Democratic messenger., 1893-01-07

tuf that the modes are complete fo'
calculating the cycles the centuries. o.,
decades the years The months. the days
the hoars. the seconds
Think Of making appointments aS in
the Bible days for the time of the new
moon Think Of making one Of ih,
watches Of the night III Bible times Il
rooster Growing I'hr Bible SAYS. BE
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny h.t
thrice. III the Master comerh mt ih,
cockcrowing and that was the way III,
midnight watch WAS Indicated The
Growing of thai harnyard bird has al
WAYS been most uncertain. The crow
lng Is at the lowest temperature Of th,
night. and the eamouui of dew and the di
rection of the wand may bring the low
est temperature al ! ! o'clock ri night ot
, o'clock IN The morning. and nj any OF.
of SIX hours Just bcfore II rain ih,
Growing Of chan,iclcer in the night is al
most perpetual
EE THANKFUL.
Compare these. modes of marking time
with our modes of marking time. when
II o'clock Is - o'clock and o'clock is 4
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
Bible chronology never trips mp. nevc:
falters. never contraGi-ts itself, and
here is one of the best arguments for the
authenticity of the Scriptures
II you can prove an alibi III the courts,
and you can prove. beyond doubt tha;
you were III some particular place III the
time you were charged with doing OF
saying something IN quite another place.
you gain the victory and infidclity has
tried tn prove an alihl by contcnding
that events and circumstances III the
Bible ascribrd 10 certain times must have
taken place AT some other time. II they
took place III all But tins books chro-
nologv has never been caught at fault
1t has been proved that when the He
brcws went into Egypt there We're only
seventy ut ;hem. and that when they
came ont there were 3.000. 900 of them.
Now. SAYS iniideliiy. with guifav
that it cannot suppress. what IN ali
surdity, They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 5000. 600 That is
a falsehood on the face OF it Nations
DO not increase in that ratio" But. my
skepilcaI tucnd, hold moment. The
Bible SAYS the Jews were i:;0 wear, in
Egypt and that explains the increase
from seventy persons To 1000. .O0o, for il
is no more bat rather less than the or
binary increase OF nations. The Pilgrim
Fathers Cainc to America in the May
flower nur small >!lpload Of passengers
less than $40 wears ago. and now we
havea u..tiar OF GO. 100000 Where. then
is 80 called iniro~sihlity that the seventy
Jews who went INTO Egypt III 43O years
became 3Uoo.ooo. lnfdelity wrong and
Bible chronology right
SPLENDID REVIEW
Now stop and reflect. Why is it that
this sublime subject Of Bible chronology
has been SO neglected and that the mosi
Of vuu have never given ten minutes L.
the consideration of H. aud that this is
the first sermon ever preached on thi-
stupendouS ami overwhelming theme.
We have stood by the half day or the
whole day at grand reviews and seen
armies pass
Again aud again and again ON tho
Champs Elysccs Frcnchmeu by the hur
dredS of thousands have stood and
watched the hammered armies 20 by. and
the huzza has been three miles long and
until the populacc We're So hoarse they
could huzza no longer. Again and agair
and again the Germans by hundreds OF
thousands have stood OH the lllaced and
stainel Inter den Linden Berlin. and
strewn garltndS under the feet Of uni
formed hosts lc,l on hy Non Moltke oi
Blucher or Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonhy and
the Scots Grays came back from Water
loo. or Wolseley from Egypt, or Mari
borough from Bleuheim. what military
professions through Regent street and
along by the palaces OF London and over
the bridges of the Thames, What al
most interminahe lines Of military ~
the streets ut our American capitals
while mayors and governors and presi
dents with uncovered heads. looked on
But put all those grand reviews To-
gcther. and they are tame compared with
the review which on this New Year.
Lay you from the pew and from til,
pulpit witness
Hear them pass ssinchrnnologic;,l IN order
all the years before the flood: all th,
years since the flood decades abreast
centuries abreast cpoclS abreast mil
lenniums abreast Egyptian civilization
Bahylonian populations Assyrian do
mmious armies ot Persian. Grccian
Pelopu.me ian and Roman wars: Byzan
tine empire Sayicenlc hosts crusader,
of the first. the second. third and tn,
.aSt avalanche of men: Dark Ages il
,om'cr epauleis and brighter ages will
shields of silver and helmets of gold
Italy. Spain. France Russia Germany
England aud America past and present
dynaSiieS fcudal domains. dcspotislns
monarchies republics. ages on agcS
ages on ages. le;sSiuS today IN "A chrono
logical review until one has no NOR
power to look upon the advancing col
umns. now brilliant. now squalid, now
garlanded with peace, now crimson Wit!
slaughter now hnrril with Sha>t,.ue-
now radiant with love aul joy
THE GloEts ur TIE rEi~:.Nr
This chronological study affords
among other practical thuGahj>. esp
ciaIl, two the one encouraging g. ih'
last ,i...,rc,. ;.-.d the other startling Tn,
encouraging Thought is that the uut
drift uf tine crntGri has been tnvIr,
hrttcrmcut with only here and there ;
stout reversal tirccltu civilization Wa
u vast Improvement ON Egyptian civil
zatiou. and Roman civilization "a Va,
Improvement on Grccian civilization
and Christian civilization isa vast i'm
provcmcut on Roman civilization.
What was the boosted age ot Pcriclc'
compared with tn ase of Lon@tcllos
and TrunySnu' What was Qucen Eliza
beth H. Il specimen of moral wonauhoo,
compared with t9ur,n Victoria: " na
were Ia" cruel warriors al oldcu n. c
compared with the mo~t distlu-ulshc,
TO-. hole ..,.ttf,trt .,ff a.