The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-05
THE CREATION.
d.. Talmage Discourses Upon an
Important Topic.
The First Great work Of the Cre.tor-
Light Drives Away DarknessLrhe I..s
Great Creation q An-Ons
Weeks Work.

A"sy OSfkness-The Last
Great Crestion q An-Ous
Weeks Work
In e sermon delivered 1t BROOKLYN On
Trinity Sunday Rev. T. Dewitt Taimape
took his text from Genesis l. 81: "And
the evening and the morning were the
sixth day" He said:
From Monday morning to SATURDAY.
night gives us . weeks work. II We
nave filled that week with ~uccesses we
are happy. But l am going to tell you
what God did in one week. Cosmogony,
geology. astronomy, ornithology, icthy-
ology. botany, anatomy are such vast
subjects that N human life is long
enough to explore or comprehend any
n of them But I have thought that
i might in an unusual way tell O q
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 I shall reach the
same praticsl result of reverence and
worship.
The first Monday morning found
swinging in space the piled-up lumber
OF rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be build
ed. God made up His mind 70 create q
human family and they must have q
house to live in. But where? Not a
wall, not a door, not a room was at for
human occupation. There is not a pile
of black basalt in Yellowstone park or
an extinct olcano in Honolulu so iuap-
propriate for human residence as was
the globe at that early period.
But the time was coming when q be-
ing called man was TO be constructed
and he was to have q bride, and where
he could find . homestead 3 which he
could take her must have been a won
dermentto angelic intelligences. There
had been earthquakes enough, and vol
canoes enough. and glaciers enough,
but earthquakes and volcanoes and
glaciers destroy instead of build. A
worse looking world than this never
swung. 1t WAS heaped up deformities,
s~carifcations and monstrositiea. The
Bible says it was without form. That
Is, was not round, il was not square, il
WAS not octagonal, il was not a rhom-
bold. God ever did take any one in
His councils, but II He had asked some
angel abou the attempt TO turn this
planet into q place for human resi-
dence, the angel would have said: mo.
no.; try some other world; the crevices
of this earth are too deep. its crags arc
too appalling, its darkness is too thick"
But Monday morning came. 1 think
IL was a 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
rs well in the darkness But light may
be necessary, for angelic intelligences
are to see in its full glory the process
of world building.
The record makes me think that
standing over this earth that spring
morning. God looked upon the darkness
that palied the heights Of this world.
and the chasms Of il, and the awful
reaches of it. and uttered, whether in
the Hebrew OF earth, or some language
celestial know not, that word which
stands for the subtle, bright, glowing
and all ~pervading fluid; hat word
which thrills and garlands and lifts
everything it touches; that word the
full meaning of which all the chemists
of the ages have busted themselves in
exploring; that word which suggests q
force that flies 100, 900 miles in a second
and by undulations TIT, 900. 600. 900. 900 in
q second; that one word God utters-
Light! And instantly the darkness be-
gan to simmer, and the thick folds of
blackness to lift, and there were scin-
tillations and coruscations and flashes
and a billowing up Of r~esplendence. and
in great sheets it spread out north
ward. southwark. eastward, westward,
and a radiance filed the atmosphere
until it could hold no more of the
brilliancc. Light now to work
by while supernatural intelligences
look on. Light, the first chapter
Of the first day of the week. Light,
the Joy of all the centuries. Light. the
greatest blessing that ever touched the
human eye. The robe of the Almighty
is woven out of il, for il covers himself
with light rs with a garment Oh!
blessed light! l am SO glad this was
INT HISl klllLk "a tahh WYNN oOOA
thing TO start every week with is light.
But now the light of the first Monday
is receding. The blaze is going out
The colors arc dimming. Only part of
the earth's surface is visible II is 8
o'clock, Z o'clock. 8 o'clock; observation
md darkness. 1t is Monday night
And the evening and the morning
were the first day"
Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli
cate and tremendous undertaking Is set
npart for this day. There was a great
supcrabundance Of water. God by the
wave of his hand this morning gathers
part of II in suspended reservoirs and
part of IL he orders down into h rivers
and lakes end seas. How TO hang
whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds
without their splitting over except in
right quantities and ut right times was
an undertaking that no one but On
impotence would have dared. No won
der. long after this first Tuesday of ere
ntion week, Elihu COMPOUNDED Job with
the question: ''Dost thou know the
balancipgs Of the clouds?' Half
Of this Tuesday work done, the other
half Is the work of compelling the
waters to lie down in their destined
places. So God picks up the solid
ground and packs it up into five eleva-
tions which are the continents With
his finger he makes deep depressions in
them. and these are the lakes while ut
the pIling up OF the Alleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Fyrenees and Alps
and Himalayas the rest Of the waters
start by the law Of gravitation to the
lower places and in their run down
hill become the rivers, n then all
around the earth these rivers come into
convention and become oceans beneath,
rs the clouds are ear above Three
quarters OF the earth being land. moth
ing but Almightyncss could have Gagged
the three-fourths so that they could
not have devoured the one-fourth.
Thank God for water and plenty OF it
What q hint that God would have the
human race very clean.
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