The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-06

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are named after the gods. Sunday, aftel
the sun. which was of old worshiped al
god. Monday. after the moon, which
was also worshiped us d god Tuesday
after Tuesco, the god of war Wednes
day. after Wooden, the chief god of the
Scandinavians. Thursday after Thor
the god of thunder. Friday, after Fpea
the goddess of marriage, And Saturday
after Saturn. The old Bible year began
with the 25th of March Not until 175E
didthe 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. writing from there, If
you wish to be accurate, you date your
/ letter Jan. | and Jan. 10. or Dec. 10 and
Dec. %. 1t is something 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 a
rooster growing. The Bible says. BE
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny Inc
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 al
ways been most uncertain The crow
ing is at the lowest temperature of the
night, and the amount of dew and the di-
rection of the wind may bring the low
est temperature at | O'clock at night or
3 o'clock in the morning, and at any on-
of SIX hours. Just before "A rain the
growing of chanticleer in the night is al
most perpetual.
BE THANKFUL.
Compare these modes of marking time
with our modes of marking time, when
10 O'Clock is II o'clock. and o'clock is
o'clock. and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and
independent Of all weathers, and then
thank God that you live now. But not
withstanding all the imperfect modes Of
hours or years or centuries
Bible chronology never trips up, never
falters never contradicts itself, and
here is one of the best arguments for the
authenticity Of the Scriptures
If 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 We're charged with doing or
saying something in quite another place
you gain the victory, and infdelity has
tried to prove an aibi by contending
that events and circumstances in the
Bible ascribed to certain times, must have
taken place at some other time. if they
took place at all. But this books chro-
nol0gy has, never been caught at fault.
1t has been proved that when the He ,
brews went into Egypt there were only
seventy Of them. and that when they
came out There We're 8.003.000 of them. ]
Now. says infidelity. with guffaw !
that it cannot suppress, what an alb n
surdity! They went down into Egypt !
seventy and came ont 3.000000 That is
a falsehood on the face of it. Nations
DO not increase in that ratio" But, my
friend. hold moment The
Bible says the Jews were 430 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase
from seventy persons to 1900 900, for it
IS no more, but rather less. than the or
binary increase of nations. The Pilgrim
Fathers came to America in the May
lower, one small shipload of passengers,
ess than 300 years ago and now we
ave nation Of &c. 100000. Where, then
S SO called impossibility that the seventy
Jews who went into Egypt in 430 years
became 5000. 600? lnhdelity wrong and
Bible chronology right.
SPLENDID REVIEW
Now stop and reflect. Why is it that
his sublime subject of Bible chronology
las been SO neglected. and that the most
If you have never given ten minutes to
he consideration of it, and that this is
he first sermon e,er preached on this
tupendOus and overwhelming theme?
We have stood by the half day or the
whole day at grand reviews and seen
rmies pass
Again and again and again on the
'hamps Elysees Frenchmen by the hun
reds Of thousands have stood and
watched the hammered armies go by, and )
he huzza has been three miles long and
ntil the populace We're so hoarse they !
ould huzza no longer. Again and AGAR
nd again the Germans by hundreds of
have stood on the palaced and !
tatued Inter den Linden, Berlin. and ,
trewn garlands under the feet of uni ,
)rmed hosts led on by Won Moltke or
ilucher or Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonby and :
ne Scots Grays came back from Water
10. or Wolseley from Egypt, or Mari
CROUCH from Blenheim. what military
through Regent street and !
long by the palaces Of London and over I
le bridges of the Thames! What al {
lost interminable lines of military on I
le streets of our American capitals. I
lille mayors and governors and presi a
ents. with uncovered heads. looked on!