Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-31
KNOTS In THE BIBLE.
OR. TALMAGE MAKES AN lNGENI-
Gus DISSECTION OF THEM.

II Not Necessary to Believe the
World Is Only 5000 Years oid-Joshua's
Command to the Sun 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 10 the mysteries, the Rev. I De
Witt Talmage, D. d., gave out the
hymn beginning:
How firm a foundation. yc saints OF the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word.
The subject of his sermon was,
Tough Things in the Bible" and
his text, III 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 il which require ex-
p~ianation. II all depends on the mood
ia 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.
11ere are things, as my text suggests,
tard TO be understood, but | shall
s1lve some of them, hoping to leave
alon all honest minded people the i'm
uession that il four or five of them
IN be explained, perhaps they mayall
To- explained.
Hard thing the first: The Bible says
lie world was created in six days,
mile geology says it was hundreds of
thousands OF years in process of build
i.g. 'In the beginning, God created
. 9 heaven and the earth" ''In the
30 ginning" There you can roll in
IN million years il you want to.
There is no particular date given-no
contest between science and revela-
ton. Though the world may have
Leen in process of creation formillions
81 years, suddenly and quickly, andin
cue week, it may have been fitted up
for mans residence. Just MS a great
mansion may have been many years
IA building, and yet in one week il
lay be curtained and chandeliered
md cushioned and upholstered for a
ride and groom.
You are not compelled to believe
Tat the world was made in our six
dLys. 1t may not have been n day of
ty~enty-four hours, the day spoke. of
IN the first chapter; it may have been
DDS day, and q thousand years with
i'm are as one day. "And the even
l.lg and the morning were the first
t.ly"-God's day. And the evening
nd the morning were the second day.
Gods day. 'And the evening and
lie morning were the sixth day.
God's 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
low a man a get his mind and soul
INTO such a blasphemous twist as 10
scott at that first chapter of Genesis,
its verses pillows of light surging up
from sapphire seas Of gloryl
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 a book declaring that light was
created three days beforethe sun shonel
Why don't you know that heat and
electricity emit light independent of
the sum- Beside that, when the earth
vas in process of condensation, il was
surrounded by thick vapors and the
discharge 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
tTonomer, 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 1t is only the candlestick
That holds the light, q phosphores-
cent atmosphere floating around il,
changing and changing, so il is not
% be at all wondered at that not un.
ul that Thursday morning its light fell
on the earth. Beside that, the rocks
IN capitalization emit light. There il
light from q thousand surfaces, the
~a.lIalies, for instance. The metallic
bAsesemit light. There wasa time in the
history of the world when there were
thousands of miles of liquid granite
flaming with light. Beside that, IL hae
been found that there are burned out
volcanoes in other worlds which,
when they were in explosion and ac-
tvity, must have cast forth an insult
ferable light, throwinga glarc all over
our earth. Beside that, there arc the
Aurora Borealis and the Aurora An
chais. 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. ltwas a star
light night, when suddenly the sky
became overcast. In the direction Of
the high land of CORVALLIS county
an instantaneous and intensely vivid
hight, resembling tho aurora, shot out
on the hitherto gloomy and dark sea
on the lee bow that was so brilliant it
lighted everything distinctly, even
10 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-
series the scene as that of n blazing
sheet Of awful and most brilliant light
IA long and vivid line Of light that
showed the face Of the high frowning
aand ab,aas< H. L.. 49,. ro.