Show i t L OI AND 11 H I Prof Proto 0 O Frederick l Wright of ot Ober lint lias lately conducted some interest t i lug he In Central Asia and ami nn andi l lI I i 1 5 Palestine IIII hind and UK as H it n result ho Ito has lias some ome something f q thing hung to tiny nay on nit Home Old Ok Testament rents events HOC such flueh fl as ns the Hood 1 llio Iho tim destruction I iMi j tion of at Sodom anti and the th dl di dividing tI t viding of ot the Jordan river mid and the fall I of ot if the tho walls of 01 Jericho As All to the deluge ge tho thu professor protessor says faI l I ho be was vau everywhere confronted with evi evidences dences of oC tho the submergence of at the tho land landIn landI In recent geological times Tor Vor soy HOV O Oeral I eral era hundred miles while traveling tI through tho region Bouth of Ut Inke lIal N t kash and null the Aral Arni sea ecu lie he was upon S I a 11 t of at o line fine loam culled called loes bess jI about feet teet sea ca level continuously along j the base of ot oft i i the mountains tram from the h river to toV t the Caspian sea Ilea It 11 Is IB found Cound In north northern northern I V I ern era Persia around Mount Ararat anti anil In southern louthern Russia and the tie distribution V thou lion of oC this loam IB Is ho lie thinks the tue key V to the whole situation 1 He lie further armies argues that the only rea rca reasonable explanation of ot the of ot fresh water sater In Lake Baikal and the thu 7 V fc V X Aral Ami sei eu lOll la Is that there have havo recently been great changes both In the climate ft and the level of ot that region Snit Salt forms torms rapidly mt In such mich enclosed ri They ore are In tact fact enormous salt unit vats lIts approaching nearer antI and nearer till the thee e point of ot saturation it Is III therefore 4 clear that this region han lately V J t F 91 l 1 from V below sea sen level mind and paused I through a from Crom n u con condition diLlon of ot fertility to that of oC a U I dry des deH desert S i ert crt Geology ho Ito concludes confirms V time thu story etory of ot time tho deluge 1 u V Similar geological to time the th V I J truth of ot the description of at time the destruction I j tion thun of pt Sodom and adjacent cities are aren n Iso found Tho The professor says say time the re region rek k l gion glon of oC the thc Dead sea Ilea Is a 1 gas gait awl and oil oilfield oilfield field over a u deep fissure In Iii till the curth earth r leading far tar down iown toward 1 Its central V fl tires fires The story of 01 the thu catastrophe t V reads almost exactly like hike that of oC some nomo 1 t b of ut the tho scene that ate are known to have hlo haver r tho the burning of oC petroleum I j fi wells and aDd surrounding Inflammable substances I j Of Ot special Interest Is 15 the explanation m I f of ot the crossing of ot the Jordan Iro fessor Wright after careful examina examination b I tion of at tho th banks ot of that river Ivor near I i V Ji the th piece whore the people crossed crossell V V over oer tells this little bit of at geological tm ti history 11 First 1 there had hall been an nn elevation V of ot about aboul feet teet during which J dV erosion lint had proceeded to that extent Then rhen there thero hud hat been a 1 return of ot the wu yu water i 4 I h I j ter to the higher level und anti a 1 up tIP to the old limit This I waa watI followed by hy u II of ot the th t b p whole during which tho the river had hall cut cul cutI 1 through both the thu th later and upper tipper sedi sediment I i c ment and also abo for tor feet lower down don lm I The most moet natural Interpretation of oC bV f this succession 10 Is that after atter the cLan chan channel Itch nel hint had been boen cut down tho the first fifteen L i i j feet Ceet there thero was nn an elevation through V subterranean forces or of time the bed Jed of ot the I V stream a n mile or two below Jolo ThiS rip 4 would dam up the water temporarily and afford a n dry lr for far a u afew aV I trw few ii hours bourn or even longer loner and make muke V the tho waters seem to pile up IP above an nil f described d In Josh III Ill 16 When how however ever eer at length tho the water began to run rup i I over the obstacle to itt Its It II progress there l 1 4 would uhle be opportunity to refill with wll it h a part vart of oC Us its bOil bet above so f I 4 I that on later to Its Ils present level leyel It would present the phenomena V now ItOW to bo be observed V I A similar disturbance In the surface V of or the tho earth curth would account for tho the fall fail failI I of oC the walla of ot Jericho r It Is refreshing In he this age of ot sickly sick V f criticism When sacred history Is re ie reo I hoarded as distorted dl fables edited to 4 I suit mitt the demands of ot superstition to toI I 3 read anew the scientific corroboration V if of lit the time historical H of or sonic some of ot V i the tho most remarkable of oC those hone t ho I V myths mth and fables fuhl l A criticism Unit that I I f V lives and am flourishes on deductions and nm andI I Inferences in Is silenced by b facts V l i r Formerly believers were timid In ad ull admitting adV V any an explanation of oC miracles V 4 that brought thum them In harmony hurmon with I natural laws la They rite were regarded as all t supernatural God Joll It was as asI I I scorned Jo o 0 work VOrk Ills wonders by b the th i means of the laws ruling In nature all allaround V round around r und us Hut lately latel It la Is l becoming clear to the general I student ot of Bible i history that God does docs not perform ills t works In any nn other way ny Creation I took place fn n C accordance with lIh sushi such r laws God GoJ and n d nature are arc not at odds odd oddone one operating In opposition to the th other otherl j To say sa that a n miracle takes plAte lne ac as according 1 l cording to the natural law iw In he not nol to toV V den deny Its miraculous nature nor to ex ox exclude elude clude the divine agency In Its lia execution tion On the contrary are arc of ot I Jolly dally occurrence and the tho hand of ot God Cod I 1 nay cu ala be usa seen 8 11 In them all nil Many llIn Iatt how d th t frequently tp repeated t h V I f fv m ter arc are so SQ t they the arc are almost bet to I they thu i Were they thoy to happen only east DIU V be mira hI has than Ihan nay any anyon nil A I I on un record In the Scriptures Prof puts the tho truth forcibly he says IRS that In tn the rs reo r rI feu tte tM s th 4 I ln I the Almighty 4 are traceable but that thal this dots dos not doV do V tract Item krom tom the divine power displayed d I la In leth On n the contrary They h l m ma ay y YV v 1 i JO ct I i bo be compared to tho explosion of a P mine ling boon been prepared f fi a partie particular ular on or enoy III when an Is oer oW It t Since It Its ItIC IK is not lICIt left belt to chance chanco hut but If Is I blU hl about at a particular time to I accomplish a II particular It Is I I lifted out vf vi It the tho ory o v Ih h hi cutali order of or mode to to ta the time definition of the Inline Imme Immediate dint blab acts lu t of ot a 1 free Cr will There Is l a it largo large field of ot study In the tho harmony hatmon of ot miracle with tin the opera operations tUrns of 0 natural laws In some 1010 this thu harmony U is I not nol apparent rent because all alt natural laws are by no flO means known to nut But who Iho can doubt that Oads ways though arc In perfect Il accord with His own laws and ordinance |