Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-11-26
photography, and. Some Lessons
Drawn TherefrOm, Designed for
Teachers and Pupils in our
Schools.


Teachers and Pupils in our
Schools.
Editor Democrat:
Now that political matters are set
tied for a while, your columns should
be able to put forth something inter-
esting and useful to at least the young
err generation. Perhaps the subject
above is not treated very extensively
in the.-text books of the Henderson
and other county schools, yet the
writer hopes to draw the attention of
teachers and some of the student
bodies at least. The first word in our
| subject above pertains to ancient
handwriting, and takes cognizance of
writings of all kinds, for indeed up to
the 18th, or 18th century, the rolls,
scrolls, or tablets written on hard sub
| stances, skins, or papyrus, with stile,
or reed, was what the world had to
I depend on for literature in the form
| Of what we call books. Greek and
Latin photography came down to us
most extensively; but the manuscripts.
of the Old and New testaments, were
given us in the same way,-the former
FIRST written in Hebrew. AS before
stated, thecstudent will remember that
no such thing as a printed book was
ever known to be in this world, till
the year A. p. 1900.
The period referred to, as the time
CT Adam and Eve, is given by chronol-
Logers as 1904 years before Christ and
yet the papyrus rolls OF. the first five
books Of the Bible, as modern transla-
tors received them, we're not written
till the Scribe Ezra did so in the year
444 before Christ. If Moses had
written the account of creation, the
period known as the food was 1856
year. after Adam, while no records of
any kind ever got through that catas-
trophe, or within a thousand years of
Moses afterwards. Moses. his priests
and scribes may have written some
scattered tablets and parchments, but
at one time not only they, but even
the p~riestly Code itself, was lost for d
time, till found in the rubbish of the
temple, by one of the later kings,
after David and Solomon's time.
The question then naturally arises,
how did Ezra or even Moses at so late
a date, write back into the times be-
fore the floods. That they did so, the
Book of Gensis itself clearly shows.
= The rivers running out of the Gar
den of Eden, one of them through
Ethiopia in Africa, another one toward
the east of Asyria in Asia and anoth-
or, the Euphrates in Europe, are all
modern names, and yet they are spok-
eli of as being called by these modern
names, at the very day of Creation.
Then, again, referring to the time of
'Fsau in the 36th chapter of Gensis,
speaking of the dukes and rulers that
Sprang out of the line of Esau, about
a thousand years before the first king
of Israel, we nave the expressions !
And these are the kings that reigned
in Edom before there reigned any
king over the children of Israel.
Thus showing that the writer of Cen
sis wrote into a period that was long
gone by and past. The student then.
will naturally inquire how could either
Moses or Ezra or n other Jew, write
back into the days before the flood,
when there were no writings of any
kind coming from that period of thou
sands of years, as given by the chron-
ologers? Where did they get Their
data and facts, when they had no
SCIO11O 11OI1 IAC dAu 1O0I pei AOu 1
the answer is they wrote from tradi-
ton, they wrote from current sacred
theories, they wrote from sacred fic-
ton, they wrote from current sacred
built-up theological structure. They |
had no actual known historical facts, |
reaching into that period at all.
All the names, ages, history and BIZ
cgraphy of the men spoken of, before
the food is sacred drama, fiction and
Imagination. The chronology and
dates as written on the margin of our
Bibles, by modern men is founded en-
tirely on these traditional, imaginary
and fictitious names and ages of men,
before the flood, and not at all upon
actual known historical facts. The
known Photography, or written
scrolls coming down to us, or to the
Biblical writer's, admitted by all good, /
wise and true historians,) prove the
foregoing to be true.
To be sure our friends who speak
toastingly of THE best Bible readers"
will not be able to square their dog
matte theories and structures of pro-
phetic vagiaries, with any kind of
true history.
No man can go farther in his ad-
miration of our sacred Biblical books
than this writer and what a great
source Of consolation it is, that the
collection, is a volume of SO many
sides and sources and that the origin
OF so much Of the contents, are un-