A New Theory.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 15, 3 August 1895, Page 4

A New Theory.

S^^iTheße'v. fiaskitt Smith.^n, Eastern tra-S-jStveller lecturing in- Sydney, Has a theory that ISsy-in^ (says: the 'Daily Telegraph') be new 'Mpto".Bome people, arid that, judging by the [Pgfeaarprisjfe manifested l>y his audience, was NWwfidently new to~ most; of them. Tha mci■r.^sßlent, ha says, took place on the extreme iplljpprthern shores of the'Re^ Sea— apparently 'SFSSot, very far from Sue?— where the water is $?-3*£ta'parte very shallow apd in parts verytteep. S^KDurinp ft" certain season, of the year, some fej^time between tha beginnfc< 6€ March and, -asfiitmVmiddle of April, the diitricfisvisited by, iliPierrible wind storms. When. the wind blows S^fifrpm the.east, fee water is driven from the %. ' -^ deeper portions of the beiapross the shallows 3.<i'->-iiuwaves that stand on erid*ijke walls, and '■''*'''' the'shallows ara left for 'a'^ime perfectly %s&' 'dry. Then, when the w|nd sets in from tba •';• :~ ;< %west, perhaps a day or two' afterwards, the $&• Sfatgrswings back again, and onca more the f—islpi'lSßlM 3 are submerged, and it is well nigh JgSS'WipOTsible to tell where are the shallows and K^iSwhere are the depths. The children of f: Israel are supposed to have crossed when the V' • >'wind was driving the water off the shallows, sjr-\'.and- the Egyptians to have followed with PH.-'their chariots just as the water returned #* with the ohange of wind. Thus Mr Smith >' V, considers tha incident by no means super- ~ human, but only providential. In other : wordsi he inf ars that the Almighty, instead -■ of intervening to make the waters roll back for the children of Israel, intervened to make the children of Israel cross over precisely at ' ■, the right moment, and the Egyptians, of , * 'course, at the wrong moment.