The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-07

show that '.,v rUily confirm the words
Of Jesus. The ,Ai,nStleS and Moses re,
Si'ecling the iIeiuyc
The great stumbling iln Il heretofore
has been the sil position that the story
Of the Delupe i:nplics II Rot earth. and
that such II homi Of waters rising high.
er than the mouut;iuS siIoIlid be recog-
hiZed as an nroSsihiliiy. since we
| know that The earth is "a sphere Thus
does Sha Hos" thinking called wisdom
Of this word" set in defiance the Wis
confusion
AS the study OF :iStr, Soniy has pro
| crossed. HE t;sii ian theory respecting
! creation ha, "oma forward Ii shows
! that the earth when in q moIica condi.
| ton must have thrown of various min
| erals in gaseous form. These. cooling
| would become more or less separated
from each other. :tccordin" Ia density
! and must lave constituted great rings
and bands about he earth. similar "a
| those which we perceive encirclng
| Saturn AMI Jupiter As the earth
| cooled. these rings would obtain Sepa-
rate motions Of their own. because of
/ their distance: yet always they would
/ tend IL graCitate toward the earth.
/ The circuma mhicnt air. or armament.
would keep these from immediate pre-
cipitation. Gradually they would spread
, out as great canopy. gravitating more
and more toward the poles. because OF
the greater centrifugal force at the
equator. Finally. the accnmula ton at
the poles would become so great as To
overcome the resistance OF the atmOs-
phere. and cause precipitationS. which
would flow toward the equator.
The theory is that many such deluges
had been nrecipitated upon the earth
before man was created. aud that from
these came many of the mineral depos-
It's of earth. Only one such ring re-
manned when man was created. In
deed. this was not Il ring but had come
TO the state in which it acted as can
ony. As the last of these rings. 1t con
sisted or pure water AS q canopy il
refracted the suns rays much as would
the roof Of hot-house. so that the
temperature OF earth was uniform--the
same 1T the poles as mt the equator
Divine Wisdom forekncw the condition
Of things which would prevail at the
time of the Deluge. and hence delayed
the breaking OF this great envelope OF
waters until that time
Frozen In the Solid Ice.
Not long ago. in Siberia. Il mammoth
was found with grass between its
teeth. frozen solid in u great basin OF
ice. which WAS so clear that the ami
NAL could be seen long before the ice
melted enough for it to he conveniently
eyhumed. Similarly. Il deer was found
in the polar regions. with undigeSted
grass in its stomach. proving clearly
that the catastrophe which overlook
it and froze it solidly in the ice was
u sudden One-just such as did occur.
according To the Yailian theory
The breaking Of the watery envelope
made the change at the poles sudden.
and sent a great food OF waters over
the earth toward the equator. Thus
came the great Glacial Period. and
some OF the great glaciers. or icebergs.
carried over North America, cut great
gullies. valleys, crevices, canyons. Ge-
olOgiStS have traced the course Of some
Of these and charted them.
Equatorial Heat Was Intense.
AS the cold at the poles was extreme
to form the great ice-caps covering
the earth and only gradually melting
away-so the heat at the equator must
have been proportionately extreme.
The intense heat at the equator. warm
ing the ocean. set up ocean currents.
These for the past four thousand years
have been gradually modifying the arc
tie regions-advancing the temperate
zone further and further toward the
poles. and more and more reducing the
ice-caps, bringing them toward the
as great icebergs to be melted
and sent back warm.
The Ark Divinely Protected.
We naturally inquire. Where was the
Ark while such torrent of water
poured over the earth from the poles?
How was it that the Ark was kept
safe and comparatively quiet in such a
time of stress? The answer of faith
would be that God, who directed Noah
and his family to build the Ark. exer-
cising His Power would undoubtedly
protect it.
And now comes forward Prof George |
Frederick Wright, the geolOgist, who
tells the world that the region around |
about Mt. Ararat, where the Ark
rested. was apparently at one time the |
scene Of great eddy. While the wa
ters ragged elsewhere. God specially !
held that part quiet, just as we have |
often seen quiet eddy or bay along
side Of swiftly rushing stream
Prof. Wright's deductions respecting |
the quietness of this little corner of the
earth are drawn largely from the fact |
that he finds there wonderfully deep |
soil, which seems to indicate that it
was a settling basin for intensely mud |
dy waters in the long ago.
Pastor Russell then drew lesson
from the Deluge in the line of his text
He deduced that the Sayior's words do |
not refer to the ,rickedness Of the ante
1iluvians, and that He did not compare
t to the ,oickedaess at the time of His
Second Advent. though doubtless cor
might have been deduct
Die. The Masters words imply rather
that. as the people Of Noah's day were
quite unconscious of the coming DetWge.
an will all rnanI-ipd 10 fatally ,,pcop- |