Untitled

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4839, 12 July 1884, Page 2

Sir,—On looking at Mr Neill's lecture on •' Egypt and its Religion," I find that the reverend lecturer makes the statement that " Egypt vr&g a larger place S,CCO years 8.C." Being but a Bimple follower and believer in the Holy Scriptures, I have hitherto accepted the chronology therein as being correct-. t By that Book —the mouthpiece of the'Orfat Creator— we are taught that the world-began in the year 4000 8.C., with tbe creation of Adam and Eve in th> Garden of Eden, and the other characters enumerated in this Holy Book are all . said to have beoa descended from Adam. For is it not said that " As in* Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive." This evidently refers to the sin of our first parents. The present year is spoken of as Anno Domini 1884, but Anno Mundi (in the year of the world) 6884. It would appear absolutely certain that 11884 years have passed since the Saviour was born, and as Mr Neill makes the Egyptians in a flourishing condition SCOO years B.C. it would give the world a date of 6884 A.M. Which is correct—the inspired record of the Great Jehovah, or Mr Neill P And still again—A city or country cannot have sprung up with the celerity of a mushroom, neither can a nation increase and multiply as did the flies in the days of Pharoab. One must suppose, therefore, that time must have/elapsed since the commencement of the\ city- until its derelopment? also, that the Egyptians must have had ancestors? but they conld not have been descended faom our first parents, Adam and Eve, because they did not live (rather were not created—nor was the world) until ICOO years after Egypt was a country, and the nation was large in numbers, leajped in theology, and skilled in labor! It makes me dizzy fo think of the reverend instructor casting aside chronological data "given fo us by the Almighty himself, and begin to think Mr Neill must have been carried away by the scientific effusions of such men : as those who wrote ''The. Antiquity \of Man," and such-like productions. For myself I shall recognise the Bible as the only true record of antiquity, and discard the opinions of scientific men who endeavor to detract from 'the glorious truths therein.; contained.—l am , &0.,: ;

'"■ A Humble Believes.