The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-11
TALMAGB'S SERMON,
subject; though Things In fhe
EBible.''

TEXT; I'm whteh are some things hard
TO DO understood VII Peter ill.,, 10
The Bible is the most common sense book
In all the world. But there are many things
in 1t which require explanation, II all do,
ponds 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 mul
duplication or subtraction, There ara things
rs my text suggests, hard to be understood
but shall solve some OF thsm, hoping 10 leave
upon all honsst.minded psopls the Impression
that IL four or five of thsm can 90 explained
perhaps they may all be explained
Hard thing the first; The Bible says the
world was created in six days, while geology
says IL was hundreds of thousands OF years
in process of building "In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth,'
I'm the beginning" There You can rol
in ten million years. II you want 10
There is no particular date given-nt
contest betwesn science and revsR
ton. Though the world may have oa'a w
process of creation for millions Of years
suddenly and quickly, and in oae wask, I.
may have been fitted up for mans re- ddsa,s
just as a great mansion may have bsaa
many years in building, and yet in oas week
II may be curtained and chan ielisroi all
cushioned and upholstered for bride lai
groom.
world was made in our six days. Itmay not
have been day of twenty-four hours, the
day spoken of In the first CHAPTER; il may
have bsen Gods day, and Thousand year,
with Him are as ona day. And the evening
and the morning were Tho first day"-Gods
day. And the evening ana the morning
were the second day"-Goi's day, "And the
evening and the morning were the sixth iaY'
Gods day, You and living in the seventh
day, the Sabbath OF the world the iay OF
Gospel redemption, the grandest DAY OF sn
the week. in which each day may have n-sn
made up of thousands OF years Can you tel
me how a man can get his mind and soul into
such blasphemous twist as to SCOT at that
first chapter of Genesis its verses pillows of
light surging up from sapphire seas Of glory
The Bible represents that lighs was created
on Monday, and the sun was not created
until Thursday. Just think of itl n book
declaring that light was created three day
before the sun shone Why don't you
know that heat and electricity emit light
independent of the SUM- Besides that, when
the earth was in process Of condensation,
it was surrounded by thick vaporS and tbs
discharge OF many volcanoes N the primary
| psrlod, and all this observation NAV have
hindered the light of the sun from falling on
| tho earth until that Thursday NOR ring
| Besides that David Brewster and Her che
the astronomer, and all the modern msn of
their class, agree in che fact that the SIN is
not light, that it is an Opaque mass that it is
| only the candlestick that holds the light, a
hosphorescent atmosphere floating around it,
changing and changing, so it is not to be at
all wondered at that not until that Thurs.
day morning its light fell on the earth. Be.
side that, the rocks in capitalization emit
light. There is light from thousand sur
faces, the alkalies for instance The metal.
history of the world when there were
thousands of miles of liquid granite
flaming with light Beside that, it ha.
been found that there are burned out vol.
canoes in other worlds which, when they
were in explosion and activity, must have
cast forth an insufferable light, throwing
glare all over our earth Besides that, there
are the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora An.
chalis. book on physical science says:
Captain Bonnycastle, coming up the Cult
Of st Lawrence on the 18th Of September,
1926 was aroused by the mate of tee vessel
In great alarm from an unusual appearance.
1t was starlight night when suddenly the
the high land Of CORVALLIS County an in.
Simultaneous and intensely vivid light re-
sembling the aurora, shot out on
the hitherto gloomy and dark sea
on the lee bow that was so brill
liant 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, be-
came agitated. Captain Bonnycasts do.
scribes the scene ast that of q blazing sheet
of awful and most brilliant light-a long and
vivid line of light that showed the face of
the high frowning land abreast The sky b.
came lowering and more intensely obscure
Long, tortuous lines of light showed
immense numbers of large fish darling about
as IL in CONSERVATION. The topsai! yard
and mizzen boom were lighted by the glare,
as if gaslights had been burned directly be-
low them, and until just before daybreak,
ct O'Clock, the most minute objects were
distinctly visible" My hearers, th.rs are
ten thousand sources of light besides the
light of the sun.
Another hard thing! The story of tbs
deluge and Noah's ark. They say that from
the account there must have rained sight
hundred feet OF water each day in order that
It might be fifteen cubits above the hills,
They say that the ark could not have been
large enough to contain 1.-TWO of every
Sort" for there would have been hun.
dreds of thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of creatures. They say that these
creatures would have come from all 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 ill
side the ark from suffocation. They say
that the ark finally landed on a mountain
seventeen Unousan1 feet hlgn. They say they
do not believe the story. Neither do l. There
you what the Bible story is. | must say that
have changed my mind in regard to somt
matters which once were to me very mys
FERROUS. They are no more mysterious This
is the key to the facts. This is the story of al
eye witness, Noah, his story incorporates
afterward by Moses in the account Noai
described the scene just as it appeared tt
him. He saw the flood and he fathomec
its depth. As far as eye could reaci
everything was covered up, from no
rizon to horizon, or, as it says, under tn
whole heaven He did not refer to thu
America had not been discovered, or. il
had been discovered, he could not have see
: so far OFF. He is giving the testimony of a,
eye witness God speaks after the manner o
men when ne says everything went under
and Noah speaks after the manner of mel
,, when be says everything did go under. A
eye witness. There is no need of thinkin
that the kangaroo leaped the ocean or tia
!, the pslar bear came down from the ice.
Why did the deluge comet 1t came for tn
purpose of destroying the outrageous inhabi'
ants of the then thinly populated sartt
) the ark before it was launched What woul
| have been the use of submerging Mort
and South America, or Europe or Africi
. when they were no, inhabitedl An
as to the skeptical suggestion ths
: in order to have the water as deep as the Bib
|
Ireply, the Bible distinctly declares that ii
most of the food rose instead of falling. B
. fore the account where it says 1.-THE wiz
dows OF heaven were opened" it say
! "all the fountains Of the great dec
were broken up" All biologists agr,
A In saying that there are caverns in the cart
: filed with water, and they rushed forth, ar
Q all the lakes and rivers forsook their be,
a The fountains of the great deep were broke
up, and then the windows of heaven wei
opened. 1t is strange thing that we should
asked to believe in this flood of the Bib
when biologists tell us that again and egai
: and again the dry earth has been browne
outl Just open your geology and you wi
read of twenty floods Is it not strange thi
7 infidel scientists wanting us to believe in II
/ twenty floods of geological discovery, SHOULD
As soon as we believe in one food of II
l Bible, pronounce US non compos mentisi
{. Well, then, another thing, in regard
r the size Of the ark Instead of being mu
: scow, as some or these sKeptIcs would hav
g US understand, 1t was magnificent shil
/ nearly as large as the Great Eastern, thrs
g times the size of an ordinary mau-of-wa
}. At the time in the world when shil
n building was unknown, God had tn
# vessel constructed, which turned o,
d to be almost in the same proportion
It q our stanchest modern vessels. Aft
d thousands of years of experimenting in nav