Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-05

Wy iit stNunuS.
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
u ROSTERS growing Tho Bible
says, Before the cock crow thou shalt
deny me thrice;" aft Master cometh
at cock crowing;" and that was the
way the midnight watch was indi-
Gated The growing of that barnyard
bird has always been most uncertain,
Compare these modes OF marking
time with our modes OF marking time,
when H. o'clock is ~ o'clock, and o
o'clock Is q o'clock, and 10 o'clock Is 10
o'clock, and independent of all wealth
crs, and then thank God that you live
now. But, Notwithstanding all the
Imperfect modes of marking hours or
years, or centuries, Riblc chronology
never trips up, never falters, never
| contradiots itself, and here is one of
the best arguments for the authentic.
ity of the Scriptures, You can prove
an alibi In the courts, and YOU can
prove beyond doubt that you were in
some particular place Mt tho
time you were charged with doing
or saying something In quite
another place, you gain the
victory, and inidclity has tried to
prove an alibl by contending that
events aud circumstances In the Bible
ascribcd to certain times must have
taken place ut some other time II they
took place ut all But this Rocks
chronology has never been caught ut
! fault IL has been proved that when
the Hebrews went into Egypt there
were only seventy of them, and that
when they came out there were three
millions of them, Now" says Inf
deity, with outlaw that II cannot
suppress, what an absurdity!
They went down into Egypt seventy
and came out three millions,
That is II falsehood on the face OF IL,
| Nations do not Increase In that ratio
But, my sceptical friend, hold
moment. The Bible says the Jews
were 400 years In Egypt, and that eS-
plains the increase from seventy per-
! sons to three millions, for IL Is no more
but rather less than the ordinary in-
crease of nations The Pilgrim Fathers
came to America In the Mayilower, ono
! small shipload of passengers, less than
! 800 years ago, and now we have u ma
ton of sixty million, Where then IL
the so-called impossibility that the
seventy Jews who went into Egypt IN
/ iar years became three million? In
fidelity wrong and Bible chronology
right.
Now, stop and reflect, why Is IL that
this sublime subject OF Bible chronol-
ogy has been so neglected, and that
the most Of you have mover given ten
minutes to the consideration of IL and
that this is the first sermon ever
preached ON this stupendous and over
whclming thomep We have stood by
tho 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 go by, and the
huzza has been three miles long and
until the populace were So hoarse they
could huzla no longer, Again aud
again and again the Germans, by hun
drcds of thousands, have stood on the
palaced and statued Inter den Linden,
Berlin, and strewn gnrlands under the
feet of uniformed hosts led on by Won
Moltlte or lIlucher or Frederick tho
Great. When Wellington and Pom
sonby and the Scots Greys came back
from Waterloo, or Wolseley 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 Thames. What almost
interminable lines of military on the
streets of all our American capitals,
while Mayors and Governors aud Pres
idcnts 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 I
from the pulpit witness Hear them
pass in chronological order; all the
years before the flood; all the years
since the flood; decades abreast; centu-
rics abreast; cpochs abreast; nillenni-
ums abreast; Egyptian civilization,
Babylonian populations Assyrian do
minions, Armies of Persian, Grecian
Peloponnesian aud Roman wars;
byzantine Empire, Sarncenic hosts
Crusaders of the First, the
Second, Third and the last--avalanche
of men: Dark ages in sombcr epau-
lettcs and Brighter ages with shields
of silver and helmets OF gold: Italy,
Spain, France, Russia, Germany, Eng
land and America, past and present:
dynasties, feudal domains, dcspotisms,
monarchics, republics, ages on ages,
ages on ages, passing to-day in II
chronological review, until one has no
moro power to look upon the advanc-
ing columns, now brilliant, now
squalid, now gurlnndcd with peace.
now crimson with slaughter, now hor.
rid with ghastlincss, now radiant with
love and joy.
This chronological study affords,
among many practical thoughts,
especially two-thc one encouraging to
the last degree and the other startling
The encouraging thought is that the
main drift OF the centuries has been
toward betterment, with only here
and there a stout reversal. Grccian
civilization was vast improvement
ON Egyptian civilization, and Roman
civilization vast improvement on
Grccian civilization, and Christian
civilization "a vast improvement on
Roman civilization. What was the
boosted age OF Pcriclcs compared with
the age of Longfellow and Ten
nyson? What was Queen Eliz-
abeth as u specimen of moral
womanhood compared with Queen Vic
toria? What were the cruel warriors
OF olden times compared with the most
distinguished warriors of the last half
century, all OF them AS much dis
tinguished for kindness and good
morals as Tor prowess; the two military
leaders of our Civil War on Northern
and Southern side communicate mem
,bers of Christian churches, and their
home life as pure as their public life?
Nothing impresses me in tbs chrono-
logical review more than the fact that
the regiments of years are better and
better regiments as the troops move
on. ! thank God that you and
were not born any sooner than
we were born. How could we
have endured the disaster of
being born in the eighteenth or seven
teenth or sixteenth century? Glad am
that &c are in the regiment now pass
ing the reviewing stand and that our
children will pass the stand in a still
better regiment God did not build
this world for slaughter-house or u
den of infamy. A good deal of clean
ing house will be necessary before this
world becomes as clean and sweet as it
ought TO be, but the brooms and the
scrubbing brushes and the upholster-