Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 January 1893 — Page 4

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GOD IN THE CENTURIES. “Consider the Years of Many Gener* r atlons.” Time l» Only H PleCo of fcl»a«f-C»ron-»lo|3r EaptMl la DlVUinf Dp a Portion at Eternity—Iter. T. U»»*tt Talnate'i Stw ITear’a Sermon Rev. Dr. Talmage Sunday morning appropriately tojk for the subject of his Kew Year's day sermon “The Chronology of the Bible, or (fod Among the Centuries.” The text chosen, was Deuteronomy xxxii, 7. “Consider the years of many generations.” At 13 o'clock last night, while so many good people were watching, an old friend passed out of oAr homes and a stranger entered. The old fridnd making valedictory was 1892; the stranger arriving is 1898. The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger jpit his finger over his lip ancfcsaid nothing and seemed charged .with many secrets and mysteries. I did not see hither the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for me the best way to be wide awake now. Good-by, 1S92! Welcome, 1893! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe this order in their march and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's existence is divided intqan army divinely commanded; the eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward into the eternity past, out of the eternity to come! Forward is the command, and nothing can halt them, even though ‘ the world should die. While obeying my text, “Consider the years of many generations,” 1 propose to speak of the ’“Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries.” We make a distinction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece.of eternity, and chronology has been engaged in the divine work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we call time into compartments and putting events in their right compartment. It is as much an injustice against the past to wrongly arrange its events as it would be an injustice if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should in the far distant future be said that America was discovered in 1776^ and the declaration of independence was signed in 1492, and Washington born on the 22d of March, anl.the civil war of the United States was fought in 1840. As God puts all the events of time in the right place, let us be careful that we do not put them in the wrong place. The chronology of the Bible takes six steps, but they are steps so long it makes us hold our breath as we watch the movement From Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the exodus out of Egypt From the exodus to the foundation Solomon’s temple. From the foundation of Solomon’s temple to the. destruction of that temple. From the destruction of the temple to the return from Babylonish captivity. From Babylonish captivity to the birth of Christ. Chronology takes pen and pencil, and calling astronomy and history to help says: “Let us fix one event from which to calculate everything. Let it be a star, the Bethichem star, the Christmas star.” And from that we go back and see the world was created 4,004 years before Christ; the deluge came 2,848 years before Christ; the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1,491 years before Christ, and Solomon’s temple 'was destroyed 586 years before Christ. Chronology enters the first chapter of Genesis and says the day mentioned there is not a day of twenty-four hours, but of ages, the word there translated as “day” in other places meaning ages, and so the Bible account of the creaatibn and the geologists’ account of the creation are completely harmonious. Chronology enters the book of Daniel an ! nays that the words “time and a half” mean a year and a half. Chronology enters at another point and shows us that the seasons of the year were then only two—summer and \vinter. We find that the Bible year was 360 days instead of 865; that the day was calculated from 0 o’clock ia the morning to 6 o’clock at night; that the night was divided into four watches— namely, the late watch, the midnight, the cock crowing the early watch. The clock and watch were invented so long after the world began their mission

that the day was not very sharply diruled in liibf^times. Ahaz had a sundial, or a flight of stairs with a column at the top, and the shadow which that column threw on the steps beneath indicated the hour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing from step to step But the events of life and the events of the world moved so slowly for the most part in Bible times that they had no need of such time pieces as we stand on our mantels or carry in our pockets in nn age when a man may have a half dozen or a dozen engagements for one ' day and needs to know the exact minute for each one of them. The earth itself in Bible times was the chief time piece, and it turned once on its axis and that was a day, and once around the sun and that was a year. It was not untff. the Fourteenth century that the almanac was born, the almanac tjjat we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to make one. Chronology had to bring into its service the monuments of Egypt, and the cylinders of Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon, and the pottery of Nineveh, and the medals struck at Antioch for the battle of Actsum, and all the hieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and had to go into the extremely delicate business of asking the ages of Adam and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah, who after their SOOth year wanted to be thought young. I think it must have been in recognition of the stupendous work of making an almanac that all the days of the week are named after the gods. Sunday, after^he snn, which was of old worshiped as a god. Monday, after the moon, which tvas also worshiped as a god. Tuesday, after Tuesco, the god of war. Wednesday, after Woden, the chief god of the Scandinavians. Thurs-day,'after-Thor. the god of thunder. Friday, after ijkea, the goddess of marriage. And Saturday, after Saturn. The old Bible year began with the 35th of March. Not until 1753 did the first of the month of January get the honor in legal documents in England of being called the first day of the year. improvements all. along have been made in chronology until the calendar, and the almanac, and the clock, and the watch seem to hare reached perfection, and all the nations of Christendom have similarity of time calculations and have adopted what is called “new style,” except Russia, which keeps what is called the “old style,” and is twelve days different, so that, waiting from there, if you wish to be .accurate, you date your letter January 1 and January 13, or December 10 and December 23. It is something to thank God for that the modes are * so complete for calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decades, the years, the months, the days, the hours, the seconds. Think of making appointments as in the Bible days for the time of the new moon. Think of -making one of the watches of the night in Bible times a rooster crowing. The Bible bays, “Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thnee.” . “If the Ulster cometh at the

IIII .HI I coelteroirmg," ana that w«a the wojr the midnight watch was indicated. The crowing of that barnyard bird has always been most uncertain. The crowing is at the lowest temperature of the I bight, and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind Ihay bring the -lowest temperature at lb o’clock at night or 8 o’clock in the morning, and at any one of sis hours. Just before a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the night is almost perpetual. Compare these modes of marking I time with our modes of marking time, when 12 o’clock is 18 o’clock, and 6 o’clock is 8 o’clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and independent of all weathers, and then thank God that yotf live now. But notwithstanding all the imperfect modes of marking hours or years or centuries Bible chronology never trips up, never falters, never contradicts kitself, and here is one of the best arguments for the anthenticity of the Scriptures. It you can prove an alibi in the : courts, and yon can prove beyond doubt that you were in some particular place at the time you were charged with doing or saying something in quite another place, yon gain the vw^gfy, and infidelity has tried to prove an alibi by contending that events and circumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must have taken place at some other time, if they took place at all. But this book’s chronology has never been caught at fault It has been proved that when the Hebrews went into Egypt there were only seventy of them, and that when they came out there were S,000,000 of them. “How,” says infidelity, with a guffaw that it can not suppress, “what an absurdity! They went down into Egpyt seventy and came out 3,000,000. That is a falsehood on the face of it. Nations do not increase in that ratio.” But, my skeptical friend, hold a moment. The Bible says the^ews were 430 years in Egypf, and that explains the increase from seventy persons to 3,(foo,030, for it is no more, but rather less than the ordinary increase of nations. The pilgrim fathers came to America in the May-, flower, one small shipload of passengers, less than 300 years ago, and now we have a nation of 60,000,000. .Where, then is so-called impossibility that the seventy Jews who went into Egypt in 430 years became 3,000,000? Infidelity wrong and Bible chronology right. Now stop and reflect Why is it that this sublime subject of Bible chronology has been so neglected, and that the most of you have never given ten minutes to the consideration of it and that this is the first sermon ever preached on this stupendous and overwhelming theme? V£e have stood by the half day to the whole day at grand reviews and seen armies pass. Again and again and again on the Champs Etysees Frenchmen by the hundreds of thousands have stood and watched the bannered armies go by, and the hazza has been three miles long and until the populace were so hoarse they could huzza no longer. Again and again and again the Germans by hundreds of thousands have stood on the palaced and statued Unter den Linden, Berlin,; and strewn garlands under the feet of [uniformed hosts led on by Von Moltke or Blucher or Frederick the (Great When Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots Grays came back from Waterloo, or Wolseley from Egypt or Marlborough from Blenheim, what military processions through Regent street and along by the palace of London and over the bridges of the Thames! What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of our American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents, with uncovered heads, looked on! But put all those grand reviews together, and they are tame compared with the review which on this New Year’s day you from the pew and I from the pulpit witness.

near tuciu uass tu euivuuiug u.ai wiuu —all the years before the flood; all the years since the flood; decades abreast; centuries abreast; epochs abreast; millenniums abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian populations, Asyrian dominions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts, crusaders of the first, the second, third and the last avalanche of men; dark ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages with shields of silver ,and helmets of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England and America, past and present; dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing to-day in a chronological review, until one has no more power to look upon the advancing columns, now brilliant, now squalid, now garlanded with peace, now crimson with slaughter, how horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with love and joy. This chronological study affords, among other practical thoughts, especially two—the one encouraging to the last degree and the other startling. The encouraging thought is that the main drift of the centuries has been toward betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization was a vast improvement on Egyptian civilization, and Roman civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement on Roman civilization. What was the boasted age of Females compared with the age of Longfellow and Tennysbn? What was Queen Elizabeth as a specimen of moral womanhood compared with Queen Victoria? What were the cruel warriors of olden times compared with the most distinguished warriors of the last half century, all of them as much distinguished for kindness and good morals as for prowess—the two military leaders of our civil war on northern and southern side communicant members of Christian churches, and their home life as pure as their public life? Nothing impresses me in this chronological review more than the fact that the regiments of years are better and better regiments as the troops move on. I thank God that you and I were not born any sooner than we were born. How could we have endured the disaster of being born in the eighteenth or seventeenth of sixteenteenth century? Glad am I that we are in the regiment now passing the reviewing stand, and that our children trill pass the stand in a still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A good deal of cleaning house will be necessary before this world becomes as clean and sweet as it ought to be, but the brooms and the scrubbing brushes, and the upholsterers and plumbers are already busy, and when the world gets fixed up, as it will be, if Adam and Eve ever visitjt, as I expect they will, they will say to each other; “Well, this beats paradise when we lived there, and the pears and the plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and wardrobes ate more complete, and the climate is better. Since I settled in my own mind th^ fact that God was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadisation of this planet With the exception of a retrogression in the Dark Ages, the movement of the world has been on and on, and up and up, and I have two jubilant hosannas—one for the closing year and the other for the new year. But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and indeed chronology, is urging the

Wurid to more punctuality auct immedi* definite thin? it must have been for two business -men in the time of Ahaz to make an appointment, saying; “We will settle that business matter to-morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the top,” or •‘I will meet ypu in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the new moon,” or yhen asked in a courtroom wtaalt time an Occurrence took place should answer, “It was during the time off the latter rain,” or “ft was at the time of the third crowing fit the hgntyard!” Ton and! I remember when ministers of |he gospel in the country, giving ont a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or. 8 o'clock, would say, “The service will begin at early candle light.” Thank God for chronological achievements which have ushered in calendars and almanacs and clocks and watches, and at so cheap a rate all may possess them! Chronology, beginning by appreciating the value of years and'the value of days, has kept on until it cries out, “Man, immortal; woman, immortal; look out for that minute; look out for that second!” We talk; a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value until the last fragment of it has passed, ont of our possession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob another of his time. Hear it, ye laggards, and repent! All the fingers of chronology point to punctuality as one of the graces. The minister or the lecturer or business man who comes to his place ten minutes after the appointed time commits a crime the enormity of which can only be estimated by multiplying the number of persons present by ten. If the engagement be made with five persons, he has stolen fifty minutes, for he is ten minutes tod late, and he has robbed each of the five persons of tjen minutes apiece, and fen times fiveiare fifty. If there be 500 persons present and he be ten minutes too late, he has committed a robbery of 5,000 minutes, for ten times 500 are 5,000, and 5,000 minutes are eighty-three hours, which make more than three days. The thief of dry goods, the thief of bank bills, is not half so bad the thief of time. Dr. Bush, the greatest and busiest physician of his day, appreciated the value of time, and when asked how he had been iable to gather so much information foir his books and lectures he replied: “I have been able to do it by economizing my time. I have not spent one hour in amusement in thirty years.” And taking a blank book from his pocket, he said, “1 fill a book like this every week with thoughts that occur to me and facts collected in the rooms of my patients.”. But do hot let us get an impression from chrdnology that because" the years of time have been so long in procession they are to goon forever. Matter is cot eternal. No, no! If you watch half a day, or a whole day, or two.days, as I once did, to see a military procession you remember the last brigade, and the last .regiment, and the last company finally passed on, and as we rose to go we said to each other, “It is all over.” So this mighty procession of earthly years will terminate. Just when I have no power to prognosticate, but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth can not always last Indeed there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and agaijn gone np in their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds and have seen them cremated. So 1 am certain, both from the Word of God andiscience, that the world’s chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass on, and then will come the final decade, and then the final year, and the final month, and the final day. The last spring will swing its censer of apple blossonui and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn like Moscow and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed ito run hither and yon with torches to set the world on fire.

Chemistry teaches ns that there is a very inflammable element in water. While oxygen makes up a part of the water, the other part 6f the water is hydrogen, land that is very combustible. The oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instantly into conflagration the Hudsons and Savannahs and Mississippis and Rhines and Urals and Danubes, ind Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean seas. And then the angel of God, descending from the throne, might put one foot on the surf of the sea and the other on the beach and cry to the four winds of Heaven, “Time was, but time shall be no longer!” Yet, found in Christy pardoned and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gladness than you ever welcomed a Christmas or New Year’s morn. The Trend of Our Age. The trend of our age in theology, as in politics, literature; science and art, is toward the concrete rather than the abstract—toward helpfulness. It tends to percolate down from theory into practice. And this tendency contains the promise and potency of union. All schools of religiousthought are pretty well agreed already that love and righteousness are the supreme traits in Divine and in human character; that sacrifice is the universal law of high existence; that service is the common and imperative duty of all life; that the redemption and idealization of society is the goal to be run for, and that absolute trust in God and the consequent hope,of immortality are the consummate virtues. This is not a step, it is a stride forward. Galileo was right —the world does move.—St. Louis Republic., What Holds Churches Together. In speaking of church union, the^Independent remarks: “We are fully convinced that spiritual oneness is the only force that con bring churches together. What separates them is what is formal —intellectual or administrative differs ' cnees, ior theology or polity. The - churches have already well-nigh learned that intellectual differences should not separate them. ;We are slower to learn that it is not polity that makes a church.” —Daute. Milton, Wordsworth, Whittier and Tennyson were great poets— that everybody knows. They were al$o great theologians—which is not commonly known. They not only taught the Divine Fatherhood, but they wrought this supreme truth into the hands and hearts of men. Whittier has now^been quickly joined by Tennyson, and the world, never too rich in noble spirits, is doubly bereaVed. The mortal part of great bards dies; the immortal sings on and soars forever. —When a man loses his positive conviction of the existence of God, his belief in the immortality of the soul can not survive, nqr can he hold on to his conception of the absoluteness of morality. There can be no absolute morality without a God and a soul. —There was no skepticism in the mihd of Whittier1’ when he wrote, referring to;God: I iknow not Where Hlj islands lift Their treaded palms in air; l onlj know I can not drift Beyond Hia love and car* x •

the suoar bouwrr. It ISM IVJo't F1M* ml KftalnUw" Tte Renalre* the Attention M the S« id. i«l .is ntl it. White “protection” was in vogue la this oountry and sanctioned by a majority of the voters it was only' fair that the capitalists of the south should receive their share of protection spoils. This they never obtained. About the only duty which gave southerners any protection at all was the sugar duty, which was probably worth $13,003,000 or *13,003,003 to a few hundred, or thousand, sngar growers. Hence when McXinley and his pals took the duty off sngar so that increased duties could be put on other articles, to give more protection to northern trusts and monopolies, it was necessary, to maintain a semblance of fairness, to throw a small crust from the big protection loaf to the south. The bounty of two rents per pound, given to all but the smallest producers, was that crust It is worth about *10,000,090 to southern sugar planters; but the red tape and delay in obtaining it has caused a little rebellion down there. The Lousiana Sugar Planters’ association will send a strong delegation to Washington to urge the abolition of the undemocratic and demoralizing bounty system. From all over the sugar growing districts letters are being showered upon Mr. Cleveland and the democratic leaders of congress asking that the bounty on sugar be abolished and that duties be restored. They would prefer a duty of 1% cents per pound to the bounty of 3 cents. But “protection” no longer has the sanction cf a majority of the voters. In fact, only about one-third of them havb accepted this theory for the last two or three years. Two-thirds have'declared that “protectl »a” is a fraud and a robbery, and that it, with its bounty and subsidy relations, are unconstitutional and undemocratic. They have declared that the government shall discontinue to give assistance to certain industries to the detriment of other and even more important ones. Henceforth, Industry and no mill can rely upon government support. Every business man must be independent and deserve succesr or go to the wall. The next administration will not be his rich father-in-law partner. There will be no east, west, north or south. Government help and patronage will be withdrawn from all and extended to none. The south has contributed hundreds ol millions to the Carnegie*, Havemeyers and Dolans of the north during the last thirty years. The 5,000 millionaires of the north owe much to the sonth, hut the debt will never he paid. The south should feel thankful that “protection,” which has been plundering its people as well as the masses in all other sections of the country, will he stopped; and that all Sections aud all industries will he put on fair and equal footing. Jf the bounty system were worth twenty times as much to the south, it wonld be a small sacrifice to make to get ^id of the robber tariff system GIVE US FREE SUGAR. The Enormom Profits That an Apparent Small Duty ruts Into the rockets or the Sugar Trust If there is one duty in the McKinlcj bill that is more of a curse than any other it is the duty of X cent per pound on refined sugars. It produces almost no revenue at. all hut puts about *30,000,000 a year into the pockets of the sngar trust It therqwas any doubt that the industry of refining sugar would not remain in this country without such government aid, there- would \>e an excuse, from a protection poiut jf view, for this duty. But- there is jonc. Sngar is r-ofinod as cheaply here as aDywjjgre on this earth. 5. O. Have12eyer testified to this fact several years ago. The only excuse the republicans had for leaving this duty, was that it wonld give them an opportunity lo fry fat out of the sugar trust—an opportunity that was utilized during the last campaign to the extent of *100,000 or *200,000.

X Lie au^ai UUOII, HUC tn-uvuvwtj of the sujar doty, has an unusually unsavory record. To gain col- >lete control of the refining business in this country, it has purchased refineries at three or four times their cost, only to close them up to restrict production. A few months after it was formed in Novembsr, 1887, bat ten of the twenty original refineries In tha trust were in operation. It has reduced wages in refineries to ?1 per dpy for common labor. No Americans will work in the intensely heated rooms at these wages; hence their places have been filled by Hungarians, Foies and Italians. ^ It makes use of the rebate system to kill its competitors. By this system large wholesale grocers who bought only of the trust obtained special prioes. It has. since it gained complete control of the refining business last winter, depressed the price of raw, while it has advanced the price of refined sugars. The cost of refining is less than % cents per pound. As the per capita consumption of sugar in the United States is about 70 pounds, each difference of 1-16 of a cent between the price of raw and of refined sugar eitorts about $2,510,000 from the pockets of th^ people and puts it into the pockets of the trust. Without any duty the trust would be making about $33,003,000 a year clear profit—nearly 100 per cent. With the duty it can and does raise prices X cent higher and adds $20,000,009 to its already enormons profits. If the duty of X cant per pound werelevied upon raw instead of on refined sugar it would produce about $15,003,000 ^ year revenue and would encourage sugar growing in the south. The people would pav the same for sugar as now, but only a small portion would go to the trust This would be far preferable to the present duty. But the people want, entirely free sugar, and they will not be content till they get it _' WHAT JERRY SAYS. The Seventh District Kansas Congressman Tells What He Itelleves the Landslide Meats. “The^lemoeratic victory means, more than anything else, that the people of this country want a very material redaction of the custom duties. The cut should be deep enough to leave an average duty of not more than 20 per cent The country will not be satisfied if this much is not done. I think congress should get at the work as soon as possible and make an honest revision of the tariff, as I believe it wilt There is no sense, anyhow, in letting thirteen months go by after a new congress is elected before they can get together and do anything. Certainly where there is a sweeping victory given a great, all-absorbing issue, as in the present instance, the victorious party should lose no time in doiiig what the people have hid them ckx I do not believe that the voters who gave the victory to the democrats this time did so for partisan reasons.. The great mass of independent citizens want a complete revision and a very decided cut of the tariff. They are tired of the protective policy of the republican party and have decided that it shall be uprooted. They voted for the democratic party this tlms because promises had been given in line with the popnlar sentiment on the tariff question. If the democrats fail (o make the cut that the people have a right to expect they will be given as bad a licking when they go home as the republicans get this time*

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