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


both nauseating and blasphemous.
He forgets that Christ was God even
when be was man, and had He chose
He could have MADE a perfect race
without begetting it. We cannot see
what train of thought could have
caused DR.. Barnes to allow such
foolish idea to be published. In fact,
1t was with reluctance that we had it
put in type, and only did so that at
some future time DR.. Barnes might
not say we censored his articles. DR..
Barnes should retire to his closet, and
read some pious work to drive such
peculiar thoughts from his mind, and
a few prayers would do him no harm.
DIR. Barnes devotes lots of space to
tell us that the curse will be lifted
from the earth when the millennium
comes, that it will blossom forth like
the rose probably without the aid of
mans interference. What's the mat
ter with this verse from Genesis
(Chap. viii.21) to prove the curse or
curse has been lifted? And the Lord
said in his heart. l will not again
curse the ground any more for mans
sake. +" The curse text is in Genesis
(lii. ~, Cursed is the ground for
thy sake. - Is not the first verse a
practical, if not real Withdrawal of
the second? What other meaning can
be construedH Perhaps DR.. Barnes
can imagine one. The fact is God, in
addition to having given the fruits
aSl herbs to man, in Chap. tx. 3,
gives him Every living thing that
liveth for meat" though restricted
somewhat later. This looks like a
part of the curse was removed any
way. Adam had to chew hay, it is
probable, but his descendant, Admiral
Noah, gets beefsteak.
Does DR.. Barnes realize what hu
man generation means2 1t does not
mean that man lives until he reach
es the age of thirty-three years, and
then has son, who dittoes the per-
formance in another thirty-three
years. Nothing of the kind. The
man who embarks in the family bust
ness, as rule, does not stop short
with one descendent but his thirty
fourth year finds him with another
descendent, if not alive, at least laid
away in little pine or black walnut
box, according to his means, and SO
it goes on in progressive ratio for sew
eral years, or until one or both of the
! life partners in peopling the earth die.
Thus they make not one ripple on the
sea of life but several, and these rip
pies break into other ripples. Thus
| three generations does not mean NOW
three separate and distinct sets of peo-
pie in century, but on the contrary
a continuous chain from year to year
of young and old, rising in birth and
falling into the grave. You might
say a new generation of one is started
every year or two, which will in turn
start its new generation every year or
two when it possesses the power to
generate. A litter of pigs is a pig
generation is it notY 1t is not neces-
sary to wait thirty three years or even
three years to call it pig generation.
Even SO with the human race. What
we call generation is only a success
sion of descendants of particular
man and woman of various ages from
breath to the time when some of
them are capable of starting a genera
tion themselves. Thus the rippes up
on the human sea of life are incl eased
till they become innumerable so mul-
tiplied. Better count the stars of
the heavens. Think of % millions OF
one-quarter of the population of Eu-
rope dying in the 14th century of the
"Black Death, SO Hecker estimates.
Yet Europe has too many people in it
now, and her sovereigns have to play
at the game of war to reduce the pop
ulation. The births in Europe in 1906
are given by the Worlds Almanac as
13, 400, 4S3, of whom quarter die in
six years, so statisticians tell us.
This estimate is for Europe alone.
There still remain the births among
the vast hordes of Africa, Of Asia, OF
Polynesia, Australia, and the Western
Hemisphere. The production and
death of humanity is tremendous to
contemplate. This is no one-horse
business, but big concern directed
by powerful Deity, who won't stand
any trifiing when it comes to settling
things Justly. 1t would not be diff
ficult task to estimate that as many
have died of pestilence, famine and
earthquake as have been estimated by
Pastor" Russell as having lived up
on earth. Why, it has been estimated
there is a death in the world every
time the clock ticks. A death a sec
ond is go minute, or 5000 an hour
or SO, 400 per day of "a hours, or 30,
$50, 900 per year. But this is nothing
for in view of the births in Europe il
1900 (13, 400, 4s3) the death rate mus
be far greater than one death rer sec
ond. The area Of the earth in square
miles is Is, 23S, 900, and with the pop
ulation estimated 1,522, 200, 600 thii
would give 80. 60 persons resident on I
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