Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-27
REV, DR., TALMAGE,
The Eminent Divine's SUNDAY
Discourse.
Subject: ''Stormins the Heights"

-Zechariah iv.. T.
Zerubbabel. Who ownei that diflcui,
name in which three times the letter ''b' oc
curs, disposinG most people to staumer In
the pronunciation: Zerubh abel was tht
splendid man called to rebuild the destroyed
temple OF Jerusalem. Stone for the buildtni
had been quarried. and he trowei had run2 al
the laying Of tn. cornerstone. and AL went
We'll. when the Cuib;Pans offered TO help in
the work. They were n bad lot o. people
and Lerubbabal declined their help, and ther
III. trouble began. The Cuth%sns preju-
diced the secretary of the treasury agains,
Zerubbabei. 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 In RATS from Beirut to Joppa and
were 10 be drawn by OF team from Jot pa to
Jerusalem had halted, and "a a result OF the
work OF those jealous CuthRsn< for six teen
y ars the building OF the enpie Was stopped
But after sixteen years Zerubbabei. the
mighty soul, got a new call from God 10 20
ahead with the temple building. and the
angel fihe Lord in sub-tance said: They
have piled up obstacles in the way of Zerub
babel until they have become as a mountain
height above beigh;. crac above cra9 bur II
shalt all be thun':erei down and ma ie fat
and smooth AS the toor OF house. Who
art thou, . great mountain? Before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become u piain.'''
Well, the Cuib@1ns are not all dead vet.
They are busy in every neighborhOoi and
every city and every Nation OF every age,
heapine obstacles in the way OF the cause OF
God. They have piled up hindrances above
hindrances until they have become a hill.
and the hill has become mountain, and the
mountain has become AN Alp. and there II
stands. right in the way OF all moveme nts
Tor the worlds salvation. Some people are
SO discouraged about the height and breadth
of this mountain In front of them that they
have dome nothing for nA
many OF those who are at work trying to do
somet hing toward removing the mountain
toll in such a way that can see they have
not much faith that the mountain of him
drances will ever he removed, They feel
they mus, do their duty. but they feel all the
time-i can hear it in their prayers and ex.
hortations-that they are striking their
pickaxes and shoveis into the sides OF the
Rocky Mountains. If the good Lord will
help me while preach. will give you the
names of some of the hiSn mountains W hich
are really in the way and then show you that
those mountains are to be prcsirated. 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 prejudice,
as lone as n range of the Pyrenees. Preju-
dice against the Bible "a Il duh book, tn IN
consistent book, Il cruel book. An unclean
book, and in every way an UNFIT book. The
most ofthem have never read it. They think
the strata ofthe rocks contradict the account
in Genes :. The poor souls DO not know
that the Mosaic account agrees exactly with
the geological account. No violin or 1ute
ever was in better accord. By crowbar and
pickax ard 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:
Aye, told you that in the book of Gone.
n
yielding seed after his kind and the tree
yielding fruit. The geologist goes on
digging in the earth and says: The next
thing in the furnishing OF the earth was .he
making OF the creatures OF the sea. Moses
says: age, 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.
'The next thing in the furnishing OF the earth
was the creation of the cattle, and the rep
tiles and the beasts OF the field" Aye"
says Moses. told you that was next in the
ffrst chapter of Genesis, And God said. Let
the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle and creeping things,
and beasts OF the earth after his kind"
The geologist goes on digging in the earth
and says, "The next creature was the human
family" AYE" says Moses. II told you
that was next in the book OF Genesis, 80
God created man in His own image, In the
image of God created He him; male and fe-
male, created He them" Those prejudicsd
against the Bible do not know that the explor-
ations 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 Bibis. The
city of Pithom has been unburiei, and its
bricks are found to have been made without
straw, exactly corresponding with the Bibls
- A.. m Il.
Gotta cylinder, recently brought up from
thousands of years of burial, the capture Of
Babylon by Cyrus is told. On Babyionian
gem recently found are the figures of a tree.
B man, woman and a serpent, and the
hands OF the man and woman are stretched
up toward the tres rs to pluck the fruit.
Thus the Bible story of the fall is confirmed.
In a museum at Cons antinople you see a
piece Of the wall that ones in the ancient
temple OF Jerusalem separated the court Of
the Gentiles and the court OF the Israelites.
to which Paul refers when he SANS Of Christ.
HE is our peace, Who hath broker down the
middle wall Of partition between u.s." On
tablets recently discovered have been found
the names OF promin. ut men OF the Bible,
spelled little different, according to the
demands OF ancient Language. "Adamu"
for Adam, ''Abramn" for Abr,ham, "Ablu"
for Abel aud SO on. Tw-nty-two L.. unier.
ground has been found seal inscribed with
the words, "Haggai. son of Shebaniah,"
thousands OF years ago cut, showing that
the Prophet Haggai, who wrote part Of the
Bible. was NOT a 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
were furnished BY Hiram, King of Tyre Just
rs the Bible says they were. Th- great names
Of Bible history, that many suppose are
names of imaginary heings. are found cut
into imperishable s;onns which have within
few years been rolled up from their
entombment of ages. such as Ssnnacherb
and Tiglaih-Piieser. On the edge OF a
brouzed step ana on burned brick has been
found the name of NebuchannpZzar. Henry
Rawlinson and Oppett and Hicks and Pales-
tine exploration societies and AssyrioloSsts
and Egyptolog SIS have rollei another Bible
up from the depths of the earth, and 10! 1t
corresponds exactly with our Bible, the rock
Bible just like the printed Bible, inscrip-
tions on cylinders and brickwork cut
$500 years before Christ testifying
to the truth of what We read 1897
years after Christ. The story of the tower
of Babel has been confirmed by the fact that
recently at Babel an oblong pile of brick 10
feet high evidences the remains OF u fallen
tower. in the inspired book of Ezra We
read of the great and noble Asnapper, a name
that meant nothing especial until recently
in pried up Egyptian sculpture We have
the story there told OF him as great hunter
as well as a great warrior. What say now
is news to those prejudiced against the Bible.
They are so far behind the times that they
know not that the old book Is being proved
true by the prying eve of the antiquarian
and the ringing hammer OF the arehseologist
and the piunGing hammer of the geoIogist
No more is infideiity characterized by its
blasphemy than Dy its ignorance, but, OIL
what a high mountain Of prejudice against
the Bible, against Christianity. against
churches, against all eSangeifzing enter
prises-a mountain that casts its long black
shadows over this continent and over all
continents! Geographers tell us that Mount
Everest is the highest mountain In the world
Oh, no! The mountain Of prejudice agains
Christianity is higher than the highest crag
that dare the lightnings OF heaven. b" or
Zerubbabe'. can 1t ever become plain?
Another mountain Of hindrance is that o
positive and outspoken immorals. There
the mountain of inebriacy. II IL piled Will
kegs and demijohns and decanters, ana hogs
heads, on which sit the victims Of that traf
dc whose one business u to rob earth AMI