Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-11-05
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
rAImACE AND THE TRUTHS OF
THE BIBLE.
A Forclble Sermon from the TeA'' -
samuel 1910, "And HE Hama
rn,o the Svyord.-aIsri ns
should Not be Ashamed Of the
Bible.

Bible.
pRooKIyy. n. Y. Oct ii, 1871
Among the vast audiences which crowd
the Brooklyn Tabernacle at every
service are large numbers OF young
men. MANY of whom are theological
students. DIR. Talmage's sermon TINS
morning had special interest," 1or
them. At this time when SO many are
Giving up the Bible, or holding the
truth less firmly than before. the
eloquent preacher pui himself on
recood so clearly and forcibly that no
one who heard him could have any
doubt as to his attitude. His text
was: ii. Samuel %; 10, "And his
hand clave unto the sword.
A great general of King David was
Eleazar. the hero of the text. The
Philistines opened battle against MN,
and his troops retreated. The towards
fled. Eleazar and three of his com
rades went into the battle and swept
the field, for four men with God on
their side are stronger than whole
battalion with God against them.
Fall back" shouted the commander
of the Philistine army. The cry ran
along the host: Fall back"
Eleazar having swept tho field
throws himself on the ground to
rest. but the muscles and sinews of his
hand had been so long bent around the
bilt of the sword that the hilt was i'm
bedded in the flesh, and the gold wire
of the hilt had broken through the
skin of the palm of the hand, and he
could not drop this sword which he
had SO CALAMITY welded. His hand
clave unto the sword" That is what
l call magnificent fighting for the
Lord God of Israel. And we want
more of it. l propose to show
you this morning how Eleazar took
hold of tie sword and how the sword
took hold of Eleazar. l look at Flea
Ears hand, and come to the conclu-
sion that he tool, the sword with very
tight grip. The towards who fed had
no trouble in dropping their swords.
AS they fly over the rocks hear their
swords changing in every dirccti II
is easy enough for them to drop their
swords. But Eleazar's hand clave unto
the sword.
Omy friends. in this Christian con-
fict we want tighter grip OF the Cos
pei weapons, tighter grasp OF the
two-edged sword of truth. 1t makes
me sad to see these Christian people
who hold only part of the truth, and
let the rest of the truth go, so that the
Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp,
wrench the whole sword away from
them. The only safe thing for us
to do Is to put our thumb on the book
of Genesis and sweep our hand
around the book until the new tesla
ment comes into the palm, and keep on
SWEEP ing our hand around the book
until the tips of the fingers clutch at
the words: lin the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. F."
like an infidel a great deal bet
ter than do one of these namby- PANTY
christians who hold a part of the truth
and let the rest GO. by miracle God
preserved this Bible just as it is,
and it is Damascus blade. The
scverest test to which q sword can be
put in a sword factory is to wind the
blade around gun barrel like RIB
bon, and then when the sword is let
| loose it flies back TO it's own shape.
So the sword of God truth has been
fully tested. and it is bent this
way and that way, but it
always comes back to its own
shape. Think of it. A book
written eighteen centuries ago, and
some of it thousands of years ago. and
yet in our time the average sale of this
Book is more than twenty Thousand
copies every week, and more than q
million copies year. l SAY now that q
book which is divinely inspired and di
vinely kept and divineiy scattered is q
weapon worth holding tight griE
of. Bishop Colenso will come
along and try to wrench out
of your hand the 1--WE books of Moses
and Strauss will come along
and try to wrench out OF your hane
the miracles, and Renan will come
along and try to wrench out OF your
hand the entire life OF the Lord Jesus
Christ, and your associates in the store
or the shop, or the factory, or thu
banking house. will try to wrench on
OF your rand the entire bible; but IL
the strength OF the Lord God of Israel
and with Eleazars grip, hold on it
You give up the bible, you give up an.
part OF it, and you give up pardon, an.
pace. and life and heaven.
see hundreds, perhaps thousa nds
OF young men IN this audience. Do no
be ashamed, young man, to have tn
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