The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-08
True Story of Noah
and HIS Great Ark.

A ,vritcr in The New York Herald says:
Here is a true story about Moan ana
bis orig Aua.orities agree that 1t was
the first ship to sail the mighty deep.
Noah,s ocean was no little Atlantic mill
pond affail but a vast universal sea,
covering the highest mountains OF the
world. Whether it covered the entlre
globe is what BIOLOGISTS ana ;thtiquaiS
exnerts are still discussing. Some beheve
that the Bible daluge was confined 70 the
old World. particularly to the Asiatic
Tho Bible says it was forty days before
5>-o.h sent cut his dove in search OF dry
land Babylonian records say IL was
seven days before couple OIL swaiio"s
we're let out Of the ark, followed Dy
ra,.en The swallows returned. but the
- VA, hos NOT been heard of to this day.
ooenGs Of all nations and races OF the
.,.o,.,l, declare there was deluge, and but
cue family survived: -tr,,
rha object of the deluge was tc destroy
thp human race, which had become ue-
nrayed practising all kinds OF wicked
ness now becoming popular IN Ne" iosh'
T ondop. and other AMBITIOUS to"ils.
Noah being a good man. was .oiu - w ~.
his family and pair of animals OF each
Linz IN fhe ark and prepare for heavy
rain.
yoAH CALLED "sECOND ADAM"
u !. an interesting fact noted in his
torical works on the deluge, that the
destruction Of life was so absolute that
tho restoration following the great 1iood
-,,s calle. the "second Creation" The
Arabs = temperate race. with long mem
cries cali Noah the second Adam
After the flood, when the ark came to
anchor on the little plateau OF earth in
the Iop of the twin peaks of Mount
Ararar (you can see the place to-day
Professor Bryce refers to 1t IN his BOOK
Of travels in that resion), there were
only the few animals and Noah,s family
on the whole earth. When Moan walked
ont of the big ship with his family, the
animals following him, he was indeed
the father Of the world. He was indeed
the Adam OF the new race.
Regarding the voyage, and especially
the ark tho Encyclopaedia Britannica
says:
"It must be observed that. besides the
places requisite for the beasts and BIRDS
and their provisions. there was room
required for Noah to lock up household
utensils, the instruments of husbandry,
grains and seeds to sow earth with after
the de,uge. For this purpose, it is
thought that he might spare room in the
third story for six and thirty cabins. be-
and space about eight and forty cubits
in length to walk in
.NOAH's MENACE A PROBLEM.
It must lie admitte1 that some serious
problems perplesed Noah at every turn.
IT is explained by some writer's that he
did not shelter mates Of every beast and
fowl But he had the Seed as it were,
tho typical animal Of each species, out
Of which all the millions have since de-
velcped.
AS to Just how tho animals behaved
during the voyage no ono knows, as
Eoahs log was probably DESTROYED when
I tho Mohnmmedans oyerran Europe and
Asia and burned the great libraries OF
ancient manuscripts. It has been said
that the animals were 50 pleased to be
Gin, out OF the good that they were glad
to keep the peace, especially as Noah
and his sons had a corner on all the pro-
visions in the world. The little canary
birds were oyerJoyed to get their daily.
allowance of seeds and tho elephants did
not grs,mb!c because the hay from the
Euphrates valley was now and then 9
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