Golden Era

Golden Era
ISBN-10
1330155092
ISBN-13
9781330155097
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
28
Language
English
Published
2015-06-25
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Golden Era Company

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Excerpt from Golden Era, Vol. 41 He complimented me upon what he was pleased to term my frankness and my felicity, and proceeded: "May I respectfully ask you to present your impressions touching the creation of this beautiful world? Do you believe that this world was made in six days, and that Adam was the fist man; that there were mountains high enough for Moses to ascend and hold converse with Jehovah; and that during what factitious writers call the flood, rain fell incessantly for forty days and forty mights, mandating the planet upon which we live, and that every human being except Noah and his family - and all other living creatures except those which it is claimed were also taken into the ark - were drowned or were otherwise swept from the face of the earth?" This was only a simple questions to be safe: but there was enough in it to somewhat indicate the character of the person who had asked it. Is other words I suddenly felt that I knew my man: and I replied, therefore, with as much precision and impressiveness as I could quickly summon: "I spring from good old New England dyed-in-the-wood Puritanical stock. Sir, and I believe everything touching the creation and the destruction of the world as recorded in the Bible. I have never examined the dangerous writings of Volney, Voltaire, Paine, Ingersoll, Darwin, Huxley, Draper or Renau. I believe, firmly in the existence of heaven and of hell, and hope for no perfect bliss except what to be found in Abraham's bossom. Pardon me, sir: but I will come directly to the point: I do believe that this beautiful world was made in six days, according to scripture: and that Adam was the first man: and that, on one occasion, the Almighty, in a great paroxysm of anger, destroyed all living things that he had made except Noah and his family -" "And a certain number of beasts and birds and reptile and insects of her germs comes, for breeding purpose, eh?" "Yes," "How provoking! Will you be kind enough, my dear sir, to tell me, then, why it was not just as feasible for the Creator to have made all of these living things over again of he at one time produced them with such infinite ease and perfection as you give him credit for? If you presses what may be termed religipus faith which prompts you to believe that the Supreme Ruler of the Universe did so forget himself once, in his incalculable rage, as to ruthlessly destroy much of his matchless handiwork, in it at all consistent that he should have selected a few wretched human beings, a menagerie of animals, an aviary of birds, and a vast collection of repulsive reptiles and insects as spectators and survivors of so grand and appalling a catastrophe? There is nothing in the whole range of your so called sacred history so utterly fallacious and unreasonable us the legital. There is a stupendous as the legital of Noah's flannel. There is stupendous of untruth and ridiculousness about it that throws all other lady fabrication in the shade. For instance, my friend, did you ever turn over carefully is your mind - of course you have a mind? - "I think so." - "What the dimensions of such a vessel west necessarily have been to have carried Noah and his family and his immense collection of living things, and provisions for the cruise from the countermen on to the end of the great stories? Did you ever reflect upon the sanitary effect of so many people and animals huddled together for several months? Did it ever occur to you that, during the forty days it is said to have raised, water must have fallen to a depth of more than a thousand inches every twenty four hours? Believe that Jonah was made a nauseating meal of by a voracious whale, if you will; that Daniel was thrown among ferocious lions that did not tear him in pieces; that Shedrach, Mesbach and Abednego were cast into fiery furnace and not even searched; that sodom and Gomorrah were spectacularly destroyed by celestial fire: that...

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