Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-05


luton of the AImanac-Time Was. Tine
Is but Time win End.
BROOKLYN, Jan l.-Rev DR. Talma,,
this morning appropriately took for tbf
subject of his New Years day sermon
"1'he Chronology of the Bible. or tiod
Among the Centuries" Before the dis
course the great audience which fnliy
crowded the Tabernacle sang the hymn
Our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come.
The text chosen was Deuteronomy xxi
z Consider the years Of many gene
ations'
At ~ O'Clock last night, while so many
good people were watching, an old friend
passed out OF our homes and stranger Ell
tered The old friend making valedictory
WAS 1872; the stranger arriving is 1893 The
old friend was garrulous with the occur
FENCES of many days, but the stranger pat
his finger over his lip and said nothing ana
seemed charged with many secrets and mys
teries. did not see either the departure ~.
the arrival, but was sound asleep thinking
that was for me the best way to be wide
awake now Goodby, 1922 Welcome, 1893
As an army is divided into brigades ard
regiments and companies, and they observe
this order in their march, and their tread u
majestic, so the time of the worlds eXigt
ence is divided into an army divinely corn
nianded The er;ts are the brigides, the
centuries are the regiments, and the years
are the companies Forward into Gae
eternity past, out of the eternity to comel
/ forward is the command, and nothing c5u
| halt them, even though the world should
die While obeying my text, Consider tbs
wears Of many generations" propose to
speak of the Chronology of the Bible ~
God Among the Centuries"
THE DIVINE CHRONOLOGY.
We make distinction between time and
eternity, but time is onlya piece of eternity.
and chronology has been engaged in the
sublime work of dividing up this portion
OF eternity that we call time into compaf1
ments and putting events in their right
compartment II is rs much an injustice
against the past to wrongly arrange It's
events AS it would he an injustice If, through
neglect of chronological accuracy, il should,
IN the far distant future be said tibet
America was discovered in l176 and the
Declaration of Independence was signed in
1852, and Washington born on the Ped OF
March, and the civil war of the Unitso
States was fought in 1870
As God puts all the events of time in the /
right place, let us be careful that we do noi !
put them in the wrong place. The chg0 |
nology of the Bible takes six steps, but they |
are steps so long it makes us hold ON
breath as we watch the movement From |
Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the |
exodus out of Egypt From the exodus 20
the foundation of Solomons temple. From
the foundation of Solomons temple TO the
:. g thnt L. 81 10
struction Of the temple to the return FROM
Babylonish captivity. From Babylonsh
captivity to the birth of Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil. and
calling astronomy and history TO belp |
says: Let us fix one event from which 10
everything. Let it be a star, the
Bethlehem star. the Christmas star" And
from that we go back and see the world
was created 4,004 years before Christ; the
deluge came 2,34S years before Christ.
the exodus out Of Egypt occurred l,4el
years before Christ, and Solomon's temple
was destroyed $50 years before Christ
enters the first chapter of Gen
isis and says the day mentioned there il
not n day of twenty-four hours, but of ages
the word there being translated as day
in other places meaning ages And SC
the Bible account of the creation and the
biologists account of the creation are com
Detely harmonious.
Chronology enters the book OF Daniel |
ind says that the words time and halls
mean year and half. Chronology enter
II another point and shows us that tbF
'eisons Of the year were then only two
and winter. We find that the
Bible year was 800 days, instead of 365; the,
he day was calculated from 9 O'Clock II
he morning to o'clock ut night; that tho
ikht was divided into four watches-naine
y, the late watch, the midnight, the cocb
rowing the early watch. The clock and
watch were invented so long after the world
'egtn their mission that the day was noi
cry sharply divided in Bible times
THE DIAL or AHAZ
Ahaz had a sundial, or II flight of stair.
With column at the top. and the shadow
Thch that column threw on the steps BE-
cath indicated the hour. the shadow
or withdrawing from step to "
tcp. But the events OF life and the events
the world moved 80 slowly, for the most I
art, in Bible times thai they had no need !,
such timepiec,S Ne stand on our mar =
sls or carry Ia our pockets IN an age whes
man may have Il halt ,ioIpn or Il dozen en-
agements tor one 'lgy and needs to Suovr !,
ne exact minute Tor each one OF them The !,
nth itself in Bible times was the chief :,
mepiece, aud il turned Oh its own axis =
nd that was day, mi oncc around the /
IN and that was wear II was not until :.
he Fourteenth century thai the almanac :
as born the almanac that we toss care +.
ssly about, not realizing that il took the =.
ingenuity Of more han 5.0n0 =
ars to make one
Chronology lad TO bring into it's service.
le monuments OF Egypt. and the cylindess Z
Assyria, and the bricks OF Babylon, and e
e pottery Of Niueveh. aud the medals y
ruck at Antioch for the hattle Of Actinm.
ID all the hieroglyphics that could be de.
phered, and had to 20 into the extremely !.
licate business Of asking the ages OF !,
lam and Seth and Enoch and Methu- -
lab who, after their 30th year, wanted TO
thought young think it must have v
EN- in recognition OF the stupendous worl. ~
making an almanac that all the days Of ~
e week are named after the gods Sunday ~