The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-13
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:

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a good man. The country is trying to
catch David, and to slay him. David
goes into the house of a priest, and
asks him for a sword or spear with
which to defend himself. The priest,
not being accustomed to use deadly
weapons, tells David that he 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
used-and he takes down that sword,
and while he is unwrapping the sharp,
glittering, memorable blade, it flashes
upon David's mind that this was the
sword that
WAS USED AIN HIMSELF
when he was in the fight with Goliath,
and David can hardly keep lbs hand of
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, 81 want in my own hand the
sword that has been used against me,
and against the cause of God" So it
was given him. Well. my friends, that
is not the first or the last sword nee
used by giant and Philistine iniquity
which is to come into the possession of
Jesus Christ, and of His glorious Church.
l want, as well as God may help me, to
show you that many n weapon which
has been used against the armies of God
is yet to be captured and used on on:
side; and 1 only initiate David when l
stretch out my hand toward the blade OF
the Philistine, and cry, ''There is none
like that; give it me-"
1 remark, first, that this is true in re-
gard to
SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION.
You know that the first discoveries IN
astronomy and geology and chronology
were used to battle Christianity, World
Nv philosophy came out of its laboratory
and out of its observatory, and said:
ssNow we will prove, by the very struc-
ture of the earth and by the movement
of the heavenly bodies, that the Bible is
a lie, and that Christianity, as We have
it among men, is a positive imposition. "
Good men trembled. The telescope,
the Leyden-iars, the electric-batteries-
all in the hands of the Philistines! But
one day, Christianity, looking about for
some weapon with which to defend it
self, happened to see the very old sword
that these atheistic Philistines had been
using against the truth, and cried out,
ssThere is none like that; give it to INT"
And Copernicus, and Calico, and KEEP
Ter, and Isaac Newton zane forth and
told the world that, in their r~ansacking
of the earth and heaven, they had found
overwhelming presence of the God
whom we worship; and this old Bible
began to shake itself from the Koran
and Shaster and Zendavesta with which
4 it had been covered up, and lay on the
i1desk ofthe scholar, and in the laboratory
of the chemist, and in the lap of the
Christian, unharmed and unanswered,
while the lowers of the midnight
heavens struck a silvery chime in its
praise.
PHILOSOPHY
said: .sMatter is eternal, The world
always was. God did not make it.
Christian philosophy plunses Its
crowbar into rocks, n finds that
the world was gradually made; and II
gradually made, there must nave been
some point at which the process started;
then who started it? and SO that obIec-
ton was overcome, and in the first three
words of the Bible we find that Moses
stated q magnificent truth when hesaid'
s1n the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: "YouI
Bible is a most inaccurate book; all that
story in the Old Testament, again and
again told, about the army ofthe locnsts
it is preposterous! There is nothing
in the coming of the locusts like al
army. An army walks, locusts fly. Al
army goes in order and procession,
. locusts without order" ''Wait!' said
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY;
and in 1868, in the southwestern part
of this country, Christian men went out
to examine the march of the locust
There are men right before me VIII
must have noticed in that very part o.
the country the coming up of the locus,
like an army, and it was found that al
the newspapers unwittingly spoke Of
them as an army. Why? They seen
; to have a commander. Theymarch like
a host. They halt like a host. Nc
, arrow ever went with straighter hlgh'
than the loeusts come-not even turning
, aside for the wind. If the wind rises
the locusts drop, and then raise agail
after it has gone down, taking h SAINT
line of march, not varying a foot, Ih'
; old Bible right every time; world,
philosophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said: san tina
! story about the light turned as clay t
. the seal is simply an absurdity." Old
time worldly philosophy said: "Ih
J light comes straight" Christian PM
osophy said. ''Wait a little while," ant
! then it goes on and makes discoveries
: and finds that the atmosphere curve
and bends the rays of light around tn
earth, literally "as the clay to tn
! seal"
THE BIBLE RIGHT AGAIN;
philosophy wrong again. "Ah," say
worldly philosophy, 'all thatillusion Il
. job about the foundations of the cart
. is simply an a~bsurdity. Where was
= thou says God, when L set the founda
! tons of the earth?' The earth has N
: foundations" Christian philosoph.
comes and finds that the word as trans
lated Foundation" may be better trans
lated Sockets" So, now, see how i
will read if it is translated right
sWhere vast thou when L set the sock
cts of the earth?" Where is the socket
1t is the hollow of Gods hand-a socke
large enough for any world to turn IN.
Worldly philosophy said; What a
absurd story about Joshua making tn
Z sun and moon stand still! If the worl
! had stopped an instant, the whole UNI
= verse would have been out of gear.
Z ssStop," said Christian philosophy, ''no
= quite so quick" The world has tw
motions-one on its own axis, and tn
other around the sun. 1t was not nee
essary in making it stand still that bot
motions shonld be stopped-only tn
one turning the world on its own axi'
There is no reason why the hating c
the earth should have Jared and disai
ranged the whole universe. Joshu
right, and God right; infdelity wron
y every time. l knew it would he wront
/ thank God that
CHRISTIANS NEED NOT BE SCARED
at any scientific exploration. The fa'
is that religion and science have strue
hands in eternal friendship, and Ii
deeper down geology can dig, y u
higher up astronomy can soar, all u