The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-28
KNOTS IN TIE BIBLE.
DR.. TALMAGE MAKES AN lNGENl
Gus DISSECTION OF THEM.

1T Is Not Necessary TO Belssye That tlss
World Is only 5000 Years ofd AJosiiaa's
Command to tho Sun and sToon-The !
wh"le Swallowing Jonah.
BROOKLYN, March 24.-At the Tab |
e!Hac!e this morning, after expountk |
n's soaic passages of Scripture in re
gard to tile mysteries, the Rev. T De |
VIA 'lehnage, ID. D. ,sgave out the l
hymn baginning: -
How firua Foundation, ye saints Of the I,ortlS
Is t.d for your faith In his excellent Word
Tine subject Of his se1snonY was.
Tough Things in the Bible" and |
his text, III Peter iii, 16: In which |
are some things 5harl to be UNDER |
stood" Dr. Tal1nagp said:1 - 3 q |
The Bible is the most common sense
book in all the world But there are
many things in it which require cx- |
planation. 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,
lard to be understood, but [ shall
solve some Of them, hoping to leave
upon all honest minded people tho i'm
preston that if four or FIVE of them
can be explained, perhaps they may all
be explained
Hard thing tho 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. ''ln the beginning, God created
the heaven and tho earth" "ln 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, andin
one week, it may have been fitted up
for mans residence. Just Us q great
mansion may have been many years
in building, and yet in one week it
may be curtaincd and chandeliered
and cushioned and upholstered for
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 tho first chapter; it may have been
Gods day, and a thousand years with
him are us one day. And the even
ing and the morning were the first
'day"-God's day. "And tho evening
md the morning were the second day
Gods day. And the evening and
The morning were the sixth day
Gods day. You and / living in the
seventh day, the Sabbath OF the world,
the day of Gospel redemption, the
grandest day of oil the week, in which
each day may have been made up of
thousands of years. Can you tell ne
how man can get his mind and soul
into such q blaSphemouS twist as To
scoH at that first chapter of Genesis,
its verses pillows of light surging up
from sapphire seas of glory2
AN EXPLANATION ON a SCIENTIFIC BASIS
: The Bible represents that light Yves
created on Monday, and the sun was
not created until Thursday. just think
of it, book declaring that light was
created three days before the sun shoncl
Why don't you know that heat and
electricity emit light independent of
the sum- Beside that, when the earth
was III process OF condensation, il was
surrounded by thick vapors and the
discharge of many volcanoes in the
primary period, and all this obscura-
tion may have hindered the light of
ahe sun from falling on tho earth until
chat Thursday morning. Beside that,
David Brewster and Herschel, the as
tronomcr, and all tho modern men of
their class, agree in the fact that the
sun is not light, that it il an opaque
Sc Ig Ilna oil
that holds the light, n phosphorcs-
cent atmosphere floating around it,
changing and changing, so it is not
TO be at all wondered ut that not un-
Ill that Thursday morning its light fell
on tho earth. Beside that, the rocks
i'll crystaIlization emit light There Is
light from thousand surfaces, the
alkalies, for instance. The metallic
bases emit light. There was time in the
history Of tho 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 III other worlds which.
when they were in explosion and nc
tivity must have cast forth ran insult
ferablo light, throwinga q glare all over
our earth. Beside that, there arc the
Aurora Borealis and the Aurora An
chalis. A book ON Physical Science
says;
Capt. Bonrycastle, coming UP the
Gull OF st. Lawrence ON the 18th oi
September 1926, was aroused by the
mate Of tho vessel in great alarm from
an unusual appearance. TWAS q star
light night, when suddenly tho sky
became overcast. In the direction o.
the high land of CORVALLIS county
an instantaneous and intensely viviC
light, resembling tho aurora, shot on
ON tho hitherto gloomy and dark Sc;
on the leo bow that was SO brilliant i
lighted everything distinctly, ever
TO tho masthead. Tho light spreat
over the whole sea between thC
two shores, and the waves, whicl
before had been tranquil, became
agitated. Capt Bonnycastlc dc
scnbes tho scene rs that OF blazing
sheet of awful and most brilliant light
"A long and vivid line of light thai
showed tho face of tho high frowuine
land abreast, The sky became lower
ing and moro intensely obscure
Long, tortuous lines of light showeC
immense numbers of large fish darting
about as If in CONSERVATION. The top
Slil yard and mizzen boom wer,
lighted by the glare asif gaslights has
been burned directly below them, ans
until Just before laybrcall, at o'clock
the most minute objects were dis
tinctly visible" My hearers, there ar
ten thousand sources Of light beside
the light of the sun.
A WRONG CONCEPTION ABOUT NOAH
ARK.
Another hard thing: Tho story of th
deluge and Noah's ark. They say tina
from tho account there it must hay
rained eight hundred feet of watc
each day in order that it might be fl
teen cubi.s above the hills. They sa
that the arl, could not have been larf
enough TO contain ''two of even
sort, for there would have been.hul
dreds OF thousands and hundreds {
thousands of creatures. They say thl
these creatures would .haye come frol
all lands and all zones. They 50
there was only one small window
the ark, and that would not haN
given fresh air TO keep the animals II
side the ark from suifocafion. The
say that the ark finally landed on
mountain seventeen thousand fe
high. They say they do not belieN
the story. Neither do l. There is 4
such story ia the Bible will te
you what the Bible story is. mu
say that have changed my mind
regard TO some matters which ON,
were to me very mysterious. The
are no more mysterious. Tins is Il