The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-13
AryouRrH STRICT N. Z. CHURCH.

After DR.. Talmage had concluded his lee
turc Saturday night he was persuaded by
DR.. @. P. Masden, of the Fourth Street NJ. E
Church, to preach Tor him last Right. The
announcement was made, and Fourth
Street Church was packed full OF people
anxiousto hear the great pastor OF Brooklyn
Tabernacle. Every available seat was
taken up and the siEles were filed with
stools and by those who were compelled
TO stand up. After O voluntary by the
organist, Hymn 6S4, From every stormy
wind that blows" was sung, and other
preliminaries to the sermon carried out.
br. Talmage announced his teItto be the
9Th verse Of the 18th Psalm. THE Stat
utes OF the Lord are right"
"Old books" said the speaker, Ego out
OF date. In their day they discussed vital
questions, which are Of nj interest to the
people Of to. day. The codes OF morals Of
those days will nst subserye present inter-
ests. Books are human. They have q
time to be born, q middle time OF useful
ness, then q tottering old age and death.
State libraries are cemeteries Of books.
In them are many fsgitiouS and useless
productions. Some are good, some worth
less, and we pick up one which seems to
say to US with leather lips, would
that l too were dead" There Is one old
book, however, that has survived them
all. It has survived theocracy, stood firm
amid the tumults Of Greece and
Rome; 1t has withstood ancient at:
tacks upon it, mediaval bigotry, and
modern in6delism. Tyrants have issued
edicts against It; Mohamedanism has at
tempted to subyert 1t; Paganism 10 de-
stroy 1t, but It stands. 1t has penetrated
every land the sun shines upon. II has
blessed the peasant Of Lapland;
the serf OF Russia; the s%unbrowned
Italian, the volatile F%renchmen, 1t has
crossed the Atlantic, fastened itself to
Plymouth Rock, and to-day sixty thou.
sand ministers stand with their hands
upon it's sacred pages 10 proclaim life
everlasting. 1t has not yet accomplished
It's mission, and will not until the icy
slopes Of Greenland, the auriferous. earth
OF Australia, the diamond sands oil
Brazil shall be under It's DONNA.
ton, and all the gold in the uni.
verse shall have been melted into
one crown, and that crown emblazoned
with all OF the diamonds that glitter in the
world.
The Bible Is right In style, authority,
and its effects. Bryant has not as great q
claim to the authorship Of T%hAnatopsis
Milton to Paradise Lost" Tennyson to
the "Charge Of the Six Hundred" as
have the authors OF the Bible to the books
attributed to them. They have all stood.
Moses, Isaiah, John, Jeremiah, and will
stand forever. When the Bible first up.
peared there were scarcely $50 copies OF
It; now there are ~250,o0O,000 Of them ex-
tant. They are in the philosophic Greek,
the beautiful French, the melliluous In
dian, the stately German, and the indie
structible Anglc.Saxon, There is no con-.
iiict between theology and science; learned
men have %attempted,to prove that, but men
equally as learned and perhaps more 80,
have reconciled oil. seeming discrepancies.
Infdelity hooted ct the idea that there
was q city built Of stone, but science has
shown that this and other equally 90
abtud assertions are true. The existence
Of Sodom and Gomorrah have
been proven; Nineveh also Is shown
to have been as written Of In
the Bible. Grapes have been proven
to have grown in Egypt; gold to have
been In solution and every other assertion,
made by It to be true. ,,.
The Bible Is right in style Read 1t