The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-03
He DEFINES HIS BELIEF.
ONE WEEKS WORK TIE SUBJECT OF
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.

DR.. IAlMAGE'S SERMON.
he Believes in the Mosaic Account OF the
Creation, and Does Not Hesitate to Say
so Most Emphatically-A Notable Ser
mon Preached Sunday, May 2+,b.
BROOKLYN, May 24.-The striking
sermon DR.. Talmage delivered this
morning 10 an audience which filed the
new Tabernacle in every part dealt with
a topic of interest to all who have
watched the discussions DOW agltatlnG
the churches. Wherever the question
Of the inspiration of the Bible IS raised
the trustworthiness ofthe Mosaic nara
tive of the creation is always the point
chiefly assailed. The fact that so prom
inent and eloquent a preacher as DR..
Talmage places himself clearly on re.
cord on the side of orthodoxy will doubt
less have a marked influence on public
opinion. His text was Genesis !, 81,
land the evening and the morning were
the sixth day."
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives US a weeks work. II we
have filed that week with successes we
are happy. But I am going 20 tell you
what God did in one week. Cosmogony
geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthy'
olosy, botany, anatomy are such vast
subjects that no human lite IS long
enough to explore or comprehend any
one Of them. But I have thought l
might in an unusual way tell you a little
of what God did in one week, and that
the first week. And whether you make
it week of days Or week of ages, !
care not, for shall reach the same prac-
tical result of reverence and worship.
THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING.
The first Monday morning found
swinging II space the piled up lumber
of rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be bulided.
Ged made up his mind to create hui
man family, and they must have house
to live in. But where? Not root, not
a wall. not door, not room was ut
for human occupancy. There is not a
pile Of black besalt in Yellowstone park
or an extinct volcano IN Honolulu so 10
appropriate for 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 being called man
was t1 be constructed, and he was to
have bride; and where he could ind a
homestead to which he could take her
must have been a wonder lent to an
gelic intelligences.
There had been earthquakes enough
and volcanoes enough and glaciers
enough, but earthquakes and volcanoes
an glaciers destroy instead Of build. A
worse locking world than this never
swung. It was heaped up deformltles,
scariications and monstrosities. The
Bible says it was without form. That
is, it was not round, if was not square.
it was not octagonal, it was not a rhom-
bold. God never did take any one IN
his counssls, but if he had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
planet into place for human residence
the angel would hsve said: mo. no;
try some other wor' d; the crevices OF this
earth are too deep; its crags are too ap-
palling; it's darkness is too thick"
But Monday morning came. think
it was spring morning and about half
past four O'Clock. The first thing need
ed was light. 1t was not needed for
God 10 work by, for he can work as well
in the darkness. But light may be nec-
essary, for angelic intelligences are to
see in its full glory the process Of world
building. 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
immediate light. Where shall it come
from? Desiring to accour. for things IN
a natural way you say, and reasonably
say, that heat and electricity throw out
light independent Of the sun, and that
the metallic bases throw out light inde-
pendent Of the: sun, and that alkalles
throw out hight independent Of the sun.
Oh, yes; all that is true, but I do not
think that is the way light was created.
The record makes me think that, stand
inc over this earth that spring morning,
God looked upon the darkness that pail
ed the heights OF this world, and the
chasms of it, and the awful reaches oft,
and uttered, whether 10 the Hebrew OF
earth or some language celestial l know
not, that word which stands for the sub
tie. bright, glowing and all prevading
fluid, that word which thrills and gar
lands and lifts everything it touches. that
word the tuli meaning Of which all the
chemists of the ages have busted them
selves in exploring, that word which
suggests force that flies one hundred
and ninety-thousand miles in second,
and by undulations seven hundred and
twenty.seven trlllions in q secoud, that
one y ord that God utters-Li2ht.
And instantly the darkness began TO
simmer, anG the tnlck 1olQS OF D!achness
to lift, and there were sciltillatlons and
coruscations and flashes and a billowins
up ofresplendence, and in great sheets
it spread out northward, southwark,
eastward. westward, and a radiance filled
the atmosphere until it could hold no
more Of the brilliance. Light nov to
work by while supernatural lnteliigences
look on. Light, the first chapter o! the
first day Of the week. Light, the JOY OF
all the centuries. Light, the greatest
blessing that ever touched the human
eve. The robe of the Almighty Is woven
out Of it, for he covers himself with
light as with a garment. Oh, blessed
llg ght! I am so glad this was the first
thing created that week. Good thing TO
start every week with is light. That
will make our work easier. That Will