The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
slough Things in the Bible" In
terestingly Discussed.
Scientific sIurs on the Authenticity of
the Billie Met in the Light Of
Modern Reseorch-Cri
cism Answered.

was: Tough Things in the Bible" and
the text:
In which are some things hard to be under
stood.-II Peter ill.,, 16.
The Bible is the most common-sense
book in all the world. But there are
many things in it which require explana-
ton. It 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 en-
ploy on its mysteries the rule Of multi
plicatisn 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 impression that If
four or five OF them can be explained,
perhaps they may oil DE explained.
Hard thing the first: The Bible says
the world was created In six days, while
geology says it'was hundreds of thou
sands Of years i'm process Of building.
"In the beginning, God created the Heav-
en- and the carth' "In the beginning"
There You can roll i'm ten million years,
If You want to. There is no particular
date giveu-uO contest between science
and revelation. Though the world may
have been in process Of creation for mill
ions of years, suddenly and quickly, and
in one week, 10 may have been fitted up
for mans residence. just as a great
mansion may have been many years in
building, and yet i'm one week it may be
curtained and chaudeEered and cush-
toned 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 q day Of twenty-four hours,
the day spoken of i'm lhe first chapter; 1t
may have been Gods day, and a thousand
4 Ar4T
evening and the morning We're the first
day''-GOd's day. ''Aud tho evening and
the morning were the second day''-Cod's
day. "Aud the evening and the morning
were the sixth day"-God's day. You and
living i'm the seventh day, the Sabbath Of
tho world, the day of Gospel redemption,
the graudest day OF an the week, in which
each day may have been made up Of
thousands of years. Can you tell mo how
man can get his mind and soul into such
a blasphcmOus twist as to scott ut that
first chapter Of Genesis, its verses pillows
of light surgiug UP from sapphire seas Of
glory?
Tho Bible represents that light was
created ON Monday, and the sun was not
created until Thursday. just think Of it'll!
A Book declaring that light was created
three days before the sun shOue! Why,
don't you know that heat and electricity
emit heat ana light independent OF the
sum- Besides that, when tho earth was in
the process of condensation, it was sur
rounded by thick vapOrs and tho dis
charge of many volcanoes in the primary
period, and all this observation may have
hiudered the light of the sun from falling
ON the earth until that Thurs
day morning. Besides that, David
Brewster and uerschel, tho astono-
Nor. and all the modern men of
their class, agree liz the fact that the sun
is not light, that it is an Opaque mass,
that &c Is only the caudlosticE that holds
the light, phpsphOrcscent atmosphere
floating around it, changing and chang
ing, go il is not TO be at all wondered at
that not until that Thursday morning its
light fell ON the earth. Beside that, the
rock,, in capitalization, emit light from q
thousand surfaces the alknlies, for in
stance. The metallic bases emit light.
There was a time in the history of the
world when there were thousands of miles
Of liquid granite flaming with light. Be-
side that, it has been found that there are
burned-out volcanoes i'm other worlds
which, when they were i'm explosion and
activity, must have cast forth am iusuffer-
able light, throwing "a glare all over our
earth. Beside that, there are the aurora
borealis and the aurora anchalis. A book
on physical science says:
Captain B0nuycastle, coming mp the
Gulf of st. Lawrence ON the 18th Of Sep
TENDER, 1926, was aroused by the mate of
the vessel I'M great alarm from an unusual
appearance. It was starlight night
when suddenly the sky became overcos t.
in the direction of the high land OF Corn
wallis County an instantaneous and i'm
teusely- vivid hght,resembhug the aurora,
shot out on the hitherto gloomy and dark
sea on the lee bow, chat was SO brilliant
IL lighted every thing 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 agitotod. Cap
tain BOnuyCastlo describes the scene as
that Ne Il blazing sheet of awful and most
brilliant light-a long and vivid line of
light that showed the face OF the higl
frowuing land abreast Tho sky became
lowering aud more intensely obscure
Long, tortuous lines of light showed i'm
meusc numbers of large fish darting
about as III i'm CONSERVATION. The topsau
yard aud mizzcu boom were lighted Toy
the glare as If raslights had been burned
directly below them, and until just before
daybreak, ot four O'Clock, the most min
ute objects we're distinctly visible" My
hearers. there are ten thousand sources
OF light besides the light of the sun.
Another hard thing: The story of the
dolugo and Noah's ark. They say that
from the account there it must have
rained eight hundred feet Of water each
day I'm order that it might be fifteen cubits
above tho hills. They say that the ARK
could not hove-Lecu large enough TO con-
tain "tyyo of every sort" for there would
have been hundreds of thousands ant
hundreds of thousands Of creatures
They say that these creatures would have
come rrOulall lands and all zones. they say
there was only one small window IN the
ark. and that would not have given fresh
air To- keep the animals inside the ARK
from su1oc3tiou. They say that the ara
finally landed ON a mountain seven
teen thousand feet high. They say they
do not believe the story. Neither do
There Is no such story in the Bible. vii
tell Won what the Bible story is. 1 mus
say that 1 have changed my mind in re-
gard t1 some matters which once were q
me very mysterious. They are no more
mysterious. This is the key to the facts
This lis the story of am eyewitness, Moan
his story Incorporated otterWard 10y
Moses i'm the account Noah described
tho scene Just AS it appeared to him. I'll,
saw the food, and he futhomed its depth
As far as eye could reach every thing was
covered up, from horizon to horizon or
as 70 says, "uuder the whole Heaven
He did not refer to the Sierra Nevodas, OF
TO Mount Washington, for America had
not been discovered, or, lt thod been MS
covered, he could not have seen SO far or
He is giving the testimony of an eye-Wlt-
ness. God speaks after the manner OF
men when He says every thing went un-
der, and Noah speaks after the manner OF
mon when he says every thing did go un-
der. An eyewitness. There is no need
of thinking THAT the kangaroo leaped the
ocean or that the polar bear came down
from the ice.
Why did the deluge Gomez 1t came FOR
the purpose of Destroying the outrageous
Iuhu bltuut- pf the then tbiuIV-n0uulaICd