The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

The mind be interested.
XVII
True, there are puZxling things
To the mind in nature,
! Not less could we expect them
! In His revelation;
The world has it's deserts
And less charming feature,
The Bible, too, may have
And still be our salvation. ~
| XVIII. -
Compare the mastery
| Beginning of the world,
With other books that claim
! To speak the truth to man;
No ifs nor long apologies
Does it record;
But speaks as if it knew
How everything began.
xxx.
Nor does it say that God
Created things from naught.
If so all controversy
Here would have an end;
Nor does it say in our
Six days, all things were wrought,
Since sun and moon before
The fourth were not on hand.
IT'S false to limit God
| BY what He does not say, 80.
For one day Of the Lord
| May be to us a thousand;
! A million of our days
| May be to Him day;
| And why should He explain,
His years are as the sand!
But next we come to man
| Formed from lump of dust;
! To which our modern science
Will give but little credit;
It would not have our race
Begin so low at first,
But through the frog and ape
Has evolution led it.
xxx11.
Should this be ever taken
\ AS an explanation,
| To harmonic the Scripture
! With what our scientists think,
Still there lies engulfed
! Against such innovation
| What will you do with Eve
! Where is the missing link?'
xxxIII.
If ape has stuff enough Z
To make a thinking man,
He's had the best Of training
In our modern schools
| And ample opportunities
Since man his race began,
But not one step advanced
| TO prove the theory of fools.
xxxIv. ~@
But could Adam and Eve
| Have really been the first,
Since Cain went to Nod
And took himself wife;
Here is a chance for those -
| Who after science thirst
To use what brain they have
| In things Of common life.
| XXX. -
Suppose that our first parents
! Long after Gains birth.
Continued to have children
| Year by year as now.
How many children's children
Spread throughout the earth,
From whom DER hundred years
| Cain chose to pick his frau.
XXXvI.
AS to the good old age
That ancient people lived,
We find in old traditions
| An ample guaranty;
Besides the Bible, too,
| Gives reason to be, believed,
! 1t, by degrees DTlIlSS uOWA
! Mans age to seventy.
But what about the flood
I That spread the world over,
| And drowned all living things
! Save Noah in the Ark;
That this has many proofs
| We from earth's crust discover
In petrif1ed condition,
Fish, fowl, beast and bark.
xxxvIII.
! If this is not enough, -.
! We go to- ancient stories,
| Or to traditions told
! Among the earlier tribes; i
! From these we may make up
| And that, no allego1es.
The writings of old Moses
! Not written under brides.
xxx.
But how did Moses know
| And come to facts like these?
Was it by means of man
| Or by Some power more great
| We answer, twas by both,
/ How could tradition cease
| From Noah down to Dan, H.
Six men could these relate.
And is it not as plain
! To men of common sense
| That he could tell of things
| That had occurred as well
| AS; those that would occur
Fou,. thousand years from thence?
| The latter proves the former,
| Ring to doubt its death knell.
XII.
Yet one thing more it tells
| At which the skeptics sheer.
THAT Joshuas sun stood still
One day In heaven,
/ Whether the sun stood still
| Or our terrestrial sphere.
! The very same expression
We would use that's given.
4 The question to be asked
Is this and nothing more:
4 Did these men really see 1t
Or did it SO appear?
/ They could but tell the truth,
They testimony bore.
IOf what the God OF Israel
Had done for them who fear.
xLIII.
1 And so with faith and reason
And thereto common sense, e
4 The Bible stands affirmed
Mid seoffing multitudes; &
Its wisdom. and its virtue &: 81
re its strong defense, 5 s s 5Sss,
And they who see them. not & 8!Ss
The skeptics but delud les.