Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-01-23

Cutheans Arc Not All Dead Yot.
WASHINGTON, JAN I'm the prosi-
dents church and before an audience i'll
which were prominent senators aud
members of the house OF representatives
and people of all nationalitios this dis
course of sublime encouragement was
delivered. Dr. Talmage's subject was
"Storlning tho Heights" and his text
Zcchariah iv, 7: "Who art thou, o
great mountain? Before Zerubbabel
thou shalt become plain. y
Zerubbabcl! Who owned that difficult
name, in which three times the letter
"b" occurs, disposing most people to
stalnmer in the pronunciation? Zerub-
babel was tho splendid man called to
rebuild tho destroyed temple at Jerusa-
lem. Stone for the building Ind boon
quarricd, and the trowel had rung at tho
laying of the cornerstone, and all went
well, when the CuthGans offered to help
in the work. They were bad lot of
people, and Zerubbabel declined their
holp, and then the trouble began The
Cuthnans prejudiced the secretary of the
treasury against Zorubbabel, so that tho
wages of tho carpenters and masons
could not be paid, and tho heavy cedar
| timbcrs which had been dragged from
Mount Lebanon to the Mediterranean
and noated in RATS from Beirut to
.Ioppa and were to bo drawn by OK team
from Joppa to Jerusalem had halted,
and as q result of tho work of those
jealous Cuthnans for 16 years the build
ing Of tho temple was stopped. But
after l6 years Zerubbabol, tho mighty
soul, got new call from God to go
ahead with tho temple building, and
tho angel of the Lord in substance said:
They have piled up obstacles i'll the
way OF Zerubbabel until they have be-
come as a mountain, height above
height, crag above cra2, but it shall all
be thundercd down and made Hat and
smooth as the floor of n house. Who
art thou, 0 great mountain? Before
Zerubbabel thou shall become plain. y
Hcaping Obstacles In the Way.
Well, the CuthTans are not all dead
yet They aro busy i'll every neighbor-
hood ard every city and every nation Of
every age, haaping obstacles in tho way
of the cause of God They have piled
I'D hindraucos above hindrances until
they have become o hill, and the hill
mas become mountain, and the noun
tain has become al Alp, and there it
stands, right in the way of all move
nents for the world S salvation. SoiGo
people are so discouraged about tho
height and breadth of this mountain IN
front of them that they have done notA.
ing for l6 years, and many of those VINO
are at work tr!ing to do something to-
ward removing the mountain toll in
such q way that can see they have not
much faith that the mountain of him
ORANGES will ever be removed. They feel
they must do their duty, but they feel
all the time-I can hear 1t i'll their
prayers and exhortations-that they are
striking their pckaXes and shovels Tito
the side of the Rocky mountains. If the
good Lord will help me while preach,
will give you the names of some of tho
high mountains which are really I'll the
way and then show you that those
mountains are to be Frustrated, torn
down, ground up, leyeied, put out of
sight forever. "Who art thou, o great
mountain? Before Zeru bbabel thou shalt
become plain. y
First, there is tho morntain of preju-
dice, as long as range of the Pyreneoa.
Prejudice against the Bible as u dull
book, an Inconsistent book, a cruel
book, an unclean book and III every way
az unfit book. The most OF them have
never read it. They think the strata Of
the rocks contradict the account i'll Gen
esis. The poor souls do not know that
the Mosaic account agrees exactly with
the geological account. No violin or
flute ever was in better accord. By
crowbar and picka1e and shovel and
blasting powder the geologist goes down
in the earth and gays, '"The first thing
created in the furnishing of the earth
was the plants. Moses says, "Aye, 1
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. y
The geologist gees on digging in the
earth and says, 1.-The next thing Ill the
furnishing Of the earth was the making
of the creatures of the sea. F" Moses
says, AYE, told you that was next in
the book of Genesis, God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundanty the NOV
ing creatures that have life, and God
created great whales. y 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 tho beasts of the field. "
Confirming the Scriptures.
AYE" says Moses, 81 told you that
was next in the first chapter of Genesis,
And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle and creeping thing and beast Of
the earth, after his kind. The geolo-
gist goes on digging IN the earth and
says, 1.-the next creature was the hu-
man family" AYE" says Moses, Il
told yen that was next in the book Of
Genesis, $50 God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female, created he
them. - Those prejudiced against the
Bible do not know that the explorations
in Egypt and Palestine and Syria are
confirming the Scriptures-the same
facts written on monuments and on the
walls of exhumed cities as written in
the Bible. The city of Pithom has been
unburied, and its bricks are found to
have been made without straw, exactly
corresponding with the Bible story of
the prosecuted Hebrews. On terra Gotta
o-l;udor recnntlv hrnt1pht m from