The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
Or. TaImage Places Himself on
Record on Orthodoxy.
SUNDAY MORNINGS SERMON.
Interesting Topic Bearing Specially on Discus
siOns Agitating the Churches.
From Monday Morning to Saturday Night
Gives Is One Weeks Work. il we
Have Filled that With Success
we are Happy-God's Work.
ONE WEEKS WORK.

TO an audience which filled the new taber-
nacle in every part dealt with topic OF IN
terest TO all who have watched the discus
SiOns now aeitating 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 SC
prominent and eloquent Il preacher rs DIR.
/ T'almage places himself clearly on record on
the side Of orthodoxy will doubtless have a
marked influence On pubic opinion. Ills
text was Genesis l.. 81: And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day"
From Monday morning TO Saturday night
gives US 4 weeks work. If we have filed
that week with successes, We are happy.
But am going to tell you what God did in
one eek COSmOgOny, geology, astronomy,
OrnithOogy, ichthyology, botany, anatomy
are such vast subjects that 10 human life is
long enough TO explore or comprehend any
one Of them. But ! have thought might
III an unusual way tell you a little of what
God did III one week and that the first week.
And whether YOU make II week of days
or a week of ages. i care not, for shall
reach the same practical result of reverence
and worship
/ TUE FIRST MONDAY MORNING
found swinging III space the piled up lum-
her o. rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be buided.
God made up his MUD TO create a human
family and they must have u house to live
IL. But where! Not a roof, not a wall,
not door, not a room was tit for human
occupancy. There is not Il pile o. black
basalt III Yellowstone park or an extinct
volcano in Honolulu so Inappropriate for
human residence as was this globe at that
early period. Moreover, there was no
human architect to draw plan, no quarry
man to blast tie foundation stones, no car
Penter TO hew out beam. and no mason to
trowei 4 wall. Poor prospect. But the
time was coming when being called man
WAS to be constructed and he was 10 have a
bride; and where he could find homestead
to which he could take her must have been
awOndcrment TO angelic intelligenceS. There
had been earthquakes enough, and volca-
noes enough, and glaciers enough, but
earthquakes and volcanoes and gla-
cie"s destroy instead of build. \
worse looking world than this never
swung II WAS heaped up deform-
tiles. scarihcatiOns and monstrosities The
Bible says ii was without form. That is,
il was not round, it was net square, it was
not octagonal, it was not u rhomboid. God
never did take any one i'll his cOunselS,
but if he had asked some angel about the
attempt TO tnrn this planet into place for
human residence, the angel would have
said. No, 10: try some other world: the
rrcvices of this earth are too deep its cragS
are too appalling;
ITS DARKNESS Is TOO THICK.
But Monday morning came. think it was
Il spring morning and about half past four
clock. The first thing needed Was light.
1t was not needed for God to work by. for
he can work as well in the darkness. But
light may be necessary. for angelic intelli-
genccs are to see in It's full glory the pro
cess or world building. But where are the
candles. where are the candlebra. where is
the chandelier! No rising sun will roll in
the morning. for if the sun is already
created. its light will not yet reach the
earth in three days. No moon or stars can
brighten this darkness. The moon aud
stars are not born Yet, or, if created, their
iiOht will not reach the earth for some
time yet But there is need of immediate
light Where shall it come from! Desir-
ing to account for things in u natural way,
you say, and reasonably say, that heat and
electricity throw out light independent Of
the sun, and that the metallic bases throw
out light independent of the sun, and that
al!lalieS throw out light independent of the
sun. oh. yes; all that Is true, but | do lot
think that is the way light was created
The record makes me think that, standing
over this earth that spring morning. God
looked upon the darkness that palled the
heights of this world, ana the chasms OF it.
and the awful reaches of it, and uttered.
"
OR SOME LANGUAGE CELESTIAL
! know not. that word which stands for the
subtle, bright, glowing and ali pervadlng
fluid. that word which thrills and garlands
and lifts everything it touches. that word
the full meaning of which all the chemists
of The ages have busted themselves in eX-
pIoriug that word which suggests force
that flies one hundred and ninety thousand
miles in second and by undulations seven
l,r,f, +-fll
second. that one word God utters-light
And instantly the darkness began to SHIN
mer and the thick folds of blacknesS to lift,
and there We're Scintillations. and cOruSca-
tons, and flashes and a billowing up of
resplendence, and in great sheetS-it spread
out northwarQ. southwark, eastward, west
ward. and Il radiance filled the atmosphere
until ii could hold no more of the brilliance.
Light now to work by while supernatural
intellicences look on. Light the first
chapter of the first day of the week. Light,
the JOY Of all the centuries. Light, the
greatest blessing that ever touched the
human eye. The robe of the Almighty is
woven out of it, for he covers himself with
light rs with garment. On, blessed light!
am so glad this was The first thing created
that week. Good thing to start every week
with is light. That will make our work
easier. That will keep our disposition
more radiant. That will hinder even our
losses from becoming too somber.
GIVE Us MORE LIGHT,
natural light, intellectual light, spiritual
light, everlasting light. For lack of it the
body stumbles, and the soul stumbles. Oh
thou Father of lights, give us light, The
great German philosopher in his last mo-
mentS said, Il want more light \ minis
ter of Christ recently dying, cried out in
eXultation. Il move into the lightr' Mir.
ToPlady, the immortal hymnologist in his
expiring moments exclaimed, Light.
Light" Heaven itself is only more light.
Upon all superstition, upon all ignorance,
upon all sorrow let in the light. But now
the light of the first Monday is receding.
The blaze is going out. The colors are
dimming. Only part of the earth's surface
is visible. 1t is 6 o'clock. O'Clock,
S O'Clock; observation and darkness.
Ii is Monday night And the evening and
the morning We're the first day"
Now it is Tuesday morning. a delicate
and tremendous undertaking is set apart
for TINS day. There was I great superb
bundance of water. God by the wave of
his hand this morning gathers part of it in
suspended reservoirs and part of it ne
orders down into the rivers, and
lakes and seas. How to hang whole Atlantic
oceans in the clouds without their spilling
over except in right quantities and at right
times was an undertaking that no one but
Omnipitence would have dared. But God
does it as easily as YOU would lift glass of
water There he hoiStS twoiclouds each
thirty miles wide and five miles high and
balances them. Here he lifts the cirrus
clouds and spreads them on. in great white
banks as though it had been showing in
heaven. And the cirro-Stratus clouds in