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.HE DEFINES Ills BELIEF.
ONE Weeks WORK TIE SUBJECT or
DIR. .TALkjAGE'5 SERMON.

DIR. TALWAcE's SERMON.
He Believes fn tho Mosaic Account OF tile
" Creation, and Docs Not, ,IIesitate Co Say
SO Most Emphaticaiiy--A Notable SER
mon Prsathed suuday, May gath.
BRooKLYN, May 24.--4'iie striking
sermon Dir. Talmagc delivered this
morning 10 an audience which filed the
new Tabernacle in every 95art dealt with
q topic OF interest to- all who have
watched the, -diecussons demonstrating
the churches. Wherever the question
OF the inspiration of Bibie5is, raised,
the trnstw9rthiness of the Mosaic narra-
tive Of the creation is always the point
chiefly asssiled. The fact that Sc, prom
lnent and eloquent q PREACHER ;aS DIR.
Talmage places. himself clearly on re-
cord on tbesidc OF orthodoxy will doubt
less baye % marked influence on public
opinion. Ills text was Genesis /, 81 {,
And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day."
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives us a weeks work. five
have filed that week with successes we
ale happy. But L am going 20 tell YOU
what God did in one week. Cosmog0ny,
geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthy-
ology, botany, anatomy are such vast
subjects that no human lite is long
enough to explore or comprehend any
one Of them. But have thought /
might in an unusual way tell you little
oil what God did in one week, aud that
the first week. And whether YOU make
IL awtek OF days or 81 week OF ages, L
care not, for L shall reach the same prac-
tiyal result of reverence aud worship.
THEFIRST MONDAY MORNING..
The first Monday morning found
swinging III 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 q hui
nau family, and they must have house
To live in. But where? Not roof, not
a wall. not door, not a room was fit
Tor human occupancy. There is no. q
pile Of black besalt in Yellowstone park
or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so in
appropriate Tor human residence as was
This globe at that early period. More
over, there 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 q
wall. Poor prospect! But the time
WAS coming when a being called man
was " be constructed, and he was to
have bride; and where he could find a
homestead TO which he could take her
must have been a wonder cnL TO an
gclic intelligences.
There had been earthquakes enou2h
and volcal oes enough and glaciers
CROUCH, but earthquakes and volcanoes
an glaciers destroy instead of build. A
worse looking world than this never
swung. 1t was heaped up deformities,
scariiications and monstrosities. The
Bible says it was without form. That
is, it was not round, il was not square.
< it was not octagonal, twas not rhom-
boid. God never did take any one in
his counsels, but il he had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
panetinto place for human residence
the angel sM ould have said: mo. no;
try scme other word; the crevices Of this
earth are too deep; its crags are too ap-
palliD2'; its darkness is too thick"
But Monday morning came. / think
IL was spring morning and about half.
past four o'clock. The first thing need
ed was light. 1t was not needed for
God TO work by, for he can work as well
i'll the darkness. But light may be nec-
cssary, for angelic intelligences are 20
STE i'll lis full glory the process of world
bulldiIg But where are the candles,
where are the candelabra, 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. Nor moon nor stars
can brighten this darkness. The moon
: and stars are not born yet, or if created
their light will not reach the earth for
some time yet. But there is need of
in mediate light. Where shall it come
hom? Desiring to 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
tic netallie bases throw out light inde-
pendent OF tho sun, and that alkalies
throw out light independent of thc sun.
Oh. yes; oil that ls true, but do not
i think that IS the way light was created.
The record makes me thiuk that. stand
15lpg over this Garth that spring morning,
God looked upon the darkness that pail
&c the heights OF this world, and the
cIasnis of it, and The awful reaches oft,
ard uttered, whetEerin the Hebrew OF
earth or some language celestial know
not, that word which staLGs for the sub.
tie, bright, glowing. and all prevailing
fluid, that word which thrills and GAR
lands and llits everything it touches. that
w I'd The tuli meaning Of which all the
chemists of the ages have busted them
serves in exploring, that word Which
suggests a. force that flies one hundred
s fNd ninety-thousand miles in II second,
and BY undnlations seven hundred and
twents.seyen trllions in secoud, that
one Word that God utters--Light.
And instantly tho darkness began to
Skinner, and the thick folds Of blackness
to lift, and there were sciatilations and
coruscatiOns and flashes and billowing
: up ofresplendence, and in great sheets
it spread out northward, southwark,
eastward, westward, and radiance filled
the atmosphere until it could hold no
more OF the brilliance. Light now to.
work BY While supernatural lntelligences
look on. Light, the first chapter of the
filst day OF the week. Light, tho Joy of
all the centuries. Light, the greatest
blessing that ever touched the human
eva. The robe OF the Almighty is woven
oGyN Nofsit, for he covers himself with
Light as witha garment, Oh, blessed
light! l am so glad this was the first
thing created that wees, Good thing TO
start every week with is light. That
will make, our work casier. That VIII
keep our dispositionmore radiant. That