Connecticut western news., 1891-10-15
A STOUT GRASP OF FATE
DR. TALMAGE ON THE NECESSITY
 OF A MORE EARNEST BELIEF.

OtherH Have Passed and the Bible h
 It's Entirety Will Remain-The Inspir
 ing Example of Eleazar.
 BROOKLYN. Oct. II. Among tht vast audiences which crowd the Brook lyn Tabernacle at every service al. large numbers of young men, many O. whom are theological students. Dr Tallnages sermon this morning had E special interest to, them At this time when so many are giving up the Bible, or holding tle truth less firmly thar before. the eloquent preacher put him s-f OH record so clearly and forcibly that no one who heard him could have any doubt as to his attitude His text was II Samuel xiii, 10. And hi. haud clave unto the sword.
 A great general of King David wa EleazaI the hero oi the text The I'hilistines opened battle against him, and h,> tr",l,S retreated The towards fled EIeazar and three of his com raies went Into the battle and swept the field toi four Iuen with God or their side are stronger than whole battalion with God against them
 Fall back !" shouted the commander ot the Phlistine army The cry ran along the host, Fall backI" Eleaza, having swept the field throws himself on the ground to rest. but the muscles and snews of his hand had been se long bent around the hilt of the sword that the hlt was hnbedded in ths flesh and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm oi tht. hand and he could not drop this sword which he had SO gal lantly welded His hand clave unto the sword That Is what lcall mag niti.ent fighting for the Lord God ol lsis..l and we want more of it pro n,s- to show you this morning how El.azar took hold of the sword and how tll. sword took hold of Eleazar l iook at Eleazar's hand. and come te the conclusion that he took the sword with very tight grip. The coward, . who tied had no trouble in droppina their swords As they fly over the rocks l hear their swords changing ir every direction It is easy enough 10, them to drop their swords. but Eleaz ars hand clave unto the sword.
 HALF HEARTKD CHRISTIANS.
 Oh my friends in this Christian con tllct we want Il tighter grip of the Cos pei weapons d fighter grasp of the two edged sword ot the truth. It makes me sad to see these Christian people who hold only part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go. so that the Phlistines. seeing the loosened grasp. wrench the whole sword away from them The only safe thing for us tc do is to put our thumb on the book o1 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 ere att.d the heavens and the earth" ] like an inti,le a great deal better than do one of those nalnbypaInby Chris tians who hold q part of the truth and let the rest go By miracle God pre-. served this Bible just as it is. and it il a Daiilast:lls blade.
 The severest test to which a sword can be put in u sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like q ribbon. and then when the sword Is let loose it flies back to it's own shape Sc 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 it's own shape Think of itl A book writ ten eighteen centuries ago. and some of it thousands of years ago. and yet in our time the average sale of this book is more than twenty thousand copies every week and more than a million copies year
 say now that book which Is di- vinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding tight grip of. Bishop Colen >o 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 and try to wrench out of your hand the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ. and your associates in the store. or the shop. or the factory. or the banking house will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel. and with EIrazar's grip. hold on to it. You give up the Bible. you give up any part of it. and you give up pardon and peace and life and heaven.
 THE CoNvICTED INFIDEL.
 see hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men in this audience. Do not be ashamed. young man. to have the world know that you are friend of the Bible This book is the friend of all that is good and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of {, very bad ulln who stood ill the cell of 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. the writer says, looked out and declared I am an infidel He said that to all the men and women and children who happened to be gathered there l am all intdel." and the elo qu.l,t wr.ir1 says, Every man and woman there believed him" And the writer goes uII to say If he had stool there saying am a Christian. every iu,iIl and wolm;ln would have said. H.. 1 is liar
 This Bible Is the sworn enemy of all this wrong, and it is the friend of al that is good Oh hold on to it. Do not take part of it and throw the rest away Hold OH to all of it. There are