Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-01-07
did the lTsl q The month Of January get
the honor in lecnI: documents in England

did the inst Of Che month OF ala:lry 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 lave 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. writing from there. II
yea wish to be accurate. you date your
letter Jan. ! and Jan. 10. or Dec. 10 and
Dec. 90. 1t is something to thank God
for that the ,ntles are so complete for
calculating he cycles tho centuries, the
decades. the years. the months, the Gays.
tho hours. the seconds.
Think OF making appointments as in
the Bible days fer the time Of the new
moon. Think of making one Of the
watches of The night in Biblc times a
rooster Growing. The Eihle says. Be
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny Inc
thrice. .!f tile Master rolneth at the
coclcrowing. ard that waa the way the
midnight watch was Indicated. The
Growing OF that b;triiyard bird has al
ways been most uncert!in. The crow.
ing is. at the lowest cnii;erGture Of the
night. and lI.a ainount OF dew aid the di-
rection of the wind may bring the low,
est Temperature ut II O'Clock at night or
= o'ciu;ll in the morning and 1T any on
Of six hours Just before Il r;iin the
Growing of chanticl,'er III the night is ii
most perpetual.
III: .THA%KFCL.
Compare these inu.s.i of marking tine
with our modes Of marking tine. when
72o'cluck is l2 O'Clock and 6 O'clock is 6
o'clock. and 10 o'cltws is 10 o'clock. aad
independent uf all weathers, ard then
thank God that you live nuw. Bet not
withstalding I'll the imperfect modes of
marking hours or years or centuries
Bible chronology never tri!s up, never
FILTERS. never co;itra,!icts itself. and
hcre is one OF the hest arguments for the
authenticity of The SCRIPTURES.
If ym can prove M alibi in the courts,
and you can prove beyond doubt that
,you were III some particular place 1T the
time you were charged with doing or
saying something iii quite another place,
you gain the victory. and infidclity has
tried to prove an alild by contending
that events and circumstances III the
Bible ascriled ,o certain times must have
taken place nj some other time. ii they
taok place at ull But this books chro-
nology has newer been caught at fai,lt.
1t llas been proved that when the He
brews went into Egypt there were only
seventy of them. and that when they
clnc ont there were 1900 0u1 Of them.
Now. says iia,tslity. with a gutfa,v
thnt:it cannot suppress. what an ah
snr,lityT.. They went down into Egypt
seventy and c;une out s.cl0,o00. That is
falsehomi on the face Of it. Nations
do not increase III that ratio" biit, my
s.:eptical friend holdia moment. Tie
Bible. says the. Jews irere 40 years i'll
Egypt: and TINT explains the increase
from seventy, persons to 3.eo0. 900. for it
sis.no moro. but rather less, than thesors
.dinalxI - s,sssT-55asie5sTssgl
q iis#saT u
less than 300 years ego. asrdssnoyssas
hayea nation of GO. tsl0, 600. Where. thel
is so called impossimiity that the scveIit
Jews who went into Egypt in $50 yeal
Locame 3,Ono.O00s !.fitleliy wrong III
Bible chronology right.
SPLENDID pEvrEw.
Now stop and reject Why is it ths
this sublime subject of Bible clronolos
has been so neglected a;ti that the ln0;
Of you have ncyer gsyn.. Ten minutes
tho consideration Of it. aad that this
the first sermon ever preached on til
stupenslous and overwhelming theme
We have stood by the half day or til
Whole day ut grand reviews and see
srm.eS pars.
Again and again and aSain on til
Champs Eysaes IFrenchlnen 10y the hui
,,raas of thousands, have stood al
watched the hammered! armies 20 by, ar
the huzza has l:eea three rifles long all
until the populace were SO hoarse tie
coull huzza no longer. Agi;:;i and ayai
au,i again the Germans by hundreds
thousands have stood on the palacet' an
sta.ue.i Inter den Linden, Berlin, an
strewn garlanls amber The feet of un
formed hosts lc'i IN by Yon MoitlEe c
Butcher or Frederick tne Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonby IN
the Scots Grays cnme back from Water
lon. or Wolseley from Egynt. or Mar
borough from Blerhcim what inilitar
PROFESSIONS through Regent street an
along BY the palaces OF London and owe
the bridges of the Thames. What II
most interminab!e lii:es of military -
the streets Of our American capital.
while mayors and governors ana pres
dents. with uncovered Ecads, lt,n.ed OF
But put al those grand reviews t.
Sether. and they are tame compared WIT
the review which On this New Year
day YOU from the Jew an'l FROM tli
pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all the years before the food; all I'll
years since the food; decades abreast
centuries abreast; eI"m-hE abreast; mil
lenniums abreast Egyptian civilization
Babylonian populations. Assyr;an &c
minious; armies of Persian, tirecial
Peloponnesian ant Roman wars; Byzan
tine empire. Saracenic hosts. crusader
of the first, the second. third aud th
last avalanche of men: Dark Ages il
so,nber epaulets and brighter ages wit
shields of silver and helmets OF gold
Italy, Spain. France. Russia. Germany
England and America, past zad present
dynasties. fclldal domains. despotis1ns
monarchies. republics. ages on ages
ages on ages, passing today i'll II chrome
ior:,,1 ,.,,-iaxr rp+i1 .o,,o hsc M 1no,.