The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-25
GEOLOGY OF THE BIBLE.
~ DIR. Talmage Discourses on
"God Among the Rocks"
serves to Confirm the Testimony OF
the Book of Books Divine De-
International Thousand
Years as u Day.

No or. God Among the ROCKS. LUIS
based on the text:
And when they came to Nachon s thre shlhg
Anu ,,,1oh mt forth his hand to the ark OF
nVy and took hold OF it; for the oxen shooK IT,
"a "a The anger o the Lord was klhdleu against
I,11ah ana God smote him here Tor ms error
uA 1 ,hsre ne died by the ark OF God--II Sam
uel, VI, o. a.
.oad comets blown, timbrels struck,
rarns thrumned, and cymbals clapped,
ali led on by David, who was himself
usicion. They are ahead of wagon
,hi,h is the sacred box called the
.Arkn The yoke of oxen drawing til c
ragon imperiled it. Some critics say
hat the oxen kicked. being struck
Nth the drivers goad, but my knowl-
edce of oxen leads me to say that II on
a hot day they see a shadow OF tree
:. woll. they are apt TO suddenly shy
o4,oret the GOODNESS of the shadow.
think these oxen so suddenly turned
that the sacred box seemed about To
rrset and be thrown to the ground,
r,,ab rushed forward and laid hold OF
the ar; toSecpit upright. But he had
no right to do so. A special command
had been given by the Lord that no
one save the priest, under any circum'
,,ances should touch that box. Nervous
snd excited. and irreverent, Uzzah dis
obeved when he took hold OF the ark,
and he died as n consequences. Ia all
ages and never more SO than in our
own day, there are good people all the
time afraid that the Holy Bible, which
Is the sacred ark of our time, will be
inset, and they have been long while
afraid that science, and especially ge-
oloov would overthrow it. While we
are not forbidden TO touch the Holy
Rock. and, on the contrary, are urged
10 fondle and study it, anyone who IS
afraid of the overthrow OF the book Is
greatly offending the Lord with his
rnbel/f. The oxen have not yet been
voked which can upset that ark of the
worlds salvation. Written by the
Lord Almighty. lie is going to protect
1, until It's mission is fulfilled and
there shall be no more need OF Bible,
because. all its prophecies will have
been fulfilled and the human race will
have exchanged worlds
trumpet and violin or very differ
emit instrument, but they may be
PLAYED in perfect accord. So the Bible
account Of the creation OF the world
and the geological account are differ
ent. One story written on parchment
and the other on the rocks, and yet in
perfect aud eternal accord. The word
day. repeated in the first chapter of
Genesis. has thrown into paroNysms of
criticism many exegetes. The Hebrew
word ''yonl" Of the Bible means some
times what we call day, and some
times 1t means ages; it may mean
twenty.four or hundred million
years The order of creation as writ
ten in,the Book of Genesis is the order of
creation discovered by biologists crow
bar. Some many UZZahs have been
nervious,y rushing about for fear the
strong oxen of scientific discovery
would upset the Bible that | went
somewhat apprehensively to look into
the matter, when | found that
the Bible and geology agree in saying
that first were built the rocks; then
the plants greened the earth; then
marine creatures were created, from
minnow TO whale; then the wings and
threats OF aerial chors were colored
and turned, and then quadrupeds be-
gan TO bleat, and below, and neigh.
What is all this fuss that has been
filing the church and the world, con-
corning fight between Moses and
Agassiz? There is no fight at all. But
isnot the geological impression that
the world was millions of years build
ing antagonistic to the theory of one
weeks creation in Genesis? No. A
great house is to be built. A man
lakes years to draw to the spot the
umbers The house is about
aone, but it is not finished
Tor comfortable residence. Sud-
uenly the owner calls in upholsterers.
plumbers, gas-titters, paper-hangers,
and IN one week it is ready for occu-
Pahcy. Now, it requires no stretch Of
imagination to realize that God could
nave taken millions of years for the
bringing of the rocks and the timbers
I" This world together, yet only one
week more to make it inhabitable and
~furnish it for human residence. Re-
member, also. that all up and down the
D'oie the language of the times was
used-common parlance land it was
not always to be taken literally. Just
Swe say every day that the world is
round, when it is not round. 1t is
Spheroidal-hattened at the poles and
prptuoerant at the equator. Prof
Sneil, with his chain of triangles, and
srof' Warm, with the shortened pen
uuium of his clock, found it was not
iound; but we do not become critical
VI anyone who says the world is round.
Let US deal fairly with Moses or Job as
we DO with each other.
Dutfor many years good people feared
geology, and, without any imploration
VI their part, apprehended that the
.vcRs and mountains would fall on
saem' until Hugh Miller, the elder of
~ 'ohn's Presbyterian church in Edin-
ourgh' and parishioner of DIR. Guthrie,
:. a'he forth and told the world that