Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-12
A GREAT GENERAL
OF KING DAVID, was ELEAzgR, TES ZERO
O. THB TEXT.
Taken BY Rs7. Dr. Talusgs st iAa Bro'klyn Ish'r'
nacls Yesterday Morning. Vary IL
str1ct7s Dlseoarss.


lYn Tabernacle OC every service are lafs z
numbers Of young men, many OF whom
are theological students. DR.. Talmage's
Sermon this morning had special inter
est 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
so clearly and forcibly that no one who
heard him could have any doubt as to
his attitude His text was: II Samuel
23: 10, "And his hand claye INTO the
sword"
A great general OF King David was
Eleazar, the hero of the text. The
PhUstines opened battle against him
and bis troops retreated. The towards
fed. Eleazar and three OF his COM
r8des went into the battle and swept
tho field, for four men with God on
their side are stronger than whole
battalion with God against them.
'Fall backl shouted the commander OF
the Phiiistine army. The cry ran along
the host: "Fall back" Eleazar having
swept the field throws himself on the
ground 70 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 or the
hand, and be could not drop this sword
which he had so CALAMITY welded.
"His hand clave unto the sword. F"
That Is what ] call magnificent lighting
for the
LORD COD or ISRAEL.
And we want more OF lt. I propose
10 show you this morning how Eleazar
took hold OF the sword aud how the
sword took hold OF EieaZar. j look at
Eleazar's hand, and ! come to the con-
clusion that be took the sword with
very tight grip. The towards who
fled had no trouble To- dropping their
swords AS they lily over the rocks l
hear their swords changing in every
direction. IL is easy enough for them
TO drop their swords. But Eleazar'S
hand clave unto the sword,
On my friends, in this Christian con-
hict we want a tighter grip OF the Cos
pei weapons, tighter grip of the two
edged sword Of the truth. IL makes me
sad TO see these Christian people who
hold only q part Of the truth, and let
the rest of the truth 60, so that the
Philistines, seeing the lOOSened grasp,
wrench the whole sword away from
them. The only safe thing for US 10 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:
SIN the beginning Sod created the
heavens and the earth" l like an inf
del a great deal better than do one Of
these namby-pamby Christians who
hold a part Of the truth and let the rest
go.
say now that book which is
DryEELY INSPIRED.
and divinely Kept and divine
ly scattered is a weapon worth holding
a 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 miracles,
and Renan will come along aud try TO
wrench out of your hand the entire life
Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your assoc
ciates in the store, or the shop, or the
factory, or the banking house will try
10 wrench out Of your hand the entire
Bible; but in the strength of the Lord
God Of Israel, and with EleaZar'S grip,
hold on TO it. You give up the Bible,y you
give up any part of it, and you give up
pardon, and peace, and life and heaven.
This Bible is the sworn enemy OF all
this wrong, and it is the FREUD OF all
that Is good. Oh, hold on 10. Do not
take part OF it and throw the rest away.
Hold on to an OF it. There are so many
people now who do not know. You ask
them If the soul IS immortal, and they
say, 81 guess it is, I don't know, per-
haps 10 is, perhaps &c ism. T." Is the
Bible true? "Weli perhaps IL is, and
perhaps itisn't perhaps it may be fig
uratiyelY, and perhaps it may be partly
and perhaps it may not be 40 all They
deSpise what they call the Apostolic
creed; but II their own creed was writ
sen out 10 would read like this: II be-
lieve in nothing, the maker Of heaven
sud earth, and IN nothing which it
hash sent, which nothing was born Of
nothing, and which nothing was dead
and buried aud descended into nothing,
and arose from nothing, and aScended
20 nothing, and now stitch at the right
hand OF nothing, from which il will
come % judge nothing. I believe In the
holy AGNOsTIC CHURCH
And ln the communion Of nothingarians,
and in the forgiveness Of nothing. and
the resurrection Of nothing, and In the
life that never shall be. AmeDw That
is the creed OF tens Of thousands Of peO-
pie 90 this day.
As J look az Elesz3r's hand I also
n0s.cs his spirit OF Se.i-sOrgetfulnesS
lie did not notice that the hilt OF the
sword was eating through the palm OF
his hand. lie did not knOwit hurt him.
As he went out into the conflict he was
so anxious for the victory he forgot him
self, and that hilt might 60 never so
deeply into the palm OF his hand, IL
could rot disturb him. "His hand clave
unto the sword" O my brothers and
sisters, Jet Us so into Christian
cOnGic, with the spirit OF self
abnegation. Who cares whether the
world praises Us or denounces use
WLat 90 we care for Misrepresentation,
or abuse, or persecution in conflict
like this2 Let as forget ourselves.
That maR who is afraid Of getting his
band hurt win never kill a Phillstine.
Who cares whether you get hurt or
not 70 you get tho victory? Oh, how
many Christians there are who are all
the time worrying about the way the
world treats them. They are so tired,
and they are so abused, and they are SO
tempted, when Eieazar, did not think
whether he had a hand, or an arm, or a
- All be manrna r-ns ulntnru