The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-28
THE GOSPEL WEAPON.
d.. TalmaQO on Worldly Philos.
ophY and Bible TruthA
The Weapons Of Worldly Philosophy
Turaed to Chrlst,an!ty's Service Every
1hing Useful to Ch~risti~ns-The Lords
Army Of Business Men.

''The NJ ghtiest Weapon Il the Gospel"
His text was from I Samuel xxi 8:
''rhere 10 none like that; give it mo-"
Toe preacher said:
David fed from his pursuera. The world
runs very fast when it is chasing . good
man. The country is trying to catch
David and TO Stay him. David goes into
the house Of . priest and asks him for .
sword or spear with which to defend him.
self. The priest. not being accustomed to
use deadly weapons, tells David that he
ran not supply him: but suddenly the
priest thinks Of an old sword that had
boon carefully wrapped up and laid away
tho very sword that Go iath formerly
used-and he takes down the sword. and
while he 10 wrapping the sharp. glitter
ing. memorable blade, it flashes upon
David's mind that this Was the very
sword that was used against himself when
he was In the fight with Goliath. and
David can hardly keep his hand n It un-
til the priest has unwound it. David
stretches out his hand toward that
old sword and saws: There 10
one Ike that: give it me-" In
other words: 81 want in my own
hand the sword that has besn used against
M. and against the cause Of God" So it
was given him. Well. my friends that Is
not the first or last sword once used by
giant and Philistine iniquity which is to
come into the possession OF Jesus Christ
and Of his glorious Chu rch. want. rs
well as God may help me-, to show you
that many q weapon which has been used
against the armies Of God is yet TO be
captured and used on our side: and / only
invite David when l stretch out my hand
toward the blade Of the Philistine. and
cry: There Is nome like that: give it
mol"
remark, first that this is true in re.
gard to all scientific exploration. You
know that the first discoveries in astronO-
and geology and chronology were
used 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. hat the Bib'e is . lie
and that Christianity, as We have it
among men, is q positive imposition "
Good men trembled The telescope, the Ley
den jars. the electric ! al: cries, all in the
hands Of Philistines. But one day, Christ
ianity, looking about for SOM weapon with
which to deferd itself. happened to see
the very old swords bat these atheistic
Phiiisiines had been using against the
truth and cried ont: 9TH ere Is none like
that; give it me-" And Cop.rnicus. and
Calico, and Kepler and Isaac Newton
came forth ard told the world that, in
their ransacking Of earth and Heaven.
they had found overwhelming presence OF
the God whom we Worship; and his old
Bible began to shake itse I from the Koran
and Shaster and Zendavesta with which it
had been covered up, and lay on the desk
Of the scholar, and in the laboratory Of
the chemist, and in the lap Of the Chris
tan, unharmed and unanswered. while
the towers Of the midnight heavens struck
silvery chime in its praise.
Worldly phi losophy sail: '"Matter is
eternal The world always WAS Bod did
not make it" Christian philosophy
pIunges its crowbar in'o rocks. and finds
that tho world was gradually made, and il
gradually made there must have been
some point at which the process started;
then, who started it? And 50 that objec-
ton was overcome and in the first three
words Of the Bible We find th,t Moses
Stated = magnificent 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. abou. the armv Of the locusts-it is
preposterous There is nothing in the
coming Of the loclsts like an army. An
army walks locust> ~. An army goes in
order and procession, locusts without or.
"wai.!" said Christian philosophy;
and in 1868 in the southwestern part Of
this country Christian mon Q out to
examine the march Of the locust There
are men right before me who must have
in that very part Of the country
the coming up of the locust like an armv
and it was found that all tho newspapers
w~ittinely spoke Of them as IN army.
Why? They seem to have . commander.
They march like q host They halt like q
host No arrow ever went with straighter
digbt than the locusts come-nOt even
turning aside for the wind II b wind
rises the locusts drop and then rise again
after it has gone down, taking the same
line of march. not varying q foot. The
Bible is right everv time when it speaks
Of locusts c ,ming lik. an army; worldly
wrong.
Worldly philosophy said: "All that
story about the light turned as CLAW to b
seal' is simply an absurdity." Old time
worldly philosophy said: Tho light
comes atraieht" Christian philosophy |
said: "Waita little while. " and it goes
on and makes discoveries and finds that
the atmosphere curves and bonds the ray
light around tho earth, literally
las tho CLAW to the seal" The Bible right
again; worldly philosophy wrong again.
'.Ab," says worldly philosophy. ''all that
in Jobabout tho foundation Of the
earth is simply an absur lity. What vast
thou says God, when I set the founda-
ions Of the earth" Tho earth has no
Christian philosophy comes
md finds that the word Is translated
may Be better translated
So now SEQ how it will read
L it IL translated right: "Where vast
thou when I sat the sockets Of the earth?"
10 the socket: 1t is the hollow OF
8cd's hand--a socket large enough for any
world to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: "What an sb-
,urd story aboutJoshua making the SON and
noon stand still. II the world bad stopped
n Instant the whole universe would have
been sut Of gear" stop" said Christian
mot quite "a quick" The
world has W. motions-one o. its AZ Q
md the other around the run. Ie VA not
lecsssary In making them stand still that