The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-01-12

bi!fSs GuuSt nave tahci i'-e1SO a $500
time. if thew took place at all. But TINS
books chronology has never been caught at
fault 1t has BEEN proved that waen the
Hebrews went into Egypt there were only
seventy of them. and that when they came
cut there were 3, 10000 OF them.
Now says infdelity. with gufaw .ha1
ft cannot suppress, "waat an eosaroity
They went down into EgYpt seVehty an !
came ont 100000. That is a fa!sehood on
the face of it, Nations do not increase IN
that ratio But. my skeptlcat friend, hold
a moment. The Bible says that the jews
were 430 years in Egypt, ana that exp.alIi7
the increase from seventy persons To- W
O0l. for it is no mora, but ratasr less, tnah
the ordinary Increase OF nations. me rI-
grim Fathers cane to America III tue Ny
flower one small shiploai OF passengers, less
than 800 Years ago. and now we have
nation OF 61Ol0011 Where, then, i 50
callei inpossioiIity tint thu seventy Jews
who want into Exgpt ia 43) wears became
100000: Ind lelity wrong an Bible cdron-
ologY right. ;. A..
Now stop and reflect. Why is it that
this sublime subject OF Bible chronoiosF
has bsan 50 narlec.el, AMI that thu most OF
va, have aver given ten minutes to the
consid grafton o. it, and that this Is the flrs1
ssrnon ey.r pra1chsl on this stupen1ou::
and ovar1falniny theme? We bave stood
hv the half dav or the whole day at grand
reviews aud seen armies pass.
Again and again AMI again on the
Champs E ysees French nen by the hun
dreds Of Thousands have stood and wat chet
the b,nnered srni9, 20 by and the huzzi
has been three miles long AMI until the
Dopulac. vera 50 hoarss they could huzza
no longer. Again and again and again the
Germans By hundreds o. thousands nave
stood on the palaced aud statua1 Under den
Linden, Berlin, AMI strewn gariands uqqef
the 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
Wosaley from E yypt, or MARLBOROUGH from
Blenheim what military PROFESSIONS through
Regent street AMI along by the palaces OF
London and over the bridges Of the Thamesl
What almost interminable line, OF military
on the streets Of our American capitals,
while MAYORS and Governors and Presidents,
with uncovered heads, looked on! But put
all those grand reviews together, and they
ara tame compared with the review Wnicn
on New Years day you from the pew ana
from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in Chronological order
all the years before tia fooi, all the years
sincs the food: decades abreast; centuries
abreast epochs abreast; mlllennlums
abreast Egyptian c'viliz ttioD, baoylonlana
populations Assyrian dominlons; armies OF
Persian Grecian, Peloponnesian aud Roman
wars: Byzantine empire S1racsnic hosts,
crusaders of the first, tia sacood, third and
the last avalanche OF men; DARK Ages IN
sonbar ep4ulet5 AMI brighter ages Wltn
shields OF silver AMI helmsts OF gold; Italy,
Spain France, Russia, Germany, Englani
and America, past and present, dynasties,
feu ial domains, despotsms, mon marches, re-
publcs, ages on ayes, ages on ages, passing
today in a chronological rev!ew, until one
has no more power to lood upon the adj
yancing columns, now brilliant, now
squano, now garandet with peace. now
crimson with slaughter, now horrd with
ghastliness, now radiant with love AMI ioy.
This chronolosieal study affords, among
other practical thoughts. especially two
the one encouraging TO tho ast degree AMI
the other startling The ENCOURAGING
tdous hit is that the main drift OF the cen.
turtles has been toward betternena. with
only here and tasre stous reversal.
Grec!an civilization was a vast improve.
meat on Egyptian civilization. and Roman
civilization vast improvement on Grecian
civihzatlon, anu Christian civilization is
vast Improvement on Roman civilization.
TennysonY Waa5 Was QUEEN E.izabeta" t as 4
specimen OF moral womanhool COMPARED
with Queen Victoria? What were the cruel
warriors OF oiden times compared with the
most distinguished warriors of tn. last half
century all of them as much distingn;ebaJ
for kin1ness and good morals as for Droyysss
the two military leaders OF our Civil War
on nortnern ana southern side communicate
members OF Christian churches. anl their
nome IRE as pure as their public lisc9
Notnitg inpressas me in this chrono'oyt.
cai review more than the fact that the ragt.
ments OF years are better AMI better regl.
uisu's as the troops move on. thank Col
tnat you an were not born any sooner
imam we WerS hn-,
endured the disaster of psinZ born in the
Elghteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth
century, Glad am that we are in Ia . reg.
tnent no" passing the reviewing stand, an
mat our children will pass the stand in
sun better regiment. Col did not built
tnss world for slaughter house o. a den OF
infamy.
A good deal OF cleaning house will be
necessary before this world becomes as
cieah ana sweet as is ought to he, but the
proonls ana The scrubbing brushes, and the
upio!sIererS AMI plumbers are already busy.
an wnen the world gets fixed up. as it will
be. II Adam AMI Eve ever visit il, rs ex-
pecs they viii, they will say to each other.
wen, th's beats paradise when we livel
tnere' ana the pears and plums are better
tnan we p!ucke, from the first trees, and
tne "ararooes are mora complete and the
climate is bettern
=, S-tIla1 III my own nina tne fact
that tod was stronger than the devil have
never lost faith in the emparaiisation of
TINS planet. With the exception OF a retro.
erosion in the Dark Ages, the movement of
the world has baen on AMI on, and up and
up and have two jubilant hosannas-one
Tor the closing year and the other for tht
neT year.
u the other thought coming out OF this
~ ject Is that Biblical chronology, aui in.
,.e5i all chronology, is urging the world to
more punctuality aud immodiatauess. What
en- unsatisfactory aai indefinite thing it
must have been for tw business men in thu
Time o. ARaz to make an appointment, say
ing, I'VE will settle that business matter to-
morrow when ths shadow on the dial OF
Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the too,"
or u will meet you in the street called
Straight in Damascus in the time of the
new moon" or when ask9l il q courtroom
what time an Occurrence took plaza should
answer, ut was during the ri ma Of the latter
rain" or sit was at tAs tina OF the third
growing OF the barnyarlp
You AMI remember when ministers OF
the Gospel in the country, giving ont no
tice OF an evening service. Instead OF saying
at or or 5 O'Clock, would say: the ser.
vica will begin at early candle light"
Thank God for chronological achieve ments
which have ushered in calendars and al.