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honest in4wry Ns.sr'Ys .-,. vii u.a.e
some ,f t'o pulr'- f. f... rNe r.'
In tie very Glr I....- ..Y ou ar. i""l"sy
above mentioned .t.- ...i .-lattlug a. o."
r'uts found IN tAr t... .' k"rt though 90
frst much disputed '." human origin u'
the form, IL now generally RcEnovIeiy"i
- Tho positions nIsn Hf 'h"-" futs.
lon uver depost. oUu 'est above Present rr"r-.
show that tAs whole OFF me valley, Las been
erravatei slur- u..y acrs depus.t,d IL
mot u . au isolated ,ts-' could not These
f.ufs have been dtpo-ied there Snbs'qusuI
to the d.s.Ypcarzu,c ot t.s r,sr from Tat
elev.tous l. the dvl"-,t 90 which they are
found a rttr bed. and could not the iorma-
tpu have come from glacial action Could
not there have been one Of natures upAeavnls
that suddenly changed tue elevation OF tie
rNsr bed, In short. unless the geologic
formation oyerlylng these fnt, land ths
fut- should be found over a great area 10
not II an age exceeding o.On1 !earsy - there
proof ia tins cited instance 90 the Kent hills.
positive enough % he placed against the
| Isl bhCl chronology
| Again II IL sad Estimates Of from 10. 900
to 200. 900 years have been given from va
| rous pussibie clues tlho italics are nay
own lhis well there Is noth!ns To- be
the matefiSllsm m OF rahaed air
Again II ~ remarked In Egypt an eI-
posuro OF 600 wears. or more, only givcs
faint brown tint 20 fints lying -ideby side with
4alepl,thio nints that are black Wi, WIN age
, Are there not more ways than one Of obtain
, Ing a black color 70 nInt. than 10y age
But one more citation. The earliest re-
mains OF man In America. or perhaps In the
world. are those beneath tho great lava beds
| of california since those wore deposited
the n vsr- have cut their beds through 200
| 70 4,Ooo feet Of lava rock. Implying an erosion
durtns tons; or PsThsps ll humdT@ds, r 81 thou
and cannot tlev be possibly othergiso &C:
in fact Prof. Petris himself Immediately
| following the above quotation. remarks
any c~iainiy to a date betors n, Chrs.non
Bps mark one thing emphatlcnly in this
! B,6heol daiss., thsn tho old buried records
! come forth with nomss aud date.. and the
| and positive. just as the Bible has told US
tsi al these hS d.cdy II y
eTiss 80 70 but confirm tho truth Of Biblical
| Tspsst. ,ha, while tho Sresoins may
| appear sceptical. and while / have my own
Views On the subJeeti yet l write you for
cussion In your valued paper on this hns
others a. we'll as my self HORACE G. SMITH.
Mr.. Smith makes the common mistake
| Of taking a chronological system for some
thing more than convention accepted
| as a matter of convenience There is no
revelation in the Bible in terms tlSat can
| be made to At Ia with our scale OF yNlrs OF
| the number OF years that elapsed between
| the Creation and the coming OF Christ What
efforts have been made to determine tho
biblical" chronology have been purely
human calculations based partly on tho
statements In tho Bible and partly on cN-
ternal evidence. The guesses have been
numberless. and nearly every Investigator
reached a different result. the date set for
the expulsion from Eden varying between
e.es4 years and s>s3 years before the birth
OF Christ
Archbishop Usher's computation Of Ico4
years, which Mr.. Smith. in common with
many others. follows without question. has
been In use for only $50 years and il not
accepted generally by modern Bible scholars
Even tho system OF reckoning used uni
versally without question that Of the years
since tho birth OF Christ. Is based on an un-
certainty, In which the only thing sure IS
that the number We employ. 1901. IL wrong
and AT least four years out of the way
Biblical chronology. like all others. Is n
human convention. starting from a basis
that Il recognized to he very uncertain. In
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