Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-08

scriptiOns were discovered fifty years
ago telling us that this king took his
son BilsharuZZar us cO-regent with
him shortly before that time.
2. The Telet Amarna tablets dis
covered twelve or fifteen years ago in
Egypt, about 100 miles above Cairo,
astonished the scholarly world and
confirmed large circle of bible state
mcnts. They were clay tablet on
which had been written a large num-
Der of letters from Egyptian officers
in alestine and Lyna, and letters
which had passed between the kings
of Egypt and Babylonia. After being
buried nearly 400 years they are
still legible. They were written in
the cunirform alphabet of Babylonia,
thus showing the existence of a wide
ly scattered, cultivated class of
scribes. They mention many names
of towns in Palestine that were in
existence in Joshuas time and later,
among them, Jerusalem. They srOW
that Egyl\ was losing it's hold of that
region. thus preparing for the state
of things which existed at the time
of the conquest of Joshua.
3. The Hithtes are often mention
ed in the Telet Amarna tablets un.
der the name of Hheta. Now through
the Hithtes many scholars have de-
MED that there were any such people
and it is not five years since dis
tilguished scholars have denied that
the Hheta were Hethtes. The explOr.
atoms of the last four years have,
however, shown beyond question, that
they were a most powerful people,
occupying a large part of the Asia
Minor, and that they were greatly
to be feared by the southern people,
just as the Bible represented. All the
sites in Sinai and Palestine mention
ed in the Bible and find that the geo.
graphy of the sacred writer's is fault.
less. This is we'll nigh demonstra-
ton that they were correct in other
things. To be so faultless the writ.
ers must have been contemporary |
with the events.
Thus it is that in these later days !
when som many have been denying
the truth of the Old Testament, the
very stories have carried out in its
defense The Lord has not left him.
self without witnesses to speak in his
behalf. In due time we may be sure,
he will open for us other secret
treasures, to confirm the faith of
those that are inclined to falter.
4. The 18th chapter of Genesis,
telling of the expedition of Amraphel
and his associates from Babylonia to
Palestine and of his capture of Lot,
has long been set down as unhistori-
cal. But now we have unearthed not
only the names of these kings in
Babylonia as reigning at that time,
but have found that the conditions
existed which would make such expe-
litions likely to occur. We have even
found an extensive code of laws writ
Ten by Amropfl'l. and in many re-
;pects they resemble those of Moses.
;hough far inferior to them in moral
,one.
The browning event il the entire
conference, at least in the eyes of the
public, was the lecture by Bishop
John w. Hamilton on the subject.
Some Persons of Quality at Boston"
long before the hour of beginning,
he crowd began to arrive and by 8
o'clock the church auditorium and it's
extensions were packed, while many
tood at the doors and in rear aisles.
Rev. F. M. Mccoy presiued and after
he opening hymn and prayer, he in
reduced the bishop in laudatory
erms.
For the ensuing two hours the au-
Hence sat captured by the. gifted
reaker, whom they often interrupted
r..h their applause.
The early days of Boston and of
Jew England were gone over with it's
eading literary and historical char
cters. and of many the bishop was
personally acquainted, since he had
one to Boston while still a young
ran. The origin of the rhyme of
Mary's Little Lamb" and kindred
ursery games SO common today and
o dear to every household, was I'M
clded from personal knowledge. The
randeur of the old school of preach