The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-17

trcmely delicate business OF asking tho
ages Of Adam aud Seth ant Enoch aud
Methuselah, who after their 3O0th year
wanted to DO thought young
think IL must have been In rccognl-
ton of the stupcndous 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 wor-
SHIPPED as u god. Monday. after the
moon, which was also worshiped as u
god. Tuesday. after Tucsco. the god
of war Wednesday, after Wooden, the
chief god Of the Scandinavinns, Thurs
day, after Thor the god Of thunder
Friday after Frca the goddess of
marriage. And Saturday, after saturn.
The old Bible year began with the 25th
OF March. Not until 1889 did the first
of the month of January got the honor
In legal documents In England OF being
called the first day of the year.
Improvements all along have been
made In chronology until the calendar,
and the almanac, and the clock, and the
watch seem to have reached perfection,
aud all the nations of Christcndom have
similarity OF time calculations and have
adopted what Is called NEW style" en-.
cept Russia, which keeps what is called
tho "old style" and is twelve days diff
fcrent So that, waiting from there, II
you wish To be accurate, you date your
letter January and January -, or De.
ccmber 10 and December ~ IL Is some.
thing To thank God for that the modes
are so complete for calculating the
cycles, the centuries, the decades, the
years, the months the days, the hours
the seconds.
Think OF making appointments AZ In
the Bible days for the time OF the new
moon. Think of making ono Of the
watches OF the night In Bible times u
rooster growing. The Bible says, "l,e-
fore the cock crow thou shalt deny me
thrice" III the Master comcth ut the
coclScrowing," and that was the way
the midnight watch was Indicated 'Ghc
growing of that barnyard bird has
always been most uncertain. Tho crow
ing is ut the lowest temperature OF the
night, and the amount OF dew and the
direction of the wind may bring the
lowest temperature ut IL o'clock ut
night or o'clock In the morning, and
NJ any one of six hours. Just before "A
rain the Growing OF chanticlccr In the
night is almost perpetual.
Compare these modes OF marking
time with our modes OF marking time,
when IL o'clock Is IL o'clock, and q
o'clock Is q o'clock and 10 o'clock il 10
o'clock, and independent Of all wealth
crs and then thank God that you live
now. But Notwithstanding all the im'
perfect modes OF marking hours or years
or centuries Bible chronology never
trips up, never faltcrs, never contradicts
itself, and here is one of the best argu-
ments for the authenticity of the Scrip
lures
III you can prove an alibi In the
courts, and you can prove beyond doubt
that you were In some particular place
ut the time you were charged with do
ing or saying something In quite an
other place, you gain tho victory, and
infdelty has tried To prove M alibi by
contending that events and circum'
stances in the Bible ascribcd To certain
times must have taken place ut some
other time, II they took place at all.
hut this books chronology has never
been caught at fault II has been
proved that when the Hebrews went
into Egypt there were only seventy OF
them, and that when they came out
there were 5000, 900 of them.
Now" says inldclity with n guifaw
that it can not suppress, what an alb
surdity! They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 5000, 600. That
is falsehood on the face of ~. Nations
do not increase In that ratio" But, my
sltcpticnl friend, hold moment The
Bible says the Jews were i30 years In
Egypt, and that explains tho increase
from seventy persons In 5000, 900, for II
IL no more, but rather less than tho or
binary increase of nations, The pilgrim
fathers came Ia America In the May
flower, one small shiplond Of pas
scngers, less than 800 years ago,
and now we have nation of 80, 900, OOO'
Where, then IN so-callcd impossibility
TINT tho seventy Jews who went Into
Egypt in iSO years became 100000?
Inndclity wrong and Bible chronology
right
Now stop and reflect Why is II that
this sublime sub beet OF Bible chronology
has been 40 neglected, and that tho
most OF you have never given ten min
utcs 10 the consideration OF 10, and that
this In the first sermon ever preached or
this stupendous and overwhelming
theme? 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 Elysoes Frenchmen by the hun.
dreds OF thousands have stood aud
watched the hammered armies go by,