The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-12

IL. but Time VIII Eud.
BROOKLYN. Jan. l.-Rev. DR.. Ia .
mage this morning appropriately tNk
tor the subject ofhis New Years day
sermon the Chronology Of the Bible
!. or God A mong the Cen uries." Before
& the discourse the great audience which
II fully crow ded the Tabernacle sang the
hymb:
Our God, our help In ages past,
Our hope for years 10 come.
The text chosen was DeuLerOnOm.
xxxIi. 7, "Consider the years of many
genel latons."
Al l2su'clock last night, while 80
many good people were watching, an
old friend passed out of our homes and
stranger entered. The old friend max
ing valedictory was 1892; the stranger
arriving is 1893. The old friend was
gs G. lous with the occurrences OF many
days, but the stranger put his linger
over his lip aud said nothing and seemed
charged with many secrets and mys
teres. l did not see either the depar
ture or the arrival, iu, was sound asleep.
thinking that was for me the best way u,
be wide awake now. Goodby, 1892!
Welcome, 1898!
AS an army j" vided into brigades
aud regiments : companies, and they
observe this order III THAR march, and
their Tread is majestic SO the tinie OF
the worlds existence is divided iuLO au
army divinely commanded. The eras
are The brigades, the centuries are the
regiments. and the years are the COM
panies. Forward into the eternity
past, out OF the eternity to
!come! Forward is the command, and
nothing can halt them. even though the
world should die. While obeylng my
text, "Consider The years OF many gene
rat,ons," L propose To speak OF thu
"ChrOnology OF the Bible, or God
Among the Centuries"
We make Y distinction between time
and eternity, but time is only piece OF
eternity, and chronology has beeL en-
gasss i--"rn sfIl6ffssss9 sfIlt6Mfises ss9rk 0: dividing up
~ O. M' ~!0n oil eternity that We call time
into Compartments and putting eveEts
in their right compartment. 1t is as
much an injustice against the past t"
wrongly arrange it's vents as it wOut'
be all injustice if, through neglect OF
chronological accuracy, it should, in tht
lar distant future, be said tina
America was discovered IN l11U.
aud the Declaration OF lnde
pendence WAS signed In 1892
aud Washing ton born on the 22d O,
March and the civil war Of the United
States was fought III 1910.
AS God pu X all the events of time III
the right place, let us be careful tliaI
We do not put them in the wrong place
The chronology vi the Bible kes ak
steps, but they are steps 80 long
makes us hold our ireath as We watch
The movement. From Adam TO bra
ham. From Abrhuln to the eX"du
out OF Egypt. From the exodus to
The foundation oi SulomOn's temple
From the foundation Of 'lomoh's
temple To thedestructiOn OF tha'
temple. Flom the destruction Of
the temple to the return from Babylon
ish capt. yit,. From BahYlUnish cap
tivity to the bir,h vi Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil, and
calling astronomy aud history to help
SAYS: Let us fix one event from which
to calculate everything. Let 1t be star.
the Bethlehem star, the Christmas
STAR" And from that I'VE go back and
aee the world was created 4,0O4 years
10. lore Christ; the deluge came 2,348
wears before Christ; the exodus out OF
(Exypt occurred l,49l years before
Christ, and Solomon's temple was de
)stroyed $50 years before Christ.
= Chronology enter, the first chapter OF
Genes is and says The day mentioned
there is not day OF ottwenty-our hou,s,
but of ages, the word there beng trans
lated as ''day" in other pia ,es meaning
ages. Aud 80 the Bible account of The
crention and the geologisls' account OF
the creation are completely harmonious.
Chronology enters the book Of Daniel
and says that tho words "time and a
haltn mean a wear and half. Chronol-
oRy enters at another point and shows
us that the seasons Ofthe year Werr
then only two-summer and winter. We
find that the Bible year was $50 days
instead OF 1865; that the day was calcu
lated from & O'Clock in the morning to
s So'clock at nisht; that the night was
divided into four watches-n lmely, thr
late watch, the midnight, the cock crow
ng, the early watch. The clock and
watch were invented so long after the
world began their mission that the day
was not very sharply divi'ledin Bible
times.
Ahaz had snndial, or flight OF
stairs with column at The top aUd the
shadow which that column threw on the
ateps beneath indicated the hour, the
shadow lsngtheDing or withdrawing
from step 10 step. But the events o
life and the events of thn world moved
80 slowly, for the most part. in Bible
times that they had no need Of such
timepleces as we stand on our mantels
or carry in our pockets in an age when
a man may have half dc zen or dozen
engagements for one day and needs to
know the exact minute for each one OF
them. The earth itself in Bible tunes
was the chief tlmepiece, and it turned
on it's own axis and that was day, and
once around the sun and that was u
yeer. Ii was not until the FOurte enth
century that the almanac was born--the
almanac that we toss Carelessly about,
not realizing that 1t took the accumulated
ingenuity of more than 5000 years to
make one.
Chronology hal 10 bring into 'ts SER
vice the u comments of Egy.t, and the
cylinders OF As., Ia, anu the brlcks Of
Bah lon, and the pottery OF Nine Seh,