West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-07-30
INFIDELITY.
''The Wisdom OF Their Wise Men Shall
Perish" lisa. 29:i4.


prophecy is for Chris,endom today, and in
dica,es tina, both leaders and people fall in.
to the ditch OF inhdelity together.
There are varying degrees of uubeliet
among The savant. whose wisdom has perish
ed. One class upbraids the other for
destructive criticism of The Word Of God and
at the same time is so ,iuciured with the
spirit of the higher critics that they arc far
from accepting the Bible narrative as {,
stands but merely admit that there Is some
reliability in the Scripturai account.
The University of Pennsylvania has ex-
humed more than forty thousand tablets of
burnt clay, during the last thirteen years,
from the site Of the ancient city of chalueh,
full of written records showing high state
of civilization in the ancient world and con
frm,ng the records of Genesis, while an inn
mense mass of inscribed material has been
scared from Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria aud
Persia that prove the correctness of the
statements of Samuel, Kings aud the
Prophets and their representation Of Hebrew
history.
These findings give conclusive evidence
that there were wise men in the past with
out present day advantages aud that the
high civilization of this time Of the end is no
proof of the evolution theory which mis-
leads the savants 10 predetermine that be-
cause of these evidences of Ahraham's day,
there must have been long, long periods
proceeding that time, for the developement
of man from monkey condition up to that
degree Of intelligence.
The city OF Chalueh Is mentioned in Gen.
10 10, built 10y Nimrod in the valley of The
Euphrates. The dean of the University of
Pennsylvania says of these excavations (:
"They have upset the already tottering
chronology of Usher and have put the ex-
islence of man on the earth back some TO-
600 years before the Christian era, and they
that early period. The work of exhuming
Chalueh began on what seemed to be merely
| a mound Of sand IN desert of drifting sand.
The dome of building was soon reached
which proved to be magnificent temple of
Baal of whose worship this city was the cen
depth of more than forty feet from ITS base
by the drifting sands. Among other curios
ities in adjacent buildings was the strong
room of real estate and banking house,
containing certificates of deposits, tax receipts
and the like, all on baked clay tablets and
beautifully written in cuneiform characters
and they read very much like similar papers
in modern real estate dealers ofhce."- The
dean bad beautiful photographs Of the
buildings in the city, (which were strong,
massive and imposing and very much like
the best buildings in our modern cities. The
names of The various kings and dynas,ies
are given with The dates Of each which ex-
tend back to period 1900 years before
Abraham OF to the time Of Adam, according
to our common chronology
Blu, the pick aud shovel went deeper and
the surprising discovery was made that this
ancient city of Chalueh was built on the site
of still more ancient city beneath it of
which there seems TO have been no memory
or tradition at the founding of the city Of
Chaleuh. This city dated back at least a.
600 years more, or to period 5000 years
before the Christian era. It's inhabitants,
whoever they were, were very skilled build
ers and had massive stone houses and tenn
Piles several stories high, in which the arch
is freely used. The arch was unknown to
the Egyptians or to the Greeks or to any Of
the peoples whom we call the ancients' and
is considered Roman invention. But the
modern pick and shovel unearths il where
| the sands of the desert had iried IL so deep
that all memory aud tradition Of the mighty
builders who invented it and used Il some
| 5000 TO 10000 years before Christ had
passed away from among. men, and what
has been considered an invention OF the
Romans was really one of the lost arts Of
| highly civilized people who lived and built
aud wrote and thought and perished and the
record Of them and of their doings has lain
for probably a hundred centuries so deep
beneath the sands that their burial place
was used by other men as place for their
building, and these 10 turn were buried in
the sand, The removal Of which shows that
the Billie record IS accurately true in It's
minute details for while man must come and
man must 90 The Word Of God abideth for.
ever
Al this before an intelligent audience
from one of their wise men as champion
of the Bible The dean is aware that no
kind Of reasoning or figuring based on the
Bible statements Of chronology can extend
the period from the creation Of man TO the
birth Of our Lord beyond 4f2S years but
being imbued with the spirit Of higher
criticism even while resisting lis conclusions
he approaches the scientific researches with
a desire 10 prove the same theories in direc,
and destructive opposition 70 all the Scrip.
lures, which reveal plan 50 wonderful that
man could not have conceived or originated
It; plan which fits into ali the features Of
past history and is in full accord with ell It's
own declarations in both Old and New
| Tes,aments
II is natural that the dean Of a college
which hos spent several thousand dollars in
scientific research to secure information
and to advertise itself, should initiate the
results just little. Bot the common peo.
pie must no, take his statements too literally
unless prepared to write themselves The
credulous simpletons Of the dark ages
"rhe dome Of a building was soon reached"
bat At what depth the dean does not say.
bat the base Of this building which "proved