The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-05-03
N OF SPRING,
d.: Talmage Declares. Them
Both Articulate and
Harmonious.

Natures Evidence in Behalf
Of the Truth Of Chris
tianity.
B~RooKLYN, Spscial.-Dr. Talmage announc-
ed as his text Isaiah Il, 18, ..The Glory Of
Lebanon shall come unto the, the fr-tree.
the pine-tree, and the box together, to beau
tify the place Of my sanctuary" Following
IL the sermon. :.
On our way from Damascus we saw the
mountains OF Lebanon white with snow, and
the places from which the .cedars were hewn
n then drawn by O. teams down to the
Mediterranean sea and then foated in great
rats to Joppa, and then again drawn by OK
team up to Jerusalem to build Solomop's
temple. Those. mighty trees in my text are
called the glory Of Lebanon" Inanimate
nature felt the effects of the first transgres-
sion. When Eve touched the forbidden
tree, 1t seems as if the sinful contact had
smitten not only that tree, but as if the air
caught the pollution from the leaves, and as
IT the sap had carried the virus with the
leprosy. Under the sinful touch nature
withered. The inanimate creation, as if
aware of the damage done it, sent ND the
thorn and brier and nettle to wound and
fercely oppose the human race. Now as the
physical earth felt the effects of the first
transgression, 50 II shall also feel the effoct
OF the S%aviour's mission. As from that one
tree in. paradise q light went forth through
the entire earth, SO from one tree on Calvary
another force shall speed out to interpene-
trate md check, subdue and override the
evil. In the end it shall be found that the
tree OF Calvary has more potency than the
tree OF paradise. Az the nations are evan
gelized, think o : corresponding change will
be affected in the natural world. I verify be-
lieve that the trees and tho birds, and the riy-
ers, and the skies will have their millennium.
If mans sin affected the ground, and the veg
citation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's
work be less powerful or less extensive?
Doubtless God will take the irregularity and
ferceness from the elements so as to make
them congeptal to the race, which will then
shall not be SO lavish Of weeds and SO grudge.
full OF grain. Soils which now lave peculiar
proclivities toward certain forms of evil pro.
auctions will be delivered from their beset-
ting sins. Steep mountains. slopsd down in.
to more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with
focks ofsheep and shocks ofcorn. The wet
marsh shall become tho deep.grassed mead.
ow. Cattle shall eat unframed by caverna
once haunted Of wild beasts. Children will
build playhouses in what was once q cave OF
serpeats; M as the Scripture saith, "The
weaned child shall put his hand on the cock.
atrice's den."
oh what harvests shall be reaped when
neither drought, nor excessive rain, nor mil
dew, nor infcsting- insects shall arrest the
growth. . the utmost capacity OF the fields
for production shall be tested BY an intelli-
gent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift and
competency characterizing the worlds in
habitants, their dwelling places shall be
graceful and healthy and adorned. Tree
and arbor and grove around about will look
as il Adam and Eve had got back to para.
disc. Great cities, now neglected and un-
washed, shall be orderly, adorned with archi.
tectural symrnstry and connected with far
distant ssaports by present modes of trans
pOrtation carried to their greatest perfec-
ton, or by new Inventions yet to spring up
out OF the water or drop from the air at the
beck OF u Morse OF O Robert Fulton belong
ing to future generations. Isaiah in my
text seems to look forward to the future con.
dition of the physical earth as a%condition OF
great beauty inc excellence, and then proph.
estes that as the strongest and most orna.
mental timber In Lebanon was broughtdown
to Jerusalem md constructed into the an.
Ctouu Vculpi0s 81 Ill tudU 10 UeduCuul ana eX.
cellent In the physical earth shall yet con-
tribute to the church now being built in the
world. 1.-THE glory of Lebanon shall come
unto thee; the fir tree. the pine tree, and the
box together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary" Much of this prophecy has al
ready been fulfilled, and I proceed to some
p ! Il. natural w upyn Is .nn ma Ionsr'G 70 tins
kingdom OF God. and then draw some infer.
snces. This arst contribution that nature
Much of this prophecy has already been full
filed, and ] proceed to some practical re-
marks upon the contributions which the
natural. world Is making to the kingdom
Of God, and then draw some infsren-
ces. Tho first contribution that nance
gives to the church is her testimony in behal
Of the truth of Christianity. This is an age
OF profound research. Nature cannot evads
inquiries a. once. In chemists labor
atory she is put to torture and compelled to
give up her mysteries. Hidden laws have
come out Of their h~idding-placsa The earth
sacked BY geologistand botanist and astron-
omer, appears 40 different from What they
once were that they may be called 'the new
heavens and thu new earth"
sThis -ssea9ch and discovery will have pow.
erful effect upon the religious world. They
must either advance OF arrest Christianity,
church's honor or the church's overthrow.
Christians, aware Of this in the early ages OF
discovery, were nervous aud fearful as to the
progress Of science. They feared that some
natural law, before unknown, would suddenly
spring into harsh collision with Christianity.
Gunpowder and the CLEAN of swords would
not so much have been feared by religionists
o electric batteries, yoltaic piles and astron.
omicNl appnrRtuA. it was feared that Moses
and the prophets would be run over by scep-
and philosophers. Some of