The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24

to- that region, and after trying in vain
to- take swim in the lake, SO thick
with salt he can not swim 1.-THE lake
beneath which Sodoml and Gomorrah
lie buried-one drop of the water so
full of sulphur and birthstone that IL
stings your tongue, and for hours you
can not get rid of the nauseating drop |
the scientist then digging down ana
finding sulphur on top of sulphur,
birthstone on top Of birthstone, VIE
all round there are jets, and crags, ana
peaks of salt, and il one of them did
not become the sarcophagus of Lots
wife, they show you how human De-
ing might in that tempest have been
halted and packed into white monu-
ment that would defy the ages.
But now, you do not really believe
that New Testament story about Inc
earthquake at the time Christ was cru
Gifted, do you? Geology digs down
into Mount Calvary and finds the rocks
ruptured and aslant, showing the wo'H
of an especial earthquake for that
mountain. and an earthquake when
did not touch the surrounding region,
Go and look for yourself, and see there
a dip and cleavage of rocks as nowhere
else on the planet, Geology thus an
nouncing an especial earthquake Tor
the greatest tragedy of all the cen
turies-the assination of the Son OF
God.
If anything in the history or condi-
ton 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 Association
printed list of eighty theories of Se-
oogy which had been adopted ana
afterward rejected. Lyell, the scient-
list, announced fifty theories OF geol-
ogy that had been believed in and aft
erwards thrown overheard. Mean
while the story Of the Bible has not
changed at all, and if geology has
cast out between one and two hundred
theories which it once considered es'
tablished, we can afford to wait until
the last theory of geology antagoniz~
ing divine revelation shall have been
given up. Now, in this discourse up
on the geology of the Bible, or God
among the Rocks, | charge all agitat-
ed and affrighted UzZahs to calm their
pulses about the upsetting of the Scrip
lures. Let me see, For several hun
dred years the oxen have been jerking
the ark this way and that, and pulling
it over rough places and trying to STICK
it in the mud of derision, and kicking
with all the power of their hoofS
against the sharp goads, and trying
TO pull it into the cool shade away from
the heats of retribution from God
who will by no means clear the gull
ty." Yet have you not noticed that
the Book has never been upset? The
only changes made in it were by Its
learned friends in the revision OF the
Scriptures. The book of Genesis has
been Numbered against by the might
lest batteries, yet you cannot today
find in all the earth a copy of the Ri
BILE which has not the fifty chapters
of the first copy of the book of Gena-
sis ever printed, starting with the
words, In the beginning, God and
closing with Joseph's coffin. Fierce
attack on the book of Exodus has been
made because they said it was cruel
to drown Pharaoh and the story Of
Mount Sinai was improbable. But
the book of Exodus remains intact,
and not one of us, considering the
cruelties which he would have con-
tinued among the brick kilns of Egypt,
would have thrown Pharaoh a plank if
we had seen him drowning. And Mount
Sinai is today pile of tossed and
tumbled basalt, recalling the cataclysm
of that mountain when the law was
given And, as to those Ten Com
mandments all Roman law. all Ger
man law. all English law, all American
law worth anything are squarely
founded on them So mighty assault
for centuries has been made on the
Book of Joshua. 1t was said that the
story of the detained sun and moon
is an insult to modern astronomy; but
that Book of Joshua may be found to-
day in the chapel of every university
in America, in defiance of any telescope
projected from the roof of that univer-
sitv. The Book of Jonah has been the
target of ridicule for the small wit of
ages but there it stands with its four
CHAPTERS inviolate, while Geology puts
ND in its museums remains of sea mon
sters capable of doing more than the
one which swallowed the recreant
prophet There stand the one thou
sand and eighty-nine chapters of the
Bible. Notwithstanding all the attacks
of ages. and there they will stand until
they shrivel up in the final fires, which
biologists say are already kindled and
glow hotter than the furnaces of an
ocean steamer as it puts out from New
York Narrows for Hamburg or South
ampton. | should not wonder If from
tho crvDt Of anoiant cities the inSDired