The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-12-24
GEOLOGY OF THE BIBLE
The Genesis Story Of The Creation SIN
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sermon b. Rev. Dr. Talmage


Geology Of the Bible. or God Among
the Rocks The text Is IL Samuel,
vi. OF: And when they came to Ma
chon's threshing floor { zzahsput forth
his hand 10 the ark Of God. and took
hold Of il; for The oxen shook IL And
the anger OF the Lord was kindled
against Uzzah, and God smote him
there for his error: and there he died
by the ark Of God.
A land Of music il coming down the
read. comets blown. timbrels struck,
harps thunnied and cymbals clapped,
all led on By David. who was himself
musician They are ahead Of wagon
on whieii is the sacred box called the
ark The yoke OF oxen drawing
the wagon inpcrillcd it. Some crit
les says taat the oxen kicked, being
struck with The drivers goad. but my
knowledge ~ oxen leads me to say
that IL on a hot day they BEE a shadow
OF tree or wall they are apt TO sud-
denly shy off 10 get the GOODNESS Of the
shadow. think these oxen 50 sud
denly turned that the sacred box seem
ed about TO upset and be thrown to the
ground. Uzzah rushed forward and
laid hold of the ark TO keep il upright
Bot he had no right to do so. A special
command had been given by the Lord
that no one, save the priest, under any
circumstances, should touch that box.
Nervous, and excited, and irreverent
Uzzah disobeyed when he took hold of
the ark, and he died as q conse-
quence In all ages, and never more
50 than in our own day, there are good
people all the time afraid that the
Holy Bible, which is the sacred ark Of
our time. will be upset, and they have
been long while afraid that science,
and especially geology, would over
throw it. While we are not forbidden
70 touch the Holy Book. and, on the
contrary, arc urged TO fondle and
study it. any one who is afraid Of the
overthrow OF the Book is greatly Of
Tending the Lord with his unbelief
The oxen have not yet been yoked
which can upset that ark Of the
worlds salvation. Written by the
Lord Almighty, He is going to
protect It until its mission is full
filed, and there shall be no more need
Of Bible, because all its prophecies
will have been fulfilled and the human
race will have exchanged worlds. A
trumpet and a violin are very different
instruments, but they may be played
In perfect accord. So the Bible &C
count of the creation Of the world and
the geological account are differnet
One story written on parchment and
the other on the rocks. and yet in per-
feet and eternal accord. The word
''day." repeated In the first chapter Of
Genesis. has thrown into paroxysms
of criticism many exegeteA The He
brew word "Yom" of the Bible means
sometimes what we call day. and
sometimes it means ages; it may mean
"a hours or a 100, 0OO, 900 years The
order Of creation as written in the
Book Of Genesis is the order Of crea.
ton discovered by the biologists
crowbar. So many Uzzahs have been
nervously rushing about for fear the
strong oxen of scientific discovery
would upset the Bible that went
somewhat apprehensively to look into
the matter. when / found that the
Bible and geology agree in saying that
first were built the rocks; then the
plants greened the earth; then marine
creatures were created, from minnow
TO whale; then the wings and throats
- Il. I'D N,1wr cd
and the quadrupeds began TO bleat
and below and neigh. What is ali
this fuss that has been filling the
church and the world concerning fight
between Moses and Agassiz7 There Is
no fight at all. But is not the geo
logical impression that the world was
millions of years building antagonistiC
TO the theory Of one weeks creation in
Genesis? No great house is TO be
built. A man takes years 10 draw 70
the spot the foundation stone and the
heavy timbers. The house Is about
done, but 1t is not finished for com.
Portable residence. Suddenly the own.
er calls in upholsterers, plumbers, gas
filters, paper hangers, and in one week
It Is ready for occupancy. Now, it re
quires no stretch OF imagination 70 re.
aIize that God could have taken millions
of years for the bringing of the rocks
and the timbers ofthis world together,
vet only one week more 70 make
Il inhabitable and 10 furnish It foI
human residence. Remember also thai
all up and down the Bible the Language
Of the times was used-common par
lance-and it was not always TO b
taken literally. Just as we say every
day that the world Is round, when II Il
not round. Il is Observation-Disclosures
at the poles and protuberant at the
equator. Prof Smell. with his chain o
triangles, and Prof Varin, with thu
shortened pendulum Of his clock, founC
1t was not round; but we do not be
come critical Of any one who says tn
world is round Let us deal as fairlI
with Moses or Job as we do with eacl
other.
But for years good people feareS
geology. and, without any imploratior
on their part, apprehended that th'
rocks and mountains would fall OF
them. until Hugh Miller. the elder o
ST. Johns church in Edinburgh, ant
parishioner of DIR. Guthrie, came fortl
and told the world that there was n,
contradiction between the noun
tains and the church, and o. NJ
Mitchell, a brilliant lecturer befcr
he became a brigadier general, dyinj
ut Beaufort, S. C.. during GU
civil war, took the platform and spreai
his map OF the strata Of rock in tn
presence Of great audiences. and Prof
Alexander Winchell. OF Michigan uni
versity, and Prof. Taylor Lewis. o
Union college. showed that the with
out form and void OF the first ehapte
of Genesis was the very chaos out o
which the world was formulated. tn,
hands Of God packing together tn
land and tossing up the mountains int
great heights. and fiinging down tn
seas into their great depths
Before God gets through with thi
world there will hardly be a book o
the Bible that will not find confrma
tion, either in archaeology or geology
Exhumed Babylon. Nineveh, Jerusa
lem, Tyre and Egyptian hieroglyphic
are crying out in the ears of the world
s.The Bible is right All right Ever
lastingly right" Geology is sayin
the same thing, not only eonfirmin
the truth about the original creation
but confirming SO many passages @
the Scriptures that ! can only slight