Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-10-31
REV. DIR. TALMAGE
The BROOKLYN DivinesS
Sunday Sermon.

anu three Of his comrades went into tn
battle AMI swept the field, for fo1r men
With God Oh their side ereastrcnger than a
whole. battalion elth Goi against taem.
Fall tack s1nate1 the commander OF
the Phi.lstin: army. The cry ran ATOM tne
host. Fall hack t!eaz4r having SWEPT
the field t.rows himself On the ground u
resi-, but the muscles ant slne.s Of his
hand had heen 3, Iony bent around the hit
of the sword that tie hill was embedded in
the fash. and the GOLD wire % tae hilt had
broken thrCugh the SKIN OF the palm OF the
hand, and be could Ln. drop his sword
which he had SO calamity welded. His
hand cave unto tie sword. That IS what
/ call MAJ nIficent lighting Tor the Lori God
of Israel. And We want more Of it. |
propose u show you this morning how
EleaZ4r took hOli ~ the sword and how
the sword took hold os Eleazar. look at
E!eazar's hand, and | come to the conciu-
SIGN that lie toJk the sword w til a very
tight grip The cowar1s who fed had n
trouble III dropping Their swords As they
fly over tie ROCKS | hear their swords clang-
ing ineyecy direction 1t Is easy enorg gu for
them - drop their swords. Bat Eieazar's
hand c.ave unto the word.
Oh, my friends, in this Christian conflict
W want q I ghtet grip II the Gospel Weap-
ous, a tighter grasp Of .he two edged sword
If the truth II III axes me sad t. see tbs.
Christian pe1pe VINO hold only a part OF the
truth and I@rthe rest Of the truth 20. SO that
the FhiilStiues. seeing the loosene1 grasp,
wrench the whole sword away from them.
The only safe thing for Us to do is 10 put our
thumb On the book Of Genesis and sweep
our hand around the book until the
New Testament comes into the palm,
EA1 Keep on sweeping our hand
around the book until the tips Of the fingers
clutch al tile wori>, In the beginning God
or ate1 the heavens aud the earth. l like
III lntidel a great deal better than | do one
OF these mainly patnby Christians who hold
u part IF the truth an let the rest 90. By
miracle Got preserved this Bible just as it
Is, aud il i a Damascus blade. The severest
test - which a sword can be put in a sword
factory Is TO wind the blade around a gun
barred like Il rlbbua. AMI then when the
sword IS let loose 1t flies back TO its own
shape. So the sword Of Gods truth has been
fully tested. and II j. bent this way and that
WAY, and wound tins way and that way, but
IT always rolnr, bac.1 10 its own shape.
Think OF II 4 book written eighteen cen
turtles ago. aud some Of it thouSan IS OF years
ago, ami yet in our time the average sale OF
this book Is NOR than twenty thousand cop
lns every week. and more ethan a million
copies II Year. | say now that a book
which /, dirlnely inspired and divine
~ kept and diyInely scattered is
Il w~eaponswQrth holding a tight grip Of.
Bishop Colenso viii come along aud try to
wrench out OF Your hand the 1ive books of
Moses, and Strauss will come along and try
To wrench out OF your hand the miracles,
and kenau will coIne 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, OF the factory, OF
the banking house will try u wrench out Of
your hand the entire Bible, but in the
strength Of the Lord God OF Israel, and with
Eleazars grip, hold on to it. You give up
the Bible, you give up any part Of it. and you
give up pardon and peace ana life and
heaven.
| see hundreds, perhaps thousands, Of
Young men III this audience. Do not be-
ashamed, Young man, to have ths world
know that you are a frienl Of the Bible.
This book is tue friend of all that is good
and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad.
An eloquent writer recently gives an Incl
dent OF IL Very bad man who stood in a cell
of q western prison. Thi. criminal had gone
through all styles of crime, and he was there
waiting for the gallows. The convict stand
ing there at the window of the cell, this
writer says, hooked our and declared. / am
an intidel.' He said that to all the men aud
women and children who happened To be
there. i am an infidei, . ana the eloquent
writer says, Every man and woman there
believed him And the writer goes on to say,
IF he had stood there saying. l am a Chris
tian,' every man anl woman would have
said. He is a liar This Bible is the
sworn enemy OF all this wrong, aud it is tue
lIlelll oAfdil tIldt 4 sSood' VII, vi III ~
it. Donot take part of 1t and throw the
rest away. Hold on to all Of it. There are
so many people nov who do not know. You
ask them if the soul7is Immortal. and they
say, Il guess 1t is, ont know; perhaps il
Is, perhaps it isn't" Is the Bible true?
=" Ell, perhaps it is, and perhaps 1t sn't;
perhaps II may be tiguraUively, AMI pcrnapS
1t may te partly, ana perhaps 1t may not be
al all They tespise what they call the
Apostolic creed: but il their own creed were
written cut it would read like this: Il be.
lieve in nothing, the Maker Of heaven and
earth, and i'll nothing Whl'A IT hath sent
which nothing was born Ot nothing, ana
Which nothing was deal AMI buried anc
desc ndel into nothing, AMI aros4 from
nothing, and asceu1el to II 1thinE AMI now
sltt@tn at the right hand % nothing from
which II Will come u judge moth
in. | believe IN tn holy agnosll
ciorrca On in the ,rnnu1,On o. nothing
Gljans, AMI IN tn forI.vencs5 OF nothing
and The resurrection 90 nothing, AMI IN tn.
HE tnat never shall Ia. Amen" That F,
the creed OF tens {. thousands % people i,
this dav. II yon have 4 mlni 10 adopt sue.
u theory 1 viii not. Il believe in cod III
Father Almighty. ma ~ al heaven ar,
earth. AMI III Jesus Christ. al IN the hol,
cathplr church, AMI IL tue .
SAINTS. and Iii the life everlasting. Amen
Oh. when | see tieaZar taxing such a ,tou
grip Of the s"or2 IN tn. battle against j,
antior Righteousness. | come = the conclu
sion that We ought % take a stouter grin q
God eteln4s truth, The word Ok righteous
ne-s.
As looa at Ilesz.rS naui | also motto
his spirit OF set ior-ettlinas~. He d.t II f,
notice that th@ uit IT thu sword was eatin.
tasoush toe palm Il his mani He dii no
know II hart hin. As he went out iutoth
coHflet he was 81 anxious for the victory h
!clEo, himself. ana that hit might 90 eve
80 deeply INTO tae Iatm OF MS hand If conn