The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21
REL. 1ILAlGF'S SUNDAY SERMON.
4 GOSPEL MESSAGE,
Subject: "Stormlng the Heights"

TEXT: "Who art thou, o great mountain?
Before Zerubbabelthou shalt beconea plain"
--Zechariah iv., z.
Zerubbabell Who owned that difficult
name in which three times the letter ''b" &C.
ours, ~disposing most people to TANNER I'm
the pronunciation? Zerubhabel was the
splendid man called to rebuild the DESTROYED
temple oil Jerusalem. Stone for the building
mad been quarrled, andthetrowel had rung at
the laying OF tho cornerstone, and all went
well, when the Cuthnans offered to help in
the work. They were u bad lot OF people,
and Z~erubbabel declined their help, aud then
the trouble began. The Cuthmans preju-
diced the secretary OF the treasury against
Zerubbabel. so that the wages of the carpen-
tiers and masons could not be paid. and the
heavy cedar timbers which had been dragged
from Mount Lebanon to the Mediterranean
and noated liz Rats from Beirut to Joppa and
were TO be drawn by OK team from Jorpa to
Jerusalem had halted, and ms q result Of the
work OF those jealous CuthmanS for sixteen
Y airs the building OF the temple was stopped.
But after sixteen years Zerubbabel. the
mighty soul, got Il new call from God to go
ahead with the temple building, and the
anger ofthe Lord In substance said: "They
nave pied up obstacles in the way OF Zerub-
oaoel until they have become as a mcu ltain,
ne ght above height. crag above crag, but it
snail all be thun,,ered down and made flat
anu smooth rs h floor OF n house. 'Who
art thou, U great mountain Before Zerub-
paDei thou shalt become u plain"
well, the Cuihmans ars not all dead vet.
Ihey are bus in every neighborhood aud
every city and every Nation OF every age,
heapinS obstacles in the way OF the cause OF
God. They have piled up hindrances above
hlnirances until they have become n hill,
ana the hill has become n mountain, andthe
mountain mas become an Alp, and there il
STANDS. right in the way OF all moyemen ts
lof the worlds salvation. Some people ARE
SO discouraged about the height and breadth
OF this mountain in front of them that they
nave done nothing for sixteen yetrs, and
many OF those who are ut work trying TO do
something toward removing the mountain
toll IN such Il way that | can SEQ they have
not much faith that tine mountain OF him
ORANGES will ever DO removed, They feel
they must do their duty, but they feel all the
i'me-l can hear 1t in their prayers and ex-
horiatlons-that they are striking their
pickaNe5 and shovels into the sides OF the
Rocky Mountains. IL tho good Lord will
heIp me while l preach. | will give ynn The
names OF some OF the high mountains which
are really in tho way ami then show YOU that
those mountains are to be- pros,rated. torn
''"h' up, iNNcl'u. pun Out OF SlEnt
forever. WHO art thou. o great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain"
first, there Is the mountain OF prejudice,
as lone as n range of the Pyrenees. Preiu-
dice against the Bible as u dull book, an in
consistent book, II cruel book. an unclean
DOCK, anu in every way an unit book. The
most ofthem have never read 1t. They think
thestrata ofthe rocks contra iict the account
IN deness. h poor souls do not know
that the Mosaic account agrees exactly with
the geological account. No vio.in or flute
ever was in better accord. BY crowbar and
pickax and shovel aud blasting powder the
geoioglst goes down IN the earth and SAYS:
.Ihe nrst thing created in the furnishing OF
mo earth was the plants" Moses SAYS:
AYE, told you that in the book of Gone.
SIS. The earth brought forth grass and herb,
yielding seed after his kind and the tree
y!eiilhS irult. The geologist goes on
digging in the earth and says: 1.-THE next
ming IN the furnishing OF the earth was tho
making OF the creatures Of the sea-" Moses
says: aye. told you that was next IN the
DOCK OF Genesis. God said. Let tho waters
Dring forth abundantly the moving creatures
mat have life, and Goi created great
whales" ~
The g~eologist goes on digging and saws,
line next thing in the furnishing OF the earth
was the creation OF the cattle, and tho rep
tiles and the beasts of the field" "Ayp,"
says Moses. l told you that was next in the
nrst chapter Of Genesis, And God said, Let
the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle ami creeping things,
anu beasts OF the earth after his kind"
IN geoloGist goes on digging in the earth
ana says, "The next creature was the human
lamily." "Aye.' says Moses. =. told YOU
that was next in tho book OF Genesis, so
created man in His own image, in tho
image of God created He him; male and fe-
male. created He them" Those prejuticcd
against the Bible do not know that tho cxplor-
atoms in Egypt and Palestine an 4 Syria are
confirming the Scriptures--ihe SAINT facts
written on monuments and on the walls OF
exhumed cit ,es rs written in the BiUle. Tho
city OF Pithom has been unUur!eL, and its
Dicks are found to have been made without
straw, exactly corresponding with the Bibls
story OF the prosecuted Hebrews. On terra
Gotta cylinder, recently brought up from
thousands OF years of burial, the capture OF
Babylon by Cyrus is told. On a Blbyionidn
gem recently found are the figures OF II tree,
u man, a woman and n serpent, and the
hands OF the man and woman are stretched
up toward the tree MS to puck the fruit.
Thus the Bible story of the fall is coi.ilrned.
In n museum at Constantinople you see II
piece OF the wall that ones in tho ancient
temple OF Jerusalem separated the court Of
the Gentiles and the court OF the Isrlrlitrs,
10 which Paul refers when he SANS of Christ,
IL is our peace, Who hath broken down tho
middle wall OF partition between us" On
tablets recently discovered have been found
the names OF prominent men Of tn, Bible,
spelled u little different, according to the
demands Of ancient language. "Alamu"
for Adam, ''Abramn" for Abraham. "Ablu'
for Abel. and so on. TWENTY wo feet un ier-
ground has been found Il seal inscribed with
the words, 'Haggai, son Of Shebaniah,"
OF years ago cut, showing that
the Prophet Haggai, who wrote Il part OF the
Bible. was not II myth.
The royal engineers have found. eighty !
feet below the surface of the ground at
Jerusalem. Phpnician pottery and hewn
stones with inscriptions showing that they I
We're furnished by Hiram, King OF Tyre. just
the Bible says they were. The great names
ot Bible history, that many suppose are /
names OF imaginary beings, "re found cut 1
into imperishable stones which have within
a few years been rolled up from their
entombment Of ages, such AS Sennacherib d
and Tiglath-Pilrser. On tho edge OF II s
step and on burned brick has been I
foundt the name OF Nebuchainrzzar. Henry |
Rawlinson and Oppett and Hicks aud Piles- !
tine exploration societies and Assyriologists {