Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-29
ACooMAC c. H, VA. SATURDAY, JULY
4 DIsARMED PEOPLE.

EA DISARMED PEOPLE.
For. TALMAGE FINDS a LESSON IN
THE suBJUGATED lsRAELlTE.
isThe Church of Today Bias Allowed tho In
f. fldels to Assume Too Much In Science
and Literature-weNe Need Moro Mon Like
6 Agassiz, Sslliman and Hitchcock.
/ MADISON, Wis, July 93.-The great
kthrong of many thousands from all parts
sof the north and west are gathered at
the Monona Lake assembly, q Chautau-
Equa held near this city. Rev. DR.. Tai
image this forenoon preached to the great
Isnultitude on "Sharpened Axes, the text
|::being ISamuel xiii, 1921, "Now, there
svas no smith found throughout all the
Gland of Israel" etc.
81 My loving and glad salutation to this
:.uncounted host, Chautauquans, Chris
S{stian Endeavorers, gospel workers and
Etheir friends from all parts of Wisconsin
eand America, saints and sinnersl My
sstext is gloriously appropriate. What o
sgalling subjugation the Israelites were
ssuferingl The Philistines had carried
k6H all tho blacksmiths Ind torn down
Ea1l the blacksmiths' shops and abolished
sthe blacksrnith's trade in the land OF
EIsrael.
q These Philistines had @ particular
tsgrudge against blacksmiths, although l
shave always admired them and have
'ssometimes thought ought to have been
Zone myself. The Philistines would not
t;seyen allow these parties to work their
Ssyaluable mines Of brass and iron, nor
Efssnight they make any swords or spears.
fThere were only two swords left in all
1.-the land. Yea, these Philistines went on
Runtil they had taken all the grindstones
|sfrom the land of Israel, so that If an
FssIsraelitish farmer wanted to sharpen his
lsplow or his ak he had to go over to
1.-THE garrison of the Philistines to get it
isdone. There was only one sharpening
tinstrument left in tho land, and that was
|sa Tile: The farmers and the mechanics
having nothing to whet up, the coulter.
|sand the goad, and the pickax save q
simple file, industry was hindered and
|, work practically disgraced.
The greatiidea Of these Philistines was
ESto keep the Israelites disarmed. They
might get iron out of the hills to make
Isswords of, but they would not have any
|:blaoEsmiths toweld this iron. If they
ssgot the iron welded, they would have no
|sgrindstones on which to bring the in
sstruments of agriculture or the military
|sweapons up to an edge. Oh, you poor,
fsweaponless Israelit4s, reduced to file,
howl pity you'll But these Philistines
were, not forever to keep their heel on
THE neck of Gods children. Jonathan,
Lon his hands and knees, climbs up q
Egreat rock beyond which were the Phil
|sistines, land, his armor bearer, on his
hands and knees, climbs up the same
|sTock, and thesestwo men, with their two
Swords. :hew to pieces the Philistires,
|sthe Lord throwing q great terror upon
|sthem. Soitwas then; so it is now. The
two men. of God ON their knees mightier
than Philistine host on their feet,
A CHURCH WITHOUT wEAPoNs.
s. 7 learn first from this subject how dan
Fgerrious- tits for the church Of God to al
Nlowits weapons TO, stay in the.hands of
ans1nies: This g. eiiiitss mig htagain
and again have obtained q supply of
swords and weapons, as, for instance,
when they took the spoils of the AMI
monites, but these 1sraolites seemed con-
tent to have no swords, no spears, no
blaoksmiths, no grindstones, no active
iron mines, until it was too late for them
to make any resistance. I see the farm
ers Juggling along with their pickaxes
and plows, and 1 say, "Where are you
going with those things?' They say,
"Oh, we are going over to the garrison of
the Philistines to get these things sharp
ened." / say, "You foolish men; why
don't sharpen them at homer" "Oh."
they say, "tho blacksmiths' shops are all
torn down, and we have nothing left us
but file"
So it Is in the church of Christ today.
We are too willing to give up our weap-
ons to the enemy. The world boasts
that it hassgobbled up the schools, and
the colleges, and the arts, and the sci
ences, and the literature, and the print
ing press. Infidelity is making mighty
attempt to get all our weapons in its
hand and then to. keep them. You know
1t is making this boast all the time, and
after awhile, when the great battle be-
tween sin and righteousness has opened,
if we do not look out we will be as badly
off az these Israelites, without any
swords to fight with and without any
sharpening instruments.
call upon the superintendent of lit
erary institutions to see to it that the
men who go into the classrooms to stand
beside the Leyden jars, and the electric
batteries, and the microscopes or tele-
scopes be children of God, not Philis-
tines. The atheistic thinkers of this day
are trying to get all the Intellectual
weapons Of this century in their own
grasp. What wewant Is scientific Chris
tians to capturethe science, and scholas-
tic Christians to capture the scholarship,
and philosophic Christians to capture
the philosophy, and lecturing Christians
to take back the lecturing platform.
THE WEAPONS OF sclENcE.
We want to send out against Schenkei
and Strauss and Renan of the past men
like the late Theodore Christlieb of Bonn,
and against the inidel scientists God
worshiping Silliman and Hitchcock and
Agassiz. We want to capture all the
philosophical apparatus and swing
around the telescopes on the swivel I'M
til through them we can see the morn
ing star OF the Redeemer, and with min
eralog1cal hammer discover the Crock
of Ages and amid the fora Of the
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