Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-06-18
TALMAGE ON CREATION.
THE GREAT DIVINE ON THE
WORLDS FIRST WEEK,
The Mountains, the III vers. and All the
Living Thiugs over Which Man 10
Empsror and Woman Empress
"a Wonderful Sermon.


| eight gives us . weeks work. II we have
alled that week with successes we are hap.
py: But am going to tell you what God
did III one week. COsomoYony, geology,
astronomy. ornithology. ichthyolo bot.
| any, anatomy are such vast subjects that
no human life Is long enough to expicre 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 hrst week. And whether you make 1t
week OF days or week Of ages, care not.
tor shall reach tho same practical result
| OF reverence and worship.
ne nrsi Monday morning found swing
Ing IN space the piled-up lumber Of rocks
ana metal and soil and water from which
the earth was to be buIlded. God made up
MS mind to create human family and they
must have . house to live in. But where!
Not root. not wall. not . door, not y
room was IT. for human occupancy. There
u not pile OF black bSsalt in Yellowstone
farI or an extinct volcano In Honolulu so
inappropriate for human residence Is was
this globe ut that early period. Moreover,
| toere was NO human architect to draw
| plan, no quarryman to blast the foundation
stones, no carpenter to hew out beam, and
no mason to trowel wall. Poor prospect!
Gou never did take any one In his counsels,
but II no had asked some angel about the
attempt to turn this planet into place for
| human residence, the angel would have
said. mo. no; try somelother world; the
crevices OF this earth are too deep; its crays
are too appalling; its darkness Is too
think 1t was spring morning and about
| half past four O'Clock. The first thing
needed was light.-Light! And instantly
the darkness began TO simmer. and the
| thick folds Of blackness to lift and there
were sctntillations, and coruscations. and
flashes and billowlny up OF resplendence,
and In greats sheet it spread tout, North.
ward, Southwark. Eastward, Westward,
and = radiance filled the atmosphere until
1t could hold no more Of the brillance.
lntellixsnees look on. Light, the first
chapter Of the first day of the week
Now 1t Is Tuesday morning. A delicate
and tremendous undertaking is set apart
abundance OF water. God by the wave OF
his hand this morning gathers part Of it in
suspended reservoirs and part Of it he 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 ut right times WIS
an Undertaking that no one but Omnipo-
teMce would have dared. But God does it
IS easily as you would lift glass Of water.
There he hoists two clouds each thirty
miles wide and five miles high and balances
them. Here he lifts the cirrus clouds and
spreads them out in great white banks as
though It had been showing in heaven.
And tho clrro.stratus clouds In
long parallel lines so straight you know an
infinite Geometer has drawn them. Clouds
storms get their bayonets Of Dire. Clouds
which are oceans on the wing. No wonder,
long after this first Tuesday of Creation
week. Elihu COMPOUNDED Job with the ques-
tion, "Dost thou know the balancings Of the
cloudsW HALF Of this Tuesday work done.
the other half 10 the work Of compelling
the waters to lie down In their destined
places. So God picks up the solid ground
and packs 1t up into i've elevations which
are the continents. With his finger he
are the lakes, while ut the piliny up OF the
Allsghanies and Sierra Nevadas and Pyren.
) ees and Alps and Himalayas the rest OF tho
waters start by the law OF gravitation to
the lower places, and In their run down.hill
, become the rivers and then all around the
earth these rivers como into convention and
become oceans beneath, a. the clouds are
!, oceans shove.
Now it is Wednesday morning OF the
worlds list week. How queer the hills
look, and so unattractive they seem hardly
worth having been made. But now all tho
surfaces are changing color. Something
beautiful 10 creeping all over them. 1t has
the color OF emerald. Aye. 1t is heritage.
, Hail to the green gr ass, Gods favorits color
and Gods favorite plant, " l Judge from
than OF anything else: But look yonder
I Something starts out of the ground and goes
, higher up, higher and higher, and spread.
out broad leaves. 1t 10 palm tree. Yonder
Y another growth. and It's leaves hang far
; y growth with mighty sweep OF branches
And here they come-the pear and the ap.
Pic, and the peach and the pomegranste,
and groves and orchards and forests, their
shadows and their fruit girdling the earth.
! We are pushing agriculture and fruit cul.
F., ture to great excellence in the nineteenth
q century, but we have nothing now to equa
what SEQ on this irst. Wednesday Of the
!, worlds existence.
: Now it is Thursd.y morning Of th'
! worlds first week: Nothing will DO ere
/. scattering fogs and mists and vapors. The
atmosphere must be swept clean. Othe
3 worlds are to hove in sight. This little shiI
a Of the earth has seemed to have all thu
3 ocean Of immensely to itself. But mightiel
:r.ts are to DO hailed lied, to-day on the ngt
~. ; Sa, the ana sun S Sos; u xss!
n the scene. The light that on the previous
3 three mornings was struck from an especia
stars. One for the day the otl,err for tn
night. II seemed ~ il they had all within
twenty -four hours been created. Alb, tbi
10 great time in the worlds first week
The moon, the nearest neighbor to on
earth appears; her photograph to be takeI
2 | ~ So0 htuet0Cusu Cousubys WuCu tu0 IOA0
, scope shall bring her within one hundrs'
md twenty a.. mile. OF Ney
1 afterward to be found eight hun
n dred and eighty thousand miles in diam
r ster, and put In astronomical scales, to b
: found to- weigh nearly four hundre,
I thousand times heavier than our earth;
mighty furnace, it, heat kept up b,
meteors pouring into It ~ fuel, u world de-
vouring other worlds with Its jaws Of
dame. And the stars come out. those stree
lamps Of heaven. those keys Of pearl, upo
which Gods fingers play the music Of th
spheres. How bright they look In TIL
Oriental EVENING" Constellationsl Haia1
lest What . twenty -four hours of this firs
week-solar. lunar, stellar appearance,
All this Thursday and the adjoining night
employed In pulling aside the curtain q
vapor from these flushed or psle.face
worlds. Enoughi "And the evening an
the morning were the fourth day."
Now 1t 10 Friday morning. Water, b.
not . I'm swimming In IT.; air. but not
wing flying 1t. 1t IL silent world. Can
be that 1t was made only for veget able
But bark! There 10 . swirl aud splasI
Ing in all the four rivers Of Pison, Ohio
Hiddekel. and EUphratss. They are q