Show i t BIBLE ChRONOLOGY I J A copy of oC the Illustrated London I Now ot of Dec 2 v contains Photographs of oC what Is said to be the tho oldest human j I I skeleton known to man It ua found nt at la Ia In tio tho ot of I the tho Dordogne for Cor J relics The discoverers were Dr i Capitan and L t Tho account says aH Vc discovered the whole skeleton which appeared to Us In the position I 4 p itt which tIle the bod body had been boen placed by Its stretched on Its tt back the tho trunk In f I f legs e bent slightly l g beneath towards w the s t the 1 h left C h the I 0 are oro sli g y h b bent en t are oro sli g y h b bent en t 0 h I on the Pelvis the thc I knees turned towards the right the t I left da arm alongside lle I the h body tho l left hand ft It the h ol lett t hip the right arm bent tile the right hand hond t about the level of oC the shoulder tho ilio on head hend turned to the loft left the jaws Wide apart All tile the bones some lome of oC which I had broken under tho great weight i I of oC the earth WOle In the correct I tion The bones of et the foot Coot and o of the Uto right hand had hod been placed probably by some small animal and hall had been partly destroyed It Is supposed that the now unearthed Is remains of oC a human being who lived and died twenty thousand years ago alo though the tho reasoning by which Is IsI I I arrived at is not presented I Is stated ho ever that i lIuch was the tho care caro taken Itt un unI I the remains that It was wasI i pO possible to I them In tho thoi i I precise position In which the they were at t least twenty I I I years cars ago aro II El feat fent never A J Elder lder August writing froan from I ICy antI and referring to the I lu the London sa II Ill III enle 2180 this his new newly Olin skeleton i ho be IJ by to tor r ii j be of nt not th t that aforesaid r seriously enormous reflect ri u upon ff the doctrine addUced ruin Holy that khat the tho beginning of oC the human race raco d Sn n this planet llanet was some sIx cars ago o I Wo We do not regard the tho theor that t I human hIstory covers exactly WrIt It LI is years as proved b by Holy recognized th that t dates before tile year TOO D B C are aro all moro or orless less uncertain and that chronology Is I but In an exact science To 10 ii 11 lustrato A number of oC dates depend upon the of a battle battlo that WaS WIlS fought Caught be Medes and and tills this ela It was thought could hc be determined b by the tho fact that It was Interrupted I by 1 it total ot of the tho stin iun But astronomers have found 50 SOY eral dates that might that ro 10 from Cron 62 to B C Bible 1 shore shares with all ancient histOrY this uncertainty ot of dates and tills this Is one proof of oC Its Tile The genealogY from Crom Adam Adum to Noah has come down to us through three channels the Hebrew Scriptures the text which Is to embody the tho Hebrew text as It t exist ed cd B C and the Septuagint tranG which I was be begun n It Is sup supposed posed B C The three dir dif differ fer the Hebrew giVInS M as It appears 16 years the Sa Samaritan Samaritan maritan 1301 and the Septuagint nt 2242 years eara ot of these periods are regarded a es I historical though either of oC thorn Is suffIcient for fOl tile the of tile the particular truths such us the unit unity of oC the race the p providential care of oC God In Ill tile tho preservation ot of religious tram front generatIon to generation etc elc etcor Cor or which the tho genealogies were made part ot of the original records record which ore now nowhere extant From Froin the flood to the lie brow brew Scriptures gIve onlY years tue tho Samaritan und the Septuagint 1170 1110 years This Is another anc And AmI there are aro others through throughOut Out the Old Testament It IL Is established be beyond on l doubt that ancient Oriental writers did not attach to dates the Importance that modern history does To the ancients the oc occurrence currence was and the there they re recorded It as 5 belonging to a certain certain generation or a 11 period or a I certain dynasty dynast The They knew absolute absolutely ly nothing of oC our modern historical no notation notation tation to the calendar This fact accounts partly paltI for Cor the tho Insurmountable mountable difficulty of oC establishing a 0 from Crom tile tho ancient docu documents documents ments Another fact must bo remembered Early Earl historians often oCten used round num numbers numbers bers just as In modern history the hundred years war Is the name of oC a conflict between England and Fran which lasted years from Crom 1337 1331 to 1 1453 53 The They used the numbers fort forty seventy and seven In an indefinite senSe sene It If we read that GIdeon and Ell Eli each held the office ot of judge In Israel for Cor 4 40 years that Saul and amI David and Solomon each reigned to 40 years It ItIs itIs Is quite possible that tile the stands for tor a long reign instead of oC for Cor Coran foran an exact perIod of oC ears It Is only after aCter the adoption of oC the Gregorian cal calendar calendar that accuraCY enn be bC looked for Cor alwaYs Oriental when desiring to a all oc occurrence t currence said that Ins h J Ja a year r of 01 such a king but sometimes anarchy or th there ro wore wore c con conflicting n dynasties or of oC a father Cather and son Bon and then to 10 have hao had no means ot of them themselves selves perfectly clear to later genera generations This Is the tho source or of another It Is also a fact that later transcribers ers era though conscientious In tile the preservation ration ot of the tho law were less scrupulous In their handling of dates and figures The They sometimes changed them perhaps to make them easier casler to r For these reasons we must that an absolute correct cannot be established by the tho dates re recorded recorded corded We must conclude further that whatever tile the facts ma may bo be as reg regards the age o of man upon earth there Is no discrepancy between science and the tho Scriptures Truth lruth Is truth wherever ind and I however it Is revealed and no Bible student needs to reject n a fact established established by science Of OC course scIentists sometimes announce their Own conclusions ns as infallible and ln In this they err Sometimes the they arc compelled to change views But facts really y pr cl must le accepted and can be 00 ac without fear It should be mentioned here here that some Bible students td the view that the earth was the h tion of a race tIlo tho re 10 remains mains of oC which are found Cound o In strata They Thoy hold that the account of oC the tho creation In Genesis Is 3 0 brio brief record of oC the fact that the tho earth was made desolate and empty empt and then reconstructed for the new race o of which Adam Wl was the tho first The They hold that In aU alt probability tho Re Ito phalm and and the tho EmlIn mentioned In Genesis end and Deuteron Q lY nay have havo jeen living remnants of oC that race l If there Is nn any ground for Cor this theor theory It Is to tobo tob bo b expected that evidences of tile tho ox ex exIstence of oC such a raco and a civilization should be found Cound from time limo timeto to time The Tho Scriptures on tills tho I r ry only give ghe us a brief briet and In some respects fragmentary history of oC the Adamle Adamic race but this history Is per pcr feet and complete completo us liS illustrating and andI leading up to the tite central tact fact In the history oC the human rave reve revelation lation ot of Gods plan of oC salvation |