Show THE tile deluge 0 of the scene of horror which followed this awful declaration it is utterly impossible i for the humankind human aund uund mind annd ti t form any just idea for how can maps a ima lma gi nation picture to itself the windows of beaven opened and discharging tor for forty days and forty nights all their mighty stort store of oflaters waters on the deluged earth the ele eie elements merits uncheck unchecked pd by the eternal power that crea created teil theara them raging in in all their resistless fury tha iha firmage firmament t wrapped in clouds and thick dark ress ness again mingling with the oceans from which it had originally been divided the f the fountains f gun tain odthe of j the great deep broken the secret treasury of waters hitherto confined to the centre of the earth bursting from their trison irison prison and ano ani spreading havoc confusion and horror arror in their course or how can fancy stretch itself to the conception of a world ia in ru ruins ins its continents torn asunder its rocks shattered into fragments its loftiest loft iest hills laid low its gigantic mountains uprooted its unit versal surface covert d t bous waves bearing upon their mighty surges the lifeless carcases of all flesh that moved upon the earth bothof both of foial and of catt cattle cattie leand and of beast least and of every creeping thing that cree creeper peth peb upon tho earths and of olevery every man and of all in whose nostrils wab was the breath of life the mind is staggered at the bare thought of such an hideous convulsion and language seeks in vain for terms to affix afford d even eren an im imperfect perfect notion of it it may bt brt useful bo however veyer to remark ana rk that strange as the dispensation dispensed ion lon was the reality of iu it I 1 made apparent not only to the pious believer who receives it as a fact alt authenticated ti enec ted by the word of the eternal god but also to the common enquirer who will find a tradition of an universal deluge amohn almost all the heathen nations of the world angwill and will discover upon u on the surface of the earth bach auh suh traces of tte tee the good flood as have convinced some of the most sagacious philosophers and inquisitive naturalists batura natura lists that it actually bad occurred warners sunday evening DU courses |