Show no FLOOD FI A CinI 4 it nil II 11 AY the reverend J 11 I 1 stuart of cincinnati X sermon ermon on the last week in in which tie he took tho the ground that the bible account is not bet to be understood as meaning a literal delu deluge ge of water there was wa n no 0 such inch thing we note from the report of 1119 ackmon in respect to I 1 noahs solid flood as it is called cial led the appalling outbreak of wick wickedness ednes the delago cloge of evils and nd fala falsifies falsities itice was after after all the principal thin thing v what t was tb tho e rain of forty fay day dayi i and the breakie br breaking eakin loose of whatever pontus reservoirs of water there were to the fact that I 1 god saw that the wickedness orman was great in earth and that every imagination of ofilio the thoughts of his heart was wag only evil continually and it repented tho the LOT lord that he had anille mart man on earth ani abill it grieved rioted him it at hii heart but wily why not believe the story in lit its literal sense why not believe that a munir e real deluge actually occurred and that b at noah and ilia bid family and tho the animals were poisoned in ia the bark wo answer became because we cannot believe these things for they are at t wa war with willi nature and at war with science science and consequently scientists cannot believe tic the story until they have so 80 modified it ahat ali t it is 13 abol mr stuart explained the difficulties involved in the iho accod account un a showing he wt n that theOlog innig have yielded to tag the pressure of these difficulties and that t they b ey now ell universally concur in the opinion ion that if there was any deluge whatever it was limited in extent and not dangerously deep we c can only catalogue catalogna tho the points that wort were elaborated abed in tho the lecture 1 the of water tol to submerge the entire world would be about eight times the quantity now no in tle the sells seas ocean slakes jalcs and rii era of the globe whence cabibo this water and bow was it disposed of when it had sub served its purpose 2 the rain or of lorly forty days would only raise the waters a few ich i inches ch indeed rain is only oaly the descending ii of water which previously ascended ase ended by evaporation could never submerge the high hills bills and mOU mountain DAins nor kor could the breaking up of tho ocean boundaries do this the ocean oven even now is doing till all it can to cover tho the earth 3 the aik was declared too small to hold the animals with their food and noah with ith lis bis family the ark also wits was water tig light lit and well nigh digh airtight so that when whelk the he door and the window were acro closed animal life would have bare perished pe r sighed much more speedily than in the ile I 1 clack black of calcutta a 4 I 1 the difficulty of gathering up the animals from all the ibo continents mad and islands and providing them with transports and then canting them to live lire IQ in any one climate could only be equalled equal led by redistribution them to their proper places when the flood leaa over how could this be done 5 tho the care and nd ina management na gement of this thia immerso menagerie of animals for the whole year would lave hive been more than it match for or noah and his bia three SODS especially when we cr that the wild and ferocious beast were there as well as ilia tamer lamer tad and docile tim the tory story most mast therefore he bo held as aa fu another lothe one due in the series of I 1 sacred acred alle allegories ories which while it lial has the rora form of ilist orical I 1 relation has aab da DO answering basis in ia fact and consequently like the parables of the lord must mast lie be consulted as wholly allegr allegorical ical the practical leson le son is very imbres g ire tho the universal pro 1 idencio of the lord is represented and his power to res restrain traia and to sub due the iho most mosi direful in U of evils and falsifies falsities I 1 tile floods have lifted up 0 lord the floods have lifted un up their voice the lord ou on bi high h i is mightier than the noise of many waters ca thin than the mighty waves of the sea sac bee |