Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-02

The nuu. which wHa ~ vl1 WUffhivnl -
evd. Monday, after The morn. which
wa alao wnahlped ~ = rod Tuesday,
after Tnesco. The eod ~ war WelBcH.
LAY. after Wooden. the chief 0od ~ Tho
tlaaDdlsayisns Thursday after Thor
The GOD ~ thunder Friday after Ffea
he goddess ~ marriage And Saturday
,finf saturn The old ijibig year bsgen
with the 9Sth II March Not Until iib2
dId the first ~ tho month ofJannary Rsi
the honor IN Iegn documents IN England
~ Iwing called the first day of The year
improvements al along have been
made IN chronology until the calendar
md the aluanae. aud The el'rk. and Nh
watch re-ul ~ have reached perfection
and MI the nations ~ Chfiatendom have
similarity ~ time calculations and have
adopted what Is called new style. ex
cent Rnsda. which Keeps what is called
the "old style. and is twelve dnys ar
'erent. ~ that writing from there. "
you wish to be accurate. you date your
letter Jan and Ian ~ or Dec 10 and
Dev. w. Il IA something to thank uod
Tor that the modes ARE ~ complete for
calculating the cycles the centuries. the
decades the yrilrr. the months. the days
.he honrs. the seconds
Think of making appointments ~ In
the Bible days for the time of the new
moon Think Of making one u the
watches OF the night IN Bible times n
rooster growing The Bible says. Be
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny iIe
hrice. I'll the Master coineth ut the
cockcrowing. and that was the way the
midnight watch WIS indicated. The
Growing Of that barnyard bird has al
ways been most uncertain. The crow
ing Ia ut the lowest temperature OF the
night. and the amount of dew and the di-
rection Of the wind may bring the low
est temperature NJ II O'Clock nj night or
3 o'clock 10 the morning and nj any on
Of six hours just before rain the
Growing Of chanticleer In the night Is al
most perpetual
BE THANKFUL
Compare these modes Of marking time
with our modes Of marking time. when
12 o'clock In ~ O'clock. and q o'clock IL u
O'clock. and 10 O'Clock is 10 o'clock, and
independent of ali 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 up never
falters. never contradicts itself, and
here ~ one 0f the best arguments for the
authenticity Of the Scriptures
II you can prove nm alibi IN the courts,
and you can prove beyond doubt that
on were III souie particular place NJ the
time you were charged with doing or
saying something IN quite another place
you gnin the victory aud infidelity has
tried a. prove an alibi by contending
that events and circumstances in the
Bible ascribe,i to certain times must have
taken place NJ some other time. II they
took place at all I3ut this books chro-
nology has never been caught at fault
II has been proved that when the He
brews went into Egypt there were only
seventy Of them. and that when they
came out there were 1000. 900 Of them.
Now" says iniidelity, with guifaw
that Il cannot suppress, what an all
surdityl They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 3.0OO.000 That il
a iasehood on the face Of IT, Nations
do not increase In that ratio But, my
skeptiual friend. hold moment. The
Bible says the Jews were 40 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase
from seventy persons to 5000 900. for 1t
In no mors. but rather less, than the or
binary increase Of nations. The Pilgrim
Fathers came 10 America In the May
flower, one small shipload OF passengers,
less than 300 years ago, and now we
havea nation OF G0. 900. coo Where, then
is so called impoasibility that the seventy
jews who went into Egypt in 4S0 years
became A,O0O, ,OO0' lntidelity wrong and
Bible chronology right.
SPLENDID REVIEW
Now stop and reflect Why IL II that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
has been 40 neglected. and that the mosi
OF you have never given ten minutes to
the consideration OF IL. ard that this Is
the first sermon ever preached ON this
stupcndous and overwhelming themel
We have stood by the half day or the
whole day at grand reviews and seen
armies pass
Again and again and again on the
Champs Elyseea Frenchmen by the hun
dreds OF thousands have stood and
watched tho hammered armies 40 by. and
the hnzza has been three miles long aud
until the populace were NJ hoarse they
could bnzza no longer, Again and agair
aud again the Germans by hundreds Of
thousands have stood ON the palaced and
statued unter den Linden. Berlin. and
stewn garlands nndor the feet Of uni
formed hosts led on by Won Moltke or
Blucher OF Frederick the Great.
When Wellington and ponsonby and
the Scots 6rays came back from Water
loo, or Wolseley from Egypt. or Marl
borough FROM Blenheim. what military
PROFESSIONS through Regent street and
along 10y the PALACES of London aud over
the bridges OF the Thames, What al
most lnterminabls lines 1T military IN
the streets of our American capitals
while mayors and governors and presi
dents, with uncovered heads. looked onl
bnt put NIL those grand reviews to-
gether and they ARE tame compared with
the review which ON this New Years
day you trom the pew and FROM the
pulpit witness
Hear them pass In chronological order
all the year begore the tood; all the
years aimee the nood. decades abreast,
centurss~ abreast. epochs abreast; mil