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Show ED LONGER IN BIBLE DAYS rirntiAc or fiuusl-sclentitlc Interprc-jof Interprc-jof tho Olil 'Irstaincnt, attempts tti n -iri to explain away the re-4 re-4 ml cl Itc statements as to the nv of tirst Rcneratlons of men itiai i ilescendnnts. lslspossl-Jit lslspossl-Jit m ii tinilly lert a thousand tith- limts-In amnzlnff contrast Hit r ii tpan of life, which. In- til k to the Psalmist's init 'aJ of mir lears aro threo score i ird te hrtlil the 1'salmlst, "and r trmon nf utreniith the be four i urs t Is their strength labor kti fir It Is urn. u cut off and we .til How is this to be reconciled lie thr Ii les of tho Illtilo? i an I milur questions rclitim? to onr Ii thslcHl conditions nnd en-ir'nK en-ir'nK ' humanity In Uibllcal times f is I In a book Just published 'imU ti n I ariied plosleluu, A A nkL T tit If of tho ork Ii "Meil-A "Meil-A cor k ti the lllblo and tho Tol. nd It Ii an attempt to prove the letf ar ir u of the statements of naiti i tiic olil Testament In regard rli m iii '' a ' and review of this bonk in in i Nuvoe Vremva, which 'II k a sound, reiereut, schol rd I i inn Th" article Is con-"I con-"I bv t itimrj Digest In the fol-Ki fol-Ki ' i islitlon Iht of ir fnrrfathers lled nearlv irs eaih Adam lived "" nnn so on unill inopn, li'd rils and of whom the r tint ue illeil prematurely i'h o( in others It Is said 'And ho ii i (.nil took him liiimechs fH lid Noah 9jii When we Tt ihr chance Is striking, for "all -io cnrs. and there Is Tlit if an special causo of Ills 1 Mil I m who Mled In a Komi 'II II man, and full of ear,' "a ' r 17 jears ' dicllnii In Ionuelty to be j rt 1 lie skeptics hold that In the I lirlod our month was cilled J' ' that therefore the overago lot i as clBhty years Hut Ine 'fllitli i recognizes a monthlv nnd iil noil t time, and tho theury "ill i I purelj arbitrary and fancl- ," o triisnn for doubting the II ' nf tho Bible's reckoning (nmllt (,r uateillliulan humanity 'ifi to iiermlt tho length of In- "l If nlleceii In the lllble There ' w lilanlB In tlinss da) Ilia f1" were of stupendous and coir co-ir ilnns, as the bones illscnv-' illscnv-' ' nil s strata fully attest Wo IP lirtircul measuris and differ-J!" differ-J!" ' tho beings of that era the i wero glints, their organ-V organ-V iittirally Btrnnger and their Inn Ii better it coulil not well '' The rllinalu of Jlesopota-" Jlesopota-" Hi of the human race) la iv I warm, henellcent and fa. ' cltj Then It was much f 1 1 men led different lives ",, lor the smiling sk, needed ' 'I co shOler them and under-.' under-.' itnlit, Iherc was food In "i vcr hnnd, tn bo had proc- t exrrtion the tries were "' ilt the rivers teemed with . ' on at of one anlnuil sufficed K ' J" use of fermented liquids 1 ' l iiknnwn. the arnno was not " ults ealc n bv early mankind, Mil alcoholism, with all Us 1 f "lit Marital life was tho 1 utlou and anpatontly off- "' iiualh illviihd between the " ' females, so that nelthei sex, ' ' lirauce There was no Mco T r natural law ( must be added I he entire ' m il the illseases due In conges- "i unilry other cvlln of dense ;' 'llicn- was up rivalry, no i' UfiKiiIo tor lite,' and no tax " rcniis syslem Death could ,! t in loh lice or nl I age In 1(io jearB the avenge of ' II frnni upward of om to 31) , a irBitlt of nalgral causes ' Ibunc |