1, INTERIOR OR ANCIENT CHALDEAN PALACE. 2, A STREET IN NINEVEH. 3, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PALACE-TIME OF

CLEOPATRA AND ALEXANDER. 4, A POR

TION OF ANCIENT ROME.

ANCIENT JERUSALEM RESTORED. THIS GREAT AND ANCIENT CITY HAS BEEN DESTROYED SEVENTEEN TIMES TODAY IT IS BUT A REMNANT OF ITS FORMER GRANDEUR.

"Because that, when they know God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," "And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever." (Rom. 1:21-25.)

"Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

"For, laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.

"And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered; and many such like things do ye." (Mark 7:7-8-9-13.)

"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? (Matt. 15:3.)

"In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." (II. Peter 3:16.)

CHAPTER XXV.

THE FALLACY OF REMOTE PERIODS.

(Historic not Prehistoric Times.)

ENORMOUS ANTIQUITY CLAIMED AS NECESSARY BECAUSE OF NONALLOWANCE FOR PERIODS OF RECONSTRUCTION OR GEOLOGIC REFORMATIONS-EVIDENCE CITED AS TO RECENT NOT REMOTE PERIODS ALLOWANCE OF ABNORMAL CAUSES TO BRING CYCLES OF TIME WITHIN NORMAL RECNONING-MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS ONE EXTREME; TOO SHORT PERIODS ANOTHER AN ARGUMENT FOR MODIFICATION AGAINST EXRREMISTS-NO GREAT GULF EXISTING BETWEEN AGES OR EPOCHS-NO PREHISTORIC AGE BIBLICALLY, EXCEPT THAT OF GENESIS I, UP TO THE FLOOD-NO CHRONOLOGICAL PERIODS OUTLINED IN SCRIPTURES-ALL SUCH COMPUTATIONS OUR ERRORS NOT THE BIELE'S BIBLE TRUE UNLESS GROVED FALSE-HARMONIZE NOT ANTAGONIZE-A NEW INTERPRETATION WILL DO THIS-15,000 YEARS HELD BY THE AUTHOR AS THE LEAST PERIOD POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSION OF THIS TIME, BUT NOT TO MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS BREVITY OF BIBLE'S VERSES PROOF IT COVERS LONG PERIODS, BUT NOT INCALCULABLE CYCLES OF TIME-BLESSINGS AND CURSES; DEEP MEANING OF THEM, APPLICABLE TO PROGRESS TODAY; TO PEOPLE OF TODAY AS THEN.

And now let us turn to the science of geology, which has insisted for so long on the idea that this earth has existed for long periods of time, basing their theories on the geologic discoveries regarding the strata of the earth. They contend with elaborate figures that the drift and glacial epochs are removed from our day by incalculable cycles of time. They assume

that countless ages are necessary to effect the transition from temperate to harsh climates, and the extinction of the flora and fauna of the time. Enormous antiquity is claimed regarding the sequence of innumerable centuries-assuming that millions of years were necessary to effect all these changes. Let us then glance over facts, not theories. We read that computation is based on the fact that the surface changes an inch a century, or a foot in a thousand years. However, in a previous chapter, it has been explained that in the early stages of its creation, for six thousand years prior to the first creation of man, and for long ages after it, the earth was undergoing a process of quiet development, such as would render it a fit habitation for men in vast numbers.

This was a period of long life, great growth, luxuriant flora, nutritious foods and "mighty men of renown." After it came an epoch of great development, and as further outlined, this state lasted until the time of the flood. After this comes the period of geological activity, the reconstruction and reformation of the whole surface of the globe. Science admits that this epoch really took place, but they question its cause and effect, and the time of its happening. Yet in the same breath we are informed that increased rainfalls change the atmosphere and cause upheavals or depressions on land or at the ocean bottoms. They claim that hundreds of thousands or millions of years were necessary for this, simply because they would otherwise have to acknowledge scriptural truths and actual facts. There is not a particle of evidence that these changes took millions of years, much less hundreds of thousands, and the proof is laid at our very door every decade.

In 1755 Lisbon was shaken, and sixty thousand people overwhelmed in the twinkling of an eye. Force, not time, is the potent factor. In the year 1007, a mountain, miles in length and a thousand feet high, rose on the coast of Japan and Korea. The sea rose and fell, fifty feet, sweeping over the adjacent coast monstrous tidal waves, and in five minutes it was all over. Even the al age was in the nature of