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Show It Was Noah, Not Adam NOW the archeologists claim the discovery of tablets of a date one thousand years prior to the earliest period in which the Old Testament could have been written, which exonerates our beautiful great great grandmother from having been beguiled by the serpent and clears Adam from tho slander of having sku'ked behind Eve's figleaf skirt and changing tho sin on her. We are glad of this, for we never have reconciled the statement that Adam could have done so shabby an act against tho only woman in the world, and she, too, as winsome as God could make her. These tablets charge the crime upon Noah. The Bible hints that Noah took too much grapo juice after it had fermented too long, but does not say a word about his ever having indulged in too much applejack. However, it might not have been impossible, im-possible, for his drunk was a long one and had a fearful hang-over, which indicated hard cider, rather than grape-juice. The beautiful feature of these tablets is tho description of tho happy state of affairs between the creation and the flood. There were no diseases; dis-eases; no devastating storms; there was peace everywhere; the lion and the lamb literally lay down together; the world was flower-crowned, which considered as an allegory is a fearful com-entary com-entary on the state of enlightened Europe today and a strong argument to prove that heart and brain must work together to insure happiness to man. |