Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-05

tvcles, the centuries, the decades the years,
the months, the days, the hours. the sec
ouls Think Of making appointments, rs
in the Bible days, for the time OF the new
moon Think of making one of the watches
of the niphtin 5ihle times a ROSTERS crow
inu The bible SAYS Before the cock crow
thou shalt deny me thrice" "lf the Master
lumrth ut cockcroWiug," and that was the
way the midnight watch was indicated.
The growing of that bHrnyard bird has al
ways been most uncertain. The Growing is
at the lowest temperature of the night, and
the amount Of dew and the direction of the
wind may bring the lowest temperature ut
II O'Clock at night or . O'Clock in the morn
ing and at any one of six hours. just be
fore "A rain the growing of chantlclcer in the
night is almost perpetual.
THE MEASUREMENTS OF TIME
Compare these modes of marking time
with our modes OF marking time, when II
O'Clock is y o'clock, and O'Clock is
O'Clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock. and in
dependent of all weathers, and then thank
God that You live now. But nOtwithstand-
ing all the imperfect modes of marking
hours or years or centuries Bible chrouol
ogy never trips mp, never talterS, never con
tltdicts itself, and here is one of the best
arguments for the authenticity Of the Scrip
lures,
If you can prove an aibi in the courts,
and YOU can prove beyond doubt that you
Were in some particular place at the time
YOU were charged with doing or saying
something in quite another place, you gl!n
the victory, and inftdelity has tried to prove
an nlib by conten,iing that events and cir
cumstances In the Bible ascribed to certain
times must have taken place ut some other
1pt.t fl,t..
books chronology has never been caught ut
fault. 1t has been proved that when the
Hebrews went into Egypt there were only
seventy OF them, and that when they
came out there were 100000 of them
Now" says iufdelity, with Il outlaw that
it cannot SUPPRESS what an absurdity!
They went down into Egypt seventy and
came out 5000 GOO That is a falsehood
on the face OF it. Nations do not increase
III that ratio"
But, my skcpticai friend, hold II moment.
The Bible says the Jews We're 40 years IN
Egypt, and that explains the increase from
seventy persons to 3,0M,tUO tor 1t Is no
more, but rather less, than the ordinary in
crease Of nations The Pilgrim Fathers
came to America in the Maytlower--one
small shiplOsd Of passengers-less than so
year, ago, and now We have ii nation OF CO.
O0o.OOu. Where then. is the so called impos-
sihility that the seventy Jews who went
into Egypt in 4.IO years became 3,WoWOt
iundelty wrong and Bible chronology
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 con
siderHtion of it. and that this Is the first
4 st I'm IT
and overwhelming theme2 We have stood
by the half day or the whole day at grand
reviews aud seen armies pass. Again and
again and again on the Champs Elysees
renchmen by the hundreds Of thousands
have stood and watched the hammered
armies 20 10y, and the huH2a has been three
miles long and until the populace We're so
hoarse they could hGHIa no longer.
Again aud again and again the Germans
by hundreds OF thousands have stood on
the palaced and statued Inter den Linden,
Berlin, and strewn fGrlNnds under the feet
OF uniformed hosts lc,l on by Won MOItke
or Blucher or Frederick the Great When
Wellington and PonSonhy and the Scots
Crews came back from Waterloo, or Woise-
ley from Egypt, or Marlborough from Blen-
helm, what military professions through
Regent street and along by the palaces Of
London and over the bridges OF the Thames!
v hat almost interminahie lines of military
on the streets Of all our American capitals,
while may orS and governors and presidents,
with uncovered heads, looked on But put
all those grand reviews together, and they
are tame compared with the review which
on this New Years day you from the pew
and | from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all FL, l..f,, all h..
Since the flood. decades abreast, centuries
abreast, epocAs abreast millenniuns
abreast; Egyptian civilization, Baby lonian
populations, AsSyrian dominiona, armies OF
Persian, Grecian, Pelopounesian and Roman
wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic host
crusaders of the first, the second, third
and the last-avalauche OF men, Dark Ages
in somber epauetS and brighter ages
with shields Of silver and helmets OF gold
Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany
England and America, past and present
dyuasties, teudal domains despotisms
mouarchies republics, ages on ages, ages
on ages, passing today in n chronological
review, until one has no more power tC
look upon the advancing columns, now
brilliant, now squalid, now garlanded with
peace, now crimson with slaughter, now
horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with
love and JOY.
THE WORLD GETTING METER
This chronological study affords anon
many practical thoughts especially two
the one encouraging to the last degree ant
} the other startling. The encouraging
thought Is that the main drift Of the cen
turtles has been toward betterment, will
only here and there n stout reversal. Gre
clan civilization was u vast improvement
, on Egyptian civilization, and Roman civil
li2ation vast improvement on Grecan civ
ilization, and Christian civilization is
vast improvement on Roman civilization.
What was the boast ed aye Of Percles com
, pared with the age Of l.OnEfellow and Ten
! nysonS What WAS Queen Elizabeth as
specimen Of moral womanhood compare,
with Queen Victoriay What were the crue
, warriors of oldeu times compared with tn
most distinguished warriors of the last hal
7 century, all Of them rs much distngushe,
I for kindness and good morals as for prov
esS---the two military leaders of our civi
D war on northern and southern side CON
E municaGt members Of Christian churche
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