West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-04
TOUGH THINGS.
SERMON By REV. DIR. TALMAoE
Some of tho Apparent Contradictions
I'm tho Bible Considered.

TEXT: I'm tChich are some uhi,,os hard
70 Dc understood III Peter ill, 10
The Bible is the most common sense book
IN All the world. But there are many things
IN It which require explanation. It all de-
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 nul-
application or subtraction. There are things.
as my text suggests, hard TO be understood,
but shall solve some of them, hoping toleavs
upon all honsst-minded people the impression
that IL four or five OF them can DO explained.
perhaps they may all be explained.
Hard thing the first: The Bible says the
world was created In six days while geology
says it was hundreds OF thousands OF years
IN process OF building. "In the beglnnino
God created the heaven and the earth. y
In the beginning" There you can roll
IN ten million years IL you want 20.
There is no particular date givsn-no
contest between science and revola.
tion- Though the world may have been in
process OF creation for millions Of years,
suddenly and quickly, and In one week IL
may have been fitted up for mans residence.
Just as great mansion may have been
many yearsdn building, and yet IN one week
1t may be curtained and chandelisred and
cushioned and upholstered for a bride and
groom
You are not compelled to believe that the
world was made in our six days. Itmay not
have been day of twenty-four hours, the
CUADIDT.
have been Gods day, and thousand years
with Him are as one day. and the evening
and the morning were the first day'-God's
day. And the evening and the morning
were the second dayn-Sod's day "And the
evening and the morning were the sixth dayn
-Gods day. You and 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 NAV have been
made up Of thousands of years Can YOU tall
me how man can get his mind and soul into
such blasphemous twist as to scon at that
nrst chapter OF Genesis, its verses pillows OF
ngnt surging up from sapphire seas OF gloryf
The Bible represents that light was created
on Monday, and tho sun was not crontad
until Thursday. Just think OF I'll n book
declaring that light was created three days
before the sun shone Why don't Won
know that heat and electricity emit light
independent OF the sum- Besides that when
the earth was in process OF rcondensation.
y was surrounded by thick vapors and the
oiscnarge OF many volcanoes in the primary
period, and all this observation may have
numbered the light of the sun from falling on
the earth until that Thursday morning
Besides that, David Brewster and Herschei,
the astronomer, and all the modern men of
their class, agree in the fact that the sun ia
not light that it is an OPAQUE mass that it is
only the candostick that holds the light a
phoSphorescent atmosphere floating around t.
changing and changing, so il 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 crVstalization smit
light There is light from a thousand sur
faces, the alkalieS, fer instance. The metal
ic bases emit light There was a time In the
history OF the world when there were
thousands OF miles OF liquid granite
flaming with light Beside that, 1t has
Deem found that there are burned out vol
canoes in other worlds which. when tbsv
were In explosion and activity, must have
cast forth an insufferable light. throwing a
glare Oil over our earth. Besides that, there
are the aurora Borealis and the Aurora An
cnalss book on physical science says:
Captain Bonnycastls. coming up the Gulf
OF 81 LaWrencs on the 18th Of September
$50, was aroused by the mate OF the vessel
It was starlight night when suddenly the
sky became overcast. In the direction OF
the high land of CORVALLIS County an in
Simultaneous and intensely vivid light, re-
stSSs zen H;,h.r the ., aurora' shot out on
on the lee bow that was so brill
liant II lighted everything distinctly, eVen
TO the masthead. The light spread over the
whole sea bstween the two shores, and the
waves, which before had been TRANQUIL be-
came agitated- Captain Bonnycastle de-
scribeS the scene as that OF q blazing sheet
OF awful and most brilliant ight-a long and
viva line OF light that showed the face OF
tue nigh browning land abreast The sky be-
came lowering and more intensely obscure
Long, tortuous lines Of light showed
immense numbers OF large fish darling about
as y IN CONSERVATION. The topsail yard
and mizzen boom were lighted by the e,Iars
as II gaslights had besn burned directiv be-
low them, and until just before daybreak
A. O'Clock, the most minute offsets were
DISTINCTLY visible" Ny hearers, there are
ten thousand sources Of light besides the
light Of the sun
Another hard thing: The story OF the
deluge and Noah's ark. They say that from
the account there must have rained eight
hundred feet OF water zach day in order tbat
u might be fifteen cubits above the hills
thsy say that the ark could not have bsen
large enough 70 contain 1.-TWO Of evsrv
sort FOR there would have been hun
dreds OF thousands and hundreds OF thou.
sands OF creatures They saw that tbes.
creatures would have come from All lands
and all zones. They say there was ONLY ons
small window in the ark, and that would not
have given fresh air to keep the animals in
side the ark from suffocation They say
that The ark finally landed on a mountain
seventeen THOUSAND feet high. They say they
90 not believe the story. Neither do l. There
e no such story in the Bible / will tell
you what the Bible story ~ I must say that
have changed my mind in regard 10 SONS
matters which once were 20 me very mys
FERROUS They are no more mysterious This
g the KEY TO the facts This is the story OF an
eye witness, Noah, his story incorporated
aftsrward by Moses in the account Noab
described the scene just a. IL appeared to
him. he saw the flood and he fathomod
rs depth. As far as eye could reach
WtAo NoNeEoA upt from no
fizon 70 horizon, or, as Il says, d" under the
whole heaven" He did not refer 70 the
Sierra Nevadas or to Mount Washington. 70,
America had not bean discovered. or. In n
. had been discovered. he could not have sasu
80 Tar OF. he IS giving the testimony OF an
sye witness. God speaks after the n1auner of
men when he says everything went under
and Noah speaks after the manner Of men
when he says everything did 90 under An
eye witness There Is no need u thinkiua
that the kangaroo loapsd the ocean or that
the psler bear came down from the ice
ny did the deluxs Gomez ftcams for the
purpose Of destroying the outrageous fnbabIt
ants Of the then thinly populated earth
nearly al The population, probably very near
the ark before 10 was launched What would
have been The uss of submsrging North
and south America, or Europe. or Africa
when they were not inhabitedf Aud
~ 70 the skspticai suggestion tbsf
On order 20 have ths water as deep a. the Ribie
states. u must have rained 500 feet sverv dsv
reply, the Bible distinctly declares that f6s
most Qf the Hood rose instead ~ falling IL
fore the account where % Gays "ths win
aoWa OF heassn we're opened ~ -.
~ ne FOUNTAINS Of the great desr
were broken up All gsolo1isfF 49,
S4 seying that there are cavsrns In the sarfb
D.ie1 WITH water, and they rushed forth. and
tne LAKES and rivers fors0ok their bs5
= ne logntains Of the great deep we're broken
~ eui knen bne windows Of heaven vvers
oP5nel It's strange thing that We should ~
essso - believe I'm this food Of the BibIs
Hnsh Reoioxists tell us that again and aaair
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