Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-12

CYCLES. the centuries. the decade,. the wear.
the months. the dayS the hoursL the SEC
onds Think of making annointmants AZ
In the Bible days. for the time of the new
moon. Think OF making one Of the watches
of the night in Bible times rooster. crow.
ing. The Bible SAW. ..Befor,. The cock crow
thou shalt DENY me thrice." 'If the Master
cometh nj cockcrovinu. f" and that was the
way the midnight watch was indicated
The Growing of that barnynrd bird has Al
ways been most uncertain. The Growing Is
at the lowest tsnnerature of tie night. and
the amount of dew and the direction Of the
wind NAV brinv the lowest tsn,nrrature Al
IL O'Clock at night or O'Clock in the morn
ing and at any one of six bonn, Inst he
fora a rain the Growing Of chanticleer in the
night Is almost perpetual.
THE MEASUREMENTS or T1ME.
Compare these modes of marking time
with our modes of marking time when 70
o'clock Is l2 O'Clock. and g O'Clock IL q
O'Clock. and 10 o'clock IL 10 o'clock. and in
dependent of all weathers. and then thank
God that YOU live now. But potwithstapd-
ing all the imperfect modes of marking
hours or years or centuries Bible chronol
ogy never trims ND. never falters. never con
tradicts itself and here IL one of the best
arguments for the authenticity of the Scrip
lures
II you can prove an alibi IN the courts.
and YOU can prove beyoud doubt that YOU
were in some particular place Mt the time
YOU were charged with doing or saving
something in quite another place, YOU gain
the victory, and infidelity has tried to prove
an alibi by contending that events and cir
cumstances in the Bible Inscribed to certain
times must have taken place at some other
time, il they took place mt 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 100000 of them
Now" says infidelity, with guffaw that
it cannot suppress, what IN absurdity!
They went down into Egypt seventy and
came out 100000 That is falsehood
on the face of it. Nations do not increase
in that ratio"
But, my skeptical friend, hold moment
The Bible says the Jews were 430 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase from
seventy persons to 100000 for it is no
more, but rather less than the ordinary in
crease of nations. The Pilgrim Fathers
came to America in the Mayhower-one
small shipload of passengers-less than 300
years ago, and now we have nation of Co..
600, 900. Where then, is the SO called impos-
sibility that the seventy Jews who went
into Egypt in 43O years became 5000, ,0O0i
Infidelity wrong and Bible chronology
right,
Now stop and reflect. Why is it that this
sublime subject of Bible chronology has
been 10 neglected. and that the most Of you
have never given ten minutes to the con-
sideration Of it, and that this is the first
sermon ever preached on this stupendous
and overwhelming themei. We have stood
by the half day or the whole day at grand
reviews and seen armies pass. Again and
again and again on the Champs Elysees
Frenchmen by the hundreds of thousands
have stood and watched the hammered
armies 90 by, and the huzza has been three
miles long and until the populace were so
hoarse they could huzza 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 strewn garlands under the feet
of uniformed hosts led on by Won Moltke
or Blucher or Frederick the Great. When
Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots
Greys came back from Waterloo, or Wolse-
ley from Egypt, or Marlborough from Blen-
helm, what military professions through
Regent street and along by the palaces Of
London and over the bridges OF the Thamesl
What almost interminable lines Of military
on the streets of all our American capitals,
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 review which
on this New Years day you from the pew
and from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all the years before the food; all the years
since the food; decades abreast; centuries
| abreast; epochs abreast; millenniums
abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian
populations, Assyrian dominions, armies Of
Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman
wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic host,
crusaders of the first. the second, third
and the last-avalanche Of men; Dark Ages
in somber epaulets and brighter ages
with shields of silver and helmets of gold;
Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany,
England and America, past and present
dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms,
monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages
on ages, passing today in chronological
review, until one has no more power to
look upon the advancing columns, now
brilliant, now squalid, now garlanded with
peace, now crimson with slaughter, now
horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with
| love and ioy.
THE WORLD GETTING BETTER.
This chronological study affords among
many practical thoughts especially two
the one encouraging to the last degree and
the other startling The encouraging
thought is that the main drift of the cen
turies has been toward betterment, with
only here and there stout reversal. Gre
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