Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-10

the subject Today he wished to deal
with the facts Of nature and briefly to
show that they fully confirm the words
Of Jesus, the Apostles and Moses re-
specting the Deluge.
The great stumbling block heretofore
has been the supposition that the story
OF the Deluge implies a fiat earth, and
that such flood of waters rising high
er than the mountains should be recog-
nized as an impOssibility, since we
know that the earth is a sphere, Thus
does shallow thinking, called wisdom
Of this world" set in defiance the Wis
dom of God and His Word-to its own
confusion.
AS the study Of astronomy has pro-
gressed, the Vallian theory respecting
creation has come forward. 1t shows
that the earth when in molten condi-
ton must have thrown off various min
erals in gaseous form. These, cooling,
would become more or less separated
from each other, according to density,
and must have constituted great rings
and bands about the earth, similar to
those which we perceive encircling
Saturn and Jupiter. As the earth
cooled, these rings would obtain sepa-
rate motions Of their own, because Of
their distance; yet always they would
tend to grayitate toward the earth
The circumambient air, or armament,
would keep these from immediate pre-
cipltation. Gradually they would spread
out as a great canopy, gravitating more
and more toward the poles, because Of
the greater centrifugal force at the
equator. Finally, the accumulation at
the poles would become 80 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 precipitated upon the earth
before man was created, and that from
these came many of the mineral depos-
Its of earth. Only one such ring re-
llulhNu hllNh man wac NltuNNu' III
deed this was not ring, but had come
to the state in which 1t acted as a can.
opy. AS the last Of these rings, 1t con-
sisted Of pure water AS canopy 1t
refracted the suns rays much as would
the roof Of n hot-house, so that the
temperature Of earth was uniform-the
same at the poles as at the equator.
Divine Wisdom forelSnew 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 tho Solid leo.
Not long ago, in Siberia, a mammoth
was found with grass between Its
teeth, frozen solid in great basin Of
ice, which was so clear that the anil
NAL could be seen long before the fee
melted enough for 1t to be conveniently
eXhumed. Similarly, deer was found
in the polar regions, with undlgested
grass in its stomach, proving clearly
that the catastrophe which overlook
II and froze 1t solidly in the ice was
sudden one-just such as did occur,
according to the Vaillan theory.
The breaking of the watery envelope
made the change at the poles sudden,
and sent great flood 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 ut the equator, warm
ing the ocean, set up ocean currents.
These for the past four thousand years
have been gradually modifying the arc
tic regions advancing the temperate
zone further and further toward the
poles, and more and more reducing the
lce-caps, bringing them toward the
equator as great icebergs to be melted
and sent back warm.
Tho Ark Divinely Protected.
We naturally inquire, Where was the
Ark while such Il torrent Of water
poured over the earth from the pOles2
How was 1t that the Ark was kept
safe ana comparatively quiet in such a
time Of stress? The answer Of faith
would be that God who directed Noah
aud his family to build the Ark, exer.
clsng His Power would undoubtedly
protect It.
And now comes forward Prof. George
Frederick Wright, the geologlst, who
tells the world that the region around
about Mt Ararat where the Ark
rested, was apparently ut one time the
scene Of great eddy While the wa
tcrs ragged elsewhere, God specially
held that part quiet, just os we have
often seen quiet eddy or bay along
aide Of swiftly rushing stronm.
Prof Wnghts deductions respecting
The quietnoss Of this little corner of the
earth are drawn largely from the fact
ihat he finds there wonderfully deep
soil, which seems to indicate that It
was a settling basin for intensely mud
ny waters In the long ago.
Pastor Russell then drew a lesson
from the Dclugc in the line Of his text.
Tie deduccd that the Saylor's words do !
not refer to the lrickcincSS Of the ante.
llluvlans and that He did not compare
Il TO the UickcdncSS at the time Of His