The times., 1897-12-20

Rev. DIR. Talmage preached yesterday
morning ON Geology OF the Bible," or God
Among tie Rocks" it being the seventh
acriIIon ot the series on "1ua EiSewh here
Or Iainage quoted from the bihle the story
oi how Cou s,nutc UZzah, aud said In part:
A banu OF music is coming down the road,
cornets Diown, titnbreis struck, harps
thrnhiliied, aIIu cynlnas clapped, all led
on DS i'iivlu, VINO was himself a musician.
ihey are aueau OF a wagon on which is
Tile sacred bon called the ARK" The yoke
OF oxen drawing the wagon inperied il.
,oolie critics Sd tilat heoxeI kicKea, being
struck with tue drivers gpad, but my
4>i4o1. leost Uf oAeH i,aas me 10 say that If
Oh ROT uay they see Il shadow OF a tree
"a " al, they are apt To suddenly shy otI
10 get the cooincss or the sitaaow. | think
tuesenAeh Ststiuurnlg turneutnattne sacred
i'oN seemed about to upset aud be thrown
To the ground. UZZah rushed forw ard and
idiu hom ot the ark to keep it upright.
but lac fan no right to 90 20. a special
couiInand haa been given by the LORD that
no one, save The priest, under any circunl-
stances snouiu toucn that LON. Nervous,
ana excited and irreyerent, UZZah dis
ooeyeu " IeE lie took hold OF the ark, and ne
aied a. a consequence. In all ages, and
never more 70 tnau in our DAY, there are
good people all the time afraid that the
Itoiy BpIe, which IL the sacred ark of our
uuIe, will he upset, ana tney have been Il
long while afraid that science, and es-
pecIaiIy geology, would overthrow it.
While we are net forbidden to touch the
Holy Book, and" on the contrary, are
urged To fonuIe and study it, any one who
is afraid OF the overthrow of the Book Is
greatly Offending the LORD with his un-
belief. The oxen have not yet been yoked
which can upset that ark OF the worlds
sairation. Mrltten by the LORD Almighty,
lie is gong To protect II until its mission
is fulfilled ana there shan be no more
need Of a Bihie, because all its prophecies
will have been falfilled and the human race
VIII have exchanged worlds.
But for years good people feared seol-
oGy. ana, without any innlioration on ttcir
part, apprenenued that the rocks and
mountains would fall on them, un,il Hugh
Mntcr, the eiuer uI ST, John S Presbyterian
Church i'll Edinburgh, and parishiuner Of
| Or. Guthrie, came forth aud told the world
| that there was 40 contradiction between
| the mountains and the church, and q.
II. Mitchell, a brilliant lecturer before
| he became brigadier general, dying at
Beaufort, :. C., during our civil war,
| took the platform ana spread his map oil
| the strata o3 rock in tte pres ence OF great
audiences, and Prof. Alexander Winchell,
OF Mich1gal University, and PrUf. Taylor
| Lewis, OF Union College, showed that the
without form and void of tue first chap
| ter of Genesis was the very chaos out OF
which the world was formulated, the
hands Of God packing together the land,
and tossing up the mountains into great
heights, and tlInging down the seas into
| their great depths.
fsTit you 90 not really believe that story
| of the burning of our world at the last
day? Geology digs down and finds that
| the world is already on fire, and that the
center of the globe l. incandeScent, mol
| ten, volcanic, burning coal, burning out
| towards the surface, aud the internal Tires
| have 30 lar reached the outside rim that
| do not see how the world is To keep froiu
| complete conflacaJion until the prophe-
| cfes concerning 1t are fulfilled. The lava
| poured forth from the mouths of EeSuvius,
| Mount EtBa, and COtopaXi, and hilauea
| il cnly the Reorganization from an awful IN
! flamlnatinn thousands of miles deep.
| There are mines in Pennsylvania ana III
| several parts of the world that have been
on fire for many years. These coal mines
| burning down ana The internal fires Of the
| earth burning up,,after "a while these two
| fires The descending and the ascending,
! win meet, aud then viii occur the unirer-
| sal conflagation OF which the Bible speaks,
| when il saws, The elements shall melt
! with fervenl heat: tile earth also, and the
works that are there shah be burned up.