Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-21
MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS.
THEY ARE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY
OF CHRISTIAN PROGRESS.

dents church and before an audience in
which were prominent senators and men,
hers of the house of representatives and
people Of all nationalities this discourse Of
sublime encouragement was delivered. Dr.
Talmage's subject was "Storming the
Heights" and his text Zechariah iv, z:
"Who art thou, o great mountainP Be-
fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain"
Zerubbabel Who owned that difficult
name in which three times the letter "b"
occurs, disposing most people to stammer
in the pronunciation? Zerubbabel was the
splendid man called to rebuild the de-
stroyed temple of Jerusalem. Stone for
the building had been quarrfed and the
trowel had rung at the laying of the cor
nerstone, and all went we'll, when the
Cutheans offered to help in the work.
They were bad lot of people, and Zerub-
babel declined their help, and then the
trouble began. The Cuth@ans preiudiced
the secretary of the treasury against Zerub-
babel, so that the wages of the carpenters
and masons could not be paid, and the
heavy cedar timbers which had been drag
ged from Mount Lebanon to the Mediter-
ranean and foated in RATS from Beirut
20 Joppa and were to be drawn by OK
team from Joppa to Jerusalem had halt
ed, and as result of the work of those
Jealous Cuth9ans for 16 years the build
ing of the temple was stopped. But after
16 years Zerubbabel, the mighty soul, got
a new call from God to go ahead with the
temple building, and the angel of the Lord
In substance said: "They have piled up
obstacles in the way Of Zerubbabel until
they have become as mountain, height
above height, crag above crag, but it shall
all be thundered down and made fiat and
smooth as the floor of house. who art
thou, o great mountain? Before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become a plain"
Not All Dead Yet.
Well, the Cuth@ans are not all dead yet.
They are busy in every neighborhood and
every city and every nation of every age,
heaping obstacles in the way Of the cause
of God. They have piled up hindrances
above hindrances until they have become a
hill, and the hill has become mountain,
and the mountain has become an Alp, and
there it stands right In the way of all
movements for the world salvation. Some
people are so discouraged about the height
and breadth of this mountain in front of
them that they have done nothing for 16
years, and many of those who are at work
trying to do something toward removing
the mountain toll in such way that can
see they have not much faith that the
mountain of hindrances will ever be re-
moved. They feel they must do their duty,
but they feel all the time-I can hear it in
their prayers and exhortations-thatt they
are striking their pickaxes and shovels into
the side of the Rocky mountains. If the
good Lord will help me while preach, I
will give you the names Of some of the high
mountains which are really in the way
and then show you that those mountains
are to be Frustrated, torn down, ground up,
leveled, put out of sight forever. "Who art
thou, o great mountain? Before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become plain.
First, there is the mountain of preju-
dice, as lone as a range of the Pyrenees.
Prejudice against the Bible as dull book,
an inconsistent book, cruel book, an un-
clean book and in every way an unfit book.
The most of them have never read it. They
think the strata of the rocks contradict the
account in Genesis. The poor souls do not
know that the Mosaic account agrees ex-
actly with the geological account. No Vio-
lin or flute ever was in better accord. By
crowbar and pickax and shovel and blast
Ing powder the geologist goes down in the
earth and says, 1.-The first thing created in
the furnishing of the earth was the
plants" Moses says: "Aye, told you
that in the book of Genesis, The earth
brought forth grass and herb, yielding seed
after his kind and the tree yielding fruit. ~
The geologist goes on digging in the earth
and says, "The next thing in the furnish.
| ing of the earth was the making of the
creatures of the sea-" Moses says: "Aye,
I told you that was next in the book Of
| Genesis. God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creatures that
have life, and God created great whales ~
The geologist goes on digging and says
"The next thing in the furnishing of the
| earth was the creation of the cattle, and
the reptiles, and the beasts of the field. y
"Aye," says Moses. "I told you that was
next in the first chapter of Genesis, And
God said, Let the earth bring forth thu
| living creature after his kind, cattle ant
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after
his kind. Z" The geologist goes on dig
ging in the earth and says, "The next
creature was the human family" "Aye,
says Moses "I told you that was next il
the book of Genesis, So God created mar
| in his own image, in the image of Coo
created he him; male and female, created
he them.'" Those prejudiced against th'
Bible do not know that the exploration
| f,, v,& md Dol Ioctino Svrta or
firming the Scriptures-the same fact
written on monuments and on the wall
of exhumed cities as written in the Bible
The city of Pithom has. been unburied
and its bricks are found to have been mad
| without straw, exactly corresponding will
the Bible story of the prosecuted Hebrews
| On terra Gotta cylinder, recently brough
up from thousands of years of burial, tn
capture of Babylon by Cyrus is told Oh
a Babylonian gem recently found are tn
/ figures of tree, man, woman and
| serpent, and the hands of the man an,
woman are stretched up toward the tire
as If to pluck the fruit. Thus the Bibl
story of the fall is confirmed
A High Mountain.
In q museum at Constantinoplo you se
4 piece of the wall that once in the ancien
temple of Jerusalem separated the cour
of the Gentiles and the court of the Israel
ties, to which Paul refers when he says O
Christ, He is our peace, who hath brokel
down the middle wall of partition betwee
us. On tablets recently discovered hav
been found the names of prominent me-
of the Bible, spelled a little different, &C
cording to the demands of ancient Ian
guage. "Adamu" for Adam, "Abramn'
for Abraham, "Ablu" for Abel, and s
on. Twenty-Five feet underground ha
been found seal inscribed with the words
"Haggai, son of Shebaniah, " thousands Q
years ago cut, showing that the Prophe
Haggai, who wrote a part of the Bible
was not myth.
n The royal engineers have found, so fee
below the surface of the ground at Jerusa
lem, Ph9nician pottery and hewn stone