Connecticut western news., 1891-05-27
A GREAT WEEKS WORK.
DR. TALMAGE BREACHES A SERMON ON THE CREATION.

DR. TALMAGE BREACHES A SERMON
 ON THE CREATION.
 He Cares Not Whether . Week of Days
 or a Week of Ages Was Required-He
 Believes in the Mosaic Account of the
 Earth's Beginning.
 BROOKLYN, May 24.-The striking sermon Dr. Talmage 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 now agitating the churches Wherever the question of the inspiration of the Bible is raised the trustworthiness of the Mosaic mar rative of the creation is always the point chiefly assailed. The fact that so prominent and eloquent preacher as Dr. Talmage places himself clearly on record on the side of orthodoxy will doubtless have a marked influence on public opinion. His text was Genesis i, 31, And the evening and the morning were the sixth day"
 From Monday morning to Saturday night gives us a weeks work If we have filled that week with successes we are happy. But am going to tell you what God did in one week. Cos mogony, geology, astronomy, ornith- ology, ichthyology, botany, anatomy are such vast subjects that no human life is long enough to explore or con- prehend 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 it a week of days or week of ages care not, for I shall reach the same practical result of rev erence and worship
 THE FIRST DAYS WORK.
 The first Monday morning found swinging in space the piled up lumber of rocks and metal and soil and water from which the earth was to be builded. God made up his mind to create hu man family, and they must have house to live in. But where2 Not roof, not wall, not a door, not a room was fit for human occupancy. There is not a 1 pile of black basalt in 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 archi- tect to draw plan, no quarryman to blast the foundation stones, no carpen- l ter to hew out beam, and no, mason l to trowel wall Poor prospect But l the time was coming when a being l called man was to be constructed, and he was to have a bride; and where he could find homestead to which he | could take her must have been a won- derlnent to angelic intelligences There had been earthquakes enough, and vol canoes enough, and glaciers enough, but earthquakes and volcanoes and 1 glaciers destroy instead of build A | worse looking world than this never swung. It was heaped up deformities, qualifications and lnonstrosities. The Bible says it was without form. That is, it was not round, it was not square, it was not octagonal, it was not g rhomboid.
 God never did take any one in his counsels, but if he had asked some angel about the attempt to turn this planet into a place for human resi- dence the angel would have said, No no; try some other world; the crevice: of this earth are too deep; it's crags are too appalling; it's darkness is too thick" But Monday morning came think it was a spring morning. anc about half past four o'clock. The first thing needed was light. It wa! not needed for God to work by, for ht can work as we'll in the darkness Blu light may be necessary, for angelic in telligences are to see in it's full glor, the process of world building. Blu where are the candles, where are tn, candelabra, where is the chandelier No rising sun will roll in the morning for if the sun is already created it light will not yet reach the earth il brighten this darkness The moor and stars are not born yet, or, i created, their light will not reach tn earth for some time yet. But ther is need of immediate fight Wher shall it come from2 Desiring to ac count for things in natural way, yo' say, and reasonably say, that heat an' | electricity throw out light independen of the sun, and that the metallic base throw out light independent of the sun and that alkalies throw out light inde pendent of the sun. Oh, yes; all tha is true, but do not think that is tn way light was created.
 The record makes me think that standing over this earth that sprin morning, God looked upon the dark ness that palled the heights of thi
 world, and the chasms of it, and tn awful reaches of it, and uttered, whethe
 in the Hebrew of earth or some languag celestial know not, that word whic
 stands for the subtle, bright, glowin
 and all pervading fluid; that wor which thrills and garlands and Tiff
 everything it touches; that word th
 full meaning of which all the chemist
 of the ages have busted themselves 1 e4plOrlng; that WOrQ Wncn suggests
 force that flies one hundred and ninet
 thousand miles in a second, and by Ill
 dulations seven hundred and twent,
 seven trillions in a second, that OF
 word God utters-Lightl
 And instantly the darkness began
 shimmer, and the thick folds of blacl
 ness to lift, and there were scintillatol
 and coruscations and flashes and bi
 lowing up of resplendence, and in gre' sheets it spread out northward. soutl
 ward. eastward westward. and d rad