The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-17

mat New Testament story about the
earthquake at the time Christ was crii-
Gifted, do you? Geology digs down
into Mount Calvary and finds the rocks
ruptured and aslant, showing the wo-k
of an especial earthquake for that
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 an
bouncing an especial earthquake for
the greatest tragedy Of all the cen
turies-the assination 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
that the world is already on fire,
and that the center Of this globe is in
candescent, molten, volcanic, and burn-
ing coal, burning out towards the sur
face, and the internal fires have so far
reached the outside rim that l do not
see how the world is to keep from
complete confagration until the proph-
estes concerning it are fulfilled. The
lava poured forth from the mouths Of
Vesuvius, Mount Etna and CotopaXi,
and Kilauea is only the regurgitation
from an awful Inflammation thousands
OF miles deep. There are mines IN
Pennsylvania and in several parts CT
the world that have been on fire for
many years. These coal mines burn
ing down and the internal fires of the
earth burning up, after awhile these
two fires, the descending and the as
cending, will meet, and then will occur
the universal confiagration of which
the Bible speaks, when it says, 1.-THE
elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also, and the works that are
therein shall be burned up" Instead
OF disbelieving the Bible story about
the final conflagration, since l have
looked a little into geology, finding
that its explorations are all in the line
of confirmation of that prophesy, l
wonder how this old craft 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 down the
only reason that it does not become
one complete blaze-masts on fire, vat
Inns on fire, everything from cutwater
to taffrail on fire. After geology has
told us how neal the internal fires
lave already burned their way through
the surface, it ought not to be a sur
prise to us at any time to hear The
ringing Of the fire bells of a universal
confiagration. Oh, l am so glad that
geology has been born! Astronomy
is grand, because it tells us about
other worlds; but I must say that ]
am more interested in our world than
in any other world, and geology tells
us all about what it was, it's 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 an.
nounced among the split rocks of ii.
mai; the greatest sermon of Chris
preached on the basaltic rocks of the
Mount Of B~eatitudes; the Savior dying
on the rocks of Golgotha, and buried
amid the limestone rocks of Joseph!
sepulchre; the last day to be ushered il
with a rending of rocks, and oul
blessed Lord suggestively entitled tn,
Rock of Ages" this day proclaim
the banns Of a marriage between geol
ogy and theology, the rugged bride
groom and the fairest of brides. lie
them join their hands, and whom Coz
hath joined together, let not man pu
asunder."
II anything in the history or condi
ton of the earth seems for the tim
contradictory of anything in geology
you must remember that geology i.
all the time correcting itself, and NOR
and more coming to h~armonizatioI
with the great Book. In the last centur.
the French Scientific Association
printed a list Of eighty theories of ge
ology which had been adopted ant
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 no
changed at all, and II geology ha'
cast out between one and two hundrel
theories which it once considered rs
tablished, we can afford to wait unit
the last theory of geology antagoniz
ing divine revelation shall have beef
given up. Now, in this discourse up
on the geology OF the Bible, or Co.
among the Rocks, l charge all agitat
ed and affrighted Uzzahs to calm thei
pulses about the upsetting of the Scrip
lures. Let me see! For several hun
dred years the oxen have been jerkin
the ark this way and that, and pullin
it over rough places and trying to site
it in the mud of derision, and kickin
with all the power Of their hoof
against the sharp goads, and tryin
to pull it into the cool shade away fror
the heats of retribution from a Go
who will by no means clear the gull
ty." Yet have you not noticed tina
the Book has never been upset? TIL
only changes made in it were by II
learned friends in the revision of tn
Scriptures. The book Of Genesis ha
been Numbered against by the might
lest batteries, yet you cannot toda
find in all the earth a copy of the 3
BILE which has not the fifty chapter
of the first copy of the book of Gems
sis ever printed, starting with tn
words, "In the beginning, God" an