Democratic messenger., 1889-06-29
TALMAGE IN TEXAS.
eRookLYN'S EMINENT DIVINE At
THE STATE EXPOSITION.

~fNe Mighsie.s Weapon % che Gospel"
MS Subject and ME Test the Words,
''There is Nome Like That, olive % sae..
A Large Crowd Present.
Fort WoRTii. Tex, June 23.-The
Rev. 7. DE Viii Talmage. ID. D., 10
here nj the invitation Of the State Elk.
position. lie spike twice today.
Thousands Of people ilockcsl 10 hear
him IN he preached on the subject:
'The Mightiest Weapon Is the Cos.
pel." Ills text was ! Samuel xxi, Q:
There is none like that: give il me-"
The preacher said:
David He'd from his pursucrs. The
world runs very fast when il is chas-
ing a good n,an. The country is try.
ing To catch David. and to slay him.
David goes into the house of u priest,
and asks him for sword ar spear with
which to defend himself. The priest,
not being accustomed Ia use deadly
weapons, tells David tl,ut hc cannot
supply him; but suddenly the priest
thinks of an old sword that had been
carefully wrapped up and laid away
the very sword that Goliath formerly
uscd-and he takes down that sword,
and while he is unwrapping the
sharp, glittcring. memorable blade,
il flashes upon David's mind chat this
was the very sword that was used
against himself when he was in the
6ght with Goliath, and David can
hardly keep his hand of il until the
priest l,as unwound il. David stretch.
es out his hand toward that old sword,
Shd says: There in none like that;
give il me-" In other words. Il want
in my own 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 lirst
or tho last sword once used by giant
and Pbilistine iniquity which is to
come into tho possession Of Jesus
Christ. and Of his glorious church. !
want. as well as God may help me,
70 show you that many a weapon
which has been used against the
armies Of God is yet 10 be cap
tured and used on our side; and
only initiate David when | stretch out
my hand toward the blade of the Phil.
istine. and cry: There is none like
that; give il mel"
SCIENCE IL SOMETIMES FALSELY Used.
] remark, first, that this is true in
regard To all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries in
astronomy an, geology and chronol.
ogy were uscd 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 movement Of the heavenly
bodies that the Bible is lie and that
Christianity. us we have il among
men. is II positive imposition. Good
men trrmbl,sl. The telescope, the
leydcn Jars, the electric batteries, all
in the hands of the Philistincs. But
one day, Christianity, looking about
for some weapon with which To de-
fend itself, happened to see the very
old sword that these atl,cistic Philis.
tines had been using against the truth
and cried out: There is none like
that: give il me-" And Copernicus,
and Galileo. and Kcplcr. cnd Is;lac
Newton came forth and told the world
that. in their rai's;,ckin2 of the earth
and heaven, they had found over.
whelniing presence of the God whom
we worship: and this old Piblc began
To shake itself from the Koran. and
Shastcr. aud Xcntlavcs,a with which
il had been covered up. and lay on the
desk Of the scholar. and in the labor
atory of the chemist. and in the lap Of
the Christian. unliarim,sl and unan
swcrcd, while the towers of the mid
night heavens Sirlws IA silvcry chime
IN its praise
THE WORDS oF WORLDLY PHILOSOPHY.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it," Christian philoso
ply plungcs its crowhar into rocks,
and finds that the world was gradual
ly made. and il gradually made. there
must have been some point at which
the proccss started; then. who started
III and so that objection was overcome,
and in the first tlIre words Of the
Bible we lind that Moses stated mag.
niiiccnt truth when he said: In the
beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: Your
Bible is q most inaccurate book; all
that story in the Old Testament. again
and again told. about the army Of the
locusts--it is prclNsterous. There Is
nothing in the coming Of the locusts
like an army. An army walks, To-
Gusts fly. An army g,cs in order and
procession. locusts without order"
"Waitl" said Christian philosophy;
and in 1868. in the south western part
of this country. Christian men went
out Ia examine the march of the To-
Gust There are men right before
me who must have noticed in
that very wrt Of the country
the coming up Of the locust
like an army; aud il was found that
all the newspapers unwittingly spoke
Of them as an army Whyf They
seem To have commander. They
march like h'st They halt like q
host. No arr,w ever went with
siraighier flight than the locusts como
mot even turning aside for the wind.
lf the wind ris,.S. thc lruSts drop and
then rise again after il has gone down,
taking the same line of march. not
vnryin. u foot The old Bible right
every time when il speaks of locusts
coming like AN army; worldly phil.
OSophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said. 'All that
story nlaui tire light turned as clay 10
the seal IL simply an absurdily." Old
time worldly philosophy said: The
light comvs straight" Christian phi
losophy said Wait little while"
aud il g9s on and makes discoveries
aud finds that the atmosphere curves
and bends the raysof light around the
earth. literally ''as the clay Ia the seal. "
The Bible right again; worldly phi
losophy wrng again. "Ah, says
worldly philosophy. ''all that illusion
in job about the foundations Of the
earth is simply an absurdity. Where
vast thou. says God. when ! set the
foundations 81 the earthf The earth
has no foundations Christian phi.
- FOR THE BLOOD,
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