The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-18
SToRMING OF THE HIGHTS.
REV TALMAGE IN THE PULPIT OF
THE PRESIDENTS CHURCH.

His Text Taken From Lechariah w.,
7-The story of Zerubbabe1 and the
Great Mountain of Charlottesville
Spoke of the Prejudice Against the
Holy Writ-Hc Invcighs Against
Rad Literature. bad Homes and
All Bad institutions.
Washington. Jan lin the Presidents
church. and before an audience in which
were prominent senators and members of
the House of Representatives and people
of all nationaities, this discourse Of SUI
blime encouragement was delivered br.
Talmage's subject was. "Storming the
lights" and his text Zechariah ~:
who art thou. 0 great mountain? Be
fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become
plain"
Zerubbabel! who owned that difficult
name. in which three times the letter ~
occurs. disposing most people to stammer
in the pronunciation? Zerubbabel was
the splendid man called to rebuild the
destroyed temple of Jerusalem. Stone
for the building had been quarried, and
the trowel had rung at the laying of the
cornerstone. and all went well, when The
Cuthaeans offered to help in the work.
They were a bad lot Of people, and Ze-
rubbabI declined their help. and then the
trouble began The Cuthaeans prejudlced
the secretary of the treasury against
zerubbabel, so that the wages of the car
penters and masons could not be paid,
and the heavy cedar timbers which mad
been dragged from Mount Lebanon to the
Mediterranean and fioated in RATS from
Beyrout to Joppa, and were to be drawn
by OK team from Joppa to Jerusalem, had
halted, and as a result of the work of
those jealous Cuthaeans for sixteen years
the building of the temple was stopped.
But after sixteen years, Zerubbabel 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 Zerubbabel until they have become s a
mountain, hight above hight, crag above
crag; but it shall all be Numbered down
and made fiat and smooth as the floor OF
a house. Who art thou, O great noun
tain? Before Zerubbabel thou shall be-
come a plain. "
Well, the Cuthaeans are not all dead
yet. They are busy in every neghbor-
hood and every city and every nation of
the cause of God. They have piled up
hindrances above hindrances until they
have become a hill, and the hill has be-
come a mountain, and the mountain has
became an Alp, and there it stands, right
in the way of all movements for the
worlds salvation. Some people are SO
discouraged about the hight and breadth
of this mountain in front of them that
they have done nothing for sixteen years
and many of those who are a work trying
TO do something toward removing the
mountain toll in such a way that can see
they have not much faith that the noun
tain of hindrances will ever be removed.
They feel they must do their duty, but
they feel all the time-I can hear it in their
prayers and exhortations-that they are
striking their piekaxes and shovels into
the side of the Rocky mountains. If the
good Lord will help me while l 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 noun
tain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt be-
come plain"
First. there is the Mountain of Preju-
dice, as long as a range of the Pyrenees.
Prejudice against the Bible as a dull book,
an inconsistent book, a 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
contradict the account in Genesis. The
poor souls do not know that the Mosaic
account agrees exactly with the geological
account. No violin or flute ever were in
better accord. BY crowbar and pickax
and shovel and blasting powder the geo
logist goes down in the earth and says:
''rhe first thing created In the furnishing
of the earth was the plants" Moses says,
"Ay! l told you that in the Book or
Genesis: The earth brought forth grass
and herb, yielding seed after his kind, and
the tree yielding fruit The geologist
goes on digging in the earth and says:
The next thing i'm the furnishing of the
earth was the making of the creatures of
the sea-" Moses says, "Ay! / 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. 4"
The geologist goes on digging, and says:
The next thing in the furnishing of the
earth was the creation of the cattle and
the reptiles and the beasts of the field"
Ayr says Moses, Il 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 af-
ter his kind. " The geologist goes on dig
ging in the earth, and says; THE next
creature was the human family. ayr
says Moses, Il told you that was next In
the Book of Genesis: so God created
man in his own image, in the image oil
God created he him: male and female
created he them Those prejudicel
against the Bible do not know that the
explorations in Egypt and Palestine anC
Syria are confirming the scrptures-thC
same facts written on monuments and on
the walls of exhumed cities as writer
In the Bible. The city of Pithom has beer
unburied, and its bricks are found tc
have been made without straw, exactly
corresponding with the Bible story of the
persecuted Hebrews. on terra Gotta cyl
Under recently brought up from thousands
of years of burial, the capture Of Babylon
by Cyrus is told. On a Babylonian gem
recently found are the figures of a tree
a man, a woman and a serpent, and the
hands of the man and woman are stretch.
ed up toward the tree as II to pluck the
fruit. Thus the Bible story of the fall is
confirmed.
In a museum at Constantinople you see
q piece OF the wall that once In the an
Gent temple of Jerusalem separated the
court OF the Gentiles and the court of the
Israelites 10 which Paul refers when he
eave nf Christ s'Ie "a our peace who