The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27

the Saviour dying on the rocks of Col
| gotha, and buried amid the limestone
rocks of Joseph's sepulcher; the last
day to be ushered in with a rending of
rocks, and our blessed Lord sugges-
lively entitled the Rock of Ages"
this day proclaim the banns of mar
riage between geology and the ology,
the rugged bridegroom and the fairest
of brides. Let them join their hands.
and whom God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder."
, If anything inS the history or condi-
| ion 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
with the great book. In the last CEN
tury the "French Semitic association"
printed 4 list of so theories of geology
which had been adopted and afterward
rejected. Leyell. the, scientist. an
nounced SO theories of geology that
had been believed in aud afterward
thrown overheard. Meanwhile the
story of the Bible has not changed at
all, and if geology has cast out between
sidered established, we can afford to
wait until the last theory cf geology
antagonizing Divine revelaS:oa shall
have been given up. Nce, in
this discourse upon the geology 81 the
Bible, or God among the Rocks,
charge agitated and atfrighted Uzzahs
to calm their pulses about the upset
ting of the Scripture. Let me see! Fer
several hundred years the oxen hav>
been jerking the ark this way and
that, and pulling it over rough places
trying to stick it in the mud Of deci-
sion, and kicking with all the power Of
their hoofs against the sharp goads,
and trying to pull it in the cool shades
away from the heats of retributior
from q God "who will by no means
clear the guilty. Yet, have you not
noticed that the book has never been up
set? The only changes made in it
were by its learned friends in the re
vision of the Scriptures. The Book OF
Genesis has been thundered against by
the mightiest batteries yet you can no.:
to-day find in all the earth a copy
of the Bible which has not the fifty
chapters of the first copy of the Boob
of Genesis ever printed. starting with
the words, sin 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 continued among
the brick kilns of Egypt, would have
thrown Pharaoh plank if we
had seen him drowning. And Mount
Sinai is to-day a 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
German law, all English law,
all American law worth any.
thing are squarely founded OIL
them. So mighty assault for centuries
has been made on the Book of Joshua
1t was said that the story of the de-
tained sun and moon is an insult tc
modern astronomy, but that Book o.
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 ol
ridicule for the small wit of ages; but
there it stands, with its four chapters
inviolate, while geology puts up in
its museums remains of sea monster:
capable of doing more than the one
which swallowed the recreant prophet
There stands the LOSE chapters of the
Bible, Notwithstanding all the attack,
of ages, and there they will stand
until they shrivel up in the fna
fires, which geologists say are ~l
ready kindled aud glow hotta!
than the furnaces of an ocert
York Narrows for Hamburg or South
ampton. l should not wonder if from
the crypt of ancient cities the in
spired manuscripts of Matthew, Mark
Luke and John, in their own chirogrs
ply, would be taken, and the epistle
which Paul dictated to his amanuensis
as well as the one in the apostles ow,
handwriting. At the same ratio G
: archaeological and geological confir
nation of the Scriptures, the time wi!
come when the truth of the Bible vii
no more be doubted than the common
, almanac, which tells you the days AM
the months of the year, and the unbe
levers will be accounted harmless
lunatics. Forward the telescope an,
, the spectroscope and the chemical bat
teries. and critically examine the os
tracods of the ocean depths and tn
bones of the great mammals on tn
gravelly hill tops! And the mightier
and the grander, and the deeper all,
the higher the explorations, the bette
, for our cause. As sure as the thunder
1 bolts of the Almighty are stronge
than the steel pens of agnostics, tn
e ark of God will ride on unhurt, an
, Uzzah need not fear any disasters up
I setting. The apocalyptic angel hyini
through the midst of Heaven, pro
claiming to all nations, and kindred