The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-04

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marriage. And Saturday, after Saturn.
The old Bible year began with the 25th
of March. Not until 1859 did the first
of the month Of january 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 have 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, waiting from there, II
you wish to be accurate, you date your
letter January and January 1S, or De-
cember 10 and December 22. 1t is some
thing to thank God for that the modes
are SO complete for calculating the
cycles, the centuries, the decades, the
years, the months, the days, the hours,
the seconds
Think 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
rooster Growing. The Bible says, BE
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny me
thrice" 'If the Master cometh at the
cockcrowing," and that was the way
the midnight watch was indicated The
Growing of that barnyard bird has
always been most uncertain. The crow
ing is at the lowest temperature Of the
night, and the amount OF dew and the
direction of the wind may bring the
lowest temperature at II o'clock at
night or o'clock in the morning, and
at any one Of six hours. Just before
rain the growing Of chanticleer in the
night is almost perpetual.
Compare these modes Of marking
time with our modes of marking time,
when 12 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and Q
o'clock is o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10
o'clock, and independent of all wealth.
ers, and then thank God that you live
now. But Notwithstanding all the i'm
perfect modes of marking hours or years
or centuries Bible chronology never
trips up, never falters, never contradicts
itself, and here is one of the best argu-
ments for the authenticity Of the Scrip
lures.
II you can prove an alibi in the
courts, and you can prove beyond doubt
that you were in some particular place
at the time you were charged with do
ing or saying something IN quite an
other place, you gain the victory, and
infdelity bias tried to prove an abb by
contenaing that events and circuii-
stances In the Bible ascribed to certain
times must have taken place at some
other time, If they took place at all
But this books chronology has never
been caught at fault 1t has been
proved that when the Hebrews went
into Egypt there were only seventy Of
them, and that when they came out
there were 5000, 900 of them.
Now" says infidelity,Nwith guffav
that it can not suppress, "what an ab
surdityl They went down into Egpy
seventy and came out 5000, 900. Tha
is falsehood on the face Of it Nations
do not increase in that ratio" But, m!
skeptical friend, holda moment. Th'
Bible says the Jews were 43O years IL
Egypt, and that explains the increas
from seventy persons TO 5000, 900, for l
is no more, but rather less than the OF
dinary increase of nations. The pilgrim
fathers came TO America in the May
! flower, one small shipload of pas
sengers, less than 300 years ago
and now we have nation Of go, 900, 00o
Where, then is so-called impossibilit
that the seventy Jews who went int
Egypt in 490 years became 5000, 200
InHdelity wrong and Bible chronolog
right.
Now stop and reflect Why is 1t tina
this sublime subject OF Bible chronolog
has been 80 neglected, and that th
most Of you have never given ten mil
utes TO the consideration of it aud ths
this Is the first sermon ever preached o
this stupendous and overwhelmin
themee We have stood by the half da
or the whole day at grand reviews IN
seen armies pass.
Again and again and again on Il
Champs Elysees Frenchmen blythe hui
dreds of thousands have stood ar
watched the hammered armies go b.
and the huzza has been three miles lon
! and until the populace were so hoar
: they could huzza no longer. Again al
again and again the Germans by hu
dreds Of thousands have stood on u
, palaced and statued Inter den Linde
, Berlin, and strewn garlands under u
feet Of uniformed hosts led-on by VI
Il Moltke or Blucher or Frederick Il
, Great
When Wellington and P0nsonby al
the Scots Grays came back from Wate
loo, or Wolseley from Egypt or MAJ
borough from Blenheim, what militai
professions through Regent street al
along by the palace OF London and ov
the bridges Of the Thamesl What q
most interminable lines OF military {
, the streets Of our American capital
/ while mayors and governors and pref
, dents, with uncovered heads, looked o
. But put all those grand reviews I
gether, and they are tame compare
. with the review which on this Ne
Years day you from tho pew and
from the pulpit witness
Hear them pass in chronological ord
: all the years before the hoodi all u
9 years since the food; decades abreas
centuries abreast; epochs abreast; IN
: lenniums abreast; Egyptian civilizatio
8 Babylonian populations, Asyrian d
3 minions; armies OF Persian, Grecia
1 Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byza