Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1914 — Page 3

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Applicatiea el the Scriptsies te the World Today «■ Seen by Eminent Men in Varices Walks el Life

(Copyright. IW4, bjr Joseph B. Bowlee) GEOLOGY AND THE, FLOOD. (By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT* LL. D., F. <3. S. A., Geologist; Author of "The Ice Age in North America,” “Man and the Glacial Period,” Etc.) ; *Tfne grand old hook of God still stands, and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain 'and illustrate the sacred Word.”—Richard Dtvight Dana, eminent geologist. The Bible represents the "breaking up ofithe fountains of the great deep”

confirmations of tills fact. It is now established beyond all reasonable doubt that man was in existence before the close,of the glacial period, his being found in many undiswell established that there was a great depression of land over a large part of the Northern Hemisphere at the close of'the glacial period, causing ocean floods to cover a large part of Northern United States and Canada, Northern Europe and Northern and Central Asia. Here are some of the facts: s , The skelelon of a whale was found in the post-glacial clays of western Vermont 300 feet above sea level. Another skeleton was found at Arnprior in Canada, at a still higher level. Recent shells are found in post-glacial deposits, on the top of Mount Royal in Montreal, 600 feet above the present sea level, while still farther north in British America the evidence indicates, a depression of the land level of more than 1,000 feet. In Sweden a recently abandoned shore line can be clearly traced at various levels from Southern Sweden up to 1,000 feet in the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. At Kiev, in Russia, the remains of man have been found buried 50 feet in post-glacial deposits, indicating a depression of several hundred feet. At Trebezond, on the south side of the Black sea, an extensive, recently abandoned shore line, is 700 feet above the present level of the sea, indicating a post-glacial depression to that extent. Similar recent shore lines are found on the Crimea, of about elevation, and upon both sides of the Caspian sea. In Central Asia the indications are of a still greater recent depression of the land level. In Lake Baikal, 2,000 miles from the Arctic ocean and 1,500 feet above sea level, there are great numbers of arctic seal which could have reached there only during a depression of land sufficient to allow arctic waters to cover the intervening area. While these 1 facts do not positively prove the truth of the Bible story, they go far tQ remove objections to the story, when rightly interpreted. In this case, as In many others, it is not knowledge, but ignorance, which produces unbelief.

AN IRRESISTIBLE SUCCESS DYNAMIC.

(Ey R. FULTON CUTTING, LL. D.. Financier, Philanthropist and Civic leader, New Tork City.) "If we abide by the principles taught In the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we aad our posterity neglect Its Instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory In profound obscurity.”—Daniel Webster. The practical value of the Bible In the pursuit of happiness is its abounding optimism, its readers meet with reverses, disappointments and suffering like everybody else, but they cannot be deprived of the expectation of ultimate success. They can endure the passing of the unpropitious season, plodding along the road that may be weary, because the book assures them that “God worketh for them that trust in him.” Tjtie'value of this hopefulness in stimulating effort is priceless. A mountain blocks the path, but the faith to move it discovers foothold to the summit We scale it and reach again the level on the other side. ——-——- “Everything is possible to him that belleveth,” and in every age the Bible reader has attempted and accomplished achievements of inore&ible difficulty. The services which this book has rendered to civilisation are incomparable. It is charged with a psychic dynamite that is capable of producing “iTmlghty cataclysm. Of Erasmus* reflow of the Greek text of the New Tee*

as the principal cause of the flood. For the water continued to rise 110 days after the rain ceased. Bat as the rising of the wafer upon the shore corresponds to the sinking of the land beneath the water level, we have In this account testimony to great changes of land level since the human race came into existence. flnnlnffv fitwniaH. vxtsutugj iurii I ones us striking

tament and his Latin translation. Fronde, the historian, said: "It was finished at last, text and translation printed, and the living facts of Christianity, the persons of Christ and the apostles, their history, their lives, their teachings, were revealed to an astonished world. The effect was to be spiritual earthquake.” Bnt unlike the earthquake, it is a constructive pow* er that impels the energies to build the beautiful, useful and practical. Certain it is that students of the Bible cost the state little or nothing for the maintenance of criminal courts, of police or jails. When they are overtaken In fault thfe sensation it produces is in itself indicative of the rarity of the occasion. The Bible, moreover, contains the undiscouraged characteristics of youth. It will not let ns he discouraged by early failure. It teaches us to reflect, and its study inevitably discloses to us the fact that our failures have been simply due to neglect of the principles of success it teaches or to wilful misrepresentation of its meaning. We start off again satisfied we may still expect to win if. only Vte arc content to let the Bible authors determine the nature and measure of our ambition. While it tells its readers their faults with unerring fidelity to truth, it accompanies the revelations of human frailty with the promise of divine help, and the assurance of divine sympathy. “He knoweth whereof we are made, be remembereth that we are dust," is the language of heaven translated by the Psalmist into the vernacular of the thankful world.

THE BELIEF IN GOD.

(By His Eminence JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS.) “Never yet did there exist a full faith In the divine word which did not the heart.”—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher. How are we to account for the moral unanimity of mankind in acknowledg-

tect with the temple of nature luminously standing before üb, just as the human voice sounding in our ears is associated In our mind with a speaker hidden from our view. How can bur soul lißten in silent wonder to the heavenly music of the spheres without admiring the Divine Composer? We cannot separate the Builder from We cannot admire the masterpiece without bestowing a thought on the great Artist The connection is inseparable. The invisible Author is “clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” By the same light of reason we see also within us a moral law written on our hearts, We perceive an essential difference between right and wrong, good and evil, virtue and vice. From the recognition of trfls universal law we “Inevitably Infer a tinivetsal Lawgiver. We hear a voice within ub Judging us, commending or condemning us, and from the imperious judgment pronounced upon us we conclude that, there exists a Sovereign Judge. - And thus God reveals himself to us as our Creator, as our- Lawgiver, as our Judge. As our Creator, He manifests himself to us by His works. As our Lawgiver, He speaks to us by His law, written on Our hearts. As our Judge, He speaks to us by the voice of conscience. We apprehend Him by our reason, our moral sense, and our conscience. And, therefore, as long as man continues to exercise his intellectual and moral faculties, so long will he profess his faith in the existence of a living God.

Piercing the Deserts’ Secrets.

The first section of the French Sw hara railway was recently opened for traffic. The line is narrow gauge, and extends directly south from Biskra into the desert, to the oasis and village of Tugurt, a distance of 125 miles. This is, of course, but a small beginning of the immense project to construct a railroad from Biskra to Lake Tchad. The completion of the work may not be Been by the present generation. But it 1b an achievement upon which the French have set their hearts, and they will probably not turn back from 1L Already they are preparing to extend the line 100 miles, from Tugurt to Wargla. And when Wargla is reached the work will gradually be pushed further and further. When toe traveler can cross toe vast Sahara In a comfortable parlor car the world’s greatest mystery will have ceased to be mysterious.

Small Power From Sunshine.

According to a paper read before the British Society of Engineers, the sun-power plant erected by Frank Shuman, in Egypt, covers seven-eighths of an acre of ground and produces only 18.1 hone-power. The Engineering News remarks that this is scientiflcally worth while, but commercially is ■about on a plane with entesetlng ssrv shine from cucumbers.

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ing a Supreme BeIng? There is but one rational solution to be given, which may be thus briefly expressed: God enlightens with toe light of reason every man that c&neto into toe world. Guided by that light, we recognize the Creator from toe contemplation of His works. We naturally and without effort of mind associate the Archi-

RUST LINER THROUGH PANAMA CANAL

The Panama railroad steamship Allianca, first ocean vessel - to-pass through the Panama canal, In toe Gatun locks. This was a test ordered by Governor Goethals and was eminently satisfactory.

WILL SHOW BRITISH

American to Tell England How to Run Railroad. - 1 ■: Henry Worth Thornton, Picked by English Directors to Take Charge of Great Eastern Road, Will Demonstrate U. 8. Methods. New York. —“Your best chance of success,” said Henry W. Thornton, “comes when you are in your shirt sleeves.” Thornton is the young American railroad man who was recently picked out to take charge of the Great Eastern railroad in England. The member of the board of directors who did the picking tactfully added to his declaration that Thornton is toe best young railroad man In America for such a position, toe cause being that English railroad men have run to seed. “They do not grow,’’ said the director, wagging his head like a mechanical bear. “They do not expand. Their field of is limited.” However that may be —and English railroads resolved themselves into a lodge of sorrow when they read It and then began to gather bricks for Thornton —the American youngster has been -growings and -expanding ever since he-got into railroading. After he had graduated in football and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania he applied for a job to

Henry Worth Thornton.

John C. Sims, then secretary of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. He had a letter of introduction from * man of Influence. - "Hum,” said Sims, when he read the letter- "This gets you a job, but it don’t hold toe Job for you, young man. I’ll carry you on toe salary list for two years. But If by that time you haven’t been promoted, salt won’t save you. I wouldn’t have that sort of a man on the right of way." Thornton bras on his third promotion at toe end of two years. He has been moving upward ever since, but be has never gained a step by flattery, back-bending or lying, if the optnrtn “or the men whonearest to him Is to be taken at par. On toe other hand, he hasn’t hesitated to fuss with his superior officers, •nd fussing with toe official family of the Pennsylvania railroad is commonly reputed to be as dangerous an 00-, cupatlon aa biting the tip of a stroke of lightning. On one occasion a baggageman xra

his division had climbed on to the tender, where h ) had no business to be, just before the engine rolled into -the ditch. The baggageman was killed, leaving a destitute family; “Give me 31,000 for the widow and kids,” Thornton asked of headquarters. “Not a nickel,” said headquarters coldly. "It was the baggageman’s fault that he was killed.” “Maybe,” said Thornton, with toe big jaw setting. “But meanwhile a young widow and three boys are in danger of starvation. I’m going to put her on my payroll at 545 a month, and when her nhme comes off mine comes with It” *■ She’s still there, so far as any one knows. Perhaps that incident helps explain why Thornton was selected to take charge of the Great Eastern, for toe position of general manager on an English railroad is equivalent to that of president of the United States. The Great Eastern handles % greater commuting traffic than any other road in England, and its short haul business, during the summer resort season, Is perhaps the greatest In toe world. But, according to the commuting public of England, Its directing heads assay heavily in pure bone. Ticket sales are never stopped, no matter how badly toe line may be blocked. Trains fife held Itt SlnOke-fllled tunnels, rather than permit a step aside from routine procedure. “Any one can handle engines and cars and tunnels," said a railroad man, “but Thornton is a wonder at handling men. That’s why England took him.” V He must not only teach the railroad using public dt England to love the Great Eastern, which entails a complete reversal of all the laws of human nature, but must also win the loyal support of the' Great Eastern's employes. it In a way, American railroaders and their methods will go on trial with Thornton In England. This may not seem fair, but it is the fact.

Bolt Starts Automopile Sprinkler.

Chicago.—A bolt of lightning entered the Haymarket theater by the pipes of the automatic sprinkler and started a deluge of water throughout the building, an hour before toe evening performance was to have started.'

Was Hero of 200 Duels

Labertesque, Modem D’Artaonan, ,■4 Dead in Paris —Fight* Whole - Town Council. Paris.—Labertesque is dead, and with his death a figure that belonged to old French romance has passed away, for Labertesque was Cyrano de Bergerac and d’Artagnan rolled Into one. and set down on the Paris boulevards, where be kept alight for years toe flame of chivalry, gallantry and picturesque swashbuckling. Though his clothes were th§ prosaic garb of modernity, bis spirit belonged to toe days of cloak and ruffle, when men drew swords on a quarrel mid spitted their opponents deftly. He was the hero of 200 duels. Tall and broad, with a brown face, he swaggered along the boulevards a few years ago, ready to pick a quarrel with anyone whose presence was obnoxious to him and ask for satisfaction at the point of the sword- His manner was grandiloquent and authoritative- — - l

QUEEN KU

Entertains Leaders of International Council in Rome. r - - . . .... Elena of Italy Haa Special Talk for Each at Reception—Guesto Treaaure Bonbons With Picture of Ruler on Them. Rome. Italy—The social events of the international council of women were Intensely interesting, writes Ida Husted Harper. At the top of these events must he placed, of course the reception by Queen Elena. It did not Include all of the several hundred members of the council —that would have been too much to expect—but she welcomed the board of officers, nine; the presidents of national councils in twenty-three countries and the qhalrmen of the nine standing committees, over forty in all, as the old and the newly elected officials were Included. , Each has her own impressions of “the greatest event in her life,” but all agree that there was.- rimpllclty .and cordiality In the manner of the queen that won every heart. As Mrs. Rate Waller Barrett, president of the United States council, expressed it: - “She seemed to forget her royalty and was a lady more than a queen—we were all women together.” It was indeed marvelous ,how the queen could speak a few appropriate words to each of so many women representing different countries, as a few sentences will illustrate. To Mrs. May Wright Sewell, after asking what was her special work, she said: “Peace is the cause In which I also have the greatest Interest;” and when Mrs. , Sewell answered: “We cannot have it. until tirewomen of every country feel their responsibility,” she replied; “Yes, that is most Important and I hope your efforts will meet with sue cess.” To Gina Krog, pioneer of the woman movement of Norway, she said: "I have visited the public institutions of Chrlßtiania and was much pleased with them.” She expressed deep synr pathy to the president from Finland, and lingered for some time with Dr. Anna Cabanoff, the representative from Russia, asking her especially If the woman physicians and university graduates took an interest in the benevolent and charitable Institutions and worked for social bettermenL "1 have always been fond of Hungary,” she said to Madame Rosenburg, who Is representing its president Countess Apponyl. - "Its people have suffered so deeply for It. I often went there as a child and tried to learn the language, but It was too hard. I liked the sweetmeats so much that Oven now I have them sent to me," “Servia seems very near to me," she said to its president; "my relatives have been on Its throne, but of course I love my 'own Montenegro best of all.” And when the answer Was made: “It must be hard to leave it even to be a queen,” her eyes filled with tears. After every one had been greeted the doors of the grand dining salon were thrown open and the queen, preceded by the lady-in-waiting, the chamberlain and six footmen, led the way Into it and regained while tea was served, after which she again shook hands with every one and retired. "It is just like our teas at home,” said the American delegates, "except some tablecloth touch the floor all around.” , , The queen Is tall, slender and very graceful, with large dark* eyes and masses of waving black hair. She wore a slightly trained dress of white satin covered with white chiffon and over this prune colored ehlffon falling In rather full folds, the waist filled In with lovely Valenciennes lace; a dog collar, long chain and earrings of pearls and a SL. Andrew’s cross ot very large diamonds. The lady in waiting, Countess Brnschi, the visitors declared to be the most beautiful woman they ever had seen; the lord chamberlain, with his heavy stiver chain, was the fattest man, and the talk est men were In the rows they passed between in the grand march through the gorgeous rooms to be "received” — every one of them seven feet high, the women Insist—and dressed in a scarlet coat, white waistcoat, purple knee breeches, white silk hose and shoes with Immense silver buckles.

• When he lifted his slouch hat with a medieval flourish you could almost see a cloak and sword behind his lounge suit He rolled his name grandly as he delivered his challenge to those who were luckless enough to merit his anger. "Laber-r-rtesque,” be would say. He achieved so Instant notoriety when he came 1 6 Earth, for he began his career by fighting the whole town council of Algiers, and finished up with his famous duel with Max Regis, the mayor.

Rubber Roses Are Popular.

Atlantic City, N. J. —Rubber roses rhftrriftg adorn toe bathing caps of the fair sex this season. Mexican color combinations on bathing suits have replaced last year's Bulgarian display. *

Society Has New Fad.

St Louis.- —Bronze statuettes of their children represent the latest fad ■ln-tool 'Society.—~——-

Walking With God

By REV. L. W. COSNELL

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TEXT -"And Enoch walked with God. ud bo was not; for God took htm.’* Genesis SM. ‘ -

Enoch’s generation WAS ripening tor the flood, and every ImaglnatUnfj|j|g man’s heart was only dvil continually; yet he “walked with God.” He encourages us to walk thus even under difficult circumstances. Christ said to the church at Pergamos: “I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat Is: and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith.’’ ftoir.. cheering to bear of “saints in Caesar’s household,” and to know that Christ so lived at wicked Nazareth that the Father could say, “This is W beloved Sdn, In whom I am w«ll pleased.” He lived in the twilight of revelation. There was as yet no Bible, yet he “walked with God." How shall he rise up to condemn ns! He was married. Some have thought celibacy necessary to the highest holiness, but Enoch refutes the idea. We actually knew a mother who declared she conld not be a Christian until her children were larger and less exasperating! * But we are told “Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah," and it Is suggested that the coming of this little life Into his was the'beginning of his heavenly conversation. His Walk. He walked by faith (Hebrews 11:5}.' There is no record of him having revelations mqre than we have who slaw "walk by faith." "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” and such a faith is basis enough tor walking with God. He pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). How indifferent this makes us to men’s opinions! "It is a small thing with me that I am judged of men’s judgment." How blessed to know we can bring joy to the heart of God and that we may "walk worthy of the ;Lord unto all pleasing" (CoL 1:10). He warned the wicked. Jude tells us that Enoch prophesied, saying. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand ,of bis saints, to execute judgment upon aIL Those who walk with God long to bring to him “them that are without" Good men may, like Samuel Rutherford, lack the evangelistic gift, bat they will have the evangelistic heart which made Rutherford 1 It but one soul from An worth Meet me at God's right band. My heaven will be two heavens, j ' In Immanuel's land. He was progressive i i holiness. He walked with God, and pressed toward the mark for the prize. The perfection of Christians on earth Is very Imperfect, and even in heaven we shall still be -walking in white. | His Exit His strange departure proved immortality to be a fact, just as Elijah’s translation later assured Israel and as we are assured by Christ’s resurrection. r~- r Hfs departure was felL Hebrews says that Enoch “was not found," as If they had sought him. He was missed. It is still so when a saint panes. Witness the multitudes that gathered at the funerals of John Wesley and Catherine Booth and Jerry McAuley. He went out in the prime of life. He was taken when 365 years of age, and as compared with others of that day, this was Just the morning of Ufa, corresponding to the age of thirtythree now. We wonder when men are caught away just as their usefulness begins. But surely God does not deal unkindly with Ms friends. "To depart is to be with Christ, which is far better." "Taken away from the evil to come” —this might be written of Enoch and of many another saint His departure was easy. "He was not; for God took him,” or as Hebrews reads, “God had translated him.” The psalmist seems to apply the language of the text to death. Psalm 49:18 tells us, "He will deUver my soul from the power of the grave for he will take me;” and Psalm 73:2-4 reads, “Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel sod afterward take me to glory." As with the translated saint so with the dying, the Father will stoop down to the child who hai Ae«K W«CHHg With Whk and men will say, “He was not; for God took him.” Spurgeon bears witness, after ministering to many feeble saints, that he had not found one to whom dying grace was not given. Moreover, should we be sUve at IN Lord's coming, we shall be translated . - -Iterally as Enoch. iLJWJxS** r iW

The fifth, chapter of Genesis contains a Mat of men who reached remarkable agbs; yet, with one exception, it is written of each of them, "and he died.” This man, who walked with God, end did not die, is one of the most attractive figures In Scripture. He lived amid wicked people.