The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-09-26
NOTES AND COMMEN

apon Il hem that fear Him.-Psn. 1O3,17.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Below is presented brief chronol-
ogy of the period covered by the past
quarters lesson:
| 1904 B. C.-The creation. Adam and Eve
created In Eden and their fall. Birth OF
Cain and Abel near Eden.
iS75 B. C-Murder of Abel. and consequent
Punishment of Cain.
SSH b. C.-Birth of Seth
3074 b, C.-Death of Adam.
Bolt B. C.-Translation Of Enoch.
294S B. C.-Birth Of Noah.
ahS b. C.-The flood.
c247-S b. C.-Covenant with Noah in Ar
menia
22i7 b. C.-Confusioa OF tongues, in Baby
lonia.
1898 Is. C.-Death of Noah, in Arabia.
1896 Il. C.-Birth OF Abram at Ur, Chaldea.
1926 b. C.-Abram moves from Ur to Haran
in Mesopotania.
1921 B. C.-Call of Abram. .Abram and
Lot move to Canaan.
1918 B. C.-Abram and Lot separate; Lot
goes to Sodom and Abram settles in
Hebron.
1913 B. C.-Lot carried away captive by
Cherdorlaomer, and rescued by Abram.
1912 j. Goods covenant with Abram.
| 1910 g. C.-Brth of Ishmael.
1897 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.
1896 Il. C.-iSirth of Isaac, In Moab.
1884 y. C.-Hagar and lshmael sent away.
1871 Il. C.-Abraham offers to sacrifice Isaac
on Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem.
1860 b. C.-Death of Sarah, in Hebron.
1857 B. C.-Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca,
at Lahai Roi.
1872 b. C.-Death of Abraham at Beersheba.
1904 y. C.-Esau sells birthright for mess
of pottage... The covenant confirmed.
116O Il. C.-Jacob steals Esau's blessing and
starts for Padan-Aram.. His vision at
Bethel.
1858 b. C.-Jacob marrles Leah and Rachel
1920 Is. C.-Jacob's children, excepting
Benjamin, born... He returns to Canaan
....Wrsstles with angel at PeEuei. .. 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
tury. 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-
servative geologists 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 for
not less than 10000 years.
The monuments of ancient peoples
also prove that the date assigned to
the deluge by the Bible margin is
many hundreds, if not thousands, OF
years too late. Some high authorities
on the history of Egypt place the
earliest known events in that history
as early as B. C. $500. Others cut the
date down 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 Il. c. $500. 1t would
manifestly be impossible for two ma
tions, surrounded by other peoples,
rI nj in
gions so far apart as Assyria and
Egypt in much less than 500 years
after a sweeping catastrophe IKE the
deluge. The date of the deluge is to
be considered, therefore, as not later
than b. c. $500, and very likely asearly
as b. C. 6OOe.
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-
us authorities ranging from B. C.
2100 to b. C. 1850.
THE GOLDEN TEXTS.
Lesson LIN the beginning God created
| the Heaven and the earth.-Gen. IL.
Lesson II-Where sin asounded. grace
did much more abound.-Rom $40.
Lesson III.-Noah found grace In the
, eyes Of the Lord.-Gen. 6:S.
Lesson W. will bless thee. and make
| thy name great; and thou shalt be bless
| ng.--Gen. 1872
Lesson Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you. do even SO to them.
Matt. 7:12.
Lesson VII am thy shield. and thy ex-
ceeding great rVward.-Gen. 1871.
Lesson VII.-The effectual fervent prayer
| Of q righteous man availeth much.-Jas.
! 6:16.
Lesson vIiI-By faith Abraham, when
he was tried. offered up Isaac.-Heb. 11:17.
Lesson IX.-Blessed are the peaoemak-
ers, for they shall be called the children
| Of God.-Matt. SO.
, Lesson x.-Surely the Lord is In this
| place.-Gen.' 2S:18
Lesson xI.-Men ought always to pray
and not to faint-Luke 1871