» something in quite another place, you gain the victory, and infidelity has tried to prove an alibi by contending that events and cir cumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must have taken place at some other time, if thay took place at all, But this hook’s chronology has never baen eanuzht at fault, It has bern »roved that when the : Hebraws wont into ¥zvp® there wera only { zeventy of them, and that wea they came i out thers were 5.0 0,000 of them, “Now.” says infidelity. with a guffaw that it cannot sunprasx, “what an absurdity! They went down int Egypt seventy and came out 3.000.000, Taat is a falsshood on the face of it, Nations do nol ipereass in i that ratio,” Bat, my skeptleal friend, hold a moment, The Bible says that the Jews were 430 years in Fevpt, and that exolains the increase from seventy parsons to 4,04, UX), for it is no more, but rather less thaa the ordinary increase of pations, The Pil. { grim Fathers came to America in the May- REV. IR. TALMAGE Tue Emineat Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. sunject: “God Among the Centuries Text: *Consider the years of many gen-¥ erations.” —Deuteronomy xxxii, 7 i At 12 o'clock last nicht, while so many good reonle were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a straneer en- tered. The old friend making wvaledictory was 1802: the stranger arriving is 1592, The | old friend was garralous with the occur. i rences of many dave, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and said nothine and | seemed charged with many secrets and mye teries, I did not seo either the departurs or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for me the best wav to be wide awake now, Goodby, 1837! Welcome, 1833! | As an army is divided int» brigades and regiments and companies, an they observe this order in their march and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's exist- | ence is divided into an army divinely com- | manded; the eras are the brigades, the cen. | turies are the reziments, and the years are the companies. Forward into the eternity | past, out of the eternity to come! Forward | is the eommand, und nothing can halt them, | even though the world should die, While | obeying my text, “Consider the years of | many generations, I propose to speak of ! the “Chronology of the Bible,or God Among i the Centuries.” i We make a distinction between time and oternity, bus time is only a piece of eternity, | and chroooclogy bas been engaged in the | sublime work of dividinz up this portion of | eternity that we call time into comopart- | ments and putting events in their right compartment. Itis as auch an injastic) against the past to wrongziy arrange its | events as it would be an injustios if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should | in the far distant futures be said that Amer- ca was discovered in 1776, and the Deciara tion of Indevendence was signed mn 1402 and Washington bornon tha 221 of Marco, and 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 ba careful! that we do not put them io the wrong place. The chron- ology of the Bible takes six steps, but they are steps: =o long it makes us hold our breath as wa watch the movement. From Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the exodus | out of Egypt. From the exodus foundation of Solomon's temple, From the | foundation of Solomon's tea struction of that temple, From the destruc- tion of the temple to the returu from Baby fonish captivity, From Babylonish cap- lvity to the birth of Christ, Chronology takes pen and peacil, and call. ing astronomy and history to help says: “Let us fix one event from which to ealea- | late everything. Let it bs a star, the Batn- | hem star, the Christmas star,” And {rom that we back and see the world was created 4004 years before Christ; the deluge came 2048 vears before Christ: the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1491 years before Christ, and Solomon's temple was destroy $56 years before Christ. Chronology enters the first chapts Genesis and says the day mentioned t | not a day of twenty-four hours, but of ages, : the word there transiated as “day” in other places meaning ages, and so the Bible ac- rount of the creation and the geologists’ ac. rount of the creation are completely har- | nonious. Chronology enters the book of Daniel and savs that the words "time an ¢ half” mean a year and a hall, Chronology euters at another po and shows us that the seasons of the year were then oniy two-—summer and winter, We nd that the Bible year was 380 days instead of 363; that the day was calculatad fr } o'clock an the morning to 6 o'clock at night that the night was divi —~pamely, the late watel, sock crowing, the early ind watch world began t 30% r ub to tos zo nt 3 COIUr that « ficated wr withdraw + But the ev the w tnovad part in DBible geed of sucn tin mantels or our pockets in an az when a man may have a hail d dozen o rements for one day Io know the exact minute for each one them. The earth itseif in Bible times was the chiel timepiece, and it turned on | its axis and that wasa day, and once around he sun and that was a year It was not until the Fourteenth Century fhat the almanac was born, the almanac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity more than 5000 years to make one, Chron slogy bal to bring into its service the monu- ments of Egvpt and the cylinders of Asavris, and the bricks of Babylon aud the pottery of Nineveh. and the metals struck at An- ticen for the battle of Actium, and all the sieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and tnd to go into the extremely delicate busi. | aess of asking the ages of Adam and Seth snd Eaoch and Methuselah, who after their 00th year wanted to be thought young, : I think it must have been in recognition of the stupendous work of making sn alma- tac thet all the days of the week are named | after the gods, Sunday, afler the sun, which was of old worshiped as a goo. Mon- fay, after the moon, which was also wor- shiped as a god. Tuesday, alter Tuesco, tas god of war. Wednesday, atter Woden, the thief god of the Beandioavians. Thursday, after Thor, the god of thunder, Friday, after Frea, the goddess of marriage, Ani | Saturday after Saturn. The old Bible year began with the 25th of March, Not uatil 1352 did the first of the month of January get the honor in legal documents in Eagiand of being called the firat day of the year, Improvements all along have been rads in chronology until the calendar and the almanac, and the clock, and the waloh seam to have reached perfection, and all ths Na. tions of Christendom havesimilarity of time salculstions and have adoptel what is called “new style,” except Russis, which | keeps what is called the “old style” and is | twelve days different, 80 that, writing from | there, if you wish tu be accurate, you date | our letter January 1 and January 13, or ber 10 and Dacambar 28. It is some: | thing to thank God fo: that the modes are so complets for calculating the cycles, threw hour, the ny n ster # tig pts of life the while fro “0 104 gs we stand ot 235 OF & and needs ¢ 108 of i flower, one small shipload of passengers, less than 300 years ago, and now we have a i nation of 60,000.00), Where, then, is so called impossibility that the seventy Jews who went in to Egypt in 43) years became 3,020,000* Infidelity wrong and Bible ehron- Now stop and reflect. Why is it that Bible chronnlogzy has been so naziectad, and that the most of voit have never given ten minutes to the this stupendous and overwhelming tieme? Wa have stood by the half day or toe whole day at grand reviews and seen armies pass. Again and again and Champs Elvsees Frenchmen the bun- again by on the the bannerad esrmies go by, and the huzz: has been thres miles Jone and until tne popuiacs were so hoarse they could huzza no longer. Again and acain and again the Germans by hundreds thousands have stood on the paiaced and statued Under den Linden, Berlin, ani strewn garlands under of uniformed hosts led on by Von B.ucher or Frederick the Great, When Wellinzton and Ponsonby and the 0 Wolseley from Erypt, or Marihorourt from Blenheim what military proosssions throagh and along Ly the palaces of What almost interminable lines of on the streets of our American miliary capitals, with uncovered heads, looked on! all thoss grand reviews together, and they aratame compare i with the review which on New Year's day you from the pew and | from the pulpit witness, Hear them pass in curonological order— all the years before the flood; all the vears since the flood; decades abreast: abreast; epochs abreast: Egyptian civilization, Babylonian puiations, Assyrian dominions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Paloponussian and Raman wars: Byzantine empire Saracenic hosts crusaders of the first, the last avalanches of men; Dark Ages in somber epsulets and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of gold: Italy, Francs, Russa, Germany, Eagland past and present; dynasties, feudal domains, despot.sms, monarchies, re- publics, ages oh ages, ages on ages, passing to-day in a chronological review, until has no more power to look upon vancing colnmnas, now brilliant, squalid, now gariandel with peace, now meson with slanght now horrid with ghastiiness, now radiant with love aad joy. nis chronological study affords, among other practical taougats LW Ome the one encouraging to the ast degrees and startliog. Tbe encouraging main drift of the csn- toward betlerment, with there a ston reversal’, Ealion Wad A vast imorove ptian civ and On But put centuries —_— the ad- now especisliy other thouzht is that the turies has been mly here and (rrecian civil ton Egy nen Bor Groce . 1 ( vast improvement on What nr.stian « ration RK yn civilizat of P songfell sy was the b stad er 1 with tus olden time: uishad wary of them as ir aod good rails as {or litary leaders of our Ci bern and soalern side « srs of Chrw lifens pura a ing impresses me i review mores tha: ts Of yaars are % Aas the Iroops move hat you and I wera Mi We Ware the dis guteenia or Glad am I tha im ment BOW passing the reviewing sand, and that our cnildren will pass the stand in a ’ ndurel entury? wa are in the re till better 1egiment ol did not buil this world for a slaughter house od infamy, A gool deal ol cleaning houss will be necissary before this world clean and sweet as is ought to be, but the brooms and the scrubbing brushes, and the uphoisterers and plumbers ares already busy, and when the worid gets fixed np, as it will be, if Adam anil Eve ever visit it, as 1 ex- pect they will, they will say to sach other, “Well, this beats paradise when we lived a den of the wardrobes are more compiete and the climate is better.” Since [ settled in my own mind the fact | that God was stronger than the devil I have this planet, the world has been on and on, and up. and I have two jabilant bossanas-- for the closing year and the other far tht But the other thonzht coming out of this dee 1 all chronology, is urging the world to mors punctuality and immediateness. What must have been for two business men in the time of Abaz to make an appointment, say - morrow when the shadow on the dial of Abaz reaches the tenth step from th» top” or “I will meet you in the sirest Mtraizht new moon,” or woen asked in a courtroon what tima an ocourranc took placs sno uid answer, It was during the time of the latter raid,” or “It was at ths tims of the third crowing of the barny 1rd!” You and I remember when ministers of the Goapel in the country, giving out a no tics of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say: “The ser. the centuries, the decades, the years, the - months, the days, the hours, the lr, | vies will begin at early candle light. Think of making appointments as in the | Thank God for chronological achievements Bible days for the time of the new moon, | Which have ushered in calendars and al Think of making one of the wate bes of the aight in Bible timen a rooster crowing. The says: ‘Before the cock crow thon shalt deny me thrice,” “If the Master o)m- eth at the cockerowing,” and that was the way the midnight watoh was indicate) The crowing of that barnyard bird has al ways been most uncertain, The crowing is at the lowest temp rature of the night, and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind may bring the lowest temperature at 11 o'elock at night or 2 o'clock in the morn. ing, and at any one of six hours, Just be. fore a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the night is almost perpetual, | Compare these modes of marking time with our modes of marking time, when 1? delok is 12 o'clock, and 6 o'clock is 0 o'clock, and 10 o'clock ie IU o'clock, and in. oi tof all wea and then thank God that you live now, But potwithstand- ing mil the imperfect modes of marking hours or years or centuries Bible chronol- never trips up, never falters, never con: tradicts itself, an hors is ons of the bast ar- guments for the authenticity of the Boerip- ures. It an alibi in the courts, Jn oan prove oud doubt shat You manacs and clocks and watches, and at so cheap a rate all may possess them! Chron. ology, beginning by appreciating the valus of years and the valus of days, has kept on until it eries out: “Man, immorta’; woman, immortal : look out for that minute; looz out for thas second” We talk a great deal about the walus of time, but will never fully appreciate its value until the last fragment of it has passe | out of our forever. ‘Ths greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob snother of hin time, Hear it, yo laggards and re. All the fingers ol chronology point to puncinality as one of the graces. he min- ister or ths lecturer or business man who comes to bis place ten minutes after the ap- pointed time commits a erime the enormity of waich ean only be estimated by multiply - fug the number of persons present by ten. If the engagement ba made with five per- sons, he has stoen fifty minutes, for he is ten minutes too late, and he has robbed each of the five persons of ten minutes apiece, Vv nnd you can prove t ad DE dolag or saying bills, Ix not half so bad ae the thief of times Dr, Rush, the greatest and busiest phy: time, and when asked how he had been books and lectures he repliad: *'] have been ables ta do it by economizing my time. | hava not snent ones hour in amusement in thirty years” And wakinz a thiz every week with thougnts that occur to me and facts collected in tho rooms of my patients,” Napoiean appreciated the value of time when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo, and ha thought that a little more time would retrieve his fortunes, anl he pointed to the sinking sun ana said, “What would 1 not give to be this day possassed of power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy murch for two hours!” The good old womnn appreciated the valus of time when at ninety-three vears of age she said, ‘The Judze of all the earth does not mean that | shail have anv excuse for not being prepared to meet Him.” Voltaire, the blatant infidel, the value of time when in his dying mo ments he said to his docto, **l will give you half of what [ am worth if you will give me i xix months of life,” and when told that he | could not live six weeks he burst into tears and said, “Then 1 shall go to hell!” Joho Wesley appreciated the va ue of time when he stood on his steps watching for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, ‘‘l have lost ten minutes forever.’ Lord Naison appreciated the valus of time when he sald, “I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour betorenand.” A clockmaker in ons of the old Enaglish { towns appreciated the valus of time when he put on the front of the town ciock the wounds, “Now or when? Mitchell, the as tronomer, appreciatad the value of time when he seid, *'l have hern in she babit of ealeulating the value of a thousandth part of a second.” That minister of the Gospel i did not appreciate the value of time who, during a season of illness, instead of employ ing bis time in useful reading or writing, wiate a silly religious romance, which in { some unknown way came into the possession | of the famous Jos Smith, who introduced | the book as a divine revaiation, wh came the foun iation of Mormonism, 1 most beastly abomination of all time, They best appreciate the values of time | whoss Sabbaths have been wastsd and whose opportunities « f repeuatance and use | tuluess ure all gone, and who have nothing {leit but memories, baleful and eleziac {hey stand in the bleak September, with | bare fect, on the share stubble a reaped wheat field, crving, “The harvest is past!” And the sough of an ocutumal equinox moans forth ia eco, ho harvest is past? But do not lat us get an impression from chronology that becaus? yenrs tite have been so long in procession they are to y on forever Matter is not eternal No, 3! If you watch half a day, or a whole ay or two days, as | once did to ses 8 mili tary remember the last brig 1d the last iment, and the iast we roms tO all over.” cession of earthly years when | have no power confirma the o earth cannot always s bosn a fatality of s merely the corpie of 1iisles Lave again their olservatories to {f dying worlds, and So | am certain, God and science, Wil s00uer or apprec.ateld oh be- the or # € procession, will terminate {10 prognos Bible prop £3 te oes ani aInin E ie un 19 attend the deathosd © bave sen them cromated both {rom Word of he world's chronol later come tO its last chaple I'he final century wili arrive and pass on, and then will the final decade, and 1 yenr, and the floal month, and Che inst spring will swing its ie biowsomes and the (ast w» Tue inst sonset will burn yw and the last morning radiate ¢ weks will strike toeir last w Li th last iw needsl to to set thie OEY Come ir haste “Os UD A FP i thie water from the wat pu MAK BT sunss and Uralsand Danubes, and Atian nd Pacific and Indian and Mediterra And then the angel of God ; from the throne, might s #03 and the instantly 1 savasashe and Misissippis an © pul ti ur wincs time shall be Chrst, pard ts the no rod iim , Lut nger™ Yer, found in and sanciified, we shall waic Gay giadness than rr Wea wood 8 Caristmas or New Yoar's mora, Lisaven, wa Ey wii more You ev ihe rea hander shakes 1h Gis of elhetr gow earia a fre me hen wrapt Gf pesYen a ow, . andisma red, shal o'er the rain smilie 2hi tay torca al nature s Tunersl pile Nos» ani Throat. In a recent lecture before the Chem. ists’ Assistants’ Association, London, by William Hill, M.D., London, the throat was described in detail, and the pharynx bee T hoe And The nose has a the | throat and ite disorders, It contains a series of bones called the turbinated bones, which expose a large surface of warm blood, and cause the air inhaled to be warmed ready for the lungs; more- over, the cilia of the nose cause the se- cretion to move and reject the solid par- The nose is the most important parte. The larynx, which is the air pussage, is bounded at its upper ex- | tremity by the vocal cords, sud has, | therefore, the double function of breath- ing and phonation. The epigiotis, by | altering its form, causes the food to pass down the pharynx, and keeps it from the larynx. In speaking of proper | breathing, the author pointed out that | diaphragmatic breathing was the proper | method, and not clavicular. It was re. i ported that Rubiel had broken bie | clavicle during singing, by persisting in this method of breathing. Throat. dis. | enses are often caused by germs, by in. halation of sewer gas, ete. Fortunately, there are other organisms in the throat always ready to attack these germs. The throat was well provided with tonsils, both faucial and lingual. The tonsils produce phagocytes or ledcooytes, ama- boid corpuscles which actually swallow up the germs. Why, thea, should ton. sils be ont out! Because, when they be. come enlarged and horny, they lose this {unetion, and by removing the horny surface, the newly exposed portion can go op producing the corpuscles. The decay of teeth is largely due to germs, This shows the importance of keeping the tenth in order, Obstruction in the nose it tho cause of many throat dis- orders. People liable to throat disorders should be very chary of eating piquant or hot dishes, Irritating remedies, too, such as cayenne and (except in special cases) tannin lozenges cr nitrate of sile ver, should be avoided. Hot tea, too is bad. —Scieatiic American More thas 700 Lives of Columbus bave been written in various languages, 7Z IN A MASS OF SNAKES, Thrilling Experience of a Form Hand in a Well in Connecticut, The long drought in the Conneectieu! valley, during which the farmers have the rover, induced Farmer Aleiander Penfield, Hving near Middletown, up a long dissued well on his For this purpose he sent his 10 had noi labored disturt ed by a sin- Hke the humming # bucket, The Pole ong before bo was gular buzzing sound he ¢ snake, Fiom every | curb of the wel | their heads, hiss to © the began in glonag forth nl crowding on the frightened workman each other into the bottom of the dimly lighted shaft, There were back snakes, fnakes, striped snakes and adders, water For t'¢ against the serpents with his shovel, simply to protect himself from thelr attack, but in a few mo nents he was completely invested with a hissing, fossing tangle of uw shower of falling upon EHNAKeS Bim from Finally he eal was continually the wa ls above ed for ald and was hau'ed to the surface, Bubsequent examination revea od the fact that | h thiriv-four snakes with SHOVE. @ d killed his Jedge Wazem's Politieal Proverbs, Some stiles of patriotism won't wasl A states: ford alfor to do fer his country fer nan kin aj of sullerin thousan dollers a yeer All the IARC B IAW Holdin mighty hard to the Amerikin i when uth shet, den world can't CRN brake, bad habit brake versell ov, jegisiaters in the that nobody ix & ige!l has Leo Ow ie nile as well A CONRress Politics | %, a8 ha to of he top of Lins aboul polit Farmers Ore egal tender, When ¢ Fnn » | pane Biled of shirts an sOn rest of us ine purposs a. » rather heer olin at «) High Boots Neo Longer Worn. : fx 4 {i Lhe 1 af significant evice ¥ fe « the Vo The Farmer, A farmer will get up at 4 o'clock, jean out the stalls feed, milk, ship his milk daily (and Sunday, too). make up the beas and milk and feed again, with a bare profit, if he has a dairy herd, but it is hard work to even cican out a poultry hous» once a week. v rg os TMATISM. 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