Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-28
OHRISTS RELIGION TAUGHT IN PEBBLE. TREE
AND LEAF.
DR.. Talmages Excellent Tabernacle Sermou-Sci-
ence the Handmaiden Of True Christianity
The Bible the Basis Of Scientific
Truth-Chris.s Temples,

his text lSa. 6O:l3. The glory Of Lcba-
non shall come unto thee, the tir-trec,
the pine tree, and the box together, TO
I beautify the place of my sanctuary"
/ Following is the sermon i'm full
/ On our way from Damascus we saw
the mountains of Lebanon white with
snow, and the places from which the
ccdarS were hewu. and then drawn by
| ON-teamS down to the Mediterranean
I Sea, and then tlOated i'm great raftS to
Joppa, and then again drawn by on
| teams up 10 Jerusalem TO build Solo
mon temple. Those mighty trees i'm
/ my text are called the glory of Leban-
on. luauimatc nature felt the effects
| of the first tranSgreSSion. When Eve
touched the forbidden fruit. it seems as
/ ii the sinful contact had Smitten not on
| ly that tree, but as if the air caught the
| pollution from the leaves. and as if the
/ sap had carried the virus down into the
very soil until the entire earth rcekcd
/ with the leprOSy. Under that sinful
touch nature withcrcd. The nanimate
creation, as il aware of the damage done
/ Iit, set mp the thorn and bricr
and ucttle TO wound, and fercely OPP
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physical earth felt the effects of the first
| trauSgreSSion, So 10 shall also feel the cf-
| feet of the SaviOr'S mission. A. from
that one tree i'm Paradise a blight went
forth through the entire earth. SO from
one tree on Calvary another force shall
speed ont 20 interpenetrate and check,
subdUe and override, the evil. I'm the
end 10 shall Dee found that the tree of
| Calvary has more potency than the tree
Iof Paradise. As the nations are evan
geiizcd. think "a CORES >ponding change
will Doe effected I'm the natural world. l
verify believe that the trees. and the
birds. and the rivers. and the skies will
have their millennium II mans sin af-
fccted the ground, and the vegetation,
/ and the atmosphere, shall ChriSt'S work
/ Doe less powerful or less extensive?
TO TAME THE ELEMENTS.
Doubtless God Will take the Irregular
/ ity and tiorceness from the elements SO
as 90 make them cOngcnial 20 the race,
which will then be symmetrical and
|evaugelizcd. The ground shall not be-
So lavish of weeds and So grudgeful of
grain Soils which now have peculiar
pr0cliyitieS toward certain forms ofcvil
production will Doe delivered from their
besetting sins. Steep mountains plough
/ ed down into more gradual ascent.
shall be girdlcd with hocks of sheep
/ and shocks of corn. The wet grass shall
become the decp-graS>ed meadow. Cat
/ tie shall eat unharmed by cavernS once
/ haunted of wild beasts Children viii
build play houses I'm what was once Il
cave of Serpcnts: and, as the Scripture
saith. The weaucd child shall put his
hand ON the cockatrice'S den"
/ Oh what harvestS shall bee reaped
when neither drouth, nor excessive rain.
/ nor mildew. nor infeSting insects shall
arrest the growth. and the utmost capa-
/ city of the fields for production shall bee
tested by am intelligent yeomaury.
Thrift and competency charactcrizlng
+ the worlds inhabitants. their dwelling
places shall Doe graceful and healthy and
adorned. Tree and arbor and grove
Iaround about VIII look as If Adam and
| Eve had got back to Paradise. Great
cities. now neglected and uuwaShed.
shall be orderly. adorned with architcc-
tural symmetry and connected with far
distant SeaportS by present modes of
I transportation carried TO their greatest
perfection, or by new inventions
yet to spring mp out OF the water or drop
. from the air at the beck of Morse OF
/ Robert Fulton belonging 90 future gem
/ |cratious. Isaiah I'm my text seems to
/ look forward 20 the future condition Of
/ the physical earth as condition of great
beauty and excellence, and then proph-
estes that as the strongest and most or
nameu1l timber in Lebanon was
/ brought down to Jerusalem and con-
structed into the ancient temple, so all
/ that d., beautiful aud excellent in the
physical earth shall yet contribute to
/ the Church now being built in the
world The glory of Lebanon shall
come unto thee; the tir-trce. the pine
tree, and the box together TO bcautiiy
+ the place of my sanctuary.
Much of this prophecy has already
+ been fulfilled, and l proceed to some
practical remarks upon the contribu-
lions which the natural world is max
ing % the kingdom OF God. and then
draw some differences. The first con-
tributiou that Nature gives 20 the
F Church is her testimony i'm behalf of
/ the truth of Christianity. This is an
I age Of profund research. Nature cam
not evade mems inquiries as once. In
chemists laboratory she is put 90 tor
ture and compelled to give mp her myS-
tcrics. Hidden laws have come out
of their hidiug-placc. The earth and
/ the heavens. since they have been ran
sacked by gcologist and botaniSt and
astronomer. appear 50 different from
what they once were that they may be
called 1.-THE new heavens and the new
earth"
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
This research and discovery will have
powerful effect upon tEe religious world.
They must advance arrest Christianity,
make men better or make them worse.
be the Church'S honor or the Church $
overthrow. Christians, aware OF this IN
the early ages of discovery, were nerv-
ous and fearful as 10 the progress OF
science They feared that some ndtu-
ral law. before unknown. would sudden
ly spring into harsh collision with Chris
tiauity. Gunpowdcr and the CLEAN Of
swords would not So much have been
feared by religioniStS as electric bat
teries. V0ltaic piles. and Astronomical
apparatus. Ii was feared that Moses
and the prophets would be run over by
Skeptical chemists and philosophers.
some of the followers OF Aristotle. after
the invention of the telescope. refused
to look through that instrument, lest
what they saw would overthrow the
teachings of that great philosopher. But
the Christian religion has no such appre-
hension now. Bring on your telescopes
and microscopes, and SpectrOScopeS-
and the more the better. The God of
nature is the God Of the Bible. and i'm
an the universe. and i'm all the eterni-
ties. lie has never once cOntradicted
Himself. Christian merchants cndow
universities, and i'm them Christian pro-
fessors instruct the children of Chris
liam communities. The warmeSt and
most enthusiastic friends of Christ are
the brayest and most enthusiastic
friends of science. The Church rejoices
as much over every discovery as the
world reioiceS Good men have found
that there is no war between science
and religion. That which at first has
seemed 10 De the weapon of the inhdel
has turned out to be the weapon of the
Christian.
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