The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-05

something in quite smother place. YOU eair
the victory. aud infdeitv has tried 10 prove
an abb by conteniinx that events and cir.
cnmstsnces In the Bible ascribsf to certain
times must have taken place st some other
time. II they took place Mt all. But this
books chronology has never been caught nj
fault. IL has been proved that when the
Hebrews went into Egypt there were only
seventy OF them. aud that when they came
out there were 3.0r0, Oo0 of them.
Now" says intidelity. with guffaw that
| IL cannot suppress, what an absurditv
They went down into Egypt seventy and
came out 100000. That Is a falsehood on
the face OF It. Nations do not increase in
that ratio" But, my skeptlcal friend, hold
moment. The Bible says that the Jews
were 4S0 years in Egypt, aud that explains
the increase from seventy persons 10 3,0)0, =
OOO for " Is no more, but rather less. than
the ordinary increase OF nations. The Pill
grim Fathers came to America In the May
flower. one small shipload of passengers, less
than 800 years ago. and now we have n
nation of 10000, 600. Where. then. Is so
called impossibility that the seventy Jews
who went in 10 Egypt in $50 years became
a,VO.OOOY Infidelity wrong and Bible chron-
ology right.
Now stop and reflect. Why Is Il that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
has been 50 neglected. and that the most of
consideration OF it. and that this Is the first
sermon ever preached on this stupendous
and overwhelming tleme? Ws have stood
by the half day or tho whole day at grand
reviews and seen armies pass
Again aud again aud again on the
Champs Elysees Frenchmen by the hun
dreds OF thousands have stood and watched
the blnuered srmie, go by. and the huzza
has been three miles long and until the
populace were 80 hoarss they could huzzi
no longer. Again and again aud again tine
Germans by hundreds OF thousands have
stood on the pllacs1 and statue Under den
Linden. Berlin, aul strewn garlands under
tho feet OF uniformed hosts led ON by Won
Moltke or Butcher or Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and Ponsonby and the
Scots Grays came back from Waterloo or
Wolseley from Egypt, or Marlborough from
Blenheim what military professions through
Regent street AMI along by the palaces OF
London and over the bridges OF the Thames :
What almost iuterminab!e lines of military
on the streets OF our American capitals,
while Mayors aud Governors and Presidents
with uncovered heads, looked onl But nut
all those grand reviews together, and they
are tame compared with the review which
on New Years day you from the pew aud
from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all the years before the food all the years
since the food decades abreast; centuries
abreast; opocns abreast; millenniums
abreast; Egyptian c,viliz itiop, Babylouia
populations, ASsyrian dom inions; armies OF
Persian, Greciau, Peloponnesian aud Roman
wars, Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts
crusaders OF tho first, the second, third and
the last avalanchs of mon; Dark Ages in
somber epaulets and brighter ages with
shields of silver and helmets of gold; Italy.
Spain, Franc, Russia, Germany, England
and America, past and present; dynasties,
feu1al domains, despotismS monarchies, re-
publics ages on ages, ages on ages, passing
to-day IN "A chronological review, until one
has no more power To lool upon the ad-
vancing columns, now brilliant, now
squalid now garlande1 with peace now
crimson with Slaughter. now horrid with
ghastliness. now radiant with love and ioy.
This chronological study affords, among
other practical thougnts, especially two
the one encouraging 70 the last degree and
the other startling. The encouraging
thouS is that the main drift of the cen.
uries has been toward betterment. with
,nly here aud thereN stout reversal
frecian civilization was vast Hunroye-
nent on Egyptian civilization, and Roman I
'lvitzition vast Improvement on Grecian |
'ivlllzition, and Christian civilization Is a |
'ast Improvement on Roman civilization.
What was the boosted age OF Pericles |
with the age OF Longfel1w and |
rennysonp What was Queen Elizabeth as a |
pecpssn or iporpl wonanrooi copsnpre5-t
vith'enrss ES-s'Nls What were tht fruel :
Warriors o. "A tines compared with the |
most distingusssei warriors OF the last half I
entury, all ot-them as much distinguished
or KINDNESS and good morals as for prowess
the two military leaders OF our Civil War
m nortt,sPh and southern side commandment
nemb1rs OF Christian churches and their
Iom6 life as purs as tnsir pubic lifeg
Nothing impresses me in this chronology
al review more than the Fact that the regi-
nents of years are better and better regi-
nents as the troops move on. / thank God
hat you an were not born any sooner
hau we were born. How could we have
ndure1 the disaster of being born In the
eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth
century, Glad am that wa are in the regi-
nent now passing the reviewing stand, aud
hat our children will pass the stand in
till better regiment. Col did not build
ais world for a slaughter house or den OF
ntamy.
gooi deal OF cleaning house will be
Necessary before this world becomes as
lean aud sweet as is ought to be- but the
rooms and the scrubbiug brushes, and the
pholstererS 0nd plumbers are already busy |
nj when tue worl gets fxei up. as IL will
e, If Adam AMI Eve ever visit It, as ex-
ect they will, they will say To each other,
Well, this beats paradise when we liyei
]
han we pucke! from the first trees, and
he wardrobes are more complets aud the
Innate is better"
Since settled in my own mind the fact
hat God was stronger than the devil have
ever lost faith in ths capitalization ot
his planet. With the exception OF retro
ression in the Dark Ages, the movement OF
he world has been on ani on, and up and
p. and have two juoilant hosannas-one
Or the closing year and the other for tht
ew year.
But the other thou yht coming out OF this
uoJect is that Biblical CHRONOLOGY, and in
eei all chronology. is urging the world to
nore punctuality aud immeiiateneSs. What
u unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it
aust have been for two business rneu In tho
ime OF Ahaz to make an appointment, say
lg. "We will settle that business matter to-
borrow when tue shadow on the dial OF
Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the top
+ ~ will meet you in the street called
traight in Damascus in the time OF the
ew moon.' or when asked in courtroom
THAT time an Occurrences took place sho uld
nswer. ut was during the time NJ the latter
ain,p or at was at the time Of tue third
rowing of the blrnyard"