The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-12-24

Lewis of Union college showed that the
without form and void" of the first
chapter of Genesis was the verySchaos
out of which the world was formulated,
the hands of God packing together the
land and tossing up the mountains into
great heights and f1inging down the
seas 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 Baby
Ion, Nineveh, Jerusalem, Tyre and
Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying out
in the ears of the world, "The Bible is
right-all right--everlastingly rightP'
Geology is saying the same thing, not
only confirming the truth about the
original creation, but confirming SO
many passages Of the Scriptures that l
can only slightly refer 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. believe
that, says geology, for how do you
account for those seashells and sea
weeds and skeletons of sea animals
found on the top of some of the highest
mountains? If the waters did not some
times rise about the mountains, how
did those seashells and seaweeds and
skeletons of sea animals get there? Did
you put them there?"
But now you do not really believe
hot oh I,n OH of fro or1H
birthstone whelming Sodom and Go
morrah and enwrapping Lots wife in
such saline incrustations that she halt
ed sack of salt? For the confirmation
of that story the geologist goes to that
region, and after trying in vain to take
swim in the lake, SO thick with salt
he cannot swim 1.-THE lake beneath
which Sodom and Gomorrah lie buried
one drop of the water so full of sulphur
and birthstone that it stings your
tongue, and for hours you cannot get
rid of the nauseating drop-the scien
fist then digging down and finding sui
phur on top of sulphur, birthstone 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 sar
cophagus of Lots wife they show you
how human being might in that tenn
pest have been halted and packed into
white monument that would defy the
ages.
But now you do not really believe |
that New Testament story about the |
at the time Christ was
,rucified, do you? Geology digs down
into Mount Calvary and finds the
locks ruptured and aslant, showing the
work of an especial earthquake for that
and an earthquake which
lid not touch the surrounding region.
80 and look for yourself and see there a
lip and cleavage Of rocks as nowhere
Else ON the planet, geology thus an
an especial earthquake for the
greatest tragedy of all the centuries
he assassination of the Son of God,
The World on Fire,
But you do not really believe that
story of the burning Of our world at the
asst day? Geology digs down and finds
hat the world is already on fire and
hat the center of this globe is incandes-
ent, molten, volcanic, burning coal,
BURNING out toward the surface, and the
Internal fires have SO far reached the
outside rim that do not see how the
world is to keep from complete confla-
grafton until the prophecies concerning
t are fulfilled. The lava poured forth
rom the mouths of Vesuvius, Mount
Gtna and Cotopaxi and Kilauea is only
he reorganization from an awful inflam
nation thousands of miles deep. There
ire mines in Pennsylvania and in sever
il parts of the world that have been ON
ire for many years. These coal mines
burning down and the internal fires of
he earth burning up, after awhile these
wo fires, the descending and the ascend
ng, will meet, and then will occur the
universal confagration of which the
Bible speaks, when it says, 1.-The ele-
nents shall melt with fervent heat; the
,arth also, and the works that are there
n shall be burned up" Instead of dis
the Bible story about the final
since have looked a lit
lie into geology, finding that its explo-
alton are all in the line of confirmation
# that prophecy, l wonder how this old
raft of a world can keep sailing on
much longer. 1t is like a ship on fire at
sea, the fact that the matches are kept
Town the only reason that it does not
become one complete blaze-masts ON
ire, ratlines ON fire, everything from
to taffrail ON fire. After geolo-
" has told us how near the internal
Tres have already burned their way to-
ward the surface it ought not to be
urprise to us at any time to hear the
inging of the fire bells of a universal
onfagration Oh, am SO glad that
Geology has been bornl Astronomy is
rand because it tells US about other
worlds, but | must say that am more
in our world than in any
ther world, and geology tells us all
bout what it was, it's cradle and what
will be its grave, and this glorious geol-
gy is proving itself more and more the
riend of theology Thank God for the
of the rocks, the Ten Com
announced among the split
ocks of Sinai, the greatest sermon OF
}hrist preached ON the basaltic rocks OF
he mount of beatitudes, the Saviour
l. II klas.