Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-02

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the sun, which was of old worshiped as
a:ged Monday. after the moon. which
was also worshiped as 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 Frea,
the goddess of 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
ofsbeing 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-fold 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. 13. or Dec. 10 and
| Dec 80 1t is something to thank God
for shat the modes are 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 i'll Bible times Il
rooster Growing The Bible says. Be
| fore the cock crow thou shalt deny Me
| thrive IF the Master coneth at the
cockurowing and that was the way the
midnight watch was indicated. TIE
Growing ..of that barnyard bird has al
ways been most uncertain. The crow
| ing lis 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 ut Il O'Clock at night OF
9 oclocll,in the morning, and at any on
of six hours. Just before Il rain the
Growing OF chanticIeer In the night is al
most perpat1lal.
BE THANKFUL.
| Compare tl!ese modes Of marking time
with our ,,nedes of marking time, when
70 o'clock is 70 o'clock. and o'clock is 6
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
marking hours or years or centuries
DlUlS CIIGlOIoSy ileN0I biiI"o up HONSA
| falters, never ,contradicts itself, and
here is one of the best arguments for the
authenticity. Of the Scriptures.
| If yol1 can prove an alibi III the courts,
and you can prove beyond doubt that
you were in some particular place at the
time you were charged with doing OF
saying something in quite another place,
| you gain the victory, and infidelity has
| tried to prove an alibi by cOntending
| that events and, circumstances in the
| Bible ascribeei to certain times must have
taken place at some other time. il they
| took place at all. But this books chro-
| nology has never. been caught at fault
| It has been proved that when the He
brews went into Egypt there were only
seventy OF them. and that when they
came out there were 100000 of them.
! Now" says infdelity. with guffaw
| that it cannot suppress, what an alb
surlity. They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 3000.00 That is
| a falsehood oh the sface Of it. Nations
| do not increase in that ratio But, my
! skeptical friend, hold; Il moment. The
| Bible says the Jews were 43O years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase
from seventy persons to 3.OOO,O 900. for it
| is no more. s,sJt rather less. than the or
1 binary increase 0f nations. The Pilgrim
| Fathers came to. America in the May
| flower one SMALL >shipload of passengers.
| .aeSS than 300 years ago. and now we
have nation of 90. OO0. coo. Where. then
1 is SO called i,npossibility that the seventy
| Jews who went into Egypt in 430 years
became 3.O00.GG0! lnfideaity wrong and
Billie chronology aight
SPLENDID REVIEW
Now stop and reflect. Wing is it that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
hassbeen So neglected. and that the most
of you have never given ten minutes to
| the consideration of it. and that this is
the first sermon ever preached on this
stupendous and overwhelming theme?
We haze stood by the half day or the
| whole day at grand reviews land seen
| ar1zllesS pass.
| Again and again and again ON the
| Champs, Elysees Frenehlnen by the hun,
dreds .eG thousands have stood and
watched the hammered armies go by and
the huzEa has been three males long and
until the. populace were SO hoarse they
could lanz9a no longer. Again and. again
and again the Germans by hundreds of
thousands a1eve stood Oh the palaced and
statued Inter den Linden, Berlin. and
strewn garlands under the feet of uni
formed hosts led on by Won Moltke or
Butcher or Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonby and
she Scots GraYs came back from Water
400. or Wo2seley from Egypt. Or Mari
borough from .Rlenheim. what military
professions Through Regent street and
along by the palaces of Londory and over
the bridges Of tbs Thames! What al
. mos interminable lines of military
the streets of our American capitals.