The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-29
DR.. Talmage Addresses Himself to
the Nations Law-Makers.
All the Elements as Nothing Compared to
the Power OF the AImlghty-No
Power So Great as His
UnbendiuR Will

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Zerubbabel was the splendid MAJ
call to rebuild the destroyed temple o
Jerusalem. Stone for the building
had been quarried, and the trowel haC
rung at the laying of the cornerstone
and all went well, when the Cuthaean
offered to help in the work. They
were a bad lot of people, and Zeru b
babel declined their help, and ther
the trouble began. The Cuthaeani
prejudiced the secretary of the treas
ury against Zerubbabel, so that the
wages of the carpenters and mason,
could not be paid, and the heavy
cedar timbers which had beer
dragged from Mount Lebanon to the
Mediterranean and hoated in raft:
from Beyrout to Joppa, and were t
be drawn by OK team from Joppa t.
Jerusalem, had halted and as a result
of the work of those jealous Cuthaeaus
for 16 years the building of the temple
was stopped. But after 10 years, Ze
rubbabel, the mighty soul, got 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 Ze
rubbabel until they have become as a
mountain, height above height, crag
above crag; but it shall all be thun,
dered down and made fat and smooth
as the floor of a house. "Who art thou,
D great mountain? before Zerubbabel
thou shall become a plain"
Well, the Cuthaeans are not all dead
yet. They are busy in every neigh
borhOod and every city and every ma
ton of every age, heaping obstacles IN
the way of the cause of God. They
have piled up hindrances above hind
RANGES until they have become hill,
and the hill has become a mountain,
and the mountain has become an Alp,
and there it stands, right in the way
of all movements for the worlds saliva.
ton. 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 a
way that can see they have not much
faith that the mountain of hindrances
will ever be removed. They feel they
must do their duty, but they feel all
the time-I can hear it in my prayers
and exhortations-that they are strik-
ing their pickaxes and shovels into the
side of the Rocky mountains. If the
good Lord will help me while / preach
/ 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 Zerubbabel
thou shalt become a plain
First, there is the Mountain of Pref
udice, as long as a range of the Pyre-
nees. Prejudice against the Bible as
dull book, an inconsistent book, q
cruel book, an unclean book, and in
every way an unfit book. The most
of them have never read it. They
think the strata of the rocks contra
dict the account in Genesis. The poor
souls do not know that the Mosaic ac-
count agrees exactly with the geolog-
ical account. No violin or flute ever
were in better accord. BY crowbar
and pickaX and shovel and blasting
powder the geologist goes down in the
earth and says: The first thing
created in the furnishing of the
earth was the plants" Moses says:
"Ay! l 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 says: 1.-The next thing
in the furnishing of the earth was the
making of the creatures of the sea-"
Moses says: GAY! 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: 1.-The next
thing in the furnishing of the
earth was the creation of the cattle
ann the reptiles and the beasts OF the
field" "Ay" says Moses. II 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 geologist goes on dig
ging in the earth and says" 1.-The
next creature was the human family"
ayr says Moses, II told you that was
next in the book of Genesis: t'So God
created man in His own image, in the
image of God created he him; male
and female, created He them"
Another mountain of hindrence is
that of positive and outspozen immor-
ais There is the Mountain of In
ebriacy. 1t is piled high with kegs
and demi Johns and decanters and
hogsheads, on which sit the victims of
that traffic whose one business is to
rob earth and Heaven of the most gen.
erous and large-hearted and splendid
of the human race. If their business
was to take only the mean and stingy
and contemplate and useless, we
would not not say much against the
work, for there are tens of thousands
of men and women who are a nuisance
to the world, and their obliteration
from human society would be an ad-
vantage to all that is good. The re-
moval of these moral deficits would
not arouse in us much of a protest.
But insobriety takes the best. The
W ay of the Kingdom of God, and hun
dreds of thousands of men, but for
that hindrance, would step right into
the ranks of the Lords host and march
beavenward, each one taking a regi-
ment with him The mountain of In
e briacy is not an ordinary mountain,
but IL is armed. 1t is line of fortresses
continually blazing away it's destruct-
i've forces upon all our neighborhoods,
towns and cities, their volleys OF death
poured down upon the homes and
churches. Under this power more
than 100, 600 men and women in this
country are every year imprisoned,
and an army of eo0,Oo0 drunkards al
roast sh aka the earth with THAR stag.