Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-07


tery OF Nineveh, and the medals struck
ut Antioch for the battle OF Actium,
and all the hieroglyphics TINT could be
deciphered, and had to go into the ex-
tremely delicate business OF asking the
ages of Adam and Seth and Enoch and
Methuselah, who after their 3o0th year
wanted to be thought young.
think It must have been in recogni-
ton of the stupendous work OF making
an almanac that all the days OF the
week are named after the gods. Sunday,
after the sun, which was of old wor-
SHIPPED as a god. Monday, after the
moon, which was also worshiped as q
god. Tuesday, after Tuesco, the god
of war Wednesday, after Wooden, the
chief god of the Scandinavians Thurs
day. after Thor the god of thunder.
Friday, after Frea, the goddess OF
marriage. And Saturday, after Saturn.
The old Bible year began with the 25th
Of March. Not until 1859 did the first
Of the month of January get the honor
in legal documents in England Of being
called the first day of the year.
improvements all along have been
made in chronology until the calendar,
and the almanac. and the clock, and the
watch seem to have reached perfection,
and all the nations of Christendom have
similarity of time calculations and have
adopted what is called new style" ex-
cept Russia, which keeps what is called
the ''old STYLE" and is twelve days diff
ferent, SO that, waiting from there, IT
you wish to be accurate, you date your
letter January and January 1S, or De-
cember 10 and December %. 1t is some
thing 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 in Bible times a
rooster growing. The Bible says, "Be-
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny me
thrice" IF the Master cometh at the
cockcrowing, and that was the way
the midnight watch was indicated. The
Growing of that barnyard bird has
always been most uncertain. The crow
ing is at the lowest temperature Of the
night, and the amount OF dew and the
direction of the wind may bring the
lowest temperature ut II o'clock Mt
night or , 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 IL o'clock is IL o'clock, and 6
o'clock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10
o'clock, and independent of all wealth
ers, and then thank God that you live
now. But Notwithstanding all the i'm
perfect modes Of marking hours or years
or centuries Bible chronology never
trips up, never falters, never contradicts
itself, and here is one of the best argu-
ments for the authenticity of the Scrip
lures.
If you can prove an alibi in the
courts. and you can prove beyond doubt
that you were in some particular place
at the time you were charged with do
ing or saying something in quite an
other place, you gain the victory, and
in6delity has tried to prove an alibi by
contending that events and circum-
stances in the Bible ascribed to certain
times must have taken place at some
other time, if they took place ut 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 5000 900 of them.
Now" says infdelity, with guffaw
that it can not suppress, what an alb
surdity! They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 5000, OOo That
is falsehood on the face OF it. Nations
do not increase in that ratio" But, my
skeptical friend, hold a moment. The
Bible says the Jews were 430 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase
oCNChtN RCAoOho W otOSStNNSf ASA ~
is no more, but rather less than the or
binary increase of nations. The pilgrim
fathers came to America in the May
flower, one small shipload Of pas
sengers, less than 800 years ago,
and now we have a nation Of 90, 900, 900.
Where, then is so-called impossibility
that the seventy Jews who went into
Egypt in 4SO years became 5000, 900?
Infldelity wrong and Bible chronology
right.
Now stop and reflect. Why is it that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
has been 80 neglected, and that the
most of you have never given ten min
utes to the consideration OF II, and that
this is the first sermon ever preached on
this stupendous and overwhelming
theme? 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
Chaynns Elvaees Frenchmen bV the hun.