Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-03
TALMAGE'S TALK.
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lue Wills OF bddlOec, and that the art
of printing claimed for recent ages was
practiced by the Chinese fourteen humid
red years ago, and that our midnight
lightning express railtram was foreseen
by the prophet Nahum, when in the
Bible he wrote, The chariots shall
rage in the streets. they shall ioStle one
against another in the broadwayS, they
shall seem like torches, they shall run
likn lightningS," and our electric tere-
graph was fOreSeen by job, when
/ in the Bible he wrote, "CanSt
thou send lightnings that they
may 20 and say unto thee, Here we
are?" What is that talking by the
lightningS. but the electric telegraph! l
do not know but that the electric forces
now being year by year more thorough
ly harueSSed may have been employed
in ages extinct, and that the lightningS
all up and down the sky have been
running around like lost hounds TO find
their former master.
Embalmment was Il more thorough
art 5000 years ago than to-day. Den
tiStry, that we suppose one of the i'm
pOrtant arts discovered in recent cen
.
the filed teeth OF the mummieS in the
museums at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial
teeth on gold plates found by Belzoni in
the tombS OF departed nations. We
have been thought that Harvey dis
covered the circulation of the blood so
late as the seventeenth century. Oh,
no. Solomon announces il in Ec-
cleSiaSteS, where first having shown
that he understood the spinal cord,
SilVer-cOlOred as il is, and that it relax
es in old age, 1.-The silver cord be
lOoSod, goes on to compare the heart
% pitcher at well, for the three can
ais of the heart to receive the blood like
4 pitcher, 'or the pitcher to be broken
at the fountain What is that but the
circulation of the blood, found out 1900
years before Harvey was born? After
many centuries Of exploration and cal
culation, astronomy finds out that the
world is round. Why, laSiah knew it
was round thousands OF years before
when in the Bible he said; The Lord
Sitteth upon the circle of the earth. -
Scientists toilcd on for centuries and
out refraction or that the rays of light
when touching the earth were not
straight but bent or curved. Why, Job
knew that when age before in the Bible
he wrote of the light; 1t is turned as
clay To the seal.
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE Sun.
In the old cathcdralS of England,
modern painters In the repair of win
dows are trying 20 make something aS
good as the window painting Of four
hundred years ago and always failing
/ bv the unanimous verdict OF all who eX
anime and compare. The color Of mod
ern painting faces i'm fifty years while
/ the color OF the old masters is as well
I preserved after five hundred years rs
after one year. saw last winter on
/ the walls OF eXhumed Pompeii paintings
with color as fresh as though made the
/ day before, though they were buried
eighteen hundred years ago. The max
/ ing Of Tyrian purple is an impOSSibillty
now. In our modern pOttcrieS we are
trying hard TO make caps and pitchers
and bowls as exquisite as
those cXhumed from Herculaneum,
and our artificerS are attempting TO
make jewelry for ear and neck and hn-
ger equal to that brought up from the
mauSoleumS OF two thousand years be-
fore Christ. We have in our time glass
I'm all shapes and all cOlorS, but Pliny,
more than eighteen hundred years ago.
described malleable glass which. II
thrown upon the ground and dented,
could be pounded straight again by the
hammer or could be twisted around the
wrists. and that cOnfOuudS all the glass
manufactures of our own time. l tried
in Damascus. Syria, to buy Damascus
blade. one OF those swords that could
DE bent double or tied into knot with
out breaking. / could not get one.
Why9 The nineteenth century cannot
make a Damascus blade. II we 20 on
charging our cities we may after
while get city as large as Babylon,
which was five times rs large rs Lon
don.
These aqueducts of Soloman that |
visit to-day, finding them in good coudi-
ton three thousand years after con-
Struction, make me think that the
world may have forgotten more than II
now knows. The great honor OF our
, age is not machinery, for the ancientS
had seme styles of il more wonderful;
nor ART, LOT luc duNltut> AIN al 1 i4i'i'
. exquisite than durable; nor architec-
ture, for Roman Coliseum and Grecian
Acropolis surpaSs all modern archltec-
.ture: nor cities, for some of the ancient
cities were larges than ours in the sweep
'of their pomp. But our attempts must
be in moral achievement and Gospel vie
tory. In that we have already surpassed
them. ond in that direction let the ages
push on. Let Us brag less of worldly
achievement. and thank God for moral
opportunity. More good men and good
women is what the world wants. To-
ward moral elevation and spiritual at
tainment, let the chief struggle be.
The source OF all that, l will show you
before shutdown of this day, on which
we have visited the pools of Solomon,
and the gardens OF ne king.
CHRIST'S BIRTHPLACE.
The town of Bethlehem to my sur
prise is in the shape of horseshoe,
the houses extending clear onto the
prongs OF the horseshoe. The whole
scene more rough and rude than can be
imagined. Verify, Christ did not choose
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