The national leader., 1889-04-13
DIR. TALHAGE's SERMON:
rough Thin Ss in the Bible


many things IN it which reonira ex0
planation. 1t all depends on the mood
- WHICH you come 10 this grand old
pooh, Lou may take hold of the
handle OF the sword or It's sharp edge.
l ou may employ on it's mysteries the
RUE OF multiplication or substraction.
1nere are things, as my text suggests,
nara TO De understood, but shall solve
some OF them, hoping to leave upon all
nonest' minded people the impression
tnat II four or hve of them can be ex-
planed, perhaps they may all be ex-
planned.
Hard thing the first. The Bible says
tne world was created in six days,
while
GEOLOGY
says it was hundreds Of thousands of
years IN process Of building, ''In the
beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. "1n the beginning" There
you can roll in ten million years if you
want TO. There is no particular date
glven-no contest between science and
revelation. Though the world may
nave been in process of creation for
millions Of years, suddenly and
quickly, and in one week, it may have
Deen htted up for mans residence.
just as great mansion may have
been many years in building, and vet
In one week 1t may be curtained and
chandeliered and cushioned and up
holstered for a bride and groom.
You are not compelled to believe
that the world was made in our six
days. 1t may not have been cay of
twenty.four hours, the day spoken of
In the first chapter; it may have been
Gods day, and thousand years with
Him are as one day. ''And the even
ing and the morning were the first
day"-God's day. ''And the evening
and the morning were the second day"
God day. "And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day"-
Gods day. You and 1 living in
the seventh day, the Sabbath of the
world. the day of Gospel redemp-
tion, the grandest day of all the week
II in which each day may have been made
up of thousands of years.
THE CREATION OF LIGHT.
The Bible represents that light was
created on Monday, and the sun was
not created until Thursday. just think
of It'll book declaring that light was
created three days before the sun
shone! Why, don't you know that heat
and electricity emit light independent
Of the sum- Beside that, when the
earth was in process of condensation,
It was surrounded by thick vapors and
the discharge of many volcanoes in the
primary period, and all this observation
may have hindered the light Of the sun
from falling on the earth until that
Thursday morning. Beside that,
David Brewster and Herschel the as
.tronomer. and all the modern men of
their class, agree in the fact that the
snn is not light, that 1t is an Opaque
mass. that it is only the candle
stick that holds the light, a phos-
phorescent atmosphere floating around
#. changing and changing, so it is not
to he at all wondered at, that not until
that Thursday morning its light fell on
the earth. Beside that, the rocks in
crystalllzation emit light. There is
LIGHT from thousand surfaces, tue
aikaIies. for instance. The metallic
hases emit light. There was time in
the history VI 1HO WoAlU Wh0i ohoAo
were thousands of miles of liquid gran
ite flaming with light. Beside that. 1t
has heen found that there are burned
nut volcanoes in other worlds which.
whom tbey were in explosion and actlv-
;tv must have cast forth an insuffer-
obla LIGHT. throwing glare all over our
aarth Beside that, there are the Au-
U~ro Rorealis and the Aurora Anchalis.
Another hard thing:
r11E STORY OF THE DELUGE
ond Noah's ARK. They say that from
CO. occount there it must have rained
oiaht hundred feet of water each day
oraor that it might be fifteen cubits
above the hills. They say that the ark
could not have been large enough to
Contain 1.-TWO Of every Sort" for there
would have been hundreds OF thousands
and hundreds of thousands OF creatures.
Tbav say that these creatures would
o ~, come from all lands and all zones.
NV. G%to cav there was only one small
Ino5 N the ark, and that would not
VIM ivan fresh air TO keep the ami
nav ;nside the ark from suffocatlon.
i11,, nn@o Gov that the ark finally landed on
1no5 so1n t seventeen thousand feet high.
moun Ineon cav they do not believe the story.
Lucy Lysor o. do /. There is no such story
NeiCnoR Sn Rihle. will tell you what the
ID Ino toru is. must say that l have
blDlo bod "a nv mind In regard to some
chanso1 which once were to me very
@ys mysterious; 9s,s !. = They are no more mystic
rious. This IS no rur FACTS
.ho story of an eyewitness,
Thls This i bis story Incorporated after stterward
by MOSES @ - scene Just as 1t appeared to
criDeo Hs sa' saw the food and he fathom-
him; !. ne depth. S AS far as eye could
ed It's sousrything uepi was covered up, from