Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-04
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ar OF REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S
STERLING DISCOURSES.
cubiect: "The Mightiest Weapon is
the Gospel"

n.vid fed from his pursuers. The
Id runs very fast when it is chasing
WIZ rood man. The country is trying to
IN David. and to slay him. David goes
10 snso The house of priest, and asks him
~ a sword or spear with which to defend
%msef. The priest, not being accustomed
= use deadly weapons, tells David that
h cannot supply him; but suddenly the
y thinks of an old sword that had
A. - yarv sword that Goliath formerly used
M he takes down that sword, and while he
y s-nrnwrapping the sharp, glittering, memoir
sge blade, it flashes upon David's mind that
AZ. ~ was the very sword that was used
srsnst himself when he was in the fight
.sstb Goliath. and David can hardly keep
~ hand of it until the priest has unwound
|. y nsvid stretches out his hand toward
.hot ali sword. and says: There is none like
~. give it me-" In other words, II want
Z nv own hand the sword that has been used
srsinst me. and against the cause of God.n
= Il was given him. Well, my friends that
Knot the first or the last sword once used by
Emf and Phlistine iniquity which is to come
III Inc possession of Jesus Christ and of
Ts Glorious church. l want, as well as God
nav belp me, to show you that many a
TSspon which has been used against the
'rnies Of God is yet to be captured and used
- our side: and only initiate David when
@ratrh out nv hand toward the blade of tho
Elistine and cry: There is none like that;
sIremark. first. that this is true in regard
IA an scientific exploration. You know that
M first discoveries in astronomy and
saoogy and chronology were used to battle
Christianity. Worldly philosophy came out
Il its laboratory and out of its observatory,
md said: "Now, we will prove, by the very
/ structure Of the earth, and by the movement
| # the heavenly bodies, that the Bible is
i IL and that Christianity, as we have it
among men, is positive imposition" Good
men trembled The telescope, the Leyden
| ars the electric batteries all in the hands of
| he Phlistines. But one day, Christianity,
. boxing about for some weapon with which
. bdetend itself, happened to see the very old
Eori that these atheistic Philistines had
. been using against the truth and cried out:
| 'Tbere is none like that; give it mer' And
COvernicus, and Calico, and Kepler, and
igac Newton came forth and told the world
hat in their ransacking of the earth
and heaven, they had found overwhelming
ueence Of the God whom we worship; and
IBIS old Bible began to shake itself from the
Koran, and Shaster, and Zendavesta with
which it had been covered up, and lay ON the
dskof the scholar, and in the laboratory OF
he chemist and in the lap Of the Christian,
uhrmed and unanswered, while the towers
d the midnight heavens struck a silvery
chime in its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is eter-
a The world always was. God did not
make it, Christian philosophy plunges its
ToVoar into rocks, and finds that the world
vas gradually made, and if gradually made,
there must have been some point at which
DE process started; then, who started it? and
THAT objection was overcome, and in the
fra three words of the Bible we find that
Noses stated magnificent truth when he
MD. In the beginning
Worldly philosophy, said: Your Bible is
lmoSt inaccurate book; all that story in the
Old Testament again and again told, about
Be army of the locusts-it is preposterous.
lheTe is nothing in the coming of the locusts
lie an army An army walks, locusts fly.
In army goes in order and procession, locusts
Tthout order.n Waltz said Christian phi
tsphy; and in 1865, in the southwestern part
d this country, Christian men went
mtO examine the march of the locust. There
remen right before me who must have no
heed IN that very part of the country the
anmg up Of the locust like AN army; and it
IE found that all the newspapers unwit-
EglY spoke Of them as an army. Whyg
hey seem to have a commander. They
march like a host. They halt like a
Mt No arrow ever went with
zfaghter fight than the locusts come
not even turning aside for the wind. II
u wind rises, the locusts drop and then rise
gan after it has gone down, taking the
2ne line Of march, not varying foot The
Bible right every time when it speaks Of
n13s coming like an army; worldly phil
sFhy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said: Gan that story
ecd the light turned as clay to the seal
t2npy an absurdity.n Old time worldly
l@ophy said: THE light comes straight
V1lstm philosophy said: "Wait a little
'aie and 1t goes ON and makes discoveries
~ lnds that the atmosphere curves and
slk the rays of light around the
"a literally, las the clay to the seal"
= boe right again; worldly philosophy
n@g again. "Ah,n says worldly philoso-
Il, all that illusion in Job about the
sIsiations of the earth is simply an alb
IlII, Where vast thou says God,
fAa set the foundations of the earth The
~ has no foundations Christian phi
Spy comes and finds that the word as
INSISTED foundation" may be better
s1&za'ed sockets" So now see how it
.-fead L it is translated right: "Where
~ lhon when | set the sockets of the
SnF Where is the socket 1t is the hol-
WI Gods hand-a socket large enough
any world to turn in.
aWaly philosophy SAID: NV hat an aDsurc
ABOUT Joshua making the sun and moon
-. ~ s1l II the world had stopped an in
he whole universe would have been
= gear" stop, said Christian philoso-
hot quite so quick" The world has
lonons-one on its own axis, and the
- around the sun. 1t was not necessary in
s.3g them stand still that both motions
nj oe stopped-only the one turning the
~ IN y us own axis. There was no reason
~ " 5ls haltlng Of the earth should have
~ ana dlsarranged the whole universe.
-. - night and God right; infidelity wrong
cne. | knew it would be wrong.
vua that the time has come when
sTi.-a.as need not be scared at any scientific
sr.' 1aon. The fact is that religion and
y N ave struck hand in eternal friendship,
H., ueeper down geology can dig and
- up astronomy can soar, all
Tor u.s. The armies of the
rv. sAas Christ have storned the
sofles of the worlds science, and
e highest towers have flung out
N. Of the cross and Christianity
ny from the observatories of Albany
~ lhgton, stretches out its hand to-
sIS s opposing scientific weapon. cry
\, ,ner ,e IS none like that; give it mel"
fading this afternoon of Herschel,
80 looking at meteor through
kTape and when it came over the
~. N i: telescope it was so powerful he had