Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-25
ONE WEEKS WORK.
Dr.. Talmage Places Himself on
Record on Orthodoxy.
SUNDAY MORNINGS SERMON.
Interesting Topic Bearing Specially on Discus
SONS Agitating the Churches.
From Monday Morning to Saturday Night
Gives Us One Weeks Work, If we
Have Filled that With Success
We are Happy-God's Work.
SUNDAY MORNINGS SERMON.
ONE WEEKS WORK,
Special TO the Gazette.

Special 10 the Gazette.
BROOKLYN. y. Y May 24-The striking
sermon Or. Talmage delivered this morning
10 an audience which filled the new taOer-
nAcie IN every part dealt with topic of IN
terest 10 al who have watched the discus
sionS now agitating the churches. Wherever
the question of the inspiration of the Bible
Is raised. the trustwOrthiness of the Mosaic
narrative of tie creation IS always the
point chiefly asSai!ed. The fact that SO
prominent and eloquent a preacher as DR..
Talmage places himself clearly on record on
The side OF orthodoxy will doubtless have i
marked influence on public opinion. His
text was Genesis i 81: And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day
From Monday morning 10 Saturday night
gives us a weeks work. If we have filed
that week with successes, we are happy.
Ba.k i am going TO tell you what God did III
|a145%eek. CosmOgOuy. geology. astronomy.
Tornithology, ichthyology, botany, anatomy
are such vast subjects that no human life is
long enough 10 explore or comprehend any
one of them. But l have thought ! might
in an unusual way tell You Il little of what
God did in one week and that the first week.
And whether you make it u week Of days
or week OF ages, care not. for / shall
reach the same practical result of reverence
and worship.
THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING
found swinging in space the piled up lum-
Der Of rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was 70 be builded.
God made up his MUD to create 4 human
family and they must have house 10 live
in. But where, Not Il roof, not wall
not door, not Il room was tit for human
occupancy. There is not Il pile Of black
basdlt in Yellowstone park or an extinct
volcano III Honolulu so inappropriate for
human residence as was this globe ut that
early period Moreover, there was no
human architect TO draw plan. no quarry
man 10 blast the foundation stones, no car
penter to hew out Il beam, and no mascn 10
trowcl 4 wall. Poor prospect, But the
time was coming when being called man
was 10 be constructed and he was 10 have
bride and where he could find homestead
10 which he could take her must have been
4 worderment to angelic into!igenceS. There
had been earthquakes enough, ana volca-
noes enough, and glaciers enough, but
earthquakes and volcanoes and gla-
cierS destroy instead of build. y
worse looking world than this never
swung. II was hcaped ~ deform-
tiles, scariticationS and monstrositiCs The
Bible says it was without form. That is,
il was not round, i WAS not square, it was
not OCtagOnal, 1t was not rhombold Goa
never did take any one in his counsels,
but if he had asked some angel about the
attempt 10 tmn this planet INTO place for
human residence, the angel would have
said No. no; try some other world; the
creSices Of this earth are too deep;its cragS
are too appalling: