Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-04-03

DRooKLYN, March 24.-At the Taberna-
I'D Gle this morning, after expounding
some passages of Scripture in regard
to the mysteries, the Ret. De Witt TAI
mage. d D., gave ouf ths hynn begin-
ming:
How firm faundaticn. ye saints of the Lord
Is laid for your faith 10 his excelenS Word.
The subject Of his sermon Was, Tough
Things in the Bible. and his text Ii Peter
ill.,, 16: In which arc come things hard 10
be understood" DR.. Ta;a,age said:
The Bible is the most commoG sense book
in all the world. But there are uaany things
IN it which require explanation. It. all de
pends on The mood III - hich yen come to
thus grand old book. Yon msy take hold
Of the handle of the sword or it's sharp
edge You may employ on its mysGsFiaE
he .uie of multiplication or subtra tion.
There are thiugs, as my text suggests, hard
to be undessepod, bat shall so3Ve some OF
them, hoping to leave upon all honest mind
ed people the impression that if four Of five
of them eau be explained, perhaps hey may
all be explained.
hard thing the first: The Eit.s says the
world was created in six days, wh::s ge
nlogy says it was hundreds of thousands t;s
years in process of building. ''Ia the be-
g,nning God created the heaven AID the
earth ." '.ln the besipniug." There you
can roll in ten million yaais if you want to
There ia no particular date Given~-no cnn-
test bet weeu scieucc aud revelation. ahqsgh
the world may have been IN process of crea,
ton for millions of years, suddenly and
quickly, and in ODa week, it may have baen
fitted up for mau s residence. just as {,
great mansion may have been many years
ia building, and yet in one week it may be
cI!taiued and chauGeliered aud cushioned,
and upholstered for bride and groom
You are got compelled TO believe that the
world was mnde in cur six days. 1t mag
not have been dag OK twenty four hours,
The day spoken oe in the FIST chapter; ii
may have been Gods day, ard q tisousand
years with him are as one day. And tbs
evening and the morning were tho first
day''-Gqd's day. "And the evening aad
the m rnng we're the second dsy''-God',
day. sAhd the evening md The morning
\ were the sixth day''-God's day. You and
| living ia The seventh day, the Sabbath OF
the world, ti:s day of gospel redemption
rhe graudest day Of all The week. in which
each day may have been made ps Of thou
sands of years. Can you tell me hn~ q faai
c,n Get his mind and soul intp snch bias
phemous twist as to scuff at thai first chap
surg,np MP from sapphire seas og glory?
The Bible represents that light was Great
ed on Monday, and the sun was rot created
until Thursday. Just think of il d booi
declaring that light was created three day
hafnre the sun shone! Wing, don'5 yol
know that heat aud electricity emit light in
depsndent of The sun? BesiLe tbas, whei
the earth was in process OF c.Dcensatlon,
was surrounded by thick vapors and the dis
charge of many volcanoes in the primary
period, and al this observation may hav
hiDdered the light of the sun from failin
on the earth until that Thursday morning
Beside that, David Brewster aud Herschel
the astronomer, and all the modern men o
their class, agree in the fact that the sun i
not light, that it is an Opaque mass, that
is only the candlestick that huids the light
phnsphorescept atmosphere f1Datln
around it, changing aud changing, so it
not TO be at all wondered at that It unit
that Thursday morning it's light fell On th
earth. Beside that, the rocks IN crystal isa
ton emit light. There is light from thou
eaud surfaces, the alkales, for instance =
Tae metallic bases emit light. There W.
G time in the history of the world when tbsr
! we,e thousands of miles of liquid grant
1Ham,ne with light. Beside that, it ha
1 n2c. IOilT2R Hud- bBGTo arc pub s'i
canoes 10 other worlds which, when the
| were III explasion and activity, must hav
csst forth an iosuffarable light, throwing
lpiare all over our earth. Brside that. ther
are the Aurora Borealis aud the Auror
Auchalis. A book on Physical Scieuce says
sCeptain Donuycaslle, coming up th
Cult of ST Lawrence Ou the 1Tih of SeE
ternb Der, 1926, was aroused by the mate q
| tho vessel IN prGai alarm from an uuuSna
appearance L. was a starlight DighG whe
suddenly the sky became overcas'. ln th
direction OF the high land of Cornwall
coun an instantaneous aud intensel
vivid light, reseGs bling the aurora, shot OF
; on the hitherto gloomy aud dark sea on IL
lee bow that vas so brilliant it lighted e'
erythipg distinctly, even to the masthead
! The light spread over the whole sea betwee
the two shores, and the waves which b.
I fore had been trapquil, became agita'e'
Captain Donnyc2ssls describes the scene 8
that of blsZiug sheet of awful and mos
brilliant light-a long and vivid lire of lgf
that showed the face of the high trownin
land abreast. The sky became lowerin
. and more intensely obscure. Long, tortl
GUS lines # light showed immense numbe
of large fish darung about as if in conste
= nation. The topsail ard and mizzen boo
r were lighted by the glare as If gas Ugh
i had been burned directly below them, AZ
70 until Just before daybreak, at 4 o'clock, Il