Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-20

Hwithout form and void of the first
chapter of Genesis was the very chaos
out of which the world was formulated
the hands of God packing together the
/ land and tossing up the mountains into
great heights and dinging down the
seas into their great depths. Before
! God gets through with this world there
will hardly be book of the Bible that
will not find confirmation either in
archaeology Or geology. Exhumed Baby
lon Nineveh, Jerusalem, Tyre and
Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying out
! in the ears Of the world, 1.-The Bible is
right-all right-everlastingly right"
| Geology is saying the same thing, not
only confirming the truth about the
original creation, but confirming SO
many passages of the Scriptures that
can only slightly refer to them.
] But you dc not really believe that
story of the deluge and the sinking Of
the mountains under the wave? Tell us
something we can believe. "Believe
that says geology, EEfor how do you
account for those seasheHs and sea
weeds and skeletons Of sea animals
found on the top Of some Of the highest
mountains? IF the waters did not some
times rise about the mountains, how
did those seashells and seaweeds and
skeletons of sea animals get there? Did
you pat them there?"
But now you do not really believe
that story about the storm of fire and
birthstone whelming Sodom and Co
mOrrah and enWrapping Lots wife in
such saline incrustations that she halt
ed q sack of salt? For the confirmation
Of that story the geologist goes to that
region, and after trying in vain to take
q swim in the lake, SO thick with salt
he cannot swim 1.-THE lake beneath
which Sodon1 and GomOrrah lie buried
one drop Of the water SO full OF sulphur
and birthstone that it stings your
tongue, and for hours you cannot get
rid Of the nauseating drop-the sclen-
list then digging down and finding sui
phur Oh top Of sulphur, birthstone on
top Of birthstone, while all round there
are Jets and crags and peaks of salt, and
If one of them did not become the sar-
cophagus Of Lots wife they show you
how human being might in that tenn
pest have been halted and packed into
white monument that would defy the
ages.
bIt HOW you w IOU ISSl44y OG4AONO
that New Testament story about the
earthquake at the time Christ was
crucifed, do you? Geology digs down
into Mount Calvary and finds the
rocks rJlptured and ashanti, showing the
work Of an especial earthquake for that
mountain, and an earthquake which
did not touch the surrounding region.
Go and look for yourself and see there q
dip and cleavage Of rocks as nowhere
else on the planet, geology thus an
nOuncing an especial earthquake for the
greatest tragedy of all the centuries
the assassination of the Son of God.
The World on Fire.
But you do not really believe that
story Of the burning Of our world at the
last day? Geology digs down and finds
that the world is already on fire and
that the center Of this globe is incandes-
cent, molten, volcanic, burning coal,
burning out toward the surface, and the
internal fires have SO far reached the
outside rim that I do not see how the
world is to keep from complete confla
grafton until the prophecies concerning
it are fulfilled. The lava poured forth
from the mouths of Vesuvius, Mount
the reorganization from an awful infam-
nation thousands of miles deep. There
are mines in Pennsylvania and in sever
al parts Of the world that have been on
fire for many years. These coal mines
burning down and the internal fires of
the earth burning up, after awhile these
two fires, the descending and the ascend
ing, will meet, and then will occur the
universal conhagration Of which the
Bible speaks, when it says, "The ele-
ments shall melt with fervent heat; the
earth also, and the works that are there
III shall be burned up" Instead of dis
believing the Bible story about the final
confagration, since [ have looked lit
tie into geology, finding that it's explo-
ration are all in the line of confirmation
Of that prophecy, wonder how this old
craft of a world can keep sailing on
much longer. It is like a 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, ratlines on fire, everything from
cutwater to taffrail on fire. After geolo-
gv has told us how near the internal
fires have already burned their way to-
ward the surface it ought not to be a
surprise to US at any time to hear the
ringing of the fire bells of a universal
confagration. Oh, an so glad that
geology has been born Astronomy is
grand because it tells us about other
worlds, but I must say that I am more
interested in our world than in any
other world, and geology tells us all
about what it was, its cradle and what
no re nd h
ogy is proving itself more and more the
friend of theology. Thank God for the
testimony Of the rocks, the Ten Com