The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-21
WHEN THE sun STOOD STILL.


Rev. DR.. George Explains the Miracle
Worked in Behalf of Joshua.
The Rev. DIR. w. P. George began a
series of sermons last.night at the Linden
Avenue NJ E. Church on the interpreta-
tion of difficult passages of Scripture. He
chose as his subject Joshua commanding
the sun and the moon to stand still in the
Heavens.
The Doctor said:-"There is a wide
pread ignorance of Bible truth have
read great many works of inf1dels and
freethinkers and I have found that when
they present a passage of Scripture for
discussion it is misquoted and garbled.
The Bible suffers from It's friends and en-
emiea. Ministers are often to blame.
They insist ON the literal Interpretation
and strive to conf1ne holy inspiration TO
slavish verbal phrase. Everything which
is necessary to our salvation Is lucid
and a way fearing man though
he be fool need not err therein Ninety
nine hundreaths Of the Scriptures are
easy of comprehension, and the other one
hnndreth is difficult of understanding.
Because these passages are not easily uri-
derstood, should we give up the pibIe2 =
.Mosb of the objections to the Bible are
rehashed and quite antiquated. They
were answered years ago. Do not be a
slave of the letter. THE letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life." The miracle
which arm to discuss tonight has been O
source of meggiment to skeptics. They
eagerly pronounce it incredible, and say
with glad glee it is contrary to natural
law and scientific truth. Hence they as
sert the Bible is untrue. They say the
thing could not be. We know it has been
demonstrated by astronomers that the
sun is a fixed body. DID the earth stand
still? No, that is contrary to natural
law. For any school boy knows that the
earth has Q diurnal and an annual revo-
111ftna Tf tho an1-th h oA ofn Of mo
would have been flung from its surface,
and this mundane sphere would have
been shattered by its own momentum.
"A il this does not prove the miracle i'm
possible. The Creator oah work miracles
the Almighty. who made laws and
causes, can subvert them to His will. God
is above law. He resumes and hides His
power. But when it could be accom-
plished by less means, He would not sus-
pend the workings of the solar system
for the sake OF allowing one little nation
60 make war on another. But are you
sure there wss a miracle? You say, /
have always heard there was. / have
read in the commentaries. listened to it
in sermons, seen 1t represented in the pic
lures and learned it from Sunday School
books"
Dr. George proceeded to explain the
miracle on the ground that q tempest
driving up from the sea threatened to blot
out the light of the sun and by bringing
the day to premature close give the for
midable contederacy Of five kings and
their armies, with whom Joshua battled,
an opportunity of escape and
thus prolong the war indefinitely
yoshua's prayers were answered by the
dispersal of the clouds and the prolonga-
tion of the daylight
There was no astronomical phenom e.
non. The Doctor gave many learned au-
thorities for his explanation of the mira
Gle. He eloquently referred TO the bat
ties of Waterloo, Sebastopool and the
wonderful delverance Of the Vandois in
the mountain passes Of Switzerland, and
he saw the hand OF God in them all.