Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-05-28
HE DEFINES HIS BELIEF.
ONE WEEKS WORK THE SUBJECT
: OF Or. TALmAee's SERMON.

He Believes In the Mosaic Account OF
the Creation. and Daes Not Hesitate 70
Say So Most EmphaticalIy-A Notable
sermon Preached Sunday. May ga
! BROOKLYN. May 4.-The striking sermon
DR.. Talmage delivered this morning to an
audience which filled the new Tabernacle
IN every part dealt with topic of interest
10 all who. have watched the discussions
now agltating the churches Wherever
the question OF the inspiration of the Bible
Is raised, the trustworthiness of the Mosaic
narrative of the creation is always the
| point chiefly assailed. The fact that so
prominent and eloquent preacher as DR..
Ialmage places himself clearly on record
on the side OF orthodoxy will doubtless
have marked influence on public opinion
HIS text was Genesis i, 81. And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day"
From Monday morning to SATURDAY.
night gives us weeks work. II we have
filled that week with successes we are
happy. But am going to tell you what
God did in one week. Cosmogony, geology.
astronomy. ornithology. ichthyology, bot
any, anatomy are such vast subjects that
no human life 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 Aud whether YOU
make it week of days or a week of ages,
care not, for | shall reach the same prac-
tical result of reverence and worship
THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING.
The first Monday morning found swing
ing in space the piled mn lumber of rocks
and metal and soil and water from which
the earth was to be builded God made
up his mind to create human family. and
they must have a house to live in. But
wherey Not a roof. not a wall. not n door
not room WAS fit for human occupancy
There is not a pile of black basalt in Vel.
lowstoue mark or an extinct volcano in
Honolulu so inappropriate for human resi-
dence as was this globe ut thar early period
Moreovar there was M human archifect
to draw a plan. no ouarrymap 10 blast the
foundation stones. no carpenter TO hew out
a beam. and no mason To trowel a wall
Poor prospectl But the time was Gaming
when n being called man was TO be con
structed. and lie was 70 have bride: and
where he could find homestead 10 which
ne could take her must have been a won
derment to angelic intellioences
There had been earthouakes enough and
volcanoes enough and glaciers enough. but
earthouakes and volcanoes and glaciers
destroy instead of buiId A worse looking
world than this never SWING. IL was
heaped mn deformities scarificntions and
monstrosities The Bible saws il was with
ont form That 4. il was not round. il
was NOT sounre II wns not octauonal. II
was not a rhomboid. God never did take
any one in his counsels. but II he had asked
some angel about the attempt to turn this
nIapet into n Mace for human residence
rho anual wouid have said: "No. no: try
some other world: the creyices of this
earth are too deem. it's crags are too an
nallinD. its darkness l. TOO Thick
Rut Monday morning came. think IL
was a snring morning and about half-past
four o'clock The first thing needed was
ught II was moi needed for God TO work
hy for he can work as well in the dark.
ness Rnt lipht may be necessary. for an.
gelic intelli0ences are TO see in its full
glory the process of world building. But
,rbero are tho candles. where are the can
JaIahra where il the chandelier No rising
am Will roll in the morning. for if the sun
Il aIraadv created its li0bt will not vet reach
tha an ri IA in three DAYS Nor moon nor stars
ca, brighten rbis darkness The moon and
stars ara NOT horn VET. or If created their
ligbt viii not reach the earth for some
Tine vet Am there is need of immediate
ight where shall il come fromg Desir
,n,, ~, ,cconnt for thi,os in a natural vay
80, sav and reasonably say. thnt heat and
ia,t,.;e,,v IN row out ligbt independent of
.i'a snd ,hs, ~. n5staIlic bases throw
.', I',h, ,n,,snendeo, ~ tba s,n and tbat
"ip..I;e" ,hro,r ON ligbt indenendent Of
.Lna,',,
W" ~ - 20 al, rh.t IL ,rna hnt I do not
,,;nL 10, i the ,rav LIGHT was created
'rha ra,,,rJ me fbink thai standing
- "a, .,I' ,hat s,.r;n,, ,,orning cod
,,ol,.d ,,,,on the darkness that nailed the
,oJse ~ ,i;s ,.orId and ,be cbasms of n
III - 60, rascbss rf I, and uttered
.uu ~ ,ha uehraxv of earth or some ian.
"nes.'s, ., - knoSv not thar word
kua ss, S Co. ~ s,htle bright glox.
winch s'"u ,i ~, "a ana ,Is, ,yord
ny az a. "a ,.ar,.,,,ds mi iifrs avery
mu'o" .'. .ahas 70, ,s-ord ,ha ful mean