The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-03
ARCHAEOLOGY IAa0WS
LIGHT on NOSES LIE!



!, Or. Camden N. cobern delighted :
high school auditorium last nig1if.
with m intensely interesting talk %
the light which modern archaeOloG1 .
has thrown Sn the life and teach;slrS s
4S Moses. "pn elniy two pointsAlsavsas
me mcderi, taken issue with She WIS
dom OF the Mosaic law" he said,
They have questioned his order I'll
Kill an witches. a law the n,isinter-
prettnK Of which was responsible for.
the horrible atrocities practiced In
cur own town OF Salem. I now tell 4
You thas archaeology has positively
established that a wizard or witch.
was synonymous with traitor In ther
Gays IN which the law WAS writterf--~
Inc doctrine OF Van eye for an eye
and tooth for n tooth was a law 81 :
Justice and equity and admirable Ia
that the law II supplauted WAS life
TOR IN eye and a life for TOOTH
commenting on the way In which
the marvellous discoveries Of the past
twenty-five years have dispeiled all
doubt concerning the authenticity az
parn Of the Bible. DIR. Cohern re-
called the following incident: ''Whens
went to Germany thirty.five years.
ago ana told n professor had come
TO study Egyptology in order to study
the fife of Moses, he shook his head
there never was any Moses It wouin 4,
be impossible now to And any capAbly
educated man who would deny his OK
istence."
DIR. Cobern became thoroughly ems y
crossed in his subject and WAS FREE
quentiy Interrupted by applause an hc
presented truly remarkable picture
iof life In the days OF Moses. giving
intimate glimnses OF the life and cuss,
toms OF that day. The thought Of the I
ancient Egyptians chuckling over n i
cartcature OF hippopotami dancing on /,
the branches of trees; of a college pro-.
fesscr Of the day depicted as a goat,
and the students ns tom cats Uf the
army OF Pharaoh represented as nlfosy.l
and that of the enemy as cats, seemcI.
almost grotesque. DIT. Cohen told hts
audience that he has seen these very
drawings on an acient paryrus. along
with very human love stories and war
Among the many documents uneartheas
in hts explorations in Egypt were pref
scriptt0ns written by the practitioners.
of that day. one OF them. warranted
to make the hair grow. 49,
Dr., McNeilI was the first to addreS1s
the audience last night. his very short
vernon ON the twenty-thtrd Psalm he~ n
ing quite the strongest and most beasf- !
tiYul he has delivered In Richmond
This Peaim," he said. ''is the philo9-t
ephv OF life set to music. It's one
fault is that II is too familiar. for out,
OF familiarity comes the difficulty q
preaching. We are prone to regard
the simple things as inconseaucnsiat.
because of the very simplicity that !.
makes them beautiful and strong.
Every science and art has it's text
book. The Bible is the text book OF,
the greatest science or art in tho
jworld--that of how to live across this. !,
world into the next---and when see
how so many men and women neglect
the study of the text book OF this ),
sBcience In which we are all engaged.
I an, convinced that when man fell, !,
he fell on his head. have often
wondered why none of the skepticssst
are doubtful cenceruig the multiple
ca ton table or Euclid, when they so
. frankly doubt any part OF the B;btess.~
In hts lecture Mt the Y. NJ. @. -.
today At o'clock DR.. Coberu will CT. u
| hibit photographs taken by him or
the rock which Moses struck, Dr.
McSein will speak In the Y. NJ. G. A..
at p. M. and both will deliver thsiy
usual addresses at the John Marshafts
high school auditorium tonight al
Sis.
The lectures, which started SUNDAY.
,are attracting wider attention in Rich
mond each day. and about twice az
many people were present at the awds.
forum last night as on any previous
occasion