Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28

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zpontk emtAatfear Him.-Psa. 1OSs' Il.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Below is presented a brief chrOnoI-
oev of the period covered by the past
quarters Iesson:
1904 B. G.-The creation. Adam and Eve We
created in Eden and their fall. Birth Oh
Cain and Abel near Eden. ,t
SIS B. C.-Murder of Abel, and SonseQushA
Punishment of Cain.
SS74 B. C.-Birth of Seth.
1914 B. C.-Death of Adam.
SO17 B. C.-Translation of Enoch.
2945 B. C.-Birth of Noah.
&4S B. C.-The food.
2247-8 B. C.-Covenant with Noah in Ar
22r B. C.-Confusion of tongues, in Baby
lonia.
1898 B. C.-Death OF Noah, in Arabia.
1896 B. C.-Birth of Abram at Ur. Chaldea-
1926 B. C.-Abram moves from Ur to Harau
in Mesopotania.
1921 B. C.-Cau of Abram.. .Abram and
Lot move to Canaan.
1918 B. C.-Abram and Lot separate; Lot
goes to Sodom and Ahram settles in
Hebron
1913 B. C.-Lot carried away captive by
Cherdorlaomer, and rescued by Abram.
1912 B. Goods covenant with Abran.
1910 B. C.-Birth of Ishmael.
1887 B. C.-The covenant renewed:
Abrams name changed to Abraham, and
Sarafs to Sarah. Abraham entertains;
three angels, and intercedes for Sodom
....Lot fees from doomed city--..Sodom
destroyed.
| 1886 B. C.-Birth of Isaac in Moab. +
| 1894 B. C.-Hagar and IshmaeI sent away. :
1871 B. C.-Abraham offers to sacrifice Isaas
on Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem.
1867 3 C.-Death OF Sarah, in Hebron.
1887 B. C.-Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca4
at Lahai Roi.
1887 B. C.-Birth of Jacob and Esau.
1922 B. C.-Death of Abraham at Beersheba.
1904 B. C.-Esau sells birthright for mess
of pottage. THE covenant confirmed.
1850 B. C.-Jacob steals Esau's blessing and
starts for Padan-Aram.. His vision at
Bethel.
| 1853 B. C.-Jacob marries Leah and Rachel.
1928 B. C.-Jacob's children, excepting
Benjamin, born....He returns to Canaan
| ....Wrestles with angel at Penuel.. His
name changed to Israel.
The above table is valuable only for
comparisons, and getting at the inter
walls between the more notable events.
| The dates are those found in the mar
gins of our Bibles, but are not ac-
curate. They were estimated by Arch
bishop Usher in the eighteenth CEN
fury. He had at his command only
| the dates given in the Bible text, with
out the helps that have come to more
recent scholars from other sources.
One corrective to the dates of the
common chronology is furnished by
the study of geology. The fossils in
| the rocks, the arrangement of the
strata of soil, the signs of channels
worn by rivers, all show the great
age of the world. Some students have
talked about millions of years as in
cluded in the worlds history, but con-
sentative biologists believe that pres
ent processes have been going on for
from 10000 to $4,000 years, and that
there have been men in the world fo:r
not less than 10000 years.
The monuments of ancient peopleH
also prove that the date assigned tt1
the deluge by the Bible margin iH
many hundreds, if not thousands, OF
years too late. Some high authorities
on the history of Egypt place tho
! earliest known events in that history
as early as B. C. $500. Others cut the
date down a thousands years or more,
but all agree that records dating
earlier than B. C. 5000 exist in Egypt.
The records of Assyria certainly be-
gin as early as B. C. $500. It would
manifestly be impossible for two ma
| lions, surrounded by other peoples,
| to be formed and organized in re-
! gions so far apart as Assyria and
Egypt in much less than 500 years
after a sweeping catastrophe like the
| deluge. The date of the deluge is to
be considered, therefore, a not later
than B. c. $500, and very likely as early
as B. c. 5000.
The date of Abraham's life is gen.
orally believed to have been not far
from the period indicated by the
Bible margin, the time fixed by vari-
! n
21Oo to B. C. 1850. .
THE GOLDEN TEXTS.
Lesson LIN the beginning God created
| the Heaven and the earth.-Gen. III.
Lesson 1.-Where sin abounded, grace
| did much more abound.-Rom. $40.
| Lesson III.-Noah found grace in tho
| eyes of the Lord.-Gen. 6:S.
| Lesson W. will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be bless
| ing.-Gen. 1872.
Lesson V.-Whatsoever we would that
men should do to you, do even so to them.
| Matt. 7:12
Lesson vi am thy shield. and thy ex.
~ceeding great reward.-Gen. ISL
Lesson VII.-The effectual fervent prayer
of righteous man availeth much-Jas
| SIG.
| Lesson WILEY faith Abraham, wher
he was tried, offered up Isaac.-Heb. 11:17.
Lesson IX.-BIessed are the peacemak.
| ers for they shall be called the children
| of God.-Matt. SO.
Lesson X-SureIy the Lord is in thin
| place.-Gen. 2S:16.
Lesson XI.-Men ought always to pray
| and not to faint-Luke 1871.
| Lesson XII.-Wine is mocker, strong
| drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived
| thereby is not Wise.-ProV. pol.
Gold Dust
When in doubt, don't.
The love of the law leads to liberty
in it.
Self is the shortest and the deepest
definition of sin.
Loves softest words often have the
sublimest echoes.
Sympathy and sincerity are the sis-
ter keys to all hearts.
THE SPICE OF VARIETY.