Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-12

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Part Of the Bible. Of Men Who Doubt
Everything and OF Self Styled Chris
tians Who Shrink from the Conflict.
BROOKLYN, Oct. ll-Among the vast au-
diences which crowd the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle at every service are large numbers of
young men. many of whom are theological
students. DIR. Talmage's sermon this
morning had special interest for them.
At this time when so many are giving up
the Bible, or holding the truth less firmly
than before, the eloquent preacher put
himself on record 80 clearly and forcbly
that no one who heard him could have any
doubt az to his attitude His text WAS II
Samuel xiii, 10. And his hand clave unto
the sword"
A great general of King David was
Eleazar, the hero of the text The Philis-
tines opened battle against him, and his
troops retreated The towards fed. Eleazar
and three of his comrades went into the
battle and swept the field, for four men
with God on their side are stronger than a
whole battalion with God against tlem.
Fall backp' shouted the commander of
the Philistine army The cry ran along the
host, "Fall back Eleazar having swept
the field throws himself on the ground to
rest, but the muscles and sinews of his
hand had been so long bent around the hilt
of the sword that the hilt was imbedded in
the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had
broken through the skin of the palm Of the
hand, and he could not drop this sword
which he had 30 calamity welded. His
hand clave unto the sword" That Is what
1 call magnificent fighting for the Lord
God OF Israel. And we want more of it,
propose to show you this morning how
Eleazar took hold Of the sword and how
the sword took hold of Eleazar look at
EleaZar's hand, and come to the conclu
sion that he took the sword with very
tight grip. The towards who fled had no
trouble in dropping their swords. AS they
fly over the rocks hear their swords clang
ing In every direction 1t il easy enough for
them to drop their swords. But Eleazar's
hand clave unto the sword.
Oh, my friends, in this Christian conflict
we want a tighter grip of the Gospel
weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged
sword Of the truth. 1t makes me sad to
see these Christian people who hold only a
part Of the truth and let the rest of the
truth go, so that the Philistines, seeing the
loosened grasp. wrench 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
clutch at the words, in the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth" like
an tnldel great deal better than do one
of these pamby- pamby Christians who hold
- r . h. l. L. d.,
miracle God preserved'this Bible Just as it
Is, and IL is a Damascus blade. The severest
test to which sword can be put in sword
factory is to wind the blade around gun
barrel like ribbon. and then when the
sword Is let loose it flies back to its 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
that way, but it always comes back to
its own shape Think Of It'll A book writ,
ten eighteen centuries ago, and some of 1t
thousands Of years ago, and yet in our time
the average sale Of this book il more than
twenty thousand copies every week, and
more than a million copies year. | say
now that book which is divnely inspired
and divinely kept and divinely scattered is
a 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 your hand the mir
acles, and Renan will come along and try
TO wrench out OF your hand the entire life
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your asso.
ciates in the store, or the shop, or the fac
tory, or the banking house will try to
wrench out of your hand the entire Bible,
but In Ne strength of the Lord God of
Israel and with EleaHar's grip, hold on to
II. You give up the Bible, you give up any
part Of 1t, and you give up pardon and
peace and life and heaven.
THE NoTHINGARIANs' CREED.
see hundreds, perhaps thousands, Of
young men in this audience Do not be
ashamed, young man, to have the world
know that you are "A friend of the Bible. |
This book Is the friend of all that Is good
and II Is the sworn enemy Of all that is |
bad An eloquent writer recently gives an
incident Of II very bad man who stood in
the cell Of a western prison. This criminal
had gone through all styles of crime, and
he was there waiting for the gallows. The
convict standing there at the window of
the cell, this writer says Cooked out and
declared, i am an inhdel.' He said that
90 all the men and women and children |
who happened to be gathered there, i am
an infidel,'" and the eloquent writer says, |
Every man and woman there believed
him" And the writer goes on to say, "lf
he had stood there saying, 4 am Chris |
tian,' every man and woman would have
said, He Is a liaPp" 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 1t and throw 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. II guess it is, don't know; per
haps 1t is, perhaps it isn't" Is the Bible
trtief "Well, perhaps it is, and perhaps 1t
isn't; perhaps it may be hguratively, and |
perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it |
may not be at all" They despise what |
they call the Apostolic creed; but if their
own creed were written out it would read !
like this; IL believe in nothing, the maker
of heaven aud earth, and in nothing which |
It hath sent, which nothing was born of
nothing and which nothing was dead and |
buried and descended into nothing, and |
arose from nothing, and assembled to moth |
ing, and now sitteth at the right hand Of
nothing, from which it will come to judge
nothing. believe in the holy aguostic |
church and In the communion Of nothing |
Rarians, and in the forgiveness of nothing |
and the resurrection OF nothing, and in the
life that never shall be. Amen" That Is
the csesl OF tens of thousands Of people in
this day. II you have mind TO adopt
s.ach d Theory | will not. IL believe in God
~ Father Almighty. maker of heaven