Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-05

aC Une lowest temperature oI tne nignu. S1ti
the amount of dew and the direction of the
wind may bring the lowest temperature at
II o'clock at night or o'clock in the morn
ing and at any one of six hours. Just be-
fore Il rain the growing of chanticleer 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 IL o'clock, and q 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 chronol
ogy never trips up, never falters, never con
tradicts itself and here is one of the best
arguments for the authenticity of the Scrip
lures
If you can prove IN alibi 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 gain
the victory, and infdelity has tried to prove
an alibi by contending that events and cir
,cumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain
times must have taken place at some other
time, if they took place ut all. But this
books chronology has never been caught at
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 infdelity, with guffaw that
it cannot suppress, what IN absurdity!
They went down into Egypt seventy and
came out 3,O00,000 That is II falsehood
on the face of it. Nations do not increase
in that ratio
But, my skeptical friend, hold Il moment.
The Bible says the Jews were $50 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase from
seventy persons to 3,0O0,00O, for it is no
more, but rather less, than the ordinary in
crease of nations. The Pilgrim Fathers
came to America in the Mayfower-one
small shipload of passengers-less than 300
years ago, and now we have nation of Co.,
100000. Where, then, is the so called impos-
sibility that the seventy Jews who went
into Egypt in $40 years became 3,O0oO OOoS
Infdelity wrong and Bible chronology
right.
Now stop and reflect, Why is it that :his
sublime subject Of Bible chronology has
been so neglected, and that the most of you
have never given ten minutes to the con-
sideration 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
reviews and seen armies pass. Again and
again and again on the Champs Elysees
| Frenchmen by the hundreds Of thousands
| have stood and watched the hammered
armies go by, and the huzza has been three
miles long and until the populace were 80
| hoarse they could huZza no longer
Again and again and again the Germans
BY hundreds of thousands have stood on
the palaced and statued Inter den Linden,
! Berlin, and strewn garands under the feet
of uniformed hosts letl OIL by Won Moltke
or Blucher or Frederick the Great When
Wellington and Ponsouby and the Scots
Greys came back from Waterloo, or Wolse-
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
What almost interminable lines Of military
on the streets of all our American capitals
while mayors and governors and presidents
with uncovered heads looked onl But pui
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 the years before the food; all the year
since the food; decades abreast; centuries
. abreast; epochs abreast; millennium
: abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonial
populations, Assyrian dominions, armies o
Persian. Grecian. Pelononnesian and Romal