The Progress., 1897-01-23

creatures Of the sea. Moses says: aye,
l told you that was next IN the pooh u
Genesis God said, Let the waters Drlng
forth abuDdaptIy the moving creatures 'iiit
have life, and God created great whales
The Ceologlsu goes on digging ana says,
THE next thing in the furnishing OF the
earth was the creation OF the cattle ana
the reptiles, and the beasts OF the beio.
Aye" says Moses. 81 told you that was
next in the first chapter of Genesis, Ana
God said, Let the earth bring forth the |
living creature after his kind, cattle and !
creeping thing, and beast Of the earth after |
his kind" The geologist goes on dig |
ging in the earth and says, The next
creature WAS the human family aye,
saws Moses II told you that was next in
tho book of Genesis, SO God created man
in his own image, in the image OF COO
created he him; male and female, created
he them. - Those prejudiced against the
Bible do not know that the explorations
in Egypt and Palestine and syria are con-
frming the Scriptures-the same facts
written On monuments and on the waits
of exhumed cities as written in the Blple
| The city of Pithom has been unbur,eu,
| and its bricks are found 80 have been made
without straw, exactly corresponding Win
the Bible story of the prosecuted Hebrews.
On terra Gotta cylinder, recently brought
up from thousands OF years OF hurlal' the
capture of Babylon by Cyrus is told. On
q Babylonian gem recently found are the
! Fl cures of a tree, d man, woman and q
| serpent, and the hands of the man and
woman are stretched up toward the tree
| as if to pluck the fruit. Thus the Bible
story of the fall is confirmed.
A High Mountain.
In lrfuseum at Constantinople you gee
q piece of the wall that once in the ancient
temple of Jerusalem separated the court
Of the Gentiles and the court of the Israel
ties to which Paul refers when he says OF
Christ He is our peace, who hath broken
down the middle wall of partition between
us On tablets recently discovered have
been found the names of prominent men
of the Bible, spelled little different, ac-
coriing to the demands of ancient Ian
puage "Adamu" for Adam, " A bramD'
for A braham, "Ablu" for Abel, and so
on Twenty two feet underground has
been found seal inscribed with the words,
"Haggai, son Of Shebaniah, " thousands OF
years ago cut, showing that the Prophet
Haggai, who wrote a part of the Bible,
was not myth.
/, The royal engineers have found, so feet
below the surface of the ground at Jerusa-
, lem, Phrnician pottery and heWn STONES
with inscriptions showing that they were
furnished by Hiram, king of Tyre, just as
the Bible says they were. The great names
of Bible history, that many suppose an
] names of imaginary beings, are found GU
Q into imDerisbabie stones Whscn nave WIN
{ in few years been rolled mp from thei1
4 entom bment of ages, such as Sennacheri'
G and Tiglath- Pileser. On the edge OF
* bronzed step and on burned brick has beer
q found the name of Nebuchadezzar. henr.
n Rawlinson and Oppert and Hicks an!
e Palestine exploration societies and Asyrioi
3 ogists and Psychologists have rolled an
=, other Bible up from the depths OF the earth
n and ioi 1t corresponds exactly with on
" Bible the rock Bible just like the priDte
20 Bible, Inscriptions on cylinders and brick
10 work cut 8, 500 years before Christ testif!
ing to the truth of what we read l,ss
b years after Christ The story of the tow
y er of Babel has been confirmed by the lac
Is that recently at Babel an oblong pile
\ brick 10 feet high-cvidences the remain
rt of q fallen tower. In the inspired book c
D. Ezra we read of the great and noble Al
napper, a name that meant nothing esp'
l. cial until recently in pried up ERyptia
:. sculpture we have the story there told {
; hin, ne n GREAT hunter as we'll n gre