The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-30
TALMAGE's SERMON.
a Greeting to the Congress Assem-
bled at the Capital
As Power So Great as the VIII OF the Al
mighty-Au Elements Are -
Nothing { ompared With
Omnipo.eDosL

washington congregations tormiuk
ths Heights" ba,ing it on the text:
Who ar. thou. o great mountain: Before ze
rusbaLei thou shalt become pIain,-ZeenA
rfAh, ~, z.
Zeru b ia bel. Who owned that diff
cult name, in which three times m
letter "b" occurs. disposDg most peo
pie u stammrr in the pronunciation
Z.zru bba bel was the splendid mar
call TO rebuild the destroyed temple o
Jerusalem. Stone for the buildins
had been quarried, and the trowel hac
rung At the laying Of the CONVERSIONS
Sud all went well, when the Cutnaean'
offered TO help in the work. They
were a lad lot Of people, and Zeru u
ba bel declined their help, and then
the trouble began. The Cuthaeans
prejud ced the secretary of the treas
ury against Zerubbabel, SO that the
wages OF the carpenters and masons
could not be paid. aud the heavy
cedar timbers which nad been
dragged from Mount Lebanon TO the
Mediterranean and foated in rats
from Beyrout TO Joppa. and were to
be draw by OK team from Joppa to
81 the work of those JEALOUS Cuthaeans
for i6 years the building of the tempe
was stopped. But after 10 years, Ze-
ru bbab bel. the mighty soul, got new
call IRON God to go ahead with the
temple building, and the angel, Of the
Lord IN substance said: "Iney have
pied up obstacles in the way OF Ze-
rubba bel until they have become as
mountain, height above height, crag
above crag; cut it shall all he thun-
dered down and made fiat and smooth
as the door ola house. Who art thou,
great mountain? before Zeruobabel
thou Snail become plain.
Well. the Cuthacans are not all dead
yet. They are busy in every neigh
borhood and every city and every na-
tion Of every age, heaping obstacles in
the way of the cause Of God. They
have piled up hindrances above hind
RANGES until they have become hill,
and the ni!l has become a mountain,
and the mountain has become an Alp,
and there it stands, right 10 the way
of all movements for the worlds saliva
ton. Some people are SO discouraged
about the height and breadth OF this
mountain in front of them that they
have done nothing for l6 years, aud
many of those who are at work
trying to 40 something toward
removing the mountain toll in such a
way that ! can see they have not much
faith that the mountain of hindrances
will ever be removed. They feel they
must do the r duty, but they feel AL
the time-l can hear il in my prayers
and eXhurtations-tnat they are strik-
ing their pickaxes ANA shovels into the
side of the Rocky mountains. Ii the
good Lord will help me while preach
will give you the names of some of
the high mountains which are really
in the way, aud then snow you that
those mountains are to DE Frustrated.
torn dowa, ground up, leveied, put out
of sigut forever. "Nho art thou, o
great mountain? before Zerubbabel
thUu shat become a plain.
First, there Is the Mountain of Pref.
uoIce, as long as 4 range OF the Pyre-
nees. Prejudice against the Bible as
a dull book, an inconsistent book, a
cruel book, an unctcau book, and in
every way an unit book. The most
OF them have never read it. Tney
think the strata OF tue rocks contra.
dict the acc Junt in Genesis. The or
souls do not know that the Mosaic ac-
couIt agree, exactly with the g.Oiog-
ical account. No violin or hule ever
were in better acc ,rd. By crow bar
and pickax and shovel and blasting
powder the geohJyist goes down il the
earth and says: The 1rst thing
created in the furnishing of the
earth was the plants" Moses says:
SAY! l told you that in the book
OF Genesis: The earth brought forth
grass and herb, yielding SEED after his
kind, and the tree yield ny fruit. -"
The geologist says: The next thing
IN the furnishing of the earth was The
making of the creatures of the sea
Moses says: "Ay! l told you that was
next in the book Of Genesis: God
>aid: Let the waters bring forth
abundautiy the moving creatures that
have life; aud God created great
whales" The geologiat goes on
digg ing and says: The next
thing in the furnishing of the
earth was the creation of the cattle
ann the reptiles and the beasts OK the
6eid. "Ayl" says Moses II tolu
you that was next in tue first chapter
of Genes.s: And God said. let tue
earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, ana creeping
thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind" The geologist gees on Dig.
glng in the earth and says" "1he
next creature was the human family"
''Ay' says Moses, II told you that was
next in tue book of Genesis: 80 God
created man IN His own image, in the
image pf God created he hIn; maze
and fenIaIe. created lie Them"
Another nountdin OF hindrence is
that of positive and outspoken iumor-
ais. There is the Mountain OF In
ebriacy. 1t is piled high with kegs
aud ucmijohns and decanters and
bogsbeaos. Oh which sit the victims of
that ira filc whose one business is to
rob earth and Heaven of the most ge n :
erous anu iarge-bearted and splendid
OF the human race. If their business
was TO take only the mean and stingy
and contemplate aud useless, wo
would not not say much against the
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