The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-22
REV. DIR. M
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY TUE
NOTED DIVINE.
SUBJECT. "storrnlng the Heights.

Text: "Who art thou, o great mountainil
Before Zerubbabelthou shalt becom.ea plain
-Zecharlah w., Z.
Zerubbabei! Who owned that difficult
name in which three times the letter "b" oc-
ours, disposing most people to stammer IN
the pronunciation? Zerubhabel was the
splendid man called to rebuild the dsstroyed
temple Of Jerusalem. Stone for the building
mad been quarried, andthe trewel had ring al
the laying OF the cornerstone, and all went
well, when the CuthEeans offered to help In
the work. They were n bad lot OF people,
and Zerubbabci declined their help, and then
the trouble began. Tn Cdthbans prejd-
diced the secretary OF the treAsury against
zerubbqbel. SO that the wages OF the carpeii-
ters and masons-ecpld NOT be paid, n the
heavy cedar timbers wisse;: BAD l.san dragged
from Mount Lebanon to the Meos.- netis
and floated in RATS from Beirut to Joppa and
were 10 DO drawn by OK team from Jolpa to
Jerusalem had halted, and as a result OF the
work Of those Jealous Cutbdsahs for sixteen
years the Building Of the templs was stopped.
But after Sixteen years zsrnbbabel; the
mighty soul, got d new ealI from God TO go
ahead with thu temple building, and the
angel Of The Lord in substance said; '.They
have piled up obstacles In the way OF Zerub-
babel until they have become as u mountain.
height above height, crag above crag. but Ii
shall all be Numbered down and made fiat
and smooth as the floor of a house. Who
art thou, D great mountain Before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become u plain"
Well. the Cutbnans are not all dead yet.
They are busy In every neighborhood and
every city and every Nation of every age,
heaping obstacles in the way of the cause Of
o They have piled up hindrances above
hindrances until they have become n hill.
and the hill has become a mountain, aud the
mountain has become an Alp, and there 1t
stands. right in the way OF all movements
for the worlds salvation. Some people are
80 discouraged about the height and breadth
OF this mountain In front of them that they
have done nothing for sixteen years, and
many OF those who are at work trying to do
someihing toward removing this mountain
toll in such u way that l cun 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
,in.e.I can hear It in their prayers and ex-
hortations-that they are striking their
pickaxes and shovels into the sides OF tho
Rocky Mountains. II the good Lori will
help me while l preach, l will give you tho
names Of some OF the high mountains which
are really in the way and then show you that
those mountains are TO be prostrated, 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 a range OF the pyrenees- Preiu-
dice against tho Bible rs a dull book, an IN
consistent book, a cruel book. an unclean
book, and in every way an unit book. The
most ofthem have never read 1t. They think
the strata ofthe rocks contradict the account
in Genes g. The poor souls do not kno
that the Mosaic account agrees exactly with
the geological account. No violin or 1ute
ever was in better accord. BY crowhar and
nfakoN ord ahAt-aI and btuatfno ~ ,s~1 N . kl,A
geoioglst 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 boob OF Gone.
Sis. The earth brought forth grass and herb,
yielding seed after his kind and the tree
digging in tho earth and says: ''rhe next
thing in the furnishing OF the earth was tho
making OF the creatures OF the sea-" Moses
says: "Aye, l 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 III the furnishing OF the earth
was the creation OF the cattle, and tho rep
tiles aud tho boasts Of the field" "Aye,"
says Moses. 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 things.
and beasts OF the earth after his kind "
Tho geologist goes on digging In tho earth
and says, "The noxt creature was the human
family" AYE" says Moses. 81 told you
that was next in the book OF Genesis, 80
God created mar in His own image, In Ihe
image of God created He him; male and fe-
male, created He Them" Those preiudiccd
against the Bible do not know that the explor-
atoms in Egypt and Palestine and Syria are
confirming the Scriptures--tho same facts
written on monuments and on the walls OF
exhumed elites as written in the Bible. Tho
city of Pithom has been unburied. and its
bricks are oundf TO have been made without
straw, exactly corresponding with the Bible
story OF the prosecuted Hebrews. On terra
cotta cylinder, recently brought up from
thousands Of years OF burial, the capture OF
Babylon by Cyrus Is told. On a B~abylonian
gem recently found are the figures OF a tree,
q man, n woman and a serpent, and the
hands OF tho man and woman are stretched
up toward the tree us to pluck the fruit.
Thus the Bible story OF the fall is confirmed.
In a museum at ~Constantinople you see n
piece OF tho wall TINT once in the ancient
temple OF Jerusalem separated the court OF
the Gentiles and the court of the Israelites,
to which Paul refers when he says OF Christ,
AHe Is our peace, Who hath broken down the
middle wall OF partition between u.s. On
tablets recently discovered have been found
the names OF prominent men OF the Bible,
spelled a littlt different, according. to the
demands OF ancient language. "Adamu"
for Adam, "Abramn" for Abraham, ..Ablu'
for Abel. and so on. Twenty-Five feet under
ground has been found a seal inscribed with
the words, sHnggai, son OF Shebanlah,"
thousands Of years ago cut, showing hat
the Prophet Haggai. who wrote a part OF the
Bible, was not a myth.
TIL royal engineers have found, eighty
feet below the surface Of the ground at
Jerusalem, Phqnician pottery and hewn
stones with Inscriptions showing that they
were furnished by Hiram, King OF Tyre, just
as the Bible says they were. Tho great names
of Bible history, that many suppose are
names OF imaginary beings. are found cut
into imperishable STONES which have within
a few years been rolled up from their
en~tombment OF ages, sueh as Sennaeherib
Tiglath-Plieser. On the edge of "a
bron7ed step and on burned brick has been
found the name Of Nebuchadnezzar. Henry
Rawlinson and Oppett and Hicks and Piles
tine exploration societies and Assyrlologists
and Psychologists have roltei another Bible
up from the depths OF the earth, and loI it
corresponds exactly with our Bible, the rock
Bible just like the printed Bible, ihscrip-
lions on cylinders and brickwork cut
$500 years before Christ tcstifying
TO the truth OF what We read 1897
years after Christ. The story OF tho tower
Of Babel has been confirmed BY tho fact that
recently at Babel an oblong pile OF brick ITO
feet high evidences the remain OF u fallen
tower. III the inspired book OF Ezra we
read Of the great and noble Asnappef, n uame
that meant nothing especial until recently
in pried up Egyptian sculpture we have
the story there told OF him as a great hunter
as we'll us n great warrior. What / Say now
Is news to those prejudicei against the Bible.
They are so far behind the times that they
know not that the old book Is being proved
true by the nryine oye of the antiquarian
and the ringing hammer OF the a~rch@ologist
and the plunging hammer Of the ~gcologist.
No more Is inidelity enaracierizst by It's
blasphemy, than ny its ignorance, but, OH
what a high mountain OF prejudice against
the Bible, against Christianity, against
churches, against all evangelizlne enter
prises-a mountain that casts its long blnek
shadows over this continent and over all
continents! Biographies tell us that Mount
Everest is thu highest mountain in the world.
oh, no. The mountain OF prejudice against
Christianity is higher than the highest crags
that dare the l~ightnings OF heaven. Before
Zerubbahe', can 1t ever become 4 plain?
Another mountain OF hindrRnee is that OF
positive and outspoken immorals. There Is
the mountain OF inebriaey. 1t is pilel with
kegs and demijohns and decanters and hrgs-
heads, on which sit the victims Of that traf-