Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06
Many "rough Things in the
Bible" Are Hard to
Understand.
Dan People Of Common Sense
Fathom the Depths Of
the Bible?
Differ With the Bibic In Some
Instanoes-Dr. Talmage's
Explanation.

OAhaCic WIS lnoiHlnS, aitci tAp0uLuinS
some passages of Scripture in regard to
the mysteries. the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID. d., gave out the hymn begin
ming:
How firm a foundation, ye saints OF the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in It's excellent Word.
The subject of his sermon was, Tough
Things in the Bible" and his text, III
Peter iii, 10: in which are some things
hard to be understood" DR.. Talmage
said:
The Bible is the most common serse
book in all the world. But there are
many things in it which require explana-
ton. 1t all depends upon the mood in
which you come TO this grand old book.
You may take hold Of the handle Of the
sword Or it's sharp edge. You may en-
ploy on its mysteries the rule OF multi
plication or subtraction. There are
things, as my text suggests, hsrd to be
understood, but ! shall solve some of
them, he. ing to leave upon all honest
people the impression that if four or five
of them can be explained. perhaps they
may all be explained.
Hard thing the first: The Bible says
the world was created in six days, while
geology says it was hundreds Of thous-
ands OF years in process of building. 'In
the beginning, Coz created the heaven
and tic EARTH I'm the beginning"
There YOU IN roK in ten million years
if YOU wan. 10. There iF no particular
date given-no contest between science
and revelation. Though the world may
have been in process of creation for mil
lions of years, suddenly and quickly, and
in ore week, it may have been fitted up
for mans residence. Just as a great man
sion may have been many years IN build
ing, and yet i'm one week il may be cur
tanned and chandelie,ed and cushioned
and upholstered for a bride and groom.
Yeu are not compelled TO bel eve that
the world was made IN our six days. II
may not nave been q day Of tw~enty.four
hours, the day spoken Of in the first
charter; it may have been Gods day,
and q thousand years with him are % one
day. And the evening and the morn
ing were the fret day"-God's day.
And the evening and he morning were
the second day''4God's day. And the
evening and the morning were the sixth
day"-God's day. You anc ! living in
the seventh dav. the Sabbath Of the
world, the day OF gospel redemption, the
grandest day o. all the week,il which each
day may havceLeen made up OF thou
sands of years. Can you tell me how q
man can get his mind and soul into such
a blGsphemovg twist as to ecoH at that
first chapter cf Genesis, it's verses billo~f
of light surgiag up from sapphire seas o.
glory?
TIE Bible represents that light was
created on Monday. and the sun was ne:
created until Thursday. Jcst think of il
book d~eclaCing that light was created
three days before the sun GhOnel WIZ
don't you know that heat snd electricity
emit light independent Of the SUM- Be.
sides that, when the eartk was in thC
process Of condensation, it was Sur
rounte cd by thick vapors, and the dis
charge of many volcanoes n the primary
period, and al this obscuratOn may bavt
hindered the light of the sun from falling
on the earth until that Thursday morn
ing. Besides that, David Brewster anC
Herschcl, the astronomer, and all tn
modern men of their class agree in tht
fact that the sun ID not ligh., that ii is ay
Opaque mass that it ia only the candlestick
that holds the light, a phosohorescent az
mosphere floating around it, changing
and changing, so it is not to be al al
wondered at that not until that Thurs
day morning its light fell 70 the earth,
Beside that. the rocks in specialization
emit light. There is light from
a thoNeaGd surfaces. the aka
lies for instance. Tse metallic
bases exni.,light. There WIS a time in
the history of the world when there were
thousands OF miles of liquid granite fam.
ing with light Beside that t has beer
found that there are burned out volca
noes in other worlds which when they
were in explosion and activity, must
nave cast forth an insutfeyable light,
throwing a glare all over u earth. Be
side that. there are the Aurora Boreaiis
and the Aurora Anchalis. 4 book or
Physical Science, says:
Capt. B~onnycastle, coming up the
Gulf of st. Lawrence on the 18th of Sep.
TENDER, 1896, was aroused by the mate
of the vessel in great alarm frSE an un'
usual appearance. 1t was q starligh,
might, when suddenly the sky became
overcast. In the direction of tie high
land of CORVALLIS county an insentane
4ols and intensely N:vid light, resembling
the aurora. shot out on the hitherto
gloomy and dark sea On the lee bow tina
wag so brilliant it lighted everything dis
tinotly, even to the masthead. Thetxgh'
apreed over the whole sea between the
two chores, and the waves, which ba1or,
had been tranquil, became sgitsted
Capt. Bonnycaste describes the scene al
that Of a blazing sheet of awful and mos
brilliant light-a long and vivid line Of
light that showed the face Of the higs
frowning land abreast. The sky becam.
lowering and more Intensely obscure
Long, tortuous lines of light showed i'm
menSe numbers of large sh darling sbou'
"a if in CONSERVATION. The topsail yarC
and the miazen boom were lighted by
the glare as if gaslights had been burned
directly below them, and Nntil just be
fore daybreak, at A o'clock, the mos
minute objects were distinctly visible.
NV hearers, there are 10, 0CG sources OF
light besides the light of the sun.
Another hard ching: The story of the
deluge and Noab's ark. They say tina
RON the account there 1t must have
raiued eight hundred feet OF water each
day in order that il might be hfteer
cubitS above the hills. They say tha
the ark could not have been large enough
to contain 1.-TWO Of every sort for there
would have been hundreds OF thousand