Show THE AMAZING DISCOVERY OF NOAHS ARK this story was sent to president presided frank V anderson by his son elder robert F anderson who obtained icat it at a conference of the northwestern states stales M mission found by russian aviators on mt ml ararat in a state of perfect conservation near the ark is the alter upon which noah offered sacrifices when he emerged from the ark genesis 88 20 by vladimar for years there has been a lot of speculation among bible scholars as to what became of noahs ark of course there always have been men who dented denied the authenticity of the bible record of the ark and the flood stigmatizing the entire story as something incredible so far every discovery that scientists have unearthed through arduous excavations and incessant study has only helped to establish the of god holy word in all the realm of discovery there has been nothing that has so profoundly impressed the religious world and the thinking people who have read in a religious periodical perio ical called the voice of prophecy and which I 1 give in full here for ithe cie benefit of the readers the repart is that a huge wooden structure has been seen by some russian aviators who flew over mount ararat the place according to the bible account where the ark rested when the waters subsided the article is in the form of a question and the editors answer dear sir have any remains of noahs ark ever been found according to genesis the ark ot ol noah rested after the flood upon the mountains of ararat now I 1 am going to give you something very start lnig here it is an article entitled noahs Noa hs ark found says Via vladimar dimar kovitsky Ros a converted russian for itself he is now t engaged in selling bibles etc andas and is an american citizen having escaped with his life after discovering the ark he gives this discovery credit for op opening dirig his eyes to the truth of the bible and we pass it along trusting that you too will find it of interest and value it was just before the russian revolution that this story really began A group of russian aviators were stationed at a lonely temporary air outpost about twenty miles northwest of mount ararat the day was dry and hot as august days so often are in this semi desert land even the lizards were flattened out under the shady side of rocks and twigs their mouths open and tongues lashing out as if each panting breath would be their last only occasionally donally would a tiny wisp 0 01 air rattle the parched vegetation and str stir up a choking cloudlet of dust par far up on the side of the mountain we could see a thunder shower while still farther up we could see the white snow caps of mt ararat which has snow all the year round because of its great height how we longed tor for some of that snow then iben the miracle happened the captain walked in and announced that plane no 7 had its new supercharger installed and was ready for high altitude test at last we could escape the heat needless to say we wasted no time in getting on our parachutes strapping on our oxygen cans and doing all the half dozen other things that have to be done before going up then a climb into the cockpit safety belts fastened a mechanic gives the prop a flip and yells contact and in less time than it takes to tell it we were in the air no use wasting time warming up the en 9 agne ne when the sun had it nearly red hot we circled the field several times until we hit the foot mark and then stopped climbing for a few minutes to get used to the altitude I 1 looked over the right at the beautiful snow capal capped d peak now just a little above us and for some reason I 1 cant explain turned and he laded headed the plane straight toward it my buddy turned around and 1001 looking drig at me with question marks in his eyes found there was too much noise for him to ask questions after aal twenty five miles seem eem I 1 much at a hundred miles per As I 1 looked down at the great battlements surrounding the lower of this mountain I 1 remembered having heard that it had never been climber since the year 13 C when some pilgrims were supposed to have gone up there to scrape some tar off an old shipwreck to make good luck emblems to wear around their necks to prevent their crops from being destroyed by excessive raX fall 1 the legend said they left in haste after a bolt of lightening struck near them and ana they never went back A couple of airles around the snow capped dome and then a long swift glide down the south side an and d then we suddenly came upon a perfect little gern gem of a lake and returned for another look at it suddenly my companion whirled around and yelled something and excitedly pointed down to the overflow end of the lake I 1 looked and nearly fainted A submarine no it 0 for it had a stubby mast but the top was rounded over with only a flat catwalk about five across down the length of it what a strange craft built as though the designer had expected the waves to roll over the top of it most of the time and ha had engineered it to wallow in the sea like a log with those stubby masts carrying enough sall sail to keep it facing the waves years later on the great lakes I 1 saw the famous whale back ore carriers with this same kind of rounded deck we flew down as close as safety permitted and took several circles around it we were surprised s when we got close to it at the immense size of the thing for it was as long and would compare as a city block favorably in size to the modem battleships tle ships of today it was grounded on the shore of the lake with about one fourth under water it had been partly dismantled on one side near the front and on the other side there was a great doorway nearly twenty feet square but with the door gone this ibis seemed quite out of proportion as even today ships seldom have doors even half that large atter alter seeing all we could from the air ir we broke all speed records back to the airport when we related our find the laughter laughr ter was loud and long some accused us of getting drunk on too much oxygen and there were many oth other er remarks too numerous to mention the captain however was serious he asked several questions and ended by saying take me up there I 1 want to look at it we made the trip without incident and returned to the airport what do you make of it I 1 asked as we climbed out of the plane astounding he replied do you know what ship that is of course not s sir ir ever hear bear of noahs ark yes sir but I 1 dorit dont understand what a legend ot of noahs ark has to do with our finding this strange thing 14 thousand feet up on a mountain top this strange craft is noahs ark explained the captain it has been sitting up there for nearly years being frozen up for nine or ten months of the year it rot and has been on cold storage as it were all this time you have made the most amazing discovery of the age two weeks ot of hard work were re quiren to chop a trail along the cliffs of the lower part of the mot mountain in and it was nearly a months before the ark was reached complete measurements were taken and plans drawn of it as well as many photographs taken of it all of which were vere sent to the czar or ru russia asla the ark was found to io contain hundreds of small rooms randsome and some rooms with very high ceilings the unusually large rooms had a fence of great timbers across them some of which were two feet thick as if designed to hold beasts beaste ten times as large as elephants other rooms also were lined with tiers of cages somewhat like one sees today at a poultry show only instead of chicken wire they had rows of iron bars along the front everything was heavily painted with a paint resembling shellac and the workmanship of the craft showed all signs of a high type of civilization the wood used throughout was oleander which belongs to the cyprus family and never rots which of course coupled with the fact of it being painted and be being ing frozen most of the time accounted for its perfect preserve pre preservation serva 4 the rhe expedition found on the peak of the mountain above th the e ship the burned remains of the timbers which were missing out of tle the one side of the ship it seems that these timbers had been hauled up to the top of the peak and used to build a tiny one roomed shrine inside of which w was as a rough stone h hearth earth like the alters the hebrews used for sacrifices it had either cither caught fire from the alter or been struck by lightening as the timbers were considerably sider ably burned d and charred over and the roof was campil completely abely burned off A few days after this sent its report to the car the government was overthrown and bolshevism took over so th the e records were never made public and probably were destroyed in the zeal of the bolshevists to discredit all religions and belief in the truth of the bible we white Rus russians of the air neet fleet escaped through armenia where we could be free to live according to the good old book which we had seen for ourselves to be absolutely true even to the fantastic sounding a thing as world flood editors note the above story was a clipping taken from a dogan news paper sent to our seminary instructor alton B merrill and given to us by mr men ill |