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1, meet. NUMBER 21. SANTA CRUZ, SATUIiDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1877. VOLUME XXIII. gans for respiration, digestion, secretion and assimilation.

80 similar are tbe races, physiologically, that a system of anatomy written in Amor, lea would be as applicable to the inhabitants of Europe, Asia and Afi ica. So fares tbe difference la color, hair, faolal contour, is ooncerned, wo simply stale that there Is no greater oular than Mr. Darwiu himself. We of gold and silver, Iron and clay, will leave Mr. Darwin in the com- was fitly symbolised by this atone pany ol his blood relations, the mon- ot rosetta in grinding to powder the keys, tbo apes and the gorrllas.

We idolatrous Image or skeptical autl-will acoept the testimony of Max quarlans. Volume after volume had Muller and all other philologists, bjen written by theae so-called that the Bible Is only ntterlng aclen- scientists concerning these insorip-title truth when It sRys, "The whole Hone In the temples of Den-earth was of one language and one derail a certain professor or the speech," and that "of one bloud bath University of Breslau, published a God made all natlona." But when work, entitled Invincible Proof in favor of the Bible doctrine of eth- that our earth Is ton times older than molngy, we unite the arguments taught by the Bible." A learned from physical acienoe aud physiolog writer, who lived at tbe time and had leal and psychological, and philolog- a personal knowledge of the matter, one common ray of pare white, are destined to thin on In th firmament ot acienoe and amid the glorious constellations of God's hosts forever and ever. Aa the German Rationalists, the English Dais's and th French Athelste have dropped out of tbe galaxy of scientists, so before lha nineteenth cnlury shall cloee such names as Theodora Parker and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Smart Mill and Herbert Spencer, Huxley and Darwin, will be known as th. tills, or I he bewildered sophists of a past age. You will notice tbe conspicuous absence lothisdiscourseof anyallusion to evolution er development, to protoplasm or to bioplasm, for the very reaion these form no part of science or revelation.

It is a remarkable fact tbat no man has ever yet bean allowed by ibe Almighty to discover any great universal law of Nature, nnlen he a Christian Copernicus waa a Christian, Galileo Isass Newton wss a Christian, Kepler and Euler were Obrtsliaus. "The secret of the Lord Is with them tbat fear Him." "If any uiaa love Me, I will manifest Myself onto him." Ae the Star in the East led tbe wise men to bow before lb holy child Jesus, offering "gold, frankincense and myrrh," eo the star of telence to-day Is leading tions. What blending lights are these. The seven-told radianco tnak. Ing pure white.

Like binary stars blending their awful light lo one harmonious ray and sending It to us across tbe spaces of time ethnology and theology. Philological science si si teaches tbat of "one blood hatb God made all nations." The testimony of universal history and tradition, and the result of philological and. physical researches, combine In cor. roborating the Intimations derived from the sacred Scriptures, of the eastern origin of nations, and of the three great divisions which analogies of language an 1 physical characters alike Justify into the Semllio or Syro-Arabian, inhabiting the coun where Godl Oodl'' ao the rosetta stone of Egypt and the Moablte atone apeak In thunders of white alienee, the grand harmonious melody of tbe word and worka of God, and the echo falls npon our ears, "Godl Godl Godl" So we read lu Isaiah 19:23, "The Egyptians shall serve with the The marveloue exoavatlons of Nineveh, by Butts and Layard, not only show this lo be a historic fact, but In tbe light of archaeology, the Egyptian temples of Esneh and Denderab shall serve with the Inscriptions In lbs temple of Assyria, to eluoldate and substantiate the Word of God. Nineveh In Ita pride and lust of conquest wsa the minister nf God's Judgment; In Its dnwnlall It waa subservient to tbe defence and Interpretation of God's Word.

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pK-ur to Moses. Traditions of the creation and human history down to Nlmrod existed parallel to, and In aome cases Identical, with those given In Genesis. Tbe Genesis legends of Nineveh date as far back as 670 a. and the originals from which these are copied, fun back to the daya of Abra ham aud Moses. Judging from tbe fragments dis covered, It appears probable that there were In the Royal Library at Nineveh, over 10,000 Inscribed tab lets, luoludlng almost every subject In ancient literature.

Thla literature of Nineveh was borrowed Irom Baby lonian aouroee and carries through tbe lebyrtnib of dusty ages to th building ot tlie tower ol Babel, after whiob Babylon la supposed to base been named. Tbe herculean labors of Layard and Bona, and Smith and Berosus, and other arohseologlats and historians, hsve given us a duplicate Bible, containing detailed account ol all the facta in the flrst chapters of Gsnesls, about which there baa been so much dispute. In orderfhat you uiay aee what archaeology Is doing, not only for sacred, but profane history, I call your attention In passing lo th recent explorations of Dr. Soblleuiann of Germauy. He did not believe the stories oonoernlug the sit of anoleitt Troy, so he took hie Homer aud his hammer, aud went lo work upon another site, and not only found the ancient city of Troy, but even tbe palaoe of the kiug, and the very box of jewels alluded to by Homer In hie Immortal epic He found a golden flsgon weighing nearly a pound, two golden" goblets, ons of which weighed nearly a pound, and a quarter talout of silver, three ail-, ver vases, a silver bowl.

Wltbiu the bouse of Priam, on Ih Inside of the olty wall, be found a helmet and a silver vase about 1 Inches In bight, In which were two dlademe of golden scales, a golden ooronet, 60 golden ear-rings and 8,750 email gold rings aud buitous, etc. The value of all tbe gold and sliver found In or near the house of Priam baa been esti mated at Dr. Schllemann found the temple of Trojan Minerva, th palaoe of Ulyisei, lbs grotto of tbe Nymphs and the rulna of anoient Troy, thua redeeming It from lb oblivion of mythology to which It bad well nigh been doomed. In Ithaca, where the people have no traditional history except that of tbs Odyssey, where In every family, at this day, the Brat born daughter Is always called Penelope; tbe first son Odys seus, and tbe second Telemacbos, Dr. Schllemann was balled as a bene factor.

The people begged blm earn estly to read some passages from tbe Odyssey. lie began at tbe 247th line of the 23d Book, wherein It Is relsled how tbe Queen of Ithaca, tbe beat and most cbsste of women, recog. nlies her beloved epouee aAer twenty years ol separation. All his auditors wept profusely, and be was obliged to weep with tbem. To every elaeei.

oal scholar tbia unearthing of anoient irny has a raarvoloue iasotnallon. Here we are away back In the misty agee of Homer yea far beyond Homer's time, 1100 a. o. Thue we have endeavored to ahow that geology and meteorology, as tronomy nnd ethnology, archaeology, as sciences -tbst In these departments of knowledge ie abeo- lutely known to be true, Is In entire accord with the Word of Uod. The Word of God doea not harmonize with "science, falsely so-called, with crude hypotheses or spleudid guessee.

and fortunate for us tbat it does not, for when tbe true science at last ahould come we should be boneless ana helpless uetenuers 01 tne Word of Uod. Science is one Iblug snd sophistry Is aootbor. Much of ths so-called selsncc ol to-day is mere sophistry, for "sophistry yon will bear in mind Is a plausible sbow of reaaouing. In which deductions having uo other basia than such opinions, bellels, aasumplioaa or a par tial induction ot acts are Imposed upon tbe miud of tbe public as truths of science." The world le full of opinions, beliefs, assumptions and liypottieaee, nenoe run or sophistry. There sre a lew just and Impartial scientists.

It Is a great hlslorlo fact that all the great thinkers of the past. wuo nave In the united Judgment or mankind become fixed stars In tbe firmament of solence, have been believers iu Uod. Ou lb other hand, the most eminent anti-Theistlo thinkers are known and designated as sophists. Wbere to-day are the great thinkers ol trance, who laid III foundation ot modern material Atheism? Tbey are certainty not stars of the first magnitude in the firiiismentof science; they are reck oned with the great sophists. Where are the great minds of Usrmany, who laid the roundatiou or modern ra tionalism? Fallen stars, to whom is reserved the blackneaa of darkness forever.

These men, who once ahone so brllliautty la tbe firmament of science, are last taking rauk with ths sophists of autlquliy. Among the thousands wno crowd to great uer-mau iiniverelUes to-day professor, whoee object it Is to expound and verify the systems ot sent or rwnte, of Schelliugor Hegel, seas eommaud a score of bearers. Says a reoeni writer: "It ie a notorious fact that In the German universities the rational, tstto lecture-rooms are empty aud tbe evangelical crowded, while fifty year, ago Uie rationalism were crowded and evaugelical etnpty. Tbat his-torie or the rise, progress snd do-oline of German rauousliem have beeu appearing lor lb last fifteen years In the most learned portions of the literature ot Germany. That auoh teacberaasTboiuok, Julius Muller, Dorner, Dltmaon, Lange, Kotbe and TUcnendorf, most of whom begaa tbeir professorships wlta great unpopularity in their universities oa account of their opposition ui ration.

alislic views, are uow particularly huoored on thai very account. Thai every prominent German university is bow under predominant evangeli cal Influence, except Heidleoerg, and that bas Isw II any tkeological students. Tbat in th field 04 exegetl. cal research, while rationalism, has caused Ibe discovery of many new loots snd Ibe adoption ot new methods, ue vert helve th uainraiislie theory by Paulus, tbe snytblcej theory by Strauss, lb tendenry theoiy by Baur, and th legendary theory by Kenan, bave bee, eo an. tagoulatie to each other aa te be suo-saslvely outgrown by Christian aod even raiiooalietio acbolarsbip." Ia Ui light uf such lentiiaony, we see that men and Institutions of learning that bear the tore bee of selectee and rsrelauon, blending laebr lights la The Harmony of Science and Revelation.

Continued from last week. We have perceived the lengtb of the earth; Damely, Iti longitude, for man hu traveled around It, bat no man ever yet peroeived the breadth of the earth, Iti latitude, for the reason uo man has ever yet reaohed the poles. The language of the Bible In regard to leientido subjects la simply amazing. If there were no other proof of Its inspiration, this alone would be aufllclent. For tiiose allusions to almost every science toba so worded as to be In harmony with all true aclentltio development In all ages, is wouderlul.

The telescope may look In one direction Into the inbultely great; the microscope may look in the other direction iuto the Infinitely small, and the spectroscope may look In all directions iuto the nature ol things, an yet the Bible anticipates ail, la contemporaneous with all, and Is in harmony with all. The sun gives as a light by which to see him. So the Bible gives us a light by which to see the scientino truths of the Bible. Wherever the Bible goes, it works up men to ecien. tine research, and then the Bible Invites all the sciences to test the Word of Uod.

The Bible Itself has called forth the very attack which so-called scientists are making against the Word ot Truth, The Bible saya to every scientist: "Walk about him and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following." "The Bible frequently makes allusion to the laws of Nature, their operation and effect. But such allusions are often concealed until the lights and revelations of science are thrown upon them, then burst out and strike us with exquisite foroe aud beauty." Revelation ia in harmony with the science of ethnology. Acts 17:26 teaches the doctrine of ethnology, that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth." "The unity of the hu. man race was unknown to all poly.

theislio religions. All these oonfonn. Ing to the theory that there are many Oods, proceeded on the principle that the primordial, of the various nations were also many in number, and that these nations aud their re-spective founder, were originally of different degrees ot rsnk. The con. ptlou of unity In the history of mankind alno entirely forulKO to heathenism.

Even those nations that had risen to the highest degree of culture and Intelligence, the Greeks and the Romans, regarded themselves respectively ss the central point in the history of the world they oould form no conception of a universal history of msnkiud viewed as one race." And modern scientists have tried to assign to man a variety of origins corresponding to the va riety of race development, or a very low origin, from which the race hss sprung through "natural selection" and "a survival of the fittest." But true science to-day la coming back to the Bible in teaching that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face ol the earth." First, let us notice the physical argument. The achievements of scientino naturalists furnish ns with a new argument in favor of the unity of the race. The microscope has done for the blood Just what Hie telescope has done for the nebulous stream of the heavens. It has resolved the wavy mass Into separate globes and determined the variety, character and site of each. First came tbo discovery that the blood of every anl.

mal Is composed of an iunuite number of minute, red globules, floating iu a colorlesa fluid. Next la the mammalia theae globules were uni-iormly circular and somewhat flat, In thickness equal to one-fourtb the diameter. Next that In birds, fishes and reptllea, these globules are oval In form, and, last of all, tbat every kind of animal has its blood globules differing from every other kind. This life stream of the human race Is characteristically different from all oilier life streams found In all other oreaturea, and can be clearly distin gulsfaed therefrom. This crimson tide ol life flowing through the veins ofsilmenof whatever tribe or na tion, notwithstanding Its accidental moaiflcaiione caused by climate, food, health aud habit, ia yat every.

where characteristically the same blood and can be recognised aa audi The tranafusion of blood into the veins of a dying man la rarely suc cessful In prolonging or restoring life, uuless the blood is taken from a healthy man Instead of the brute thus proving one blood. The blood of all nations has the same fibrin, the same disk, the same plasma. The mlcrosooplet and St. Paul alike de olare that "God bath made of one Diooa an natloua of men for to dwell on all tho face of the earth, and bath determined the times before ap pointed, and tbe bounds ol their hab. Itatlon." The two great questions lu ethnology to-day are thesei Have the Mongolians, the Caucasians and tbe Africans a common origin? Have they a recent origin? Tbe Bible an swera theee questions la the efurma tlve, Ly saying they are "of one blood," and that the "whole earth was of one language and one speech.

Does solence teach the same doctrine? Physical science, by tbe aid of the microscope, baa already spoken ia favor of a common origin. Physiological science leaobee the Bible doctrine of race-unity. In the Mongolian, Caucasian and African, there la the same number of traces, tbe same arrangement of muscles, the same distribution of blood vessels, the same brain and spinal marrow, tbe aame nervous system; tbe or disparity between the varieties, than in oaob branch of the human family; and this difference Is accidental and not essential. For example, the Jews rupreaent color 111 all shades, hoiice ditferuiice of color duos not prove different species. Tbe Jews in ttie plains of tbe Ganges are jet btack; iu SyrU they are of a dusky hue; in Poland their hair is light aud their complexion ruddy; on tne coast of Malabar, in the older colony, they are blaok; iu tbeyouuger colony tby are comparatively fair.

Now we all know tbat tbe Jews are of one blood, notwithstanding this diversity of color. Tbey seldom, if ever, Inter. marry with other nations, so that this variety of color Is not owing to the mixture of blood. The Portuguese, who hsve been long settled ia Africa and tbe East Indies, have become perfectly black; the Greeks aud Turks of those couutries are also turning into tbe dusky and sable. Color, then, la no barrier to race-unity; it Is 110 argument against "one blood." There la another remarkable fact In this doolrlne of ethnology, to which I call special attention, Scientists tell us that any one species in the animal kiugdoiu can propagate itself indefinitely but two different speoies cannot propagate Indefinitely; tbey are never allowed to propagate but once the offspring is hybrid and barren.

Thus lar but no farther. It is a no. torious fsot that all hybrids are sterile. But how is It with tbe human speoies? The Mongolian, the Caucasian and tbe African, may not only propagate indefinitely as dts-tinot races, but they may unite by marriage and propagate Indefinitely. Now, if as scientists tell us, It is a law of species that they may propa gate indefinitely, provided they do oomblne with a different speoies, it follows tbat the Mongolian, the Cau casian and tbe African, are not of dif ferent species, since they can unite with each other in continuous propa.

gallon. There are no hybrids in the human raoe since all varieties are of the saute species of tbe "genus homo," This law of propagation then proves tbat "Uod hath made of une blood all nations." The ablest scientists now tell us that the charac teristics of any one species are threo: First, e. created, not de. rived or produced, by physical causes. Second, universality, i.

all the parts and organs are transmitted entire. Third, immutability or per manence, are speoies never being lost or merged in another; t. two or more species never combine to make third. Now, if as xoologlsts tell us, these are tbe characteristics of one and the same species, then all nations are of one blood, one and the same species, lor we have Just shown those characteristics in tbe humau race. Prof.

Owen, in his lecture before the Cambridge University perhaps one of the greatest men who ever lived says: "I have come to the conclusion that man forms one speeies aod that diilerenceaare Indicativeof varieties." Dellteruh also says: "Tbat the races of man are not speoies of one genus, but varieties of one species Is con firmed by tbe agreement la psycho logical and pathological phenomena in them all." All uationa are of tbe same blood, tbe same nature, tbe same raoe and order of creation. Little ueed be said of unity of origiu, for, first, unity of species is prool of unity of origin by the most distin. gulshed scientists. If men differ as to species, tbey cannot have com. mon parent, but If tbe epecies Is Identical a common paretitage is an absolute necessity.

The fact that no naturalist ever claimed aeparate origins for any other speoies, but like Agaasia emphatically disdain It, Is of itself a strong argument for the unity of the race according to tbe scriptures. Second Psychological science also teaoltea tbat of one blood "God hath made all nations." "And God said let us make man la our own imago, after our llkenoss." Do sll races of men bear within tbem tbe shattered image of God? Eth. nologlsts tell us tbat all men have the aame origin, filled with appetites, instincts and passions, the ssme nature, embracing reaaon, con. eolenoe; the moral and religious nature. All men possess the aame fallen, guilty nature, needing the same redemption.

How this bar. monlzea with the great commission, "Go ye Into all lha world and preach tbe gospel to every creature." "Wherefore as by une man alu en. tered into and death by sin." Com moo origlo aud common uature may be inferred fromaoominon condition and redemption, Sclentlals, so-called, when compelled to give opthe heresy of difference or origin through the study of anatomy and physiology, endeavored to ahow that the black man at least had no soul, no moral accountability. But tbey have recently conceded that all men, and all the eub.racea of men, have Intellect, will, conscience. No nation or tribe has ever yet beeu found wholly destitute of some kind of religion, much less destitute of all capacity for re.

Ilglou aa are the lower animals. Missionaries have never yet found a class so low down la the Intellectual and moral scale as to be without an intelleoiual and moral nature. Cul ture doee not create theae factors of psychology; It only evolves what la already In a orude form of exlstenoe. How Ibis harmonists also wltb tbe words of Jesus, "Go teach all nations," showing that all natlona are capable of being taught, and nenoe ol one blood hath God made all na teal science as well, tbe cumulative testimony ia simply overwhelming, Philologists tell us that even after the contusion of tongues, there exists a fundamental unity; there ia tlie log- leal unity of the ground forms of language, (tbe verb and substantive), the rhetorical unity of figurative modes of speech, tbe lexical unity of kindred fundamental sound, tbe grammatical unliy of kindred lin- guiatio families, such as the Semitic aud Inda-Germanic, and the histori- cal uuliy in the blending of different Idioms." Humboldt says, "The com- parative study of Isnguage shows us that races uow separated by vast tracts of laud are allied together, aud have migrated from oue common, primitive seat." Max Muller aays again: "The evidence of language ia irrefragable, and It la the only evi- donee worth listening to, with re- gard to autl-bistorlcal periods. There is not an English Jury, which after examining the boary documents of language, would reject the claim of a common and a legitimate relation- ship between and Teu- ton.

I might add the testimony of Prof. Huxley, who says: "I am one of those who believe that at present there is no evidence whatever for sa, ing that mankind sprang origin- ally from any more than one single pair, and there la no good ground whatever, nor evan any tenable sort of evidence, lor believing that there Is more than one species of man." I Humboldt says, "Tbe different races of men are forms of one species, and not different species of genus." And even Darwin asys, "He bas no doubt that all races ol men are descended from a single primitive stock." Iu fact this is the prevailing opinion among ethnologists ef the present day. As we said In the beginning, ao we say again, atill more empbatl- cally, there la no truth of solence on which all scientists agree that ia not In perfect aouord with the Word of I God. Theologians may aay to tbe 1 drand Jury of sctenttata, who are uow welgblug tbe testimony or na- ture "Wall gentlemen of tbe Jury till you agree, ana yoar verdict will barmnnise with the words of tbe Great Judge of all." Revelation is In harmony with the science of archaeology. The fa.

moua rosetta atone will olslm our first attention. In August, 1799, a French artillery officer, named Bou-chard, when digging near Rosetta In Egypt, for tbe foundation of a mill, tary work, came npou a huge block of basalt, marked with various strange characters and hieroglyphic. The Inscription was written lu Greek, in Coptic and hieroglyphs. This celebrated stone, now In the British Museum, bas been subjected to the most diligent investigation by tbe antiquarians of every nation of Europe, and under tbe Ingenious labors of Dr. Young, of England, and Cbampolliou, by a comparison ol the characters lu hieroglyph wltb tbe Greek and Coptic, their key was at last found to unlock the hieroglyphs that covered the obelisks aud temples and tombs of Egypt.

The mystery tbat covered the monumental remains of the land nf Egypt for ages was at last lilted. The Insorip. tion, though valuable in Itself for tbe information imparted, Is chiefly Important for tbe clue It affords to tbe niary labyrintba ol a language that has been unknown for ages, and whose meaning It was supposed had been forgotten forever. Toe fact was now disclosed that the celebrated aodiaos extended 00 further back than the times of the early Roman emperors. By tbe aid of the rosetta, Cbainpolllon or Franos, read on the walls of the great temple at Denderab the titles, names and aurnames of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero aud Doinillan.end on the portico of Esneb, the aodlao of which was reputed to be older than that of DenderaU.

He read the Imperial names of Clandius and An. tonlnus, Pius. Consequently these mouumenta, for which Voiney and other Infidel writers, bad claimed an Incalculably remote antiquity, are fouud to belong to tbat period when Egypt waa under tbe domination of tbe Romans, and they cannot be dated earlier than th. first or second century ol the Christian era. Aa soon aa tbe rosetta atone furnished the key to hieroglyphics, tbe infidel from tbe fsmoua zodiacs and temples of Egypt, wltb their fabulous aotiqalty passed away and are beard of 00 mere.

About tbe time Iben that the French Infidels had couoludwl and published their conclusions to the world tbst the Inscriptions lu the large and smsll temples or Denderab were 17,000 years old, making it maihsmattoelly aura by tbe eigne of the sodlac, that tbey must have been built before the flood. Nay, they must hsve been built 14,. 000 years before the creation ot the world, according to the chronology of tbe Bible tbey said. About tbia time Cbainpolllon of France, by the aid of tbe rosetta stone, deciphered tbe name Augustus Ceesar on tbe walla of tbe temples of Denderab, showing tbst the origin ol the temple was no more ancient than tbe Chria tlan era. "What a fall waa Ibere my countrymen." to tbe high hopes of; French infidelity! The stone cut out of lb mountains breaking the Image says.

"This was a time of woe for a small band of Christians, and of great rejoicing for the Infidels of all countries. Yon credulous fools," said the Infidel literati, "don't you aee bow you have been imposed upon by the wily priesthood with the chronology ol your Word of God? There waa never a deluge or a crea. Hon, at least not at the period staled by the Bible. Now you oau aee tbat the Old Testament aud New Testament coutaln from beginning to end a aer. es of lies." And saya this writer, "no one was able at first to gaiusay these Infidel aud many poor Christiana were led astray." But the science of arohnology came nobly to tbe dofence of the Word of God, demonstrating beyond all quea- tion that all tbe xodlaoal represents.

tlons which existed In Egypt, are tound only upon monuments of the Greek and Roman periods, and uoue of the tomb and temples of Phar- aonlc times offer tbe least trace of them, from which results theevldent proof that the sod lac, so far from having originated lu Egypt, as waa generally believed after the opinion of Dupuls, was stranger In that oouutry till after it bad passed through the bauds of the Greeks. There la now tbe most trustworthy evidence that all the six Egyptian iodines which have been discovered were posterior lo tbe reign of Tiber us Caesar, and were executed In the space ol less than oue hundred years, vie between 67 and 150 of our Christ- Ian era. Thus the old temples of Esneli and Deuderab begin to reveal a band- writing on their walls which makes skepticism tremble as It heara the solemn Interpretations, "Thou art weighed In the balanoe and found wanting." The old fable of Mem. nou'a statue on the banks of tbe Nile, la becoming true. It was said that when tbe rays of the morning auo struck tbe lips of Meuinou's statue, at onoe the fabled aong began.

But now tha rays of lha auil of right- eousness are pouring their light and I heat upon sphinxes of Egypt, her obelisks, her temples and hor atat- ues, and the harmonious song of Science and Revelation ia flowing from those lips ol stone. What marble inuslo they yet contain, what frozen melody is piled In those pyra. mids ot Egypt, tbe archaeologist of coming ages will tell. But the pre clude has begun. Tbe Moablte atone is another peerleaa witness to tbe bar.

mouy and truthfulness of the Bible record. It perhaps contains tbe old est inscription In tbe world. There are only thirty-four linea npon this monolith, but tbey have a bearing on history, theology, philology and chronology. The relation of the He brews to the Moabites was so frag, nieutary and mysterious In the Old Testament that It was quite Impossible to reconcile certain historic state. thus the blstorio orlllolsm of anll-Cbristlan writers wss most keenly felt in this portion ol tbe sacred writ.

But when Chriatian writera were holding their peace thla Moabite stone began to cry out, aod tbe mystery was at once revealed. The theologi. cal Importance of this atone can hard ly be overrated. In lines 14-18 of the inscription where Mesha, King of the Moabites, records his cspture of Nebo, he tells that he took from tbe captured city "the vessels of Jeho vah," and dedicated them to Chem- osh, tbe national dlety of Moab. This gives us positive Information that tbe trans Jordanio tribes, too far removed from Jerusalem, bad a aep arate ritual with special parts com mon to the religion ot tbe Hebrews and tbe Moabites.

Another point of importance to theology and arobsao. logy Is the mention ot the nsms of Jehovsb on this stone, wbiob proves conclusively tbat 900 a. 0., the name Jehovah was commonly pronounced by the Israelites and used by tbe heathen to characterise the Jewish national dlety. The llngulallo importance of tbe Moablte atone may beaeeu when we realise that thia Inscription Is the only passage written in a language almost Ideutloal with Biblical Hebrew prior to the llleia. lure ol Maccabees.

With an Inscrip. tion before us, the style of which Is older than two.lhlrds of the Old Teetament, and more pure than tbat of the one-tblrd. It baa an Important bearing upon the ortbograpbv, syntax aud eentence divisions of the Old Testament Scriptures. Tbe chronological or rather palatograph I-cal Importance of tbe Moablte atone may be Imagined when we consider we here obtain an alphabet a century and a hair older than auy other document containing the same speoies of writing; that it la three ceuturlee older than any other Inscription. Tbe charactera upon tbe Moablte stone are of Phoenician origin, and hence use the original alphabet from which the Greek and Roman and all other European alphabets are derived, the veritable prototype of modern writing.

"And eo tbe atone cries out of tbe wall, and tbe beam out of tbe timber answers It," and both unite to confirm the testimony of acleuoe and revelation. As Elisabeth Barret Browning apeaks of Pow. er'e Greek alave, eut In atiow while marble, aa muttering iu "thunders of while silence," and of Eternity as "statue whose Hps every. tries between Egypt aud tbe Ganges the Japhetlo or Indo-Europeau, ex tending from the mouths of the Ganges over northern Asia, Europe and America and tbe Ham. iliahorthe Ethiopian, who peopled Africa.

Now If the descendants of Sbetu, Ham end Japlielb thus radiated Irom one historic centre, It will not be surprising if the solence of philology should trace the converging Hues of all languages and dia. leota to that ceutre, tbue allowing iu another tbat of one blood hatb God made all nations to dwell on all the face of the earth. The greatest phi-lologists are now agreed iu reducing ail languages to three families, the Aryan, tbe Semitic aud tbe Turanian. The elements of these great original tongues remained unchanged in ail generations; they are more enduring than the pyramids of Egypt, tbe ruins of Palmyra or the statues of Greece. Tbe Teutonic languages of Europe are illustrated by the language of Persia.

Tbe Latin of Italy connects it self with tbe Idioms of Russia and Greek with the Sauaorlt of India. It was lo fact the discovery of tbe Sanscrit literature, less tbau a cen tury ago, tbat has led to a new and more simple classification, and has shown that the languages of Shorn, Hatn and Japhetb have a common affinity. Klaproth, who has little or no reverence for tbe "All languages iu tbe world are connected with one origin; a universal affinity Is completely demonstrated," and Uorer, though doubting the Inspira tion of Moses, declares that tLe human race aud human language go back to one source. "All dialects," says the Petersburg Academy, "are to be con sidered as dialects of one uow lost." Max Muller saya, Nothing necessitates the admission ot different independent begtunliiKs for tbe material elements of the Turanian, Semitio and Aryan branches of speech. Nay, it is possible even now to point out radicals which under various changes and disguises have beeu current in these branohes ever since their first separation." We oau understand, uot only tne origin of language, but like wise the necessary breaking up of one langsuge Into many, and we perceive that no amount of variety lu the material or formal elements of speech is incompatible wltb the ad mission nf one common sou roe.

How the bresking up of language into these three great families accords with tbe scriptural account of tbe confusion of tongues? How tbe underlying affinity In ail these great divisions of language accords with tbat other significant scripture passage, "Tbe whole earth was of one language and one speeoh." Though the solence of philology Is yet In Its lufsncy sud much remains to be done in reducing diversities, and discovering affinities, yet the most eminent scholars in this department of letters, whether Christian or Infidel, unite In their testimony that the whole tendency of philology Is lu the direction of "one language and one speech and one blood." Every day Is adding some new language to this affiliated list, and furnishing additional evidence of the unity of mankind. The acienoe philology then has adireot and moat powerful bearlug npon ethnology, Tbe great Aryan family, aometimea called the Indo-European, thua In dicating tbe geographical exteut of the family in Asia aud Europe, em bracing tbe Sanwrit, the Greek, tbe Latin, the Sclavonic, including tbe Germauio and the Celtio, radiates from one blstorio centre away back in the vory dawn of creation, Tbe Semitic family, with ita subdivisions, the Uebrew.the Aramsle and Arabic, radiate from the same centre. And the third great family, tbe Turanian, comprising all the lauguagea of Asm and Europe, not Inoluded iu tho other two, also stretches across the ages from one, tbe same source, and all Indicate a remote breaking op of language, exactly la harmony with tbe Bible account of the oonfu slon or tonguee. Speaking of the confusion of language. Chevalier Buusen says: "Comparative philol ogy would have been compelled to set forth as a postulate, the supposl lion of some such division of Ian.

guages in Asia, especially on the ground of the relation of the Egyp uan language 10 tbe Semitio, even If tbe Bible bad not assured us of the truth of this great historical eveut. It la truly wonderful, It Is a matter of aatonlsbment, that aometbing so purely historical, something so conformable to rea.on.ls bore related to ua out of tbe oldest primeval period, aud which now, lor tbe first time through the new acienoe nf philology, has become oapable of being historically explained." I can not refrain In passing, from making one more remark eoucernlog the science of philology. Darwin says tbat man descended, or ascended rather, from an ape, aud bas slowly developed into bis present imperial standing. Max Muller says the further back you go, language beoomea purer aud more exalted. Then the apes must have had purer and mora exalted feme-1 the wis men through Nature to Na ur Uod.

Wicked men bave, like the Atheist, La Place, elaborated Ih disooveriee devout men, but no audevout man has sver done for science, wbat Owen and Faraday, Heraohel aud Buokhtnd.Hugb Miller and Sir Ruertck Mim-htuaoii, be- well and Hitchcock, Bacon and new- ton, Bogle and Pascal, Cuvler and Locke, bave dune. Fixed stare era theee in the firmament of science, but like all other atars, tbeir light came from God and abone in honor or God. I believe tbe time will com when th Bible will become the rosetta stone ol ths universe. Aa th Ureok and Coptic writing upon the rosetta stone enabled Cbampolliou lo read tbe hieroglyphic on tbe temple, of Egypt, so ibe Greek and Hebrew of tbe Bible enables ue to read the hieroglyphics on Ihs great temple of Nature, 10 trauslate th stone scriptures of geology, aud to decipher th atar-illumiued scroll of heaven. Men will go to tbe Bible flrst to get the key tbat unlocks tbe treasure bouse of Nature.

Instead of eoleuc being tbe constant quantity and revelation, tbe variable, revelation will be regarded a. science changing to adapt Itsell lo ins unchangeable Word uf Uod, Instead of the Bib! revolving around geology and astron. omy and ethnology aud arohasology, these will all revolve around the Bible ss the sun, snd will all receive from the Bible Ufa snd light and power. It would seem from all tbia wonderful harmony of science and revelation tbat every college 10 th United State ought to bave at least one professor whose sole business shsll be not to leach science nor revelslion, but to allow bow completely they harmonize. There are professors In aome of jour State uni.

veraUies" 10-day who are teaching Darwinism and evolutioulaiuwboes avowed purpose seems to be 10 make science contradict revelation. Do not need men in our ooliegee lo-day who will take science in one baud and tbe Bible in the other, and ahow from the adinisatona of eolentlst themselves, In so far aa tbey are able to agree, tbat their verdict le In per. feet accord with the Word of Uod? Mr. Carlyle, say tbe Loudon enr-respoiiileiit of tbs Hartford Courant, receives his visitor in the little house where he hss dwrlt ever siuce coming to London, No. 8 Cheyue-row, Chelsee, near the famous hnaoiiai founded by Nell Uwynne, aod not Ikr from where Sir Thomas More lived Heury great Cliauoei-lor.

The street le old aud dingy and unattractive, but It Is close to the namee and to a magnificent bridue. and to most charming viewe trout overy aide. Mr. Carlyle' house is small, plain, and unpretentious on the outside, but full of manifold charm within. The afternoon eun atreams in tbrougb three small win dows In the drawiiig-rooin, the patriarch aitting in a capacious artn-cbair in front of Ibe fireplace and a glowing fire, for London le la a fan and the la day oool.

There are book-shelvee on either side or the fireplaoe. On the shelvee le a complete set of itusmn's worka, rJmersou's, and some others of our Americans hold ing a conspicuous rank among tbeiu. Carlyle ie now very feeble through age, but bis memory Is still marvelous, and the flow of bis talk la ana- bated. He eaya So-called llterarv and scientific classes In England now prooaiy givs luemselvee to proto plasm, origin of species, sud the like, to prove that Uod did uot build tbs universe. I have known three gen-stations of the Darwina, grandfather, falhor, and eon; Atheists all.

Toe brother of the present fsmous naturalist, a quiet man, who lives not far from bare, told me tbat among his graudlathers'a effects he found a eeal engraven wltb this legend 'Omnia ex cone is everything from a clam abell I I ssw tbe naturalist not many months sgn told him tbst I had read hla 'Origin of tbe and other booka Ibat he bad by no means satisfied me ibat men were descended from monkeys, but had gone far toward persuading me tbat he and his so-called eclenilfia brethren had brought th present generation of Englishman very near to moukeys. A good sort of man la this Darwin, and well meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah, it le a ead aod tar-rib I thing to Me nigh a whole generation of men and women proieaalag to be cultivated, looking around In a purblind bunion and finding no Qod ia thia nniveras. I euppose it i a reaction from th reign of oant and hollow preteuee, professing to believe wbat la fact tbey do not believe. And this is what wa have got.

All things from frog spawn tbe goenel of dirt tbe order at the day. Tit older I grow aod bow I aland upon the brink of eternity tbe more eoraee back to me the eeuunce in the eatecblsin, which I learned woea a obild, aud Ibe fuller and deeper Its meanlug become What ie tbe great eud of man To glorify God, and to enjoy Him No gospel of dirt, teaching that ma have descended from frog tbrough monkeys can ever act lost aside." He pours bie whole soul Iuto hie eoover-eatioa. Ita key i a Scotch monotone; but at time he rise to tne higbtef fiery energy, aud almost of ever, whelming eloquenoe. Tbe cathedral of Mils Is a sym. pnony in la a poem la arch, 1 lecture eel 10 marble otaaie.

A tbe eye follows lla rtetog grandeur of melody from foundation aud buttress te column sud a rod, up through tur ret aad amid aouiptured prophets, prieste aod king, it rests, at ou ay moot ol ths world harmony, a marbt areas whiea. crowns lbs sacred pus. Soeoltiosi laying the foundatioa of a temple for Uod, aad want that temple Is own. pteie, when each eoteoce shall be relieved ot rubhisit aed ebiseied to its Jurt prupunione like block. 0 snow wbll marble, will IBey go to form a oat bed rat grand aad tupoaiug, but above the mighty etrtiatur wul gieam tbe eroas uf Christ, ol of tbe scleoc of Uod, la harmony wita all below, adding beauty aad majesty sad glory to the stone scrips me of Uod ia stare, and tbat hollar esnptar of Uod la grad.

tbe continued existence of God's earthly kingdom, are now by their monuments atngularly helpful and auxiliary to tbat kingdom. He who used the Assyrian as tbe rod of bis anger, now summons him from tbe dust of centuries, tu witness for tbe truth of His word. Only seven years before Botla began his expl orations, Von Bohlen, Professor at Konlgsberg, published a treatise on the Book of Genesis, In which he alleged that "tbe accouota therein given of the origin of Babylon and Nigsveh, are utterly untrustworthy that Babylon was not prior to Nineveh, but the reverse that Nineveh waa the aame as Merodach-Baladan, when the writer of Genesle baa blunderingly transferred to this early date that the In-vaslon of Canaan by four kings from this eastern region, in tbe time ol Abraham, was an incredible fiction, etc, But when Botla and Layard entered the old palaoes of Henna oberlb and Sardanepolus, they were enabled to dispute eveiy assertion of the Konlgsberg professor, and verify the truth of the Mosaio record concerning Nineveh and Babylon. Tbua the monuments of Assyria, like those of Egypt, became tributary to the defence and Illustration of the Word of God. Her haughty monarobs, her Sennacherlbs and her Shalmanesers, who In lilting their hand against the people ot God, were but exeoutlng His work of chastisement, were likewise serving Him In making their boastful records of their own achievements.

They unconsciously made thotr IntarlpUnna In the Inlerosts of Jehovah's kingdom, though they had never heard his name but to despise it. And now, long ages after the power of Nineveh Is broken, and Egypt's proud Ptolemys sleep in the dust, these testimonies to God's truth areexbumod from their magnificent ruins, and thus the solence of ohro. nology and tbe Word of God become alike true, when they tell as, "The Egyptians shall aerve with the Assyrians." Thus we might go on, did time and apace permit, and apeak of tbe vast exoavatlons of Heroulaneum and Pompeii of Rome, and other cities of the Orient, whose Inscrip tlons are coming to light almost every dsy to confirm some disputed portlou of tbe Word of God. The recent discovery by the lata George Smith, ol the Inscriptions in Nineveh, have made (he eobolers of the world to stand amazed at the possible rec ords that God has oonoealed lo these ruins of ancient allies, waiting to bring forth his witnesses when tbey are moat needed. When men are not able to defend the Word of God to tbe satisfaction nf the eneerlng skeptic, then "the stone shall ory out of the wall, and tbe beam out ot tbe timber shall auawer It." For exam ple, tbe narrative on the Aaayrlan tablets commences with a description of the period before tbe world was created, when there existed cbsos or confusion.

An account of tbe fall of a celestial being, corres ponding to Sstan.ls given upon these tablets, written In the 19th century before Christ, and now are being read In the 19th century after Christ. It records the fact that tbia rebellion of Lucifer, bright eon of the morning, led to war In heaven, and the con- quest ol the powers of evil. These ancient Inscriptions tell how the Gods, In due coarse of time crested the universe la stsges or days, as lo tbe Mosaio narrative, bow they sur veyed each step of tbe work, and pronounced It very good. These scriptures tell ua how the Di vine work culminated In the creation of man, who was mede nprlgbt and free from svll, and endorsed by tbe gods, with the noble faculty of speech. The Deity then delivers a long address to the newly crested be ing, Instructs him In all hie duties end privileges, pointing out the glory of bie slats.

But tbls condition of blessing does not last long, before man yielding to temptation falls, and lbs Dlety Ibea prouounces upon blm a terrible curse, Invoking on his bead all tbe evils which have since afflicted humanity. In these Inscriptions there le not only en acoountor the tree of tbe knowledge of good and evil, but ao Inscription of the tree Itself, wltb the man on one side of It and tbe wo man on the other. There la also a detailed account of the deluge, of tbe building of an ark, of tbe aalvatlon of one family, and every kind of animal la pairs There Is an account of the seadlng oat of the dove and Ita returning to the ark; then of sending out a awallow and Its returning with mud upon Ita feet; end finally of sending out a raven whkh did not return. These soolent Inscriptions tell ue bow the ark rested on a mountain, and how Xlautbrua on coming out ol tbe ark with bis family, built an altar 10 hie God. The literary development of Babylonia synchronises wltb the period from Abraham.

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