The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-17


.nnronrlatcly took for the subjec OF his
New Years day sermon "rho Chronol.
ory OF the Bible, or God Among the
Centuries"
,Ihe text chosen was Deuteronomy
Evil 7. Consider the years of many
Al 10 o'clock last night, while so
many good people were watching, an
old friend passed out OF our homes and
A.. stranrer entered. The old friend
making vnlcdictory was 1892; the
s,ronpcr arriving liz 1898. The old
friend was garrulous with the occur
renccs of many days, hut tho stranger
mt his finger over his lip and said noth-
Inc and seemed charged with many
secrets and mysteries. did not SEQ
either the departure or the arrival, but
was sound asleep, thinking that was
for me the best way to be- wide awake
now Good.by, 1902! Welcome, 1893!
Az an army Is divided into brigadcs
and regiments aud companies, and they
observe this order in their march ana
,hcir tread Is majestic, 80 the time of
the worlds existence IL divided into an
nrmy divincly commanded; the cras are
tho bricadcs, the centuries are the regi-
mcnts, and the years are the companies.
Forward into the eternity past, out Of
the eternity to come! Forward Is tho
command, and nothing can haltthcm,
even though tho world should die
While Obcying my text Consider the
wears of many generations" propose
to speak of the Chronology of the
Bible. or God Among the Centuries
We make distinction between time
and eternity, but time is only u piece of
eternity, and chronology has been en-
qapcd in the divine work OF dividing
up this portion of eternity that we call
time into compartments and putting
events in their right compartment, 1t
Is IN much an injustice against the past
60 wrongly arrange It's events asst would
bc an injustice II, through neglect OF
chronological accuracy, II should IN the
far distant future be said that America
was discovered in 1870, and the dcclara-
ton OF indcpcndcncc,w signed In li93,
and Washington born ton the 22d of
March, and the civil war Of the Emitted
States was fought in 1910.
IS God puts all the events of time In
the right place, let MS he careful that
we de- not put them in the wrong place.
The chronology of the Bible takes six
steps, but they are steps so long IL
malscs us hold our breath as we watch
the movement From Adam To
Abraham. from Abraham To the
exodus ont of Egypt From the exodus
10 the foundation Solomon'a temple.
From The foundation of Solomon's
temple 10 the destruction OF that
tcmplc. From the destruction OF the
temple To the return from Rabylonish
captivity From Babylonish captivity
10 the birth Of Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil, and
calling astronomy and history tn help
says; Let ~ fix one event from when
10 calculate everything. Let 1t he
star, the Bethlehem star. the Christmas
star" And from that we go back and
see che world was created 4,OOi years
before Christ; the dclugc came ","'s
years before Christ; the exodus ont OF
Egyptoccurrcd ,i0l years before Christ
and Solomon's temple was destroyed
GsG years before Christ
Chronology enters the first chapter
OF Genesis and says the day mentioned
There ~ not day Of twonty-four hours,
but Of ages, the word there translated
a. "day" In other places meaning ages
aud so the Bible account OF the creh-
alton ind the gcologists' account OF the
creation are completely harmonious,
Chronology enters the bqolS of Daniel
and says that the words "timc ana u
half mean year and half
Chronology enters ut another point
and shows us that the seasons ot inc
year were then only two--summrr ana
winter. We find that the Bible year
was $50 days instead OF 500; that the
day was calculated from 0o'clock In the
morning u o'clock NJ night; that the
night was divided into four watches
namely, the late watch, the midnight
the cock growing the early watch Inc
clock and watch were Invented no long
after the world began their mission
that the day was not very sharply III
vided In Bible times AhaZ had sun
dial, or n flight OF stairs with u column
at the top. and the shadow which tha'
column threw on the steps beneath in'
Dictated the hour, the shadow lcngtheh'
ing or withdrawing from step To step
hut the events Of life aud tho events
OF tho world moved SO slowly for the
most part In Bible times that they haa
no need Of such time pieces ~ we atand
on our mantcls or carry IN our poekets
in an age when man may have ha'i
dozen or dozen engagements Tor one
day and needs to know the exact minute
Tor each ono OF them. The earth Itself
In Bible times was the chief time pieco,
aod I, ,n,n,d once ON It's axis aud that