The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-09

present dlsCOuTSeS being on "ln1dellty,"
in reply to Mr.. IngeTsOll. Opening
hymn:
Blow ye the trumpets, blow!
The gladly solemn sound"
DR.. Talmage expOunded a portion of
the Scriptures appropriate to the sub
ject before preaching.
SUBJECT: INGERsoLL FURTHER AN
SwERED."
TEXT-Psalm lxxiii., 8: They set
their mouth against the heavens"
FulI-length portrait of blasphemer!
AS the wolf hOwleth at the sky and the
dog bayeth at the moon, SO the blasphe
mer in my text stands making mouths
at the heavens. And on the same night
that the wolf frightens away the sky
and the dog stOppeth the moon will the
blasphemer drive back the God of the
Bible. You ask, Why it is that infidels
should be thrown into such a rage at
the Scriptures? Do you know that pure
water will throw man in a paTOXysm
of hydrOphObia if he has previously
been bitten? 1t is because mans soul
is already poisoned that this pure, bright
water from the Rock of Ages throws
him into fits of rage and caricature. In
great hilaTity MIR. Ingerson speaks of
the stopping of the sun and moon, in
the time of Joshua. in order that the
battle might be completed. He init
mates that this is impossible. But,
ask, can not he who makes a watch or
clock stop the hands and start them
again? Can not machinist who con-
structs cOrn-thTe sher start it and stop
it fifty times if he so desires? If God
can make the clock of the solar system
can he not stop it when he will? MIR.
IngeTsOll jeers at the moon stopping as
we'll as the sun. Well, if you have new
eT seen the moon in the daytime it is
because you have never been careful
observer of the heavens. But the rec
ord is speaking after the manner of
men. 1t was necessary only that the
light be continued by unusual refrac-
ton, and all the worlds might have gone
on literally, while figuratively they
stopped. The Bible authors used the
language of their day as you and | speak
of the sun as going down. We do not
mean to say by that, that the sun goes
round the earth; we speak of the way it
appears to the eye. But the earth could
have literally stopped without throwing
the universe out of balance. Does not
Mr.. IngeTsOll know that the earJh has
two motions, one around the sun and
the other on its own axis, and that
while it may have continued to move in
stopped or slackened its speed on its
own axis, and so there would have been
no need of stellar confusion? If the
world only stopped turning on its own
axis it would be none of the business of
Jupiter, or Mars, or Mercury, OF the Dip
per. All astronomers agree in the state
ment that worlds have been born and
have died Last week the appearance of
new world was reported by the as
trOnOmers at Washington. Thirteen
worlds in a comparatively short space of
time are reported by philosophers as
burning up under their own eye. First
they had the ordinary look of a world !;
then they became red, showing they had
taken fire; then they became ashen,
showing they had been burned up; then,
entirely disappearing, showing that the
fire was out. Ii God can start world,
and swing world, and destroy world,
one would think He would not be very
much exhausted if He stopped it, or, by
extra TefractiOn of the light of the sun,
continued it's illumination. The an
cient battle of which Mr.. IngersOll
speaks so cOntemptuOusly was worthy
of prolonged day by extra refractiOn of
the suns rays, for what Yorktown was
in Revolutionary times, and what Get
tysburg was in our civil war, and what
Sedan was in the FrancO-GeTman war,
and what Waterloo was in NapOleOnic
destiny, that was JOshua's battle against
the five allied armies of Gideon. 1t
changed all history, and was as import
ant then as battle now in which Eng
land, and America, and France, and Ger
many, and Russia, and Italy, and Tur-
key and Austria should come face to
face for victory or annihilatiOn. How
ever much any other world, solar, or
lunar, or stellar, might be hastened on
its errands of light, it would be eXcusa-
BILE if it fingered by the way and put
down for little while its sheaf of light
to gaze at such an ArmageddOn. In the
early part of this century there was a
dark day, when wOrkmen went home
from their fields, and legislatures and
courts adjourned, and to this day the
darkness has not been explained. If
God could advance the night before its
time, could he not postpone the night
after it's time? | have heard my father
say that he was started out by his neigh
bOrs on a night in 1888, or thereabOuts,
because of the seeming riot of the
heavenly bOdies-all the stars shooting
about in such wild way that the world
was terrified. Astronomers to this day
have not been able to explain that star
shooting. If God can start thousands
of meteOrs and then stop them, think
tinctiOn of the five allied armies. If
God can, as on that night in 1888, engi-
neer a train of ten thousand meteOrs
and halt them without collision or acci-
dent, think He can control two carri-
ages of light, and, by golden brake,
stop the sun; and by silver brake stop
the moon. A celebrated eye doctor in
Boston declared recently that he had
more cases of diseased eyes Immediately
after an'eclipse than at any other time,
and that it came through so much look
ing through smoked glass at the sun in
an eclipse. So this halting sun of JOS
hua has hurt the eyes of Mr.. IngersO1,
looking at it through glass smoked
with the fires Of hatred against Christ
ianity.
This infidel Is still further amused at
the amounting oil put upon Aaron, and
all the judgments that came upon those
who misused the amounting oil. OF
course, it is easy to make mirth Of that
which is only q symbol do not belong
to the Order of MRsOns, nor have seen
the ceremony; but when they put oil on
the cornerstone of a new building no
good man would laugh at it. The an
Ointing oil is only symbol of blessing
and sanctity. 1t ought not to require
that man be a Mason in order to see
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