Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-10-21
DR.. Barnes Ignis Fatuua.


assumptlon) a square mile would pro-
vide room for 2, 1877, $40 persons. Con-
sequently at the slow rate of death
minute it would require about fifteen
square miles of Texas yearly to hold
them packed close as sardines But
as we have said this is not true
basis for deduction, for the births of
the world is enormous in comparison
with that of Europe, which comprises
only small portion of the globe. But
even then, if one-fourth the annual
birth rate insEurope alone, 1850, 121,
were buried in Texas yearly, it would
take approximately one and one -eighth
square miles to contain them. How
does DR.. Barnes figure it out as COM
pared to the rest of the world? What
proportion is the population of Europe
to that Of the rest of the worldH
Let us look at it in another way.
The average population of the square
mile is thirty persons. Let us call
in calculation by Adam Clarke, the
great Bible schoiast, to show in what
time the increase from that 80 people
would convert that square mile into a
graveyard, and after that any sane
person will admit that DR.. Barnes is
in error when he says this earth will
be the abiding place of men after the
resurrection, millennium and Judge
will nrfb 1xy h.
very fact that there will be no room
from the myriads who have lived, now
live and will live upon it. DR..
Barnes quotes figures to prove that
Texas as cemetery would hold near
ly three times the number of those
who lived upon this earth. Let us see
how foolish this assertion is, and how
defective the calculation, This Adam
| Clarke, whom we mentioned. says
that If Cain and Abel had taken wives
in the nineteenth year Of the world,
in the tiftieth year Of the world there
might have been produced from them
in direct line sixty-four persons, in
the seventy fourth there would have
been 5l2, in the ninety eighth year
a, O96, and that in 1873 years label was
slain in the 128th year of the world)
the number of the children of Cain
and Abel and their children's children
would have been 42l, 1874 MEN capa.
BILE of generation, without counting
the women, young or old, or such
children as were under the age of sew
enteen. This shows what tn. human
race is capable of in reproducing it
self-nearly a half million of full
grown male descendants in about {
century and quarter from two fami
lies. Now if instead of merely Cair
and Abel there had been four othel
families on the same square mile. tn,
increase would have been 1853, 492 il
| the 1873 years, tCithOat counting the aCOnl
en- and children, or over half the mum
Der necessary ID, 1877, S40) to plant thu
square mile they sprung from will
their corpses. In two and half cen
Julius oio dCSCohuduIS VI OueS6 81
men would be sufficient to cover
square mile of ground without count
ing the women and children. TIL
first portion of this calculation may b
found in Mr.. Clarke's work, about th
25th page, Volume 1. Let us gran
that it is 1000 years from the creation
of Adam, and on the figures abov
prepare ratio as follows:
1873 gears 1,26S,492 people :: 600
gears the GnSlUer, SO, 148, 062 people.
This represents the MALE inCreas
from six men in 5000 years withou
counting the woman and children, o
enough to plant 30 square acres o
Texas in corpses as thick as bees
Think of it, DR.. Barnes Six men
male increase of generative age in
direct line sufficient in 5000 years t.
plant 80 square miles of Texas Wha
about the number of the women ant
children, DR.. Barnes2 You Nigh
double or treble the figures, and still
they would be insufficient to expires
their number. But let us turn to 9th
er proof that the earth Is vast grave
yar'.
The geologist says that the worl
was made by lengthy periods, and il
so doing does not dispute the Bible &C
count of the creation. He proves hi
: point by examination of the earth
crust itself. The Archaean perio
was first Azoic (lifeless) and the
i Eozoic dawn of life). Then on to
of this is placed Laurentian and Hi
n roman strata which show none or bJ
o little signs of organic life. Then il
vertebrate remains are found in I'll
Paleozoic Period, when the coal inca
t ures were formed. Likewise the fisl
q es for their remains are found in ii
l. coal. Next followed the Mesozoic Pc
iod the age of reptiles, who assume 6
u gantic proportions. Then We have Il
Enozoic Period, the age of Mammal
a when the animals were created, al
=. the Quarterniary Period, the Age VIII,
man, primeyal man, first appeared
% the earth, but no exact date is left
l. to this later occurrence. 1t is Gale
lated by some to have been 1904 yea
from Adam to Christ but it is on