The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-27
HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
Sermon by Rev. +. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. D.
Some OF tho Tough Bible Truths Ex-
pIained-Tho Creation. the Deluge,
the Stopping OF the sun an ' the
whale Story Wherein the
Infidel Blunders.

iect Of DR.. aimagc's recent sermon mt the
Brooklyn Tuberna, g, nd his text ii. Peter
iii:l8 In which ire ONE things hard TO
be understood" Following Is the sermon;
The Pible is the most common sen'e book
In oil the world But there are many things
In IL which require explanation. II all de-
pends on the mood in which you come TO
this grand old b ok. You may take hold OF
the handle OF tie sword or its sharp edge.
You may emp on its mysteries the rule
of multiplication or substraction. There
are things as NV text suggests ard to be
under TODD, but shall solve some Of them,
hoping to leave upon all honest-mindei peo-
pie the imp,e ion that II 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, viii geology
says II was hundreds Of thousands OF years
In process of building. .'In the BEGINNING.
God created the heaven and the earth" I'm
the beginu g." There yoh can roll In ten
mill on years II you want to. There Is no
particular ate given-no contest between
science aud revelation. Though I world
may have been In process OF creation for
millions Of years suddenly and quickly,
and In one week, Z may have been fitted up
FOR mans residence. Just as great man
sion ma have been many years In building,
and vet In one week II may be curtained
and chandeliered and cushioned and up
hoist, red for a bride ard groom.
You are not conn elled to believe that the
world was m de in our six days. II may
not have been day Of twenty-four hours,
the day spoken of in The first chapter; II
NAV have been Gods day, and thousand
years with him are as one day. "And the
evening and the morning were the first
day,-Gois day. "And the evening and
the morning were the second day"-God's
day. sand the evening fnl tho morning
were the sixth day''-God's day. You and
living In the seventh day, the Sabbath OF
the world, the day Of Gospel redemption,
the grando 4 day Of all tne week IN which
each day NAV have been male up of thou
sands OF We, rs Cnn YOU tell me how a
man can get his mind and soul into such q
blasphemous twist as TO scoG at that hr't
chapter OF G'n 'sis, i,s verses hi'ows of
light surging up from sapphire seas Of gloryi
The Bible represents that light vase Gated
on Monday and the un was not created
until Thursday. just think Of I'll book
declarii that light was crented three days
before the sun shohe Why don't you
know that heat and electricity emit I 'ht
indep ndent Of the sunl Pesides that
when the earth was In process Of condensa-
tion, II was surrounded by thick varors and
the discharge OF many vo canoes In the
primary period. End all this obscuration
may have hlndcred tho light OF the sun
from falling on the earth until that Thurs
day morning. Besides that David Brester
and Herschel, the astronomer, and all the
modern men OF their class agree In the fact
that the sun Il not light. that II Is an opaque
mass that II is only the can lestick that
holds the light, phosphorescent at
mosphere floating around IL and chang
ing. SO II is not 10 be A. all won
dersd at that not until that Thur-dsy morn.
ing its light fell on tho earth. Besides that,
Che rocks In capitalization emit light There
is II hit from n Thousand surfaces the
alkalies, for instance. The metlllic bases
emit light There was a time In The history
of the world when there were thou ands Of
miles Of liquid granite flaming with light.
Besides that, II has been found that there
are burned out volcanoes In other worlds
which, when they were In explosion and
activity, must have cast forth an insuffer'
able light, throwing q glare all over our
earth. Besides that there are the aurora
borealis, and the aurora Anchalis A book
on physical science says:
''Captain Bonnycaste, coming mp the Gull
OF Bt Lawrence on the 18th OF September
1928, was aroused by the mate Of the vesse
in great alarm from an unusual appearance
II was q starlight night, when suddenly thf
sky became overca I. In the direction oi
the high land OF Cornwalls County an in
stantaneous and intensely vivid light re
sembling the aurora shot out on the hitherto
gloomy and dark sea on the lee bow that wa
so brilliant II lighted every thing distinctly
even 10 the masthead. The light spread Ovei
the whole seq between the two shores, aut
the waves, which before had been tranquil
became agitated. Captain Bonnycastle de
tcribes tho scene as that OF a blazing
sheet OF awful and most brilliant ligh
"a long and vivid line Of light that showed
the face OF the high frnwnin9 land abreast
The sky became lowering and more intense
ly obscure. Long tortuous lines OF ligh
showed immense numbers OF large fisl
darting about as II In CONSERVATION. TIL,
top-sail yard and miEsen bonn were lightet
by the glare as II easliehts had been burpet
directly be ow them, and until just befor'
daybreal, at four o'clock, the most minut,
objects were distinctly visible" My hearers
there are ten thousand sources Of light bo
sides the light Of the sun.
fH Another hard thing; The story Of IN
deluge and Noah'sark. They say that from
the account tn sr II must have rnined Gig
hundred feet OF water each day In order tina
Il might be fifteen bits above the hills
They say that tho ark could not have beer
large enough to contain two ofevery sort.
for there would have been hundreds o
thousands and hundreds Of thousands o
creatures. They say that these creatu o.
would have come from all lands and al
zones. They say there was only one small
window In tie ark, and that would not hav,
given fresh air TO keep tho animals insid,
the ark from sufocatiJn. They say that th'
ark finally landed on mountain seventeen
thousand feet high. They say they do no
Z 9 believe tho story. Neither do !. THERE'S NJ
such story In the Bible. will tell you wha
the Bible story H. 1must say that hav'
changed my mind in regard to some natter
which once were 10 me very mysterious
They are no more mysterious This Is th'
Z key TO the facts. T is the story Of an ey'
w tness, Noah, his tory Incorporated after
wsr. by Moses In the account Noah dc
scribed tho sce g Just as IL appeared u him
He saw the food and be fathomed its depth
As far as eye could each everything wa
covered up, from horizon to horizon, or, as 1
90 .. ''under the whole hea en-" He dit
not refer 10 tie Sierra Nevada or 10 Noun
Washington, for America had not been dis
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