Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-03

DRooKLYN, June 23.-The Rev. T. d.
Tabernacle this evening on "Tht
Mightiest Weapon is the Gospel" His tex
was |. Samuel xxi, 8: "There is none like
that give it me.'' The preacher said:
David fled from his pursuers. The worl(
runs very fast wher. it is chasing goot
man. The country is trying to catch David
and to slay him. David goes into the house
of priest, and asks him for sword ol
spear with which to defend himself. Th,
priest, not being accustomed to use deadly
weapons, tells David that he cannot supply
him; but suddenly the priest thinks of al
old sword that had been carefully wrapped
up and laid away-the very sword thai
that Goliath formerly used-and he takei
down that sword, aud while he is unwrap
ping the sharp, glittoring, memorable blade
it flashes upon DaVid's mind that this was
the very sword that was used against him.
self when he was in the fight with Goliah,
and David can hardly keep his hand off ii
until the priest has unwound it. David
stretches out his hand toward that old
sword. and says: "There is none like that
rive it me-" In other words, II want in
nv own hand the sword that has been used
dRdIuSb LILO, duu Bdidot ohO OaeAoo OA NOAs
So it was given him. Well, my friends,
that is not the first or the last sword once
used by giant and Philistine iniquity which
is to come into the possession of Jesus
Christ, and of His glorious Church. want,
as we'll as God may help me, to show you
that many a weapon which has been used
against the armies of God is yet to be cap
tured and used on our side; and I only
initiate David when | stretch out my hand
toward the blade of the Philistine, and cry
s"There is none like that; give it mep'
| remark, first, that this is true in regard
to all scientific exploration. You know that
the first discoveries in astronomy and geolo-
gy and chronology were used to battle
Christianity. Worldly philosophy came out
of its laboratory and out of it's observatory,
and said: "Now, we will prove, by the very
structure of the earth, and by the move
ments of the heavenly bodies, that the Bi.
BILE is lie and that Christianity, Rs we
have it among men, is positive imposi.
tion.n Good men trembied. The telescope,
the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
in the hands of the Philistines. But one
day, Christianity, looking about for some
weapon with which to defend itself, hap.
pened to see the very old sword that these
atheistic PhilistiDes had been using against
the truth and cried out: ''TheYe is none
like that; give it mei'' And Copernious,
and Galileo, and Kepler, and Isaac Newton
came forth and told the world that, in theil
ransacking of the earth and heaven, they
had found overwhelming presence of the
God whom We worship; and this old Bible
began to shake itself from the Koran, and
Shaster, and Zendavesta with which it had
been covered up. and lay on the desk of the
scholar, and in the laboratory of the chem
ist, and in the lap of the Christian, unharm
ed and unanswered, while the towers of the
midnight heavens struck silvery chime il
its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: "Matter il
eternal. The world always was: God die
not make it." Christian philosophy plunges
it's cowbar into rocks and finds that the
world was gradually made and if fgradually
made, there must have been some point a
which the process started; then, who start
ed it? and SO that objection was overcome
and in the first three words of the Bible We
find that Moses stated a magnificent trutt
when he said: "In the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: "Your Bible il
most inaccurate book; all that story in thu
Old Testament, again and again told, abou
the army of the locusts-it is preposterous
There is nothing in the coming of the 10
Gusts like an army. An army walks, locust
fly. An army goes in order and procession
locusts without order." "Wait!' sait