Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-01-07

vS6lo;non's temple. TT0tH the TBtf saat;ltiOst
| Of Solomon's temple to the destruction
Of that temple. From the destruction
fof the temple to tho return from Baby
lonish captivity. From Babylonish cap
tivity to the birth of Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil. and
calling astronomy and history TO help
says: Let uR fix one event from which
TO calculate everything. Let it be star,
the Bethlehem star, the Christmas star :"
And from that VIC go back and SEQ the
world was created 4.C04 YEARS before
Christi the delnge came 2, 34S years before
Christ; the exodus out of Egypt occurred
1.49l years before Christ. and Soomon's
temple was destroyed SIS years before
Christ.
Chronology entors the first chapter Of
Genesis anil says the day mentioned
there is not day of twenty-four hours,
but of ages. the word there translated as
"day" in other places meaning ages
and SO the Bible account of the creation
end tho biologists account of tho crea-
ton are completely harmonious. Chro-
nology enters the book of Daniel and says
that the words time and half mean
a year and half
Chronology enters at another point
and shows Us that the seasons Of the
year were then only two-summer and
winter. We find that the Bible year was
3G0 days instead of 3e5; that the day was
calculated from o'clock in the morning
to o'clock at night; that the night wis
divided into four watches-na,nely, the
late watch, the midnight. the cock crow
ing the early watch. The clock ami
watch were invented so long after tl.-
world began their mission that the day
was not very sharply divided in Bible
times Ahaz had !! sundial, or fight
of stairs with u column at the top. an:i
the shadow which that column threw OIL
the steps beneath indicated the hour, the
shadow lengtLcning or withdrawing
from step to step.
But the events of life and the events
of the world moved so slowly for the
most part in Bible times that they had
no need of such timep;eces az we stand
Oh oLr mantels or carry il orr pockets
in an age when man may have a half
dozen OF dozen engagements for one
day and needs to know the exact minute
for each one of them. The earth itself
in Bible times was the chief timepiece.
and it turned once on its axis and that
was day, and once around the sun and
that was year.
THE ALMANAC.
TWAS not until the Fourteenth century
that the almanac was born, the almanac
that we toss carelessly about. not realiz-
ing that it took the Accumulated inge-
nuity of more than 5000 years to make
one Chronology had to bring into
its service the monuments of Egypt.
and the cylinders of Assyria. and the
bricks OF Babylon. and the pottery Of
Nineveh, and the medals struck at An
tioch for the battle of Actium, and all
tie hieroglyplics that could be de-
ciphcred, and had to go into the OK
trernely delicate business Of asking the
ages of Adam and Seth end Enoch and
Methuselah. who after their S00th year
wanted to be thought young.
think it must have been in recogni-
ton of the stupendous work Of making
an almanac that all the days OF the-week
are named after the gods. Sunday, after
the sun, which was of old worslnped az
god. Monday. after the moon, which
was also worshiped as god. Tuesday,
after Tuesco, the god of WIZ. 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 Net until 1852