The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-12-24

hrmation Of that story the gcolugls;
goes TO that region. and after trying In
vain 10 take a swim In the lake. 30
thick with salt he can not swim-the
lake beneath which SOdom and Conner
rah lie buried-one drop OF water 50
full Of sulphur and birthstone that il
stings your tongue, and for hours you
can not get rid OF the nauseating drop
tho scientist then digging down and
finding sulphur on top Of sulphur,
birthstone on top Of birthstone while
all around there are jets, and crngS
and peaks Of salt, and il one Of them
did not become the sareophagus Of
Lots wife, they show you how a hui
man being might in that tempest have
been halted and packed into white
monument that would defy the ayes.
hut, now. you do not really believe
that New Testament story at,oat the
earthquake at the time Christ was crGei
fed. do you? Geology digs down into
Mt Calvary and finds the rocks rup-
tured and aslant. showing the work Of /
an especial earthquake for that noun |
tain, and an earthquake which did not
touch the surrounding rsgiOa. oand
look for yourself and sec there adip
and cleavage of rocks As nowhere else /
ON the planet, g.Ology thus announc-
ing an especial earthquake for the
greatest tragedy OF all the centuries
the assassination Of the Son Of God.
But you do not really belicve that
story Of the burning OF our world at
the last day? Geology dis down and
finds that the world Is already on fire.
and that the center Of this globe IS in
candescent. molten, volcanic, a burn
ing coal burning out toward the sur
face. and the internal fires have so far
reached the outside rim that do not
see how the world is to keep from com
plete confagration until the prophecies
concerning ii are fulfilled. The
lava poured forth from the mouths
Of Vesuvius. Mt Etna, and Coto-
paxi, and Kilauea, is only the
reorganization from an awful iuilamma-
tion thousands OF miles deep. There
are mines in Pennsylvania and in sew
eral parts OF the world that have been
Ou IAN III many NNAi J. AAtAHN NDNa
mines burning down and the internal
fires OF the earth burning up. after a
while these two fires. the descending
and the ascending, will meet, and then
will occur the universal connagration
OF which the Bible speaks when IL
says, The clements shall melt with
fervent heat: the earth also, and the
works that are therein shall bc burn
ed up" Instead of disbelieving the
Bible story about the final confiagra-
ton. since have looked little into
geology. finding that its explorations
are all in the line of confirmation Of
that prophecy, wonder how this old
craft OF a world can keep sailing on
much longer II is like ship on FIRE
at sea. the fact that the matches are
kept down the only reason that it does
not become one complete blaze masts
on fire, ratlins on Ere, everything from
outwater To taffrail on ERE. After ge-
ology has told us how near the internal
fires have already burned their way to-
ward the surface. it ought not to be q
surprise TO us at any time TO hear the
ringing of the fire bells Of universal
confagratiOn. o. am so glad that
geology has been borni Astronomy is
grand, because it tells us about other
worlds: but must say that | am
more interested in our world than in
any other world, and geology tells us
all about what it was, its cradle. and
what will be its grave And this glori-
GUS Geology is proving itself more and
more the friend Of Theology. Thank
God for the testimony OF the rocks; the
ten commandments announced among
the split rocks of Sinai; the greatest
sermon OF Christ preached on the ba-
saltic rocks of the Mount OF Beauti.
tude: the Saviour dying on the rocks
of Golgotha, and buried amid the lime
stone rocks of Joseph's sepulcher, the
last day to be ushered in with rend-
ing Of rocks, and our blessed Lord sug-
gestively entitled the Rock of Ages =
| this day proclaim the banns of a mar
riage between Geology and Theology.
the rugged bridegroom and the fairest
of brides. Let them join their hands.
and whom God hath joined together.
let no man put asunder.
II anything in the history or condi-
tion Of the earth seems for the time
contradictory Of anything in geology.
you must remember that geology is all
the time correcting itself, and more
and more coming to harmonization
with the great Book In the last
century the French Scientific asso-
citation printed list Of 50 theories OF
theology which had been adopted and
afterward rejected. Lyell, the scien-
tlst, announced so theories Of geology
that had been believed in and after
ward thrown overheard Meanwhile
the story Of the Bible has not changed
at all, and II geology has cast
out between one and two
hundred theories which 1t once
considered established, we can afford
TO wait until the last theory of geology
aHtagonizing Divine revelation shall
have been given up. Now, in this dis
course upon the geology of the Bible
or God among the Rocks, | charge ali
agitated and affrighted Uzzahs to calm
their pulses about the upsetting of the
Scriptures Let me see. For several
hundred years the oxen have been jerk
ing the ark in this way and that, and
pulling it over rough places and trying
to stick it in the mud Of derisioD, and
kicking with all the power OF their hoof;
against the sharp goads, and trying u
pull IL into the cool shade away from
the heats of retribution from Cos
who will by no means clear the
guilty" Yet have you not noticed
that the Book has never been upset
The only changes made in II were by
: its learned friends in the revision Of the
Scriptures. The Book of Genesis ha,
been Numbered against by the might
lest batteries, yet you can not to-day
find in all the earth a copy Of the Bible
which has not the 50 chapters Of the
first copy Of the Book Of Genesis ever
printed. starting with the words, "Ir
, the beginning God" and closing with
Joseph's coffin. Fierce attack on the
: Book OF Exodus has been made because
: they said ii was cruel to drown Pha
! raOh and the story Of Mt Sinai wa,
improbable But the Book of Exodu.
remains intact. and not one Of US, con
sidering the cruelties which he would
have continued among the brick kilns Of
Egypt, would have thrown Pharaoh Z
plank il we had seen him drowning
And Mt Sinai is to-day pile Of tossed