Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-05

ends. Think of making appointments, IA
in the Bible days, for the time of the new
moon Think of making one of the watche,
Of the night in Bible times Il ROSTERS crow
ing. The Bible says, Before he cock crow
Il ou shalt deny me thrice, If the Master
cometh at cockcrowing' and that WAS the
way the midnight watch WAS indicated
The growing of that balnyilrd bird has al
Nisys been most uncertain. The Growing is
~ the lowest temperature of the night, and
The amount of dew and the direction of the
wind may bring the lowest temperature at
4 o'clock at night or 2 O'Clock in the morn
ing and at amy one of six hours Just be
fore rain the Growing Of chantceer in the
night is almost perpetual
THE MEASUREMENTS or TIME
Compare these modes OF marking time
nth our modes of marking time, when u
o'clock is T. o'clock, and 6 o'clock is q
o'clock. and 10 O'Clock is 10 O'Clock. aud in
dependent of all weathers and then thank
Tod that You live now But notwithstand
ing all the imperfect modes Of marking
hours or years or centuries Bible chronol
ogy never trips up, never falters never con
tradicts itself and here is one Of the hest
arguments for the authenticity of the scrip
lures
II You Gun prove an alibi in the courts.
and you can prove beyond doubt that you
we're in some particular place ut the time
you We're charged with doing or saying
iomething in quite another place, you gain
! fbe victory, and infidelity has tried To prove
| an alibi by contending that events and cir
cnmstances in the Bible ascribed to certain
lines must have taken place at some other
time, If they took place NJ all But this
books chronology has never been caught at
iAult. Ii has been proved that when the
Hebrews went into Egypt there were only
seventy 0f them and that when they
came ont there were 3oo0,00 OF them.
now says iniidelity with Qllfaw that
ii cannot suppress what IN absurlityl
They went down into Egypt seventy and
came out 3,OOa,Gl0 That is fllsehood
On the face OF it, Nations do not increase
10 that ratio
But, my skeptca friend. hold "A moment
The Bible says the jews were $40 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase from
seventy persons TO 30Oo,OO0, for il is no
clore, but rather less than the ordinary in
crease of nations The Pilgrim Fathers
same to America in the Mayilower-one
snall -hipload of passengers-l less than 800
years ago, ana now we have "A nation of 90,
0o0,o0O Where, then, is the SO called inpos-
sibility that the seventy jews who went
INTO Egypt in 40 years became 1900, 000s
iuhdelity wrong and Bible chronology
right
Now stop and reflect Why is IL chat this
Sublime subject of Bible chronology has
heen so neglected. aud that the most OF you
have never given ten minutes TO the con.
iderntion of il, and that this Is the first
Ssrmon ever preached on this stupendous
sud overwhelming themeg We have stood
ny the half day or the whole day ut grand
reviews and seen armies pass. Again and
#gain and again on the Champs Elysees
brenebnen by the hundreds of thousands
have stood and watched the hammered
armies 20 by, and the huzza has been three
u,iles long and until the populace were SO
coarse they could huzza no longer
Again and again and again the Germans
ny hundreds of thousands have stood on
he palaced and statued Inter den Linden
Berlin, and strewn gariandS under the feet
Of uniformed hosts led OH by Won Moltke 1
~ Blucher or Frederick the Great. When |
Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots {
iireys came back from Waterloo, or Wolse- |
ley from Egypt, or Marlborough from Blen- !
nsim. what military professions through q
iiegent street and along by the palaces Of d
.ondon and over the bridges of the Thames y
What almost interminable lines of military y
1u the streets of all our American capitals y
while mayors and governors and presidents, y
With uncovered heads, looked on But put :
N those grand reviews together. and they
'r9 tame compared with the review which Z
~ this New Years day you from the pew a
nd from the pulpit witness p
Hear them pass 10 chronological orles- f
III the years before the flood, all the years
ince the flood; decades abreast. centuries y
breast; epochs abreast, milleunums e
breast; Egyptian civilization. Babylonian II
populations, Assyrian dominions armies OF q
'ersian, Greeian. Peloponnesiiln and Roman o.
vars Byzantine empire, Samcenic host, "
rusaderS of the first. the second third Al
cd the lslst--avalanche of men, Dark A yes b.
0 somber epaulets and brighter ages VI
nth shields Of silver and helmets OF gold
laly Spain, France, Russia. Germany. pi
,nRland and America, past and present 50
ynaStes. feudal domains. despotisms I'll
ionarchies, republic. ages on ages. ages -
y ages. passing today in a Chronological NJ
view. until one has no more power To IA
,ok' upon the advancing columns. now bC
lillinnt. now squalid now gilrlamded with th
aace, now crimson with slaughter. now be
$500 r-t+'N't4AhtFF1t INV AtNilftltl Win
've and JOY ba
TiIE WORLD GETTING BErTER tn
This chronological study affords among AL
ANY practical thoughts especially two M
ie one encouraging TO the last degree and IN
'e other startling The encouraging Oh
fought is that the main drift Of the cen CIR
rics has been toward betternpnt. with SD
Ny here and there a stout reversal. Gin. IN
ln civilization WIS vast improvement
! Egyptian civilization, and Roman civil
sation a vast improvement on Grecian civ CHI
zation. and Christian civilization is a ha
st Improvement on Rouan civilization. 20
What WAS the boosted age of Perieles com no
red with the age of Longfelow and Ten. da
SOM What was Queen Elizabeth A. a TIA
ecimen of moral womanhood compared bri
tn Queen Nictorias What were the cruel la
srriois Of olden times compared with the no,
1st distinguished warriors OF the last half oy,
injury, all Of them as much distinguished :
: kindness and good morals as for prov yea
the two military Leaders, % r,,- .s...a no