The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-25
WORK OF A SINGLE WEEK
TALMAGE TELLS WHAT GOD DID
IN THAT PERIOD.

Wednesday-Fogs and Vapors Scat
tered on Thursday-The Fishes Crs-
eted on Friday and Man on Satur-
day-Sunday a Day of Rest.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, May 24-The striking
sermon DIR. Talmage delivered this morn
ing, TO an audience which filed 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
tho trustworthiness OF the Mosaic
narrative Of the creation is always the point
chiefly assailed. The fact that so promi-
nent aud eloquent preacher as DR.. Talmage
places himself clearly on record on the side
of Orthodoxy will doubtless have marked
influence on public opinion. His text was,
Genesis l., 81: "And the evening and tho
morning were the sixth day."
From Monday morning TO Saturday night
gives us a weeks work. If we have hlled
that week with successes we are happy.
But am going 20 tell you what God did In
one week. Cosmogony, geology, astron-
omy, ornithology, iohthyology, botany,
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
little Of what God did In one week, and
that the first week. And whether you
make it week of days or a week Of ages
care not, for shall reach the same prao~
tical result of reverence and worship.
The first Monday morning found swing
ing 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 a human family, and
they must have a house 30 live in. But
wherea Not roof, not a wall, not door.
not a room was fit for human occupancy.
There Is not pile Of black basalt Ia Yell
lowstone 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 quarrymRn to
blast the foundation stones, no carpenter to
hew out beam, and no mason to troWel
wall. Poor prospeetl But the time was
coming when being called man was
to be constructed and he was 10 have a.
bride; and whore he could find homestead
TO which he could take her must have been
wonderment to angelic inteiiigences.
There had been earthquakes enough, and
volcanoes enough, and glaciers enough, but
earthquakes and volcanoes and glaciers
destroy instead OF build. A worse-looking
world than this never swung. Ii was
monstrosities. The Bible says ID was with
Out form. That Is, ii was not round, 10 was
not square, 1t was not ootaRopal, ii was not
a rhomboid. God never did take any one
in his counsels, but IL he had asked
some angel about the attempt to
turn this planet into place for human
residence, the angel would have said mo,
no; try some other world the crevices of
this earth are too deep; its crags are too
appalling; its darkness is too thick" But
Monday morning came. think it was q
spring morning and about half past four
O'Clock. The first thing needed was light
It 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-
gences are 10 sec In its full glory the process
OF world building. But where are the cam
dies, where are the candelabra, where 10 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 in
three days. No moon or stars can
brighten this darkness The moon and
stars are not born yet, or. il
created, their light will not reach the earth
for some time yet But there Is need of i'm
mediate light Where shall ID come 'front.'
Desiring 10 account for things In a 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
alkalies throw out light independent of the
sun. Oh yes; all that is true, but do nou
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
nights of this world, and the chaams of it.
and the awful reaches of it. and uttered.
whether in the Hebrew CT earth, or some
language celestial | know not, that
word which stands for the subtle, bright.
glowing and ali-pervading fluid, that
word which thrills and garlands and lifts
everything 1t touches, that word the full
meaning Of which all the chemists Of the
ages have busted themselves in exploring,
that word which suggests force that flies
one hundred and nintey thousand miles in q
second and by undulations seven hundred
and twenty-sevon trillions In second, that
one word God utters-Lightl And in
stantly the darkness began to simmer, and
the thick folds Of blaokness to lift, and there
were scintillations, and coruscations, and
flashes and billowing up Of resplendencs,
aud In great sheets it spread out northward.
southwark, ca 3 ward. westward, aud q
radiance filed the atmosphere until 1t could
hold no more Of the briiliance.
supernatural intelligences look
on. Light, the frs. chapter of the first day
of the week. Light, the joy Of all the CEN
turies. Light, the greatest blessing that
ever touched the human eye. The robe Of
the Almighty is woven out Of IL, for he
covers himself with light as with a gar
ment. OF blessed light! / am 50 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
hinder even our losses from becoming too
somber. Give us more light. natural light,
/ intellectual light, spiritual light everlasting
| light For lack of 1t the body stumbles,
| and the soul stumbles. O, thou Father OF
| Lights, give US light The great German
| philosopher in his last moment said II want
| more light" A minister of Christ recently
| diving cried out in exultation, II move into
| the lightp Mr.. Toplady, the immortal
| hymnoIogiss, in his expiring moments ex-
| claimed, Light Lightn 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 recedipg. The blaze Is going
| out. The colors are dimming. Only part
| of the earth's surface is visible. II Is six
| O'Clock, seven o'clock. eight O'Clock; OBJ
scuration and darkness. IL is Monday
night. "And the evening and tha morning
were the first day"
Now 10 is Tuesday morning. A delicate
and tremendous undertaking is set apart for
this day. There was great tsuperabundanca
OF water. God by the wave OF bis hand
| thia morning gathers part of IL in suspended