We may puzzle our minds with these and a hundred more curious
questions, as learned men have done in all ages. But--shall we
become really the wiser by so doing? More learned we may become.
But being learned and being wise are two different things. True
wisdom is that which makes a man a better man. And will such
puzzling questions and calculations as these, settle them how we
may, make us BETTER men? Will they make us more honest and just,
more generous and loving, more able to keep our tempers and control
our appetites? I cannot see that. Will it make us better men
merely to know that there was once a flood of waters on the earth?
I cannot see that. If we look at the hills of sand and gravel round
us, a little common sense will show us that there have been many
floods of waters on the earth, long, long before the one of which
the Bible speaks: but shall we be better men for knowing that
either? I cannot see why we should. Now the Bible was sent to make
us better men. How then will the history of the flood do that?
Easily enough, my friends, if we will listen to the Bible, and
thinking less about the flood itself, think more about him who, so
the Bible tells us, sent the flood.
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