The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-28

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lutte unit of time by which the
motions Of the Solar system are
measured.
The correspondence of one year
to one day is very beautiful. Each
has its four natural divisions 1st,
Spring-Morning; end, Summer
Day; sd, Administering; 1th,
Winter-Night.
Facts often destroy fine poetry,
but nature is an indcstructiblc
poem enhanced by facts. Not only
is the correspondence beautiful,
but it contains the possibilities of
great chronological usefulness.
Were the years blocked, numbered,
and counted as are the days of the
week, much confusion in keeping
the track Of time might be saved
future generations. This idea seems
to bear the stamp of divine inspi-
ration and will, VIC are persuaded,
be tho system for the coming sons
of perfection.
The Scriptures designate the
period of light from sunrise to
sunset-as day in contradistinction
to the period of darkncss-from
sunset to sunrise, or night. 1t is
| possible that this use Of the term
day may have occasioned some con-
fusion i'll chronological estimates.
However, we arc persuaded that
explicit statements of Scripture
can be understood Alright only by
keeping Scripture methods in view
We apprehend that this rule should
be rigidly applicable to every other
branch of sacred bearing and not
only to divine number work.
God worked six days and rested
Ii. e., ceased from work on the
seventh day; by the law of Moses
he ordained that every seventh day
for six years should be rest days,
and further, that the whole seventh
year, including, of course, its
weekly Sabbath days, should be
devoted to the same purpose. Now,
by adding the number of ordinary
Sabbath dayscontained in six years
to the number Of days contained in
the seventh year we have 67S days
in all, required for Sabbatic pur-
poses. Hence one-seventh of time
is not sufficient to satisfy the divine
law of the Sabbath. It will be
well for people, who are endcavor-
ing to place upon their necks and
ours the yoke of the law, which
neither we nor our. fathers could
bear, to note this, for being once
again under the law naught but
the whole law will satisfy the
divine conditions as means OF
salvation. Nevertheless the pro.
portion of o7S days will be cx,
pressed by ths decimal .2o53.
| But the number o7S is also
written--summed up--in the heavens
for us, after a manner which leads
us to the conviction that the Old
Book is older than the pages upon
which it is written, and that it and
they, rightly understood, are the
same hand writing. IS days stand
for one year of Mercury, 22s days
for one year of Venus sand 36s
days for one year of Earth. The
sum of these equals the number ol
days in the divine Sabbatic ratio
This is but one shaft of ligh,
radiating from the Astro- -Scriptura
| Chronology. The eye of the wary
may catch the seven and thus have
perfect light, providing he has
sufficient faith in the work Of hi:
spectroscope to continue his obser.
vations of it's analysis.
| Spades there are with which tc
dig downwards. These of necessity
must ultimately strike rock bottom.
Their work is finite. Others dig
upwards. Through the Word they
go out into infnitudc. Who car
measure the treasure the heavens
have in store for explorers whose
implements are turned thithcrward
Soon all will be known that car
be known of Babylon, and Egypt,
and Syria. Mother Earth shall
soon have disclosed her last treasure
under the spade, which is tearing
her bosom for ancient wealth in