Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-06
TABERNACLE PULPIT
"The Mightiest Weapon Is
the Gospel"
Ihe Subject of DR.. Talmage's
Regular Sunday Morning
Sermon-An Eloquent
Discourse.

VA IA ShAShN
lest Weapon Is the Gospel" His tex
was ! Samuel XXI, 8: There is none
like that; give it me-" The preache,
said:
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when ii is chasing
agood man. The country is trying &c
catch David, and to STAY him. David
goes into the house of a priest, and asks
him for a sword or spear with which &c
defend himself. Tee priest, not being
accustomed to use deadly weapons, tells
David that he cannot supply him; but
suddenly the priest thinks Of an Ole
sword that had been carefully wrapped
up and laid away--the very sword that
Goliath formerly used--and he takes
down that sword, and while ne is un'
wrapping the sharp, glittering, memora
Bile blade, il flashes upon David's mind
that this was the very sword that was
used against himself when he was in the
fight with Goliath, and David can hardly
keep his hand off it until the priest has
unwound it. David stretches out his
hand toward that old sword, and says;
There is none like that; give it me"
In other words, Il want in my wi hand
the sword that has been used against me,
and against the cause Of God" So il
was given him. Well, my friends, that
is not the 1rst or the last sword once
used by giant and Philistine iniquity
which is to come into the possession of
Jesus Christ, and Of his glorious church.
! want, as well as God may help me. to
show you that many a weapon which
has been used against the armies of God
is yet to be captured and used OH cur
side; and only initiate David when /
stretch out my hand toward the blade of
the Philistine and cry: There is none
like that; give ii mel
remark, first, that this is true in re.
gard to all scientific exploration. You
know that the first discoveries in astron.
envy and geology ana chronology were
used to battle Christianity. Worldly
philosophy came out Of its laboratory
and out of its observatory, and said
Now, we will prove, by the very
structure Of the earth, and by the move
ment Of the heavenly bodies. that the
Bible is a lie and that Christianity, as
we have it among men, is a positive i'm
position" Good men trembled. The
telescope, the Leyden jGrs, the electric
batteries, all in the hands Of the Philis-
tines. But one day, Christianity, look
ing about for some weapon with With
70 defend itself, happened to see the very
old sword that these atheistic Philistines
had been using against the truth and
cried out: There is nom like that; give
il mer' And Copernicus, and Calico,
and Kepler, and Isaac Newton came
forth and told the world that. in their
ra~nsacking of the earth and heaven, they
had found overwhelming presence OF the
God whom we worship; n this old
Bible began to shake itself from the
Koran. and Shaster, and Zendavesta with
which it had been covered up, and lay on
the desk of the scholar, ard in the labor
story Of the chemist, and In the lsp OF
the Christian, unhsrmed and unanswered,
while the towers Of the midnight
heavens struck a silvery chime in 1t
praise. :.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it." Christian philosophy
pIunges it's crowbar into rocks, and finds
that the world was gradually made, and
If gradually made, there must have been
some point where the process started;
then. who started il? and so that objec-
tion was overcome, and in the first three
words of the Bible We find that Moses
stated a magnificent truth when he said
In the beginning
Worldly philosophy said Your
Bible is O most inaccurate book; oil thai
story in the Old Testament, again and
again told, about the army Of the locusts
it is preposterous. There is nothing
in the coming of the locusts like al
army. An army walks, locusts fly. Ar
army goes in order and procession, 10
Gusts without order" Wait" said
Christian philosophy; and in 1868, in the
southwestern part of this country
Christian men went out 10 m Tx
march OF the locust. There are mer
right before me who must have noticed
in that very part of the country the com
ing up Of the locust like an army; anc
it was found that al the newspapers I'm
Willingly spoke Of them as an army
Why? They seem to have a commander
They march like a host. They halt like
q host. No arrow ever went will
straighter fight than the locust come
NOT even turning aside for the wind
IL the wind rises. the locust drop anG
then rise again after IL has gone down
taking the same line of march, not vary
ing a foot. The old Bible right every
time when it speaks of locusts coming
Ike an army; worldly philosophy wrong
Worldly philosophy said: "All tina
story about the light turned as clay. t.
the seal is simply absurd Old time
philosophy said: the light Gomez
straight" Christian philosophy said
'.Wait a little while" and II goes on ant
makes discoveries and finds that the at
mosphere curves and bends the rays o
light around the earth, literally las tn
CLAW to the seal" The Bible right again
worldly philosophy wrong again. All
saws worldly philosophy, AL tha
illusion in Job about the foundations O
the earth is simply absurdity. 'Wher,
vast thou says God, when get thv
foundations of the earth!' The eartl
has no foundations" Christian philoso
phy comes and finds that the word a
translated Foundation may be bette
translated sockets" SO now see how
il will read if il is translated right
where vast thou when l set he sock
cts of the earths" Where is the socket
It is the hollow Of Gods hsnd-s socke
large enough for any world to turn In.
Worldly philosophy said; What a