The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-12

the week arc named after the gods, Sun
! day after the sun, which was of old
w0rshlped as god.
Monday, after the moon, which was
also worshipped as II god. Tuesday,
| after TuescO. the god Of war. We'd.
nesday, after Wooden, the chief goi of
the Scandinavians Thursday, after
Thor. the goa of thunder. Friday
| after Frea. the goddess CT marriage,
and Saturday after Saturn. The old
| Bib'e year began with the 25th of
March. Not until 1862 did the first OF
the month Of January get the honor in
legal documents in England of being
called the first day Of the year. I'm
pr0vements all along have been made
In chronology until the calendar, and
the almanac, and the clock, and the
watch seem to have reached perfec-
f1on. and all the nations of Christen-
dom have similarity of time calcula-
tions and have adopted what is called
me" STYLE, except Russia. which
keeps what Is called the cold STYLE"
and is twelve days different, 80 that,
writing from there, If you wish to be-
accurate, you date your letter Jan
and Jan. 13. or Dec. 10 aud Dec. 90.
1t is something to thank God for that
the modes are so complete for calcula-
ting the cycles, the centuries, the de-
cades, the years, the months, the days,
the hours, the seconds. Think of max
ing appointments, as In the Bible days,
for the time of the new moon. Think
of making one Of the watches of the
nightin Bible times ROSTERS growing.
The Bible says. "BefOre the cock crow
thou shalt deny me thrice" "If the
Master cOmeLh at cockcroWing," and
that was the way the midnight watch
was indicated. The Growing of that
barnyard bird has always been most m
certain. The Growing is at the lowest
temperature of the night, and the
amount of dew aud the direction Of the
wind may bring the lowest temptra
ture at III O'Clock at night or 2 O'clock
In the morning aud 1T any one Of six
hours. Just before u rain the growing
OF thanticlter 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 6
O'Clock Is O'Clock, and 10 o'clock is 10
o'clock, aud independent of all weatn-
ers, and then thank God that you live
now. BnL notwithstanding all the i'm
perfect modes Of marking hours or
years or centuries Bible chronology
nevtr trips up, never falters, never con
tradicts itself, and here is one OF the
best arguments for the authenticity OF
The Scriptures.
If you can prove an alibi In the courts
and you can prove beyond dOupt that
You were in some particular place at
the time you were charged with doing
or saying something in quite another
place, you gain the victory, and infidel
II 70 hno fri fn oil IAN
tending that events and circumstances
IN the Bible ascribed to certain times
must have taken place at some Othe
zine, IT t.. took place at all. But this
looks chrt 'ogy has never beell
caught at f.. at. 1t has been proved
that when the Hebrews went into Egypt
there were only seventy Of them. and
that When they came cut there Wer.,
1900 600 OF them. Now" says infideli-
W, with guffaw that 1t cannot sup.
press, "what al absurdityl They went
down into Egypt seventy and came out
100000. That is a falsehood on the
face OF it. Nations do not incre ,se iii
that ratio"
But. my skeptical friend, hold a mo-
ment. The Bible says the Jews were
43O years in Egypt. and that explains
the increase from seventy persons to g.
100000, for 1t Is no more, but rather IL ss,
than the ordinary increase Of nations.
The Pilgrim Fathers came to America
in the Mayti lwer-One small shiploatt
Of passengers less than 800 years ago.
and now We have u nation of 10000 600.
Where, then, is the 80 called impossi
bility that the seventy Jaws who went
into Egypt In 43O years became 1900,
OOOp inhc ceiity wrong and Bible cnrO.
nOlogy right.
Now stop and reflect Why is 1t that,
this sublime subject Of Bible cnronol-
Ogy has been 50 neglected, and that tho
mo 1t OF you have never given ten min
uteS to the consideration Of 1t. and that
this is the first sermon ever preached
on this stupendOuS and whelming
theme2 We have stood by the half day
or the whole day at reviews and seeIl
armies pass. Again and again and
again on the Champs Elysees French
men by the hundreds of thousands have
stood and watched the hammered armies
60 by and the huZza has :been three
miles long and until the pOpulace were
so hOarse they could huzEa no longer.
Again and again and again the Ger.
mans by hundreds of thousands have
stood on the palaced and statued Inter
den Linden, Berlin, and strewn gar
laIluS uuueT Jtlt leeC Ol uullOEllleu llOStS
led on by Won MOltke or Butcher or
Frederick the Great. When Yelling
ton and Ponsonby and the Scots Greys
came back from Waterloo, or Wolseley
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 Thamesl What almost interim.
nable lines of military Oh the streets OF
al our American capitals, while mayors
and governors and presidents, with un'
covered heads, looked onl But put all
those grand reviews together and they
are tame compared with the revie"
which on this New Years day you
from the pew and l from the pulpit
witness.
Hear them pass in chronological or
der-all the years before the flood; anC
all The years since the flood; decades
abreast; centuries abreast; eDochs
abreast; miiienuiums abreast; Egyptian
civilization, Babyalonian population
Assyrian dOD,iniOns. armies Of Persian
Greclan, Peloponnt sian and Roman
wars: Byzantine empire, Saracenic host
crusaders of the first, the second, th'
third and the last-avalanch of men
Dark Ages In sOmbre epauletS ant