The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-21


u Part of the Bible, of Men Who Doubt
Everything and OF Self Styled Christians
Who shrink from the Conflict.
BROOKLYN, Oct. ll.-Among the
vast audiences which crowd the Brook
lyn Tabernacle at every service are large
numbers Of young men, many OF whom
are theological students. DR.. TalmaSe's
sermon this morning had a special IN.
terest for them. At this time when 50
many are giving up the Bible, OR bold
ing the truth less firmly than before, the
eloquent preacher put himself on record
so clearly and forcibiy that no one who
heard him could have any doubt as to
his attitude. His text was II Samuel
xiii. 10, And his hand clave unto the
sword"
A greet general Of King David was
Eleazar, the Zero Of the text. The
Phllistines opened battle against him,
and his troops re:reated. The towards
fed. Ele,,zar and three ofhls comrades
went into the battle and swept the held,
for four Men With God on their side are
stronger thar whole battalion with
God again6ttA them Fall backW shouted
the comn,anGcr Of the Philist.ne army.
The cry r.:a along the host, Fall back."'
Eleasar having swept the field throws
himself on the ground to rest, but the
muscles and sineWs Of his hand had been
30 long bent around the hllt OF the sword
that the hit was in,bedde6 in the flesh,
and the gold wire of the hllt had broken
through .he skin Of the PAIN OF the
hand, and be could not drop this Sword
which be lad so calamity welded. His
hand clace unto the sword" That IS
what I call msgnifcent fighting for the
Lord Coo ofIsrael. And We wantm
OF it. propose to show you this morning
how Eleazar look hold of the sword and
how the sword took hold of Eleazar. l
look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to
the conclusion that he took the sword
with very tight grip. The cowards
who fed had no trouble in dropping their
swords. AS they fly over the rocks
I hear their swords changing in every
direction. It is easy enough for them to
drop their swords. But Eleazar's hand
clave unto the sword.
Oh, my friends, in this Christian con-
fict we wan. tighter grip Of the Cos
pei weapons, tighter grasp Of the two
edged sword of the truth. 1tmakes me
sad to see these Christian people who
hold only part Of the truth and let the
rest OF tie truth go, 80 that the Phiis-
tines, seeing the loosened grasp, wreach
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
Testament comes into the palm, and
keep on sweeping our hand around the
book until the tips of the fingers clatch
at the words, I'm the beginning God
created The heavens and the EARTH" |
ike an inf6sl great deal better than l
do one of these nambY-pamby Chris
tians RLo hold part of the truth and
let the rest 90. BY miracle God pre-
served this Bible just as it is, and it is q
Damascus blade. The severest test to
which sword can be put in sword
factory is 20 wind the blade around a
gun barrel Ike ribbon, and then when
The sword is let loose it flies back to It's
own shape. So the sword Of GODS truth
has been fully tested, and it is bent this
way and that way and wound this way
and thai way, but it always comes back
to its own shape. Think oft! A book
written eighteen centuries ago, and
some Of it thousands.of years ago, and
yet in cur time the average sale ofthls
boob is more than twenty thousand cop
les every week, and more than millioc
copies year. sag DOW that a book
which is diY;nefy inspired and divinelY
scattered is weapon WORTH holding
tight grip OF. Bishop Colenso will come
along and Try to wrench out Of your hand
the five books Of Moses, and. Strauss
will come along and try to wrench out
of gour hand the miracles, and Renan
will cone along and try 10 wrench out
of you hard the entire life of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and your associates IL the
store, Or the shop, or the factory. or the
banking house will try to wrench out OF
your hand the entire Bible; but in the
strength of The Lord God Of Israel. and
with Eicazar's grip, hold on to it. You
ess..eup the Bible, you give up any part
oI u; ana ,ss s TGp pardoa and peace
ana LIE and heaven.
THE EN0THINGAHIANs' CREED.
see hundreds, perhaps thousands, OF
young men in this audience. DO not be
ashamed, Young man. to have the world
,-.lh0w rsiaL you are a friend of the Bible.
This book is the friend Of ali that IS good
and it is the sworn enemy Of all that is
bad. An eloquent writer recently gives
an incident of very bad man who stood
IN the cell of a western prison. This
criminal had gone through all styles OF
crime, and be was there waiting tor the
sallows. The convist staDd ding there at
The window Of the cell, this writer says,
''looked out and declared, 1 ara an ln-
6del.' He said that to al. the men and
children who happened to be gathered
there, / am an inhdel,'" and the elo-
Quent writer says, Every man and wo-
man there believed him." And the
writer gees on TO say, "If he had stood
there saying, ! am Christian, every
man and woman would have SAID, He
is liar!'' This Bible is the sworn
enemy OF all this wrong, and it is the
friend Of all that is good. Oh, hold on
to it. Do not take part Of it and threw
the rest away. Hold on to all of it.
There are so many people now who do
not know. You ask them if the soul
is immortal, and they say, Il guess it
is, 1 dent know; perhaps it is, perh sps
it isn't" Is the Bible true? ''WelI,
serhars it is, aDd perhaps it isn's; per-
haps it may be fgurali7ely, and perhaps
it may not be at all" They despise
what they call the Apostolic creed; but
if their own creed were written Quit
would read IKE this: II believe in 10th
;,r flo rnatnr of beovan snS parth and