Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-23
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGe FINDS LESSONS IN THE
BIBLES MENTION or SHELLS.

BIBLES MENTION OF SHELLS.
The Divine Conchology 'sThe Pearl of
Great Price, The Purple of Ancienc
Make = The Route Of the Israelites-
Gods Care For the Coral Insect.
BRuoKLYN Feb. l9-ln the Tabernacle
this forenoon Rev. Or Talmage continued
his course of sermons on God everywhere.
His subject was the "Conchology of the Ri
BILE. or. tIod Among the Shells,' the text
being taken from Exodus 30th chapter,
18th verse, And the Lord said unto Moses.
Take unto thee sweet spices. stacte and
Dnycha,
You may not have noticed the shells of
the Bible, although in this early part of the
sacred book God calls you to consider and
employ them as he called Moses To consider
aud employ them. The onycha of my text
Is shell found on the banks of the Red
sea. and Moses and his army must have
crushed many of them under foot us they
crossed the bisected waters onycha on the
beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of
the deep shall speak of this shell us II
beautiful and practical revelation of God
Rnd as true as the first chapter of Genesis
and the last chapter of Revelation or every
thing between.
/ Not only is this shell. the onycha, found
at the Ped sea, but in the waters of In
lllia II not only delectates the eye with
/ its convolutons of beauty, white and lus-
/ trouS and scrrated, but blesseS the nostril
with "A pungent aroma This shellish, ac
luustomed to feed on spikenard, is redolent
| with that odorous plant, redolcnt when
alive and redoent when dead Its shells
when burned bewitch the air with FRI
GRANGE
In my text God commands Moses to mix
Dnycha with the perfumes Of the altar in the
ancient tabernacle, and ! propose to mix
rome its perfumes at the altarof Brooklyn
/ Tabernacle. for, having spoken TO you on the
Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among
the Stars the Chronology Of the Bible.
Or. God Among the Centuries" the "Or
anthology of the Bible; or, God Among the
Birds the "Mineralogy Of the Bible; or
Tod Among the Amethysts;" the "lchthy
ology of the Bible. or. God Among the
Fishes, now come to speak Of the "Con
rhology of the Bible, or. God Among the
Shells .
THE FASCINATION IN A SHE'LL
II Is a secret that you may keep for me,
TOR have never before told il to any one,
that III all the realms OF the natural world
there is nothing to me so fascinating, so
completely absorbing, so full OF suggestive
hess as a she'll Whatg More entertaining
than bird. which can sing. when shell
cannot singi Well, there you have made
great mistake Pick up the onycha from
the banks of the Red sea or pick up a hi
valve from the beach Of the Atlantic ocean
and listen, and you hear a whole choir Of
marine voices-bass, alto, soprAno-in an
unknown tongue, but seeming to chant as
put them to my ear THE sea u his, and
he made it," others singing, "rhy way, o
God is in the sea-" others hymning. He
ruleth the raging of the sea
What" says some one else, does the
shell impress you more than the starr" In
some respects yes, because can handle the
shell and closely study the shell, while
cannot handle the star, and II ! study X
must study it at distance OF millions and
millions of miles.
What says some one else ARE you
more impressed by the shell than the flow
err Yes for it has far greater varieties
and far greater richness OF color. as could
show you in thousands of specimens, and
because the shell does not fade as does the
rose leaf, but maintains its beauty century
after century, so that the onycha which the
hoof of pharaoh's horse knocked aside In
the chase of the Israelites across the Red
sea may have kept its luster to this hour
Yes, they are so particolored and many col
ored that you might pile them up until
YOU would have wall with all the colors
of the wall of heaven, from the jasper at
the bottom to the amethyst at the top.
Oh, the shellsl The petrifed foam of the
yea Oh, the shells The hardened bubbles
of the deep Oh, the shellsl which are the
diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of
the continents How the shells are ribbed,
grooved, cylindered, notified. iridescentl
They were used as coin by some OF the nd
lions They were fastened in belts by 9th
ers and made in handles OF wooden nipple
ments by still others. Mollusks not only
of the sea. but mollusks of the land. Do
Won know how much they have had to do
with the worlds history They saved the
church OF God from extinguishment. The
Israelites marched out OF Egypt 100000
strong, besides hocks and herds.
The Bible says 1.-THE people took their
dough before it was leavened, their knead.
ing troughs being bound up in the clothes
on their shoulders. They were thrust forth
out of Egypt and could not tarry; neither
had they prepared for themselves any vic
tuals.r Just think OF i'll Forty years in
the wilderness. Infdelity triumphantly
asks. How could they live 40 years in the
wilderness without food? You say mamma
fell Oh. that was after long while. They
would have starved so times before the
mamma fell. The fact is, they were chiefly
kept alive by the mollusks of the land or
sheIled creatures Mr.. Fronton and Mr.
Sicard took the same route from Egypt to
ward Canaan that the Israelites took. and
they give this as their testimony
FOOD IN THE DESERT.
Although the children Of Israel must
have consisted of about 100000 souls,
with baggage and innumerable hocks and
herds, they were not likely to experience
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