The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-01-12
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE's soN
DAY SERMON.
Subject. Lessons Taught by the Holi,
days.

TEXT: Consider the years Of may gen
eratioas .H-DeutsronoT1y xx11., {.
At y o'clock last night, while so manv
cool reopie were watching. an old friend
PASSED cut of our homes and stranger en-.
tered The Old frieni making vaeiictory
was 1892: The stranger arriving is 1873 The
cd frieni was garru'ous with the occur
rencss Of MANY iav4, bu5 the strany ger put
his finger over his Ito an sal nothing and
seemed charged with many secrets and mys-
tsres. did not see either the departure or
the arrival, lu. was soul asleep. thinking
that was for m the best wav to be wide
awake now Gooibv 1917 Welcome, 1881
As an army is diviiei into briga1es and
regiments AMI CO npanies an they observe
this order in Their march and their trea is
majestic. SO the time OF the worlds exist
ence is divided into an armv divinelv COM
manded; the eras are the briga les, the CEN
turies ara the regiments, and tia years are
the COMPANIES. For warl into the eternity
past, cut Of the eEsrnit7 to comei Forward
is the command, and nothing can halt them,
even though the world should die. While
obeying nv text, "Tonsider the years OF
manv generations" ! propose to sneak OF
the Chronology OF the Bible, or God Among
the Centuries
We make distinction between time aud
eternity, but time is only piece of eternity,
and chronology has been engaged in the
sublime work OF dividing up this portion OF
eternity that We call time into compart.
nents AMI putting events in their right
compartment. It's as much an injustice
against the past to wrongly arrange its
events as it would be an injustice If, through
neglect OF chronological accuracy, it should
in the far distant future be said that Ameri-
ca was discovered in 1IT6 and the Dsclara-
ton of Independence was signed In 1892,
and Washington born on the 22l Of March,
AMI the Civil War Of the United States was
fought in l64l.
As God puts all the events OF time in the
right place, let us be careful that We do not
put them in thu wrong place. The chron-
ology Of the Bible takes six steps but they
are steps so long ii makes Us hol' our breath
as We watch the moyam mt. From Adam
to bfahaD. From Abraham to tina exodus
out OF Egypt. From the exodus to thu
foundation Of Solomon's temple. From the
foundation OF Solomons temple TO the de-
struction Of that tenple. From the destruc-
ton Of the temple to the return from Baby
lonish captivity. From Babylonisn cap-
tivity to the birth Of Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil, au call.
ing astronomy and history to help says;
Let US fix one event from which to calcu-
late everything. Let it bs star, the Bath
Iehem star, the Christmas STAR AMI from
that we go baeZ and see the world was
created 409i years before Christ ia. delugs
came 234S years before Christ; the exodus
out of Egypt occurred 1891 years before
Christ, and Solomons temple was destroyed
sS6 years before Christ
Chronology enters the first chapter OF
Genesis and says the lay mentioned there Is
not day o. twenty-fout hours but Of ages,
the word thsre TRANSLATED as DAY in other
"a lFf1rr
count of the creation and the biologists &C.
count OF the creation are completely bar
monlous. Chronology enters the book OF
Daniel and says that the wur Is time an
half" mean year and half
Chronology enters at another point ami
shows US that thu seasons of the year were
then only two-summer AMI winter. We
find that the Bible year was $50 DAYS instead
ihA IS. gar fEaS sablfftttlataa fran
namely, the late watch, the midnight the
.ock Growing, the early watch The ciocS
ana watch were invented SO long after the
word began their mission that the day was
no1 very sharply divided in Bible times
Ahaz had sundial, Or flight of stairs with
q column at the top, ami the shadow which
mat co'umn threw on the steps beneath in.
uicated the hour, the shadow frightening
OF withdrawing from step to step
But the events OF life and the events OF
the world moved So slowly for the most
part in Billie times that they had no
need OF sucl timepiecas as we stand on our
mantels or carry in our pockets in an age
when q man may have half dozan or a
uozen engagements for one day and needs
20 Elbow IN exact minute for each one OF
them. The earth itself in Bible times was
the chief timepiece, and it turned once on
us axis and that was day, an oncs around
the sun and that was year
II was not until the Fourteenth Century
mat the almanac was born, the almanac
tnat we toss carelessly about not realizing
That 1t took the accumulated ingaa uity OF
more than 500 years to make one, Chron.
ology nal to bring into its service the mo1u-
menls OF Egypt and the cylinders OF Assyria,
and the bricks OF Babylon ami the pottery
OF uneven. and the metals struck at An
noch for The battle OF Actiun, aud all the
hieroglyphics that could be decipharsj and
had to go into the extremely delicate bust
ness OK asking the ages of Adam aud Seth
ana Eno1n and Methuselah, who after their
o0Qth year wanted to be thought young.
thlnk 1t must have been in recognition
OF the stupeadous work OF making an alma
nae that all the days Of tha week ara named
after the gods. Sunday. after the sun,
which was OF Cd H5rshipel as go. Mon.
day, after The moon which was also wor.
sHApSt as q gOOs TUESDAY, atter lusseO, The
god Of war Wednesday, after Wooden. the
chiet god of the Scaudinayians. Thursday.
after Thor, the goi of thunder. Friday
after Frea, the goddess of marriage. AM
Saturday after Saturn. The old Bible wear
began with the 18th OF Marcl. Not until
l75! did the first OF the month OF January
get the honor in legal documents in England
o. being called the first day OF the year,
improvements all along have been made
in chronology until the caleu iar and the
almanac, AMI the clocE, and tas watch sean
10 have reached perfection, ani all the Ma.
tions Of Christsniom have similarity of time
calculations AMI have aloptei what ia
called new sty,e" except Russia. wbica
keeps what is clllei tina ''old Style ana is
TIVE We days different So that, writing from
there, II yod wish to oe accurate. Won data
your letter January l aud January 10, or
December 10 ana December q. 1t is some.
thing 10 thank Col To- that the modes
are so complete for calca ating tbs cycles.
tae centuries, th3 declies, the years the
months the days, tine hours, the seconds.
Ihini OF making appointments as in tbs
Bible days for the time of ths new moon,
ThnI of making ons o. the waite hes Of the
night in B.Dle times a rooster growing. The
Bibie says before tbs cock crow thou
81 don. a.. f,rica . t.IP VI.