Milford chronicle., 1893-01-06
THEMARCH OF YEARS
AN ANNIVERSARY SERMON BY Or.
TALMAeE.

crowded the Tabernacle sang the hymn
Our God. our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come.
Tie text chosen was Deuteronomy XNNlls
z "Consider the years OF many gener-
AtI9 o'clock last night, while so many
good people were Watching an oia IlsiiH
Dassed out Of our homes and stranger gu
tered. The old friend making valedlcgoly
was 1892; the stranger arriving Is 1873 Inc
old friend was garrulOus with the occur occur
reuces of many days, but the stranger Pus
his finger over his lip and said nothins anu
seemed charged with many secrets anu llys-
teries. did not see either the oepa.r.ul,e -
the arrival, but WIS sound asleep tiiii iNil,s
that was for me the best way 70 Oe wstS ,ooo,
'.,,,'l,s now Goodby, 1921 Welcome, lSs5l
A., an army is divided into brigades ana
.ae-iynents and companies, and they observe
tI,is order in their march, and thelr tread u
majestic. so the time Of the world 8 eXisV
sDca is divided into an army divinely com
,,,anded The eras are the brigades, the
cent,1ries are the regiments, and the years
are the companies. Forward INTO Ihe
a+e-,,itv mast. out OF the eternity to GOMEZ
| Fo,rzaTi il the command, and nothing can
halt them, even though the world shoulu ~.
die. While obeying my text, CONSIDER Une y
years of many generations" l prOpose " "
| sneak of the Chronology OF the blDle' OL
God Among the Centuries"
THF DIVINE CHRONOLOGY.
VIZ make a distinction between time ano
.+orDitv hut time is only a piece OF eternity
- chronology has been engaged IN th'
s,,S,liTne work of dividing up this portion
of eternity that we call time into comparI
Taents and putting events in their rlgh'
,rtnent It is as much an inJustlc'
oo,ainst the past to wrongly arrange III
oxsTts as it would be an injustice II, througi
,ogIect of chronological accuracy, u shoulO
IN tbe far distant future, be SAID ina
America was discovered in 1176, and TN
DecIarotion of Independence was signed
ZOO and Washington born on the ~
March. and the civil war OF the Ohl'e'
States was fought in ls4O. .,.oi, .b
AS God puts all the events OF tllile ~ I'll u
p rigbt place, let us be careful that we 90 nu
nut them in the wrong place lue ~ ~
nology Of the Bible takes SIX steps, DuS ~ 'lis m
are steps so long it makes US hol4 - ou
breath as we watch the movement ~.
Adam to Abraham. From q prlhaill 70 VI !.
exodus out of Egypt. From Che -eAou%s -
tLo f9,1ndgtion of Solomon's temple. Froi
tba foundation of SolomOn's temple 10 u
S',s. Ias+,,,,.tion Of that temple. From the d
strnction of the temple to the return lrol
Babylonish captivity From D'"S iOl-a
captivity to the birth OF Christ
Chronology taxes pen and pencil an
calling astronomy aISl history TO me-
saws. aI,et US fix one event from Which
caIculate everything. Let 1t be star u
Rethlehen, star, the Christmas star. Al
fror, tbat we 90 back and see the wor
- ,,,.s created 4,0O4 years before ChrlsG' u
/ deluge came 2,3+S years before Chfls
M exodus out Of Egypt occurred ~
u ,ysa,.s before Christ, and Solomons oehp 7
yvas DESTROYED $50 years before Chris
Chronology enters the first chapter OF Ue
csis and saws the day mentioned there
! NOT a dav of twenty-fOur hours, but OF ag'
! the word there being translated as ia.
. In other places meaning ages. ana
the Rible account Of the creation ana /
geoloqists' account of the creation are col
pletely harmonious
Chronology enters the book OF Ian
and saws that the words time and nal
mean n vear and Il half. Chronology ent'
AZ another point and shows us that I
lie Se.soDs of the year were then only Two
"a summer aud winter. We find that I
ne Bible year was $50 days, instead OF 800 ~
81 tine day was calculated from . o'eiock
81. the morning to 6 o'clock at night; that
nipht was divided into four watches-h'sn
Iv. the late watch, the midnight the g
= GROWING, the carly watch The CLOCK .
watch were invented so long after the "o
besrau their mission that the DAY was
very sharply divided in Bible timeS'
THE DIAL OF AHAz.
Ab,z had a slndial, or flight Of sta
Nth "a column mt the top, and the shad
the steps
Ni pasth indicated the hour, the shad
~ lengtbeninp or withdrawing from step
ad sta5 But the events of life and the eve
of tbe world moved so slowly, for the m
nnrt in Bible times that they had no
, IF snch timepieces as we stand on our m
~' taIs or carry in our pockets in an age WI
a man may have Il half dozen or a dozen
let ,,s,renents for one day and needs to kI
IN fbe e,act minute for each one OF them.
sartb itself in Bible times was the cl
u timeniece and it turned on its own .
for srd tbat was day, and once around
ne sun and that was year. It was not u
u tbe Fourteenth century that the alma
.ru vyas born-the almanac that we toss C
by Iassly about, not realizing that II TOOK
accumulated ingenuity Of more than D
years to make one.
, Chronology had to bring into lts ser
the monuments Of Egypt, and the cyllh'
of Assvria, and the bricks OF Babylon
tbe nottery of Nineveh, and the me-
strnclk at Antioch for the battle OF AcU
and all the hieroglyphics that could DC
eiphered, and had to 90 into the eAufen
delicate business of asking the age
Adam and Seth and Enoch and Me
. selah who, after their 3OOth year. want, ,
be thought young. think 1t ulqst
been in recognition of the stupendous
, n nf making an almanac that all the gay
lhe week are named after the gods, SUI
after the sun. which was Of old worsh
ls u god Ai.h ,,,s
Monday, after the moon, which wa 3
worshiped as II god. TUESDAY aI.er
co. the god of war. Wednesday,
Wooden. the chief god Of the ocandinaYl
Thursday, aftersIhor, the goa OF InuL Inu
Friday, after Frea, the goddess s., u lilll l,I
and Saturday after Saturn. The OLD
= II 80. I,es,aD with the 25th Of March.
= It'll no aid the first of the month Of
narv ,ret the honor in legal document
D Ingl,nd of being called the first day Of
It 3 80 Tmnrovemeuts all along have
e made in chronology until the calendar
tba almanac, and the clock, and the
seem to have reached perfection, an
tbe nations of Christendom have slnnll
of fine calculations and have adopted
n 81 d called new style" except hussi;.' Y
= Leepas:S w.ss called the "old style, a
/. score of appSFent, so that, writing 1n'i
me TIE ID and Jan. l3, or d
Mr.. Whitema
~ the House caucu thank God for tha
~ bury was seeretaete for calculating
sna Mr.. Whiteman the decades, the .l,l }
." speaker and John H. Lay ton
'ies isJl1Is p ,+ ikford, Sussex county, was
where where do1 31;, as clerk. Mr.. Layton
W %or1o as. VII Il, eS ,t famA that town. There
Which " is no Goysb2a Is baA for both Offices WI
finding oHSS,lG ~ 2 mics and COocl
BILE of righteously govers.,dtl- votes cast
out again for theocrecS5avA
God come back and conductSa ma
the world" 1a,a I''l
Every step - monarchy, limitC s,uk j
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