The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-07
GLORY OF LEBANON.
DR.. TALMACE breaches ON SCIENCE
AND RELIGION"

H,w Chris. Taught on Earth and why El
Teaching. ere 80 Fascinating to Asnkin<
niscoy.rr and Research and Thei
Effect Religion.
DR.. Talmage on Sunday announced
rs his text Isaial TX, 13: The glory
Of lebanon shall come unto thee
H.. hr.rae, the pine-tcee. and the
.,a> spy.;h"r. to heautify the place OF
,py sanctuary. Following Is his SER
moil III full:
On on. way from Damascus we
saw the mou tains of Lebanon white
with SNOW, and the places from winch
tie ce,l,.rs We're hewn, and then
drawn bv oX-te:lnS down to the Ned
itteryapean sea, ana then foated III
great rats to Joppa, and then AGAIN
,irawn by ox-tealns up to Jerusalem
10 build Solomon's temple. those
mighty trees in my text are called the
GLORY OF Lebanon. lnalllmate na-
ture felt the effects OF the first trans
~ress;on When Eve touched the
forbidden tcee, it seems as II the SIN
ful contact had smitten not only that
Tree. bat as if the air had caught the
pollution from the leaves, and as Ii
ta, sap had carried the virus down
INTO the very soil until the en-
tire earth reeked with leprosy. I'm
der that sinful touch nature wltnered.
The inanimate creation, rs if aware OF
the damage done it, sent up the thorn
and brier and nettle to wound, and
tercely oppose, the human race. Now
as the physical earth felt the effects
of the first tranSgressions, 50 1t shall
also feel the effect of the Savlors mig
SION. As from that one tres IL Para
disc a blight went forth through the
entire earth, SO from one tree to Cal
vary another force shall speed out to
interpens strate and check, subdue and
override, the evil. nthe end 1t shall
be found that the tree OF Calvary has
more potency than the tree OF Para
;hse. As the nations are evangehzed,
| think = corresponding change will
BE- effected in the natural world. l
verify believe that the trees, and the
birds, and the rivers, and the SKIES
viii have their millennium. II man $
sin affected the ground, and the vese,
tation, and the atmosphere, shall
Christ's work be loss powerful OF less
extensive!
Doubtless God will take the lrregu-
la1itv and ferceness froIL the ele-
ments so as to make them congenlaI
to TIE r.l.e. which will then be sym
metrical and devangelzel. The ground
shall not be SO lavish OF weeds aud
80 grudgaful Of grain. SOILS winch
now have peculiar prochvlties toward
certs.in forms Of evil production Will
be delivered from then besettlng SINS.
Steep mountains, ploughed dow INTO
more gradual ascent, shall be glrued
with tiocks of sheep and shocks OF
corn. The wet marsh shall become
the decp-grassed meadow. Cattle
shall cat unharmed by cavelns once
haunted of wild beasts. Children
will build play-houses IN what WAS
once a cave of serpents; and, rs the
Scrinture saith, 1.-The weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatllce 5
den.
Oh. what hsrvests shall be reaped
when neither drouth, nor excessive
rain. nor mildew, nor infesting insects
shall arrest the growth, and the ut
most capacity of the fields for pro
du.tion shall be tested by al ntelll-
gent and athletic yeomany: Thrift
and competency character'zlng the
worlds inhabitants, their dwelling
places shall be graceful and healthy
and adorned. Tree and a-bor and
,,roye around about will 8 sok as If
Adam ana Eve had got back % Para.
disc Great cities, now neglected and
rnwashed, shall be orderly, adorned
with architectural symmetry and con-
ne>ted with far distant ssaposts by
present modes of transportation car
ried to their greatest perfection, or by
new inventions yet to spring up out
nf the water or drop from the air at
the beck of Morse or Robert Full
ton belonging to future generations.
Isaiah in my text seems to look for
wa,a to the future condition of the
physical earth as condition OF great
baautv and excellence, and then pro-
phesies that as the strongest and
most ornamental timber in Lebanon
was brought down to Jerusalem and
constructed into the ancient temple,
80 Ill that is beautiful and excellent
in the physical earth shall yet con
tribute TO the church now being built
in the world. The glory of Lebanon
shall come unit thee; the fr-tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to
-tSS,sSutify the place of my sanctuary.
Much OF this prophecy has already
u. eudv been fulfilled, and I proceed
to some practical renarks upon the
contributions which nenatursl world
is making to the kingdom of God, and
draw some inferences. The first con-
t,1lution that Nature gives to the
Church is her testimony III behalf OF
the truth OK Christianity. This is an
AGE of profound research. Nature
cannot evade men S inquiries as once.
In chemists laboratory she is put to
torture and compelled to give up her
mysteries. Hidden laws have come
out of their hiding place. The earth
ali the heavens, since they'll have been
ransacked by geologist and botamst
aud astronomer, appear SO different
from what they once were that they
may be called the new heavens and
the new earth" :,
This research and discovery vii
have powerful effects upon the rehgl
ou; world. They must either ad
vance or arrest Christianity, make
men better or make them worse, be
the church's honor OF the church
overthrow. Christians, aware Of TIM:
:, tho carly ages of discovery, were