Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-12

some DINER
Tune, II they took place at all. But this
BOOKS chronology has never been caught at
Iault. 1t has been proved that when the
hebrews went into Egvpt there vera only
seventy OF them AMI that when they came
out there were 100000 of them.
now" says infidelity. with.a guffaw that
It cannot suppress, "what an absurdity I
They won't down into Egypt seventy and
came out 5000. Tnat is 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 430 years in Egypt, and that explains
the increase from seventy persons to 1900, :
w Tor 1t 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 300 years ago and now we have a
nation of 60.0)000o. Where, then. is so
called impossiblity that the seventy Jews
who went into Egypt In 43o years became
S,ooo.oooY int1delity wrong AMI Bible chron-
ology right.
Now stop and reflect Why is it that
this sublime subject Of Bible chronology
has been so neglected., and that the most Of
you have never given ten minutes to the
consideration OF it, and that this Is the first
sermon ever preached on this stupendous
and overwhelming theme? We have stood
by the half day or the whole day at grand
icNicWo dut rrcu pass.
Again and again and again on the
Champs Eysees Frenchmen by the hun
dreds of thousands have stood and wat ched
the hammered armies go by, and the huzza
has been three miles long and until the
populace were so hoarse they could huzza
no longer. Again and again and again the
Germans by hundreds OF thousands have
stood on the palaced and statued Under den
Linden. Berlin, and strewn garlands under
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
Wolseley from Egypt, or Marlborough from
Regent street AMI along by the palaces of
London and over the bridges of the Thames
What almost interminable lines of military
on the streets of our American capitals,
while Mayors and Governors and Presidents,
with uncovered heads, looked onl But put
all those grand reviews together, and they
are tame compared with the review which
on New Years day you from the pew AMI
from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all the years before tn. fool; all the years
since the food: decades abreast; centuries
abreast epocas abrea't; millenniums
abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian
populations, Assyrian dominions; armies of
Persian, Gracian Peloponuesian and Roman
wars; Byzantine empire. Saracenic hosts.
crusaders of the first thu second third and
the last avalanche of men; Dark Ages in
somber epauets ana brighter ages with
shields of silver and helmets Of gold; Italy,
Spain, Francs, Russia, Germany, England
and America, past and present; dynasties,
feudal domains, despotisns, mon marches, re-
publics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing
to-day in a chronological review, until one
has no more power to LOOK upo1 the adj
vancing columns, now brilliant, now
squalid, now garlaudei with peace. now
crimson with slaughter, now horrid With
ghastlness now radiant with love and iov
Inns chronoio 2icai study affords, among
other practical thoughts. especially two
the one encouraging to the asst ds5raa AMI
the other startling. The cncoura ginc
thought is that the main drift Of tha can.
turtles has been toward better .nant VIII
only here and thars stonl revarsai
Grecian civilization was vast innrova.
ment on Egyptian civilization, aud Roman
civilization vast Improvements on aracian
civilization, and Christian ciyjlization l. a
vast improvement on Roman civiI;zat;o,
what was the boosted age of particles
compared with the age of Lonrfel,,w and
Tennysonf What was Queen Eizabeth as q
specimen OF moral womanhooi compared
with Queen Victoria, What wers the cruel
warriors OF oiden times compared with the
most distinguished warriors of t., last half
century. all Of them as much distir o er;sh al
Tor Kindness and good morals as for prowess
-pne 1--WE military leaders of cur Civil War
on northern and southern side communicant
members OF Christian churches. and their
nome me as pure as their public lifeY
No0ning lmpressss me in this chronology
cal review more than the fact that the regi-
ments OF years are better AMI better ra1i-
ments as the troops move on. Ithar- Cioj
that you and / vera not born anv eo,nsr
tnan we were born. How could we have
endured the disaster of psiny born in the
Elgnteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth
century, Glad am that we are in the regi-
menu now passing the reviewing stand, and
tnaI our children will pass the stand in
( SUI better regiment. Col did not build
TINS world for a slaughter house or den Of
infamy.
A good deal of cleaning house will be
necessary before this worii becomes NJ
clean and sweet as is ought to be. but the
prooms and the scrubbing brushes, and the
upnoisterers and plumbers are already busy,
ana when the world gets fixed up, as it will
be- II Adam and Eve ever visit it, as ex-
pect they viii, they will say to each other,
wen, TINS beats paradise when we livel
unere' ana the pears and plums are better
than we plucked from the first treas.
Since ] settled in my own mind the fact
that goa was stronger than the devil have
never iost falth In the emparadisation of
THIS planet. With the exception of a retro
erosion in the Dark Ages. the movement OF
tne world has been on and on, and ND and
up. and have two jubilant hosannas-one
Tor the closing year and this other for TIT
new year.
But the other thought coming out Of this
SUBJECT is that Biblical chronology, and in
deei all chronology, is urging the world to
more puuctuality and immediatsness. What
an unsatisfactory au1 indeinits thing it
must have been for two business mea in tn,
time OF Ahax to make an appointment, say
ing. I'VE will settle that business matter to-
morrow when the shadow on the dial Of
Ahaz reaches the tenth step from ths top"
or II will meet you in the street called
| Straight in Damascus in the time Of the
new moon" or when asked in a courtroom
what time an Occurrences took placs should
answer, ut was during the time of the latter
rain, or st was at the tims of the third
growing Of the barnyarlr
You and remember whsn ministers OF
the Gospel in the country, giving out no
| tice OF an evening servics, instead OF saying
| at or or 5 o'clocS, would say: THE SER
| vica will begin at early candle light
Thank God for chronological achievements
| which have ushered in calendars and al
| MANAGES and clocks aud watches, and at 50
cheap rate all may possess themi Chron-
ology, beginning by appreciating the value
| Of years and the value OF days has kept on
| until it cries out. Man, immortal; woman,