Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-24
ARMEDINTHE GOSPEL.
THB MIGHTIBST WEAPON is THB BOOK OF
GOD.
Dr.. Talmagss Eloquent Tabernacle SsrmOn-The
Swords Of Disbelief Turned 10 the Work OF
the Ohuroh-ReligOn's Triumph
Over All.
80 Tllram b n Reqls.er.

Samuel XXI, 8: There is more like that;
give it me-" The preacher said:
David fed from hrs pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chasing a
good man. The county, is trying to catch
David, and to slay him. David goes into
the house Of priest, and asks him for a
sword or spear with which TO defend him
self The priest, not being accustomed to
use deadly weapons, tells David that he
cannot supply him; hut suddenly the
priest thinks of an old sword that had been
carefully wrapped up and laid awsy-the
very sword that Goliath formerly used
aud he takes down that sword, and
while he is unwrspping the
sharp, glittering, 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 Goliath,
and David can hardly keep his hand off it
until the priest has u1wOund 1t. David
stretches ont his hand toward that ole
sword ana says: There Is none like that; 4;
I NlhE III LLlr IL uAAANA mhAbof WetAN
| in my own haud the sword that has beer
used against me, and against the cause Of
God" So it was given him. Well, my
| friends, that Is not the first or the las
sword once used by giaut and Philistine
| iuiquity which is 10 come into the possess
| ion of Jesus Christ, aud of his glorious
church. want as well as GOD may help
me, 10 show you that many a weapon
which he's been used against the armies o.
God il vet 10 be captured and used on our
side and I only initiate David when l
stretch out my hand toward the blade OF
the Philistine, and cry: There is none
like that; give it mel"
remark, first, that this is true in re-
gard 10 all
SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION.
You know that the frat discoveries in
astronomy and geology and chronology
we're used to battle Christianity. Worldly
philosophy came out of its laboratory ano
out of its observatory aud said: Now,
we will prove, by the very structure OF
the earth, and by the movement of the
heavenly bodies, that the Bible is a lie aud
that Christianity, as We have it among
men, isa positive imposition" Good men
trembled. The telescope, the Leyden
lars the electric batteries, all in the hand0
If the Phihstinss. But one day
Christianity, looking ABOUT for some
weapon with which to defend
itself, happened TO see the very
old sword that these atheistic Philistines
had been using against the truth, and
cried out: "There is none like that give
it mer7 Aud Corpernicus, and Gaileo,
and Kepler, aud Isaac Newton came fort b
and told the world that, in their ransack-
inc of the earth aud heaven they ho9
found overwhelming presence OF the God
whom we worship; aud this old Bible be-
gan to shake itself from the Koran, and
Shsster. and Zendavesta with which 1t
had been covered up. and lay on the desk
of the scholar and in the labra'ory OF the
chemist, and in the lap of the Christian,
upharmed and unanswered, while the
towers of the midnight heavens struck
silvery chime in its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter IS
eternal. The world always was. God did
not make it." Christian philosophy
plupges its crowbar into rocks, and finds
/ that the world was gradually made, and
/ if grsdually made, there must have been
some point at which the process started !
then. who started it? and so that objection
was overcome, and in the first three words
of the Bible We find that Moses stated
magnificent truth when he said 'In the
beginning.
THE ARMY OF LOCUSTS.
Worldly philosophy said; Your Bible
/ is a most inaccurate book; all that story IN
the Old Testament, again and again told
about the army of the lOcusts-lt Is pre-
posterous. There is nothing in the COM
/ inc of the locusts like an army. Au army
walks. locusts fly. An army goes in order
and procession, locusts without order. "
''Waltp' said Christian philosophy;
and in 1868 in the southwestern part OF
this country, Christian men went out to
examine the march of the locust. There
! are men right before me who must have
noticed in that very part of the country
the coming up of the locust like an army
and IL was found that all the newspapers
unwittingly spoke of them as an army.
Wbv2 They seem to have commander.
They march like host They halt like a
host. M arrow ever went with strMghtef
flight than the locusts cOme-no' even
turning aside for the wind. II the WIND
rises the locusts drop and the rise again
after it has gone down, taking the same
line of march, not varying foot. Inc
old Bible right every time when 1t SPEAKS
of locusts coming like an army worldly
philosophy wrong.
THE TRAVELLER CONQUERED.
AGAIN. I remark that the travelling dis
nosition of the world which was averse to
morals and religion, is to he brought on
onr side. The man that went down to
Terico and fell amidst thieves was type
of a great many travellers. There is many
a man who is very honest at home who,
vben he is abroad, has his honor hlched
and his GOOD habits stolen. There are but
verv few men who can stand the stress OF
an expedition. Six weeks at watering
DIscs has damned many a man. In the
| ol5en times God forbade the travelling
Of men for the purposes OF trade because oi
the corrupting influences attending II. a
good many men now cannot stand the
transition from one place to another.
Some men who seem to be very consistent
at home in the way Of keeping the Sab
bath. when they get into Spain, on the
Lords dsy always 90 out to see the bull
6Vhts. Plato said that no city ought to
no bnilt nearer to the sea than ten miles,
lest il be tempted to commerce. But
this travelling disposition OF the world,
which was adverse to that which is good,
il to be brought on our side. These rail
trains. why, they are to take our Bibles
these steamships, they are to transport our
missionaries; these sailors rushing from
citv to city all around the world, are to
bs converted into Christian heralds and 20
ont and preach Christ among the heather
nations. The Gospels are infinitely null
tinlied in beauty and power since Robin
son. and Thompson, and Burckhardt have
cone hack and talked to Us about Sloan,
and Cspernaum, and Jerusalem, pointing
ont to rs the lilies about which Jesus
preached. the besch upon which Paul
was shipwrecked, the fords at which Jor-
dan was passed, the Red sea bank on
which were tossed the cArcasses OF the
drowned Egyptians. A man SAID; l
went TO the Holy Land an intdel; came
bsck a Christian. 1 could not help 1t.
7 am not shocked at the idea OF build
inc railroad to the Holy Land. Wisn
that all the world might 90 and see Gol,
oo,bs and Bethlehem. If We cannot afford
= nav for muleteers now, perhaps when
the rail train goes We can afford to buy q
s;cLst from Constantinople to Joppa, ana
/ tlSHN m - - eaa the HOLY and.