min
utes TO the consideration Of it aud that
this is tho first sermon ever preached
on this stupendous and overwhelming
theme? We have stood by the half
day or the whole day st grand reviews
and seen armies pass. Again and
and again and again on the Champs
Elysees, Frenchmen, by the hun
dredS Of thousands, have stood and
watched the hammered armies 60 by, and
the huzza has been three miles long and
until the populace were so hoarse they
could hHzza no longer. Again and again
and again, the Germans, by hundreds of
thousands, have stood, on the palaced
and statued Inter den Linden, Berlin,
and strewed garlands under the feet OF
Uniformed hosts led on by Won Moltke
or Butcher or Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonby and the
Scots Greys came back from Waterloo,
or Wolseley from Egypt, or Marlbor-
ough from Blenheim, what military
professions through Regent street and
along by the palaces Of London aud over
the bridges of the Thames. What al
most interminable lines OF military on
itals, while Mayors and Governors
and Presidents, with uncovered
heads, looked on. But put all those
grand reviews together and they are
tame compared with the reviews which
on this New Years Day you from the
pew and l from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order;
all the years before the flood, all the
years since the flood; decades abreast;
centuries abreast: epochs abreast: mil
lenniums abreast; Egyptian civilization,
Babylonian populations. Assyrian do
minions, Armies of Persian, Grecian,
Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzan-
tine empire, Saracenic hosts, Crusaders
of the First, the Second, Third, aud the
last avalanche of men: Dark Ages in
sombre epaulettes and Brighter Ages
with shields Of silver and helmets OF gold;
Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany,
England and America, past and pres
emit; dynasties. feudal domains, despo.-
isms, monarchies; republics, ages on
ages, passing to-day
IN CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW,
until one has no more power TO look
upon the advancing columns, now brill
liant, now sQualid. now garlanded with
peace, now crimson with slaughter,
now horrid with ghastliness, now radi-
ant with love and joy.
But do not let US get an impression
from chronology that because the years
of time have been so long in procession
Al - m foravor Moffnr ia