The National tribune., 1894-01-18

| is to the physical.
The late Bishop Brooks said ale who
| lives by every word of God is a man who is
continually seeing now truth and accepting
the duties that arise out of it,"
The poet Montgomery wrote:
Thy law is perfect, Lord Of light;
Thy testimonials sure;
The statutes of thy realm are righs
And thy commandment pure
let these o God my soul convert,
And make thy servant wise;
Let these be gladness to my cars
The dayspring to mine eyes.
Judge Thurman read a chapter of the Bible
each day, comparing it in three different lam
guages.
sir Walter Scott repeatedly expressed his
con eviction the Bible is supreme in literature
as calculating moral obligations. We find the
following from his pen: THE most learned,
acute and diligent student cannot. in the long
est life, obtain an entire knowledge OF this one
volume. The more he works the mine. the
richer and more abundant he finds the ore.
New light continually beams from this source
of heavenly know ledge to direct the conduct
and illustrate the works of God and the ways
of man and he will. at least, leave the world
onfessng that the more he studied the Scrip
lures the fuller convictions he had of his own
ignorance and of their inestimable value"
One of the four books always found on the
table of Byron was the Holy Bible.
John Robinson. the English Puritan divine
and author ID. 1879, declared: Il charge you,
before God and his blessed angels, that you fol-
low me no further than you have seen me fol-
low the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord has
more truth yet to break forth out Of His holy
word ! cannot sufficiently bewail the condi-
ton of the reformed churches, who are come to
period in religion, and will go at present no
further than the instruments Of their reforma-
ton. Luther and Calvin were great and shin
ing lights in their times yet they penetrated
not into the whole counsel of God. / beseech
you. remember tit is an article of your
church covenant-that you be ready to receive
wha+ever truths shall be made known to you
from the written word of God"
Note: We would suggest the Superintendent
read to the school these commend ations of
Gods Word.)
GEN. 9: SIT.
Time.
Add the numbers found in 5 g. 8. o. IL. Is.
10, 81, 25 g. 7:6 and the sum is 1855. Then
8:13 ii, shows another year had begun.
Hence the year commonly given as the date of
the Covenant established between God and the
world. of which the rainbow was the ratiflca-,
ton is A. NJ. 1857. Noah was COL years old
and Shem 50. s9."
Place.
The altar was built aud the Covenant estsb-
lished probably near the foot OF Mt. Arsrat.
The Russian Govern ment have an astroDom-.
cal and meteorological observatory On the
mountain. C@-f
The Armenians name the mountain Massis.
The residents sty lie it Agridaqh steep mountain.
The Persians call it Ruiti Nuh, Noahs mount
ain.
The word Ararat was derived as follows:
Arai lived b. c. 1750. He was King of Ar
menia. Fighting against the BabyIonians, in
the neighborhood OF that mountain, he was
slain. Arat means ruin. Hence Arai-Arat--
ruin of -Ararat.
The Armenisns declare there is divine de-
cree that no one shall go to the summit of Ar
arat. (See NJ. e. Quar-. 1886. p. 209.) They
believe the ark is still there. DIR. Parrot
cended the mountain in 1929. Mr. ADtono-
moi did SO 1884 Abich in 1850. In 1877 Prof.
James Bryce, of Oxford University. made its
ascent.
The mountain is 17750 feet high. 1t Is at
the juncture Of the Persian, Russian and Turk.
ish Empires
Frank Carpenter, in THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE, Oct. 8. 1890, said: mount Ararat is
made up of volcanic rocks, and a ravine in il is
pointed out the site of Noahs vineyard.
There is monastery near this, aDd the monks
have withered old vine which they say is the
one which produced the grapes that made the
wine that made Noah drunk. He cursed il and
it has borne no grapes to this day"
The Bow
This is a very familiar object. 1t has impor-
tant lessons to teach. Hereafter it should
mean more to u.s. Every time il appears we
must associate 1t with Noah and be reminded
of the precious promise then made.
Fanny Crosby wrote of the ark:
1t rode ma jeatic through the storm,
IL braved the mighty flood;
And on the highest mountain peak
The ark of Noah stood.
Aud when the tempest rolled away.
And calm the arch above,
God set his bow amid the cloud,
token OF His love.
Let US consider the rainbow from several
standpoints.
RainJoie and Science.
/. The rainbow must be opposite the SUM-
2. The sun must be shining free from OBJ
strnction.
g. There must be descending rain on which
the sun rays fall.
4. There are spontaneously two bows, the
primary and the secondary.
s. The eolors. In their order, are red, orange,
yellow, green, blue indigo, violet.
g. The colors are reversed in the primary
and the secondary ranbows being red on the
outermost side of the primary bow and red on
the inner side of the secondary. The primary
bow is the narrowest and brightest. Conjoint-
| ly are at times supernumerary bows.
z. The bow itself can be accounted for on
| scientific prnciples--was not miracle-not q
creation at the time of the Covenant-was a
l
the conditions are as above.
s. There can be bow without clouds.
g. The bow is all matter OF reflection only
in ones eye.
Origin of the Rainbow.
We are not to suppose the rainbow appeared
for the first time when God called attention to
it as in this lesson. Adam saw many rain
bow. So did Eve and Enoch. Whenever the
conditions combine in cloud, sun, and the eye,
| as indicated above, there must always be rain
bow. Dr. Conant says of verse 10: "These
words do not imply that the bow in the cloud
had never been seen before. God sets his bow
in the cloud whenever it is seen there" Dr.
Murphy says: THE rain bow existed as long as
the present laws of, light and air. But it is
now mentioned for the first time, because it
now becomes the fitting sign OF security from
another universal deluge"
God meant to say that his promise was sure.
Just the bow appears always in the cloud
when conditions in nature demand it-just as
il must appear-just as it never fails. never can
fal-so true should Gods promise prove.
God often employed some existing being or
thing as witness of mutual agreements between
Him and other partiesi O. g.,
!. Heap of stones. 81: 80. Laban and Jacob
g Seven Lambs. 81 80. Abrahamand Abime-
lech.