The Red Cloud chief., 1889-03-29
SKEPTICS ANSWERED.
DR.. Talmage on Things That Are
Hard to Understand.
The Creation Of the World Consistent With
the Theory Of Science-Ofher Marvel.
Ous Things spoken Of sn the Bible
Fully Explained.

In n late sermon Mt Brooklyn Rev. I.
De Witt Talmage discoursei on Tough
Things in the Bb,e." and his text was
from > Peter iii. IG: I'm which are some
things hard to be- understood" DIR. Tai
mage said:
Tue Bible is the most common sense
book i'm all the world. But there are many
things in it which require explanation. 1t
all depends on the mood in which you
come to this grand old book. You NAV
take hold Of the handle of the sword or it's
sharp edge. You may employ on its mvs-
ferries the rule Of multiplication or sub-
traction. There are things. as my text
suggests. harI to be understood, but 1
shall solve someo Of them, hoping to leave
upon all honest-minded people the im
precision that il four or five Of them can bs
explained, perhaps they may all be ex-
planned.
Hard thing the first: The Bible SAYS
the world was created in six days, wifi .
geology says il was hundreds of thousands
Of years i'm process Of building. ''ln the
beginning, God created the heaven and
the earth" I'm the beginning" There
you can roll in 10, 900 90 years il you want
Ia. There is no particular date given-nO
contest between science and revelation.
~ u may hdsc otcu III IIos
cess of creation for millions of years, sud
denly and quickly, and in one week, it
may have been fitted up for mans resi-.
dence. Just rs a great mansion my nave
been many years in building. and vet in
one week il may he curtainei md chan
deliered and cushioned and upholstered
tor a bride and groom.
You are not compelled to believe that
H.. OIL ...a -. 49, IL
may not have been a day Of twenty -four
hours, the day spoken OF in the first chap
ter; it may have been Gods day. and a
thousand years with Him arc as one day.
"And the evening and the morning were
the first day"IG"d's day. ''And the
evening and Inc morning were the second
day"-GOd's day. "And the evening and
the morning were the sixth ~dsy"-God's
day. You and l 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 may nave
been made up Of thousands OF wears. Can
you tell me how "A man can get his mind
and soul into such n hla >phcmous twist as
to scoff at that first chapter of Genesis, its
verses pillows of light surging up from
sapphire seas OF glory!
The BIB represents that light was
created on Monday, and the sun was not
created until Thursday. just think OF il.
a book declaring that light was created
three days before the sun shorc. Why.
don't YOU know that heat and electricity
emit light independent Of The sun: Besides
that, when the earth was i'm process of
condensation IL WAS surrounded by thick
vaVors and tine discharge of many VOL
canoes in the primary period, and all this
observation may have hlncered the light
of the sun from falling ON the earth until
that Tau sday morning. Besides that.
David brewster and H-rsciol, til" astrou-
omcr, and all the modern men Of their class,
agree in the fact that the sun IL not light;
I'll, Ia, IN Opaque ma>s that Il is only the
candiestick tia, holds thu light. "a pho--
phnr-scent atmosphere floating arouid II.
changing ANA changing, SO II IL not to be
at all wondered at that not until that
Thursday moinin ills light fell on the
earth. Beside that the rocks in crystalli-
cation emit light Therc Is light from a
Thousand surfaces. the alkalies. for In
stance. The metallic bases emit light.
There was "a lime in the history OF the
world when there were thousands OF
miles Of qiii granite flaming with light.
Beside that IL has been found that there
are uGfn"l Out Noafano'S III etutt "ot
which. when they were in explosion and
activity, must hav. east forth an Insuffer-
able light, throwing a glare all over our
earth. Beside that there are the aurora
bur.alis and tn. aurora nnchalis.
Another har! thing: The story Of the
deiuge ard Noah's ark. They say that
from the account there il must have rained
~" feet uf water each day in order that it
might he fifteen cubits above the hills.
They saw that the ark could not have been
large enough TO contain 1.-TWO Of every
sort" for there won Il nave been hundreds
of thousands and hundred of thousands 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
an mails inside the ark from suffocntion.
They sny that the ark was finally
landed on a mountain ZOO feet high.
They say they do not believe the
story. Neither do 1. There is no such
story in the Bible. I will tell Won what the
Bible story is. I must say thar | have
cham ge,I INV mind in regard T. some mat
tiers which once were u me very mystic
riou> They are no more nv sterious.
Tiis is the kov 10 the facts. This is the
story Il m eyewitness. Moan. his story
IN -arporat-i aft-rwari by Moses i'm the
account. Noah described the scene just a.
u appeared to him III. saw the food and
h. fattiomsd It's depth. y, Tar a> cyecouid
reach every thing WAS covered ur, from
horizon t. horizon, or. as II says. 'uuder
thu who'll. Eeaven." He did not refer 10
tho Sierra Nevaias, or TO Mount Washing
ton. for America had not been discovered,
al. II II had been discovered, he could not
see As far "H. He is giving the testimony
OF an eyewitness. God speaks after the
manner al men when he SAWS every thing
went under. and Noah speaks after the
manner Of men when he SAYS every thing
did go under. An eyewitness. There is
no need of thinking that the kangaroo
leaped the ocean or tina, the polar bear
came down from the ice. Why did the
de Z Gomez Ii came for ;he purpose Il
destroying the outrageous inhabitants Of
the then thin'y populated earth. nearly all
the population. probably very near the
ark before it Was Ia incaed. VIVA, would
have been the use OF suhmarging North
and south America. or Europe. or Africa,
when they We're not inhabited:
Aud a<t 10 the skept.cai suggestion that
in order TO have III. water as deep As the
Bib e states. Il must have rained Sal feet
every day. I reply. the Bible distinctly
declares that the most Of the food rose
insteal of falling. Before the account
where il saws 'The windows of heaven
were opened" it saws. AL the fountains
>of the great deep were broken up" All
biologists agree in saying that there are
ca~erns in the earth flied with water, aud
they rushed forth. and all the lakes and