Blue-grass blade., 1894-11-11

Iously, Just as he could miraculously |
have gotten manv of the animals across |
the oceans from distant countries by |
then if God was going to use
miracle at all to preserve some of the
human race and some of the animals |
through the deluge, why was it necessary
to have Noah to build all ark at all; since |
simply by such a miracle as that in
in the case of Jesus and Peter walking
on the water, Noah and his family and
the animals that God designed should
be saved, could all have just walked
on the surface of the water and have
been supplied with food by miracle.
Some of the creeping things" and
small animals that lived in remote parts
of the earth, and no specimens of which
lived in Armenia where the Ark was
built could not, at their ordinary gait of
travelling, have gotten to the ark in hum
dreds Of years. They could not have
gotten across the ocean, and those that
lived in the South frigid zone could not
have lived through the climate that they
would have to pass through on the equa-
tor. Unless God specially inspired and
directed each animal, large and small,
and insect of every kind, they could not
have found their way to the ark, and the
very fact that God directs Noah to build
an ark to save himself and family and
the animals, shows that Gods plan was
to save all these by natural means, and
not by the use of miracle
A cubit in the Bible is twenty-five and
half feet In round numbers, the ark was
600 feet long, 100 feet wide and 60 feet
high. This ark had only one door and
one window, the only two openings in it.
The door was fastened when the rain be-
gan and kept fastened until after the ark
rested, and the window, which was only
little less than two feet square, was
fastened all the time until near the end
of the deluge The ark, naturally mean
ing the whole ark, above water and below
was pitched, within and without, and
inside, but without any chance of venti-
lation; so that man and beast must have
smothered.
been the same for all animals, and a polar
bear would have died in few hours in a
climate that hippopotamus could live
n.
The water at the deluge came thirty
feet above the highest mountains, and
the highest mountains are seven miles
high.
Every volcano in the world would have
been eXtinguished. The deluge, accord
ing to the accepted Bible chronology
was 4243 years ago. There are volcanoes
burning now, suppose, where the geo.
logical formations would indicate that
they had been burning much longer than
that
If that water was more than seven
miles deep on the land, it must have
been more than that deep on the whole
sea and ocean, because water will seek its
level, and it had to cover the remotest
island of the earth. What then has be-
come of all that water?
The Bible says it dried" that is evap.
GRATED, from off the earth. All evapora.
ton now goes to form clouds. Is that
much water now in our clouds, or did
God annihilate that superfuous amount
of water, or did he take it to some Other
world?
The New Testament teaches that Noah
was preaching to the people to get then
to prepare for the flood, and the people
were drowned because they did not be-
lieve Noah. Prof. Agassiz, the Christian
scientist says, the remains of men have
been found in the delta ofthe Mississippi
that were Il 900 years old. There wert
then human beings in America 9,oot
years before the flood. As nobody from
the Eastern Hemisphere ever heard o.
our Hemisphere, until after 400 year.
ago Xhat=Ma6 The sGxsA-ax-i,.z.if.c.iI IL
Furnishing Americans by drowning then
because they did not repent at the preach
ing of Noah
If the best man that you ever knew
should now commence preaching tha
God would destroy the world by water
or by fire, or tornado, or any other way
in one hundred and twenty years from
now, would you believe the man? Would
YOU believe that man if he should tax,
an oath that God had inspired him t,
preach this, or that God had PERSONAL,
appeared to him and told him this
Certainly not.
If you would not believe such a maj
now, since you believe that such thin,
has once happened. how can you thinl
that the people ought to have believe,
Noah before such thing had ever hap
pened?
Would you believe any man in tn
world now who would claim to know
what was going to be done in hundre'
and twenty years from now; would yo1
believe it if the man should say God hat
told him so, and if the man was willin,
to die for his faith in what he elaine,
God had said to him? Certainly moi
you would not believe it any sooner thai
l would. Suppose God should to-da
inspire some man to proclaim something
wonderful that was to take place in
hundred and twenty years from now
would you believe that man?
Certainly not, you would say, as an,
rational man would say, that it was mucl
more probable that the man was lying o
mistaken, or had become insane, thai
that he should have been inspired.
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