The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-20

The only Pills to take with Hoods sarsapariID
of the nauseating drop-the scientist then
digging down and finding, sulphur on top
OF sulphur, birthstone on top of birthstone,
while all around there are jets, and crags,
ana peaks Of salt and if one of them did
not become the sarcOphagUs of Lots wife,
they show you how a human beng might
in that tempest have been halted and pack
ed into a white monument that would de-
fy the ages.
But, now. you do not really believe that
New Testament story about the earth
quake at the time Christ was cruciied, do
you? Geology digs down into Mount Cal
vary and finds the rocks Tuptured and as
LIANT, showing the work Of an especial
earthquake for that mountain, and an
earthquake which did not touch the sur
rounding region. Go and look for yourself
and see there d dip and cleavage Of rocks
as nowhere else on the planet Geology
thus announcing an especial earthquake
for the greatest tragedy of all the centu-
ries-llo assassination of the Son of God.
But You do not really believe that story
of the burning of our world at the last
day? Geology digs down ana finds that the
world is already on fire, and that center of
this globe is incandescent, molten, vol
canic a burning coal burning out towards
the surface, and the internal fires have so
see how the world is to keep from complete
confiagration until the prophecies concern
ing at are fulfilled. The lava poured forth
from the mouths of Nesuvius, Mount ct
ma, and CotopaXi, and Kilauea is only the
regurgitauOn from an awful inflammation
thousands Of miles deep. There are mines
in Pennsylvania and in several 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 a while these two fires, the descend
ing and the ascending will meet and then
viii occur the universal conhagration of
which the Bible speaks, when ii says, 1.-THE
elements shall melt with ferVent heat; the
earth also, and the works that are therein
shall be burned up Instead Of disbeliev-
ing the Bible story about the final conha-
grafton, since j have looked a little into ge-
ology, finding that its explorations are all
in the line of confirmation of that prophecy
l 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 fire, every
thing from cut-wateC to taffrail on fire.
After geology has told us how near the in
ternal fires have already burned
their way toward the surface, it
ought not TO be a surprise to US
bells of a universal confagration. o. l
am so glad that geology has been born!
Astronomy is grand, because il tells US
about other worlds; bun | must say that I
am more interested in our world that in
any other world, and geology tells us all
about what it was it's cradle. and what
Will be its grave. And this glorious geol.
ogy is proving itself more ana more the
friend of geology. Thank God for the
testimony of the rocks. the Ten Com
mandments announced among the spite
rocks of Sinai; the greatest sermon of
Christ preached on the Basaltic
rocks of the Mount of Beatitudes; the Saw
Jour dying on the rocks of Golgotha, and
buried amid the limestone rocks of Jo-
seph's sepulchre the last day to be ushered
in with rending of rocks, and our bless
sed Lord suggestively entitled the Rock
of Ages" l this day proclaim the banns
of a marriage between geology and the
ology, the rugged bridegroom and the fair
est of brides. Let them join their hands,
and~''whom God hath Joined together let
not man put asunder."
If anything in the history or condition
Of the earth seems for the time contradic-
tory of anything in geology, you must re-
member that geology is all the time cor
recting itself, and more and more coming
to harmonization with the great Book
In the last century the ''French Scientific
Association printed a list of eighty
theories of geology which had been
adopted and afterward rejected. IWeD.
the scientist, announced fifty theories OF
geology that had been believed in ana
afterward 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 is once considered established, we
can afford 60 wait until the last theory OF
geology antagonizing divine revelation
shall have been given up. Now in this
discourse upon the geology of the Bible
or God among the Rocks, l charge all
agitated and affrighted Uzzahs to calm
their pulses about the upsetting of the
Scriptures. Let me sect For several
hundred years The oxen have been Jerking
the ark this way and that, and pulling il
over rough places and trying 10 stick il 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 guilty" Yet have you not noticed that
the Book mas never been upset? The
only changes made in it were by its learn
ed friends in the revision of the scriptures
The Book of Genesis has been thundered
against by the mightiest batteries. vet YOU
cannot to-day find In all the earth a copv
OF the Bible which has not the fifty chap
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 ii was cruel to drown Pharaoh and
the story of Mount Sinai was improba bic.
But the Book of Exodus remains intact.
and not one of US, considering the cuelties
which he would have continued amone
the brick kilns of Egypt, would have
thrown Pharaoh a plank if we had seen
him drowning. And Mount Sinai is to-
day pile of tossed and tumbled basalt.
recalling the cataclysm of that mountain
when the law was given. And, as 70 those
Ten Commandments, all Roman law. all
German law all English law all Ameri-
can law worth anything are squarely
founded on them. So mighty assault for
centuries has been made on the Book of
Joshua. II was said that the story of the
detained sun and moon is an insult 10
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 university The book of Jonah
has been the target of ridicule for the
small wit of ages; but there it stands.
with its four ChaDters iuViOIata while