A Strong-hold of Infidelity Undermined.
SKEPTICAL theorists, in their assaults upon the inspiration of the Bible, have boldly declared that its record of the creation could not be correct, drawing strong arguments from the dates of Egyptian chronology, deciphered from the ancient monuments of that land, which seemed to put back the time of creation far beyond that given by Moses. M. Mariette, a distinguished French explorer, who has been an advocate of the long chronology, has lately discovered a tablet in a disentombed temple at Memphis, on which is a long record of royal names, which places in direct succession the kings of what had been considered the 6th and the 10th dynasties, and of the 12th and 18th, omitting all the intermediate ones. He confesses that this record seems to prove that the intermediate ones must have been contemporaneous monarchs, or kings over other parts of Egypt, and that this deducts 1,536 years from the duration of the Egyptian kingdom.