The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-25

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
Babylon. Ninevah, Jerusalem, Tyre
and Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying
out in the ears of the world: THE
Bible is right! All right Everlast-
ingly right! Geology is saying the
same thing, not only confirming the
truth about the original creation, but
confirming so many passa res of the
Scriptures that l can only slightly re-
fer to them.
But you do not really believe that
story OF the deluge and the sinking of
the mountains under the wave? Tell
us something we can believe Be
lieve that" says geology, "for how do
you account for those sea shells and
sea weeds and skeletons of sea animals
found on the top of some of the highest
mountains? IL the waters did not
sometimes rise about the mountains
how did those sea shells and sea weeds
and skeletons of sea animals get there?
Did you put them there?"
But now, you do not really believe
that story about the storm of fire and
birthstone whelming Sodom and Gomor-
rah, and enwrapping Lots wife in such
saline organisations that she halted a
sack of salt? For the confirmation of
that story the geoiogist goes u that
region, and after trying in vain to
take swim in the lake. SO thick with
salt he can not swim 1.-THE lake be-
meath which Sodom and Gomorrah lie
bnried-one drop OF water SO full of
sulphur and birthstone that it stings
your tongue, and for hours Won can
not get rid of the nauseating drop-the
scientist then digging down and find
ing sulphur on top of sulphur, brim-
stone 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 sarcophagus of Lots
wife they show you how human be-
ing might in that tempest have been
halted and packed into white monu-
menr that would defy the ages.
Bat, now, you do not really be-
lieve that New Testament story
about the earthquake at the time Christ
was crucided, do you? Geology digs
down into Mount Calvary and finds the
rocks ruptured and aslant, Showing
the work as an especial earthquake for
that mountain, and an earthquake
which 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 announcing an especial earth
quake for the greatest tragedy of ali
the cen turies-the assinatiou 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 and
finds that the world is already on fire,
and that the cen ter of this globe is in
caudescent, molten, volcanic, Il burn
ing coal, burning out toward the sur
face, and the internal fires have SO far
reached the on tside rim that l do not
see how the world is to keep from com
plete contlagration until the prophecies
concerning it are fulfilled. The lava
poured forth from the mouths of Nesu-
vius, Mount Etna and CotopaXi, and
kiluuca. is only the regurgi tation from
an awful inflammation thousands of
miles deep. There are mines in Penn
sylvania 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, alter awhile these
two fires, the descending and the as
cending, will meet, and then will oc-
cur the universal contlagration of which
the Bible speaks. when it says:
The elements shall melt with fervent
heat; the earth also, aud the works
that are therein shall be burned up
Instead Of disbelievlng the Bible story
about the final conflagration, since /
ing that its explorations are all in the
line of confirmation of that prophecy,
wonder how this old craft OF world
can keep sailing on much longer. 1t is
| like II 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 tire, ratllneS
on fire, everything from cutwater to
taffrail ON fire. After geology has told
us how near the internal fires have al
ready burned their way toward the
surface, it ought not to be surprise To
us at any time to hear the ringing OF
the fire bells Of universal conlagra-
ton. o, ain SO glad that geology has
been born. Astronomy is grand because
it tells us about other worlds; but |
must say that | am more interested IN
our world than in any other world,
and geology tells us all about what 1t
was, its cradle, and what will be It's
grave. And this glorious geology is
proving itself more and more the
friend OF theology. Thank God for
the testimony of the rocks the Ten
Commandments announced among the
SPLIT rocks of Sinai; the greatest ser
mon Of Christ preached ON the basal
tic rocks of the Mount Of Beatitudes'
the Saviour dying on the rocks OF COL
gotha, and buried amid the limestone
| rocks NJ Joseph's sepulcher; the last