Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-06-30
A MIGHTY WEAPON.
BRooKLYN'S EMINENT DIVINE DE-
LIVERS A POWERFUL SERMON.

There r. None Like That. Give u Me"
A large Crowd Present.
BROOKLYN, June 23.-Tha Rev. r. DE
Witt TGlInage spoke to-day on the sub.
ject: THE Mightiest Weapon Is the
Gospel" His text was Samuel. xxi. .:
There is none like that: give il me.
The preacher said:
David led from his purSucrs The
world runs very fast when il is chas
ing a good mau. The country is try.
ing to catch David, and to slay him.
David goes into the house of priest.
and asks him for sword Or ar with
which to defend himself. The priest.
not being accustomed 10 use deadly
weapons, tells David that lac [.nno,
supply him; but suddenly the priest
thinks Of an old sword that had been
carefully wrapped TAP and laid away
the very sword that Goliath formerly
u,ed--and lac takes down that sword.
and while he is unwrapping the
sharp, glittering, memorable blade.
it flashes upon Davia's mind That this
was tie very sword that was used
against himself when he was i'm the
tight with Goliath, and David can
hardl Y keep his hand of il until the
priest has uDwound il. David stretch.
es ont lIs hand toward that old sword,
and says: There is none like that:
give il me-" In other words, Il want
ia 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 first
or the last sword once used by giant
and Phlllstine iulquity which is TO
come into the possession of Jesus
Christ, end Of his glorious church. !
want, rs well us God may help me,
10 show you that many a weapon
which has been used against the
armies Of God is yet to 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 me.'
SCIENCE Is SOMETIMES FALSELY USED.
remark, first, that this is true in
regard TO all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries in
astronomy and geology and chronol.
ogy were used to battle Christianity.
Worldly philosophy came out of IFS
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, as we have il among
men, is a positive imposition. Good
men trembled. The telescope, the
Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
in the hands Of the Philistines. But
one day, Christianity, looking about
for some weapon with which TO dc.
fend itself, happened TO see the very
old sword that these atheistic Philis.
tines had been using against the truth
and cried OUT There il none like
that; give il me" And Copernicus,
and Calico, and Kepler, and Isaac
Newton came forth and told the world
that, in their ransacking Of the earth
and heaven, they had found over.
whelmlng presence of the God whom
we worship; and this old Bible began
10 shake itself from the Koran. and
Shaster and Zendavesta 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, unharmcd and unan-
swered, while the towers Of the mid.
night heavens struck a silvery chime
in its praise
THE WORDS OF WORLDLY PHILOSOPHY.
Worldly philosophy said Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make il" Christian philoso-
ply plungas its crowbar into rocks,
and finds that the world was gradual
ly made, and if gradually made, there
must have been some point ut which
the process started; then. who started
ia and so that objection was overcome,
and in the first three words Of the
Bible we lind that Moses stated a mag
niticent truth when he said: In the
beginning
Worldly philosophy said: Your
Bible is a most Inaccurate book; all
that 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 an army. An army walks, To-
Gusts lly. An army goes in order and
procession, locusts without order
"WaitW said Christian philosophy;
and IN 1868, in the southwestern part
of this country, Christian men went
out TO examine the march Of the 10.
Gust There are men right before
me who must have noticed in
that very part 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. Whyi They
seem 10 have a commander. They
march like host. They halt like
host No arrow ever went with
straighter light than the locusts come
not even turning aside for the wind
II the wind rises, the locusts drop ana
then rise again after il has gone down,
taking the same line OF march, not
varying a foot The old Bible right
every time when II speaks Of locusts
coming like nm arTnyi worldly phil
osophy wrong. ~
Worldly philosophy said. "All that
story about the light turned as clay TO
tho seal is simply an absurdity." Old
time worldly philosophy said: The
light comes straight" Christian phi
losophy saidi wait a little while"
and il goes ON and makes discoveries
and finds that the atmosphere curves
and -bends the raysaf hsht around the