The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-29
KNOTS IN THE BIBLE.
Or. TALMAGE MAKES AN lNoENI-
Gus DISSECTION OF THEM.

u Is Not Necessary to Believe That tho
World Is Only 5000 Years OId-Joshua's
Command to the Sum and Moon-The
whale Swallowing Jonah.
BROOKLYN, March 24.-At the Tab
ernacle this morning, after expound-
ing some passages of Scripture in re-
gard to the mysteries, the Rev. T De
Witt Talmage, D. D.. gave out the
hymn beginning:
How firm foundation, ye saints of the Lord.
Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word.
The subject of his sermon was
though Things in the Bible" and
his text, II Peter iii, 16: "In which
are some things hard to be under
stood" DR.. Talmage said:
The Bible is the most common sense
book in all the world. But there are
many things in it which require ex-
PLANTATION. 1t all depends on the mood
In which you come to this grand old
book. You may take hold of the
handle of the sword or its sharp edge.
You may employ on its mysteries the
rule of multiplication or subtraction.
There are things, as my text suggests,
hard to be understood, but I shall
solve some of them hoping to leave
upon all honest minded people the inn
preston 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
thousands OF years in process of build
ing SIN the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth" 'In the
beginning" There you can roll in
ten million years if you want to.
There is no particular date given-no
contest between science and revela-
ton. Though the world may have
been in process of creation for millions
Of years. suddenly and quickly, and in
one week, it may have been fitted up
for mans residence. Just as great
mansion may have been many years
in building, and yet in one week it
may be curtained and chandeliered
and cushioned and upholstered for a
bride and groom.
You are not compelled to believe
that the world was made in our six
days. 1t may not have been a day of
twenty-four hours, the day spoken of
in the first chapter; it may have been
Gods day, and thousand years with
him are as one day. "And the even
ing and the morning were the first
day''-God's day. "And the evening
and the morning were the second day"
Gods day. ''And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.
Gods day. You and l living in the
seventh day, the Sabbath of the world,
the day of Gospel redemption, the
grandest day of all the week, in which
each day may have been made up of
thousands of years. Can you tell me
how man can get his mind and soul
into such a blasphemous twist as to
scoH at that first chapter of Genesis,
its verses pillows of light surging up
from sapphire seas Of glory9
AN EXPLANATION ON A SCIENTIFIC BASIS
The Bible represents that light was
created on Monday, and the sun was
not created until Thursday. Just think
of It'll book declaring that light was
created three days before the sun shone! |
Why don't you know that heat and
electricity emit light independent of
the suns Beside that, when the earth
was in process of condensation, it was
surrounded by thick vapors and the
of many volcanoes in the
primary period, and all this obscura-
ton may have hindered the light of
the sun from falling on the earth until
that Thursday morning. Beside that
David Brewster and Herschel, the as
tronomer, and all the modern men of
their class, agree in the fact that the
sun is not light, that it is an opaque
mass, that it is only the candlestick
that holds the light, a phosphores-
cent atmosphere floating around it,
changing and changing, SO it is not
to be at all wondered at that not un-
til that Thursday morning its light fell
on the earth. Beside that, the rocks
in capitalization emit light. There is
light from a thousand surfaces, the
for instance. The metallic
bases emit light There was time in the
history Of the world when there were
thousands of miles of liquid granite
flaming with light. Beside that, it has
been found that there are burned out
volcanoes in other worlds which,
when they were in explosion and &C.
tivity, must have cast forth an insult
ferable light, throwinga glare all over
our earth. Beside that, there are the
Aurora Borealis and the Aurora An
chalis. A book on Physical Science
says:
''Capt. Bonnycastle, coming up the
Gulf of st. Lawrence on the 18th Of
September, 1926, was aroused by the
mate of the vessel in great alarm from
an unusual appearance. TWAS star
light night, when suddenly the sky
became overcast. In the direction of |
the high land of CORVALLIS county
an instantaneous and intensely vivid
light, resembling the aurora, shot out
on the hitherto gloomy and dark sea
on the lee bow that was so brilliant it
lighted everything distinctly, even
to the masthead. The light spread
over the whole sea between the
two shores, and the waves, which
before had been tranquil, became
agitated. Capt. Bonnycastle de-
scribes the scene as that of blazing
sheet of awful and most brilliant light
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