The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-04
He DEFINES Ills BELIEF,
ONE WEEKS WORK THE SUBJECT OF
DR.. TAlMhGE'S SERMON.

He Believe In the Mosaic Account OF th,
Creation, and Does Not Hesitate to Saw
SO Most tEmpiatIcalIy-A Notable ssr-
mon rrent he'd Sund,y, May 9Th.
BROOKLYN, May 24.-Thc striking
sermon DR.. Talmagc delivered this
morning to an audience which filled the
new Tabernacle in every part dealt with
topic of interest to all who have
watched the discussions DOW ayitatinc
the churches. Wherever the question
OF the inspiration of the Bible is raised,
the truStwOrthinCsS Of the Mosaic nara
tive OF the creation is always the point
chiefly assalled. The fact that so prom
lnent and eloquent a preacher as DR..
Ialmagc places himself clearly on re-
cord on the side OF orthodoxy will doubt
less have a marked influence on public
opinion. His text was Genesis !, 81
And the evening and the morning VIC
the sixth day"
From Monday morning to SaturG v
night gives us Il weeks work. lf,.e
have filled that week with successes we
are happy. But | am going 20 tell YOU
what God did in one week. CosmOgOny,
geology, astronomy, onilhology. ichthy-
ology, botany, anatomy arc such vast
subjects that no human lie Is long
enough TO explore or comprehend any
one Of them. But / have thought |
might in an Unusual way tell YOU a little
OF what God did in one week, and that
the first week. And whether you make
1t awcck OF days or week Of ages, l
care not. for | shall reach the same prac-
tlcal result OF reverence and worship.
THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING.
The first Monday morning found
swinging Iii space the piled up lumber
OF rocks and metal and soil and water
II ON which the earth was to he buildcd.
God made up his mind TO create q hu-
man family, and they must have a house
TO live in. But where? Not roof, not
wall, not door, not room was fit
lor human occupancy. There is no! a
pile Of black bcsalt in Yellowstone park
or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so in
appropriate for human residence as was
this gloHe at that early period. More
over, there was no human architect to
draw plan, no Quarryman to blast the
foundation stones, no carpenter to hew
out beam. and no mason to trowcl a
wall. Poor prospect! But the time
was coming when bcin" called man
was tC be constructed. and he was to
have bride; and where he could find a
homestead to which he could take her
must have been wonder Lent to an
gelicintclligcnccs.
There had been earthquakes cnou. III
and volcarocs enough and glaciers
enough, but earthquakes and volcau Oes
an glaciers destroy instead Of build. a
worse looking world than this never
swung. 1t was hcapcd up dciormitcs,
scarlicatiOns and mOnstrosities. The
Bible says ii was without form. That
is, it was not round, it was not square.
it was not octagonal, it was not q rhom-
bold. God never did take any one in
his counscls, but if lie had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
planet into place for human residence
the angel would havc said: mo. no;
try some other wor d; the creviccs Of this
earth are too deep; its crags are too ap-
palling; its darkness is too thick"
But Monday morning came. l think
it was spring morning and about half
past four O'Clock. The Iirst thing need
ed was light. 1t was not needed for
God 10 work by, fer he can work as well
in the darkness. But light may be nee
cssary, for angelic intclligcnces are to
seein IFS full glory Tie process Of world
building. But where are the candles,
where are the candclabra, where is the
chandelier? No rising sun will roll in
the morning. for il the sun is already
created its light Will not yet reach the
earth ilf three days. Nor moon nor stars
can brighten this darkness. The moon
and stars arc not born yet, CT if created
their light will not reach the earth for
some time yet. But there is need of
immediate light. Where shall it come
IRON? Desiring to account for things in
natural way you say. and reasonably
say, that heat and electricity throw ont
light independent Of the sun, and that
The metalll; bases throw out light indie
pendent OF the sun, and that alkalics
throw out light independent of the sun.
ON, yes; all that is true, but do not
think that IS the way light was created.
The record makes me think that, stand
ing over this earth that spring morning,
God looked upon the darkness that pail
cd the heights OF this world. and the
chasms of il, and the awful reaches Oft,
and uttered, whether In the Hebrew OF
earth or some language celestial | know
not, that word which stafGs Tor the SUBJ
tie, bright, glowing and all prevailing
fluid, that word which thrills and gar
lands and lifts everything it touches. that
w(rd the luli meaning of which all the
chemists Of the ages have busted them
selves i'll exploring, that word which
suggests force that flies one hundred
and ninety thousand miles in a second,
and by undulations seven hundred and
twenty.sCvcn tnllons in accoud, that
one ord that God uttcrs-Iight.
And instantly the darkness BEGAN to
simmer, and the thick folds Of blackncss
to lift, and there were sciatilations and
coruscations and flashes and a billowino
up OF resplendcncc, and in great sheets
1t spread out northward, southward,
eastward, westward, and a radiance filed
the atmosphere until it could hold no
more of the brilliancc. Light now to
work by while supernatural lntclligcnccs
look on. Light, the first chapter of the
fhst day Of the week. Light, tho ioy of
all the centuries. Light, the greatest