The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-09
AMERICA II EDEN.
'proofb Of this Fact from the Pen OF
Q Patriot.

even ct the n0rtn pole, auu IN oy"nioo
Hole. Why not America? There are
more human bones, and ancient works
Of art found here than in any other
country. Thus showing that pre'his'
toric race lived here, Of whom we have
NO tradition or history, unless it be that
aiv,n MS by Moses, which is evidently
4 tra ,itional, handed down by Noah and
his iAmily, who knew the country, the
creation of man, and his destruction by
the food.
II Moses history can be relied upon,
our ante. .diluvian fathers were not the
dolts they are supposed to have been.
They were an inventive people, good
mechanics and artifcers. They invent
/, ed and constructed wind and string in.
struments of music, Gen. 4-21. They
invented a flux with which to separate
metals from the ores and were skilled
workers in brass and iron, Gen. 4-22.
They built cities, Gen. ALI, and an ark,
which shows they we're skilled mechan.
les. 1t would require skilled mechanics
to build an ark. As they could not
build houses out of wood and dressed
I stone, or build the ark, without edged
tools. Tubal-Cain and his artiicers in
i brass and iron could furnish these.
As our ante .diluvian fathers lived in
\ the land of Eden 1850 years before they
! were overwhelmed by the flood, and
\ were then suddenly destroyed, they
would necessarily leave the bones oftheir
buried dead, and some of their works of
art, which would, when found, identify
the land.
South America and Mexico were found
full of dead mems bones, artificial
mounds, waste houses, and ruined cities,
when discovered by the Aztecs, A. D.
47O. And, when Columbus discovered
North America, in 1892, it was covered
with graves, artificial mounds, ruined
forts, stragetically chosen, scientifically
laid off and built in workmsnlike
manner. If these things be not the
work of our ante diluvian fathers, whose
were they The aborigines of the coun.
try said they knew not whose they
were.
Now, the Bible tells US that race oi
people were destroyed by food, except
eight persons. And they we're evident.
ly carried away from off the land, to peo'
pie other countries, for Moses says, "the
waters were increased greatly upon the
earth and the ark went upon the face
of the waters" Gen. 7-l8.
Now, if the ark went upon the face o.
the waters, it must have left the country
and gone to parts unknown. That il
went upon the face of the waters il
proven by the fact that Moses says
"God made a wind to pass over the
earth" Gen. 81. That wind, catching
the ark, and driving at the moderate
speed of 200 miles per day, for $50 days,
would carry it from any point in Amer.
ca to Aarat and leave something for of.
fng.
And we have reason to believe that
in this country, its former inhabitants
anticipated flood. For many of their
graves are. found upon the highest points
of land in the neighborhood; there are
many ruined stone buildings, found in
South America and Mexico, built upon
terraces forty and fifty feet high, sup.
ported by dressed stone walls, laid in
mortar. And, in the western parts oi
North America, many dwellings are
found excavated out OF the cliffs from
thirty to hundred feet above ground
Most assuradely they did not do thai
: for fun. No, it was to keep oat the higt
water Noah talked about.
If the ark had landed near the plac,
it was built, Noah and his boys would
have recognized the country by th'
& graves of their fathers, or some of thei
H works Of art. But we hear of no suci
recognition. No antiquities were foun,
in Asia, antedating the day of thei
y landing.
Our fathers not only left the bones O
i the buried dead in the land, and som
4 OF their works Of art, by which it coul'
be identified, but they left the gres
river Euphrates. That river, with it
four heads of rivers, that formed the on
river that went out of Eden, Moses dc
scribes, 30 that it might be known an
identified, when found.
He says, "a river went out of Eden t
water the gar len, and from thence
was parted and became into four heads.
q Gen. 20. The phrase evidently mean
Z the river was parted into four heads q
rivers that were its principle supply.
For he says, ''The name of the fri
river is Tison thai is it which con
4 passeth the whole land OF Hsvilaf
where there is gold /; and the gold of tbs
10 good; there is bdellium and the ouy
stone" Gen. 2, HIP.
lnI.L Naw fhs only riuara nnon this rlob