Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-04-13
IN GRIP OF STEEL.
DR.. Talmage Draws a lesson from
the Tenacity of Eleazar.
Tie trGrs Closer Adherence Ia the
Go-,rI aud Announces That
lie win Not Cease To
Preach

H. VIZ Hi~l Hullcr rullr' ruluH Dr. Tal-
mage thar Pastor Charlr- II Spurgcon.
at louduu Wrol the great English min
i.i"l >Jid hr Wa~ glad 10 fluid - preacher
that believed something This Iii
cuur,r of nr. TalmI-c - ia that vein.
a"" urges close adherence To the Old
G"~p"l. text IL samuel. 2a:Io, And hi>
haud claNr uutnrhr sword"
What "a "'oTiuu, Thin. 90 preach the
Gospel. some -uppu>r that hrcau~r
have resigned a tiNrd pa.turatc | will
cease ru preach. Ne, No, ir>p,cttn
preach more than ever have. II the
Lord Will. four ,imc~ a. much. though
iu manifold places. would not dare
t. lnit With such opportunity rod,clarc
tn rrurh through IA, ear To- audiences
1ud To- the eye through the priurin"
press. \ud here W. have - firing
,h,m, pat hrforr ~ 10y the prophet.
great general ol kir" David Wa
llralar- the her, of the tc>t. The
r'ili~rir,> opened battle ncain,t him.
aud his tr"ur~ r"trcat,d. The COW
ard, h,d. Elralrr and thr,cuf his com
rad"~ went into the battle aud swept
the field for four mru " nh tod on their
side are stranger thaua Whole reg imrnt
VIII tod against them. Pail back"
SHOUTED the commander Of the PhilS-
tine army! The cry ran alon" the host:
Pail back. Elcalar, having swept the
field. throws him>rlf,on the ground To
rest, hut the muscles and >iGCws of his
hand had Lrcu 80 long bout around the
hil' of the sword that the hill WAS inn
hrdd,d ia The flesh. and the gold wire of
the hil' had broken through the skin
at ia, palm of hi hand. and H. could
not drop this sword which he had ~
gallaurll virldrd. His hand rla,r un-
iu rhr sword" That i what call mag
niarrut lighting f"r the Lord God of
Israel. And Ne want more oft.
| propose 10 show YOU how Elca2ar
took hold Of the sword aud how the
sword took hold al Elcalar. look at
Elra/Ir'S hand. aud COM. - the con
cIE~ion that he took III, ,wuru =. - a
very Tight grip. The edwards who fled
had no trouble in dropping their
>worG~. ~ they fly over the rocks |
hear their swords c'an"iu" in every di-
rrctiou. II j. easy enough for them to
drop their swords iut Elcalar's hand
ella" unto the sword. In this Christian
conflict We want tighter grip of the
Gospel weapons. a tighter grasp of the
Iwo-cdgrd sword of The truth. II makes
me sick 10 see these hristian people
who hold only a part Of the truth and
let the rest of the truth go. 81 that the
PhiliSjinc>. seeing the loo>rncd grasp.
wrench the whole sword away from
them.
The only safe thing FOR Us To do is to
pUr our thumb on the book of Genesis
and sweep our hand around the book
until the tips Of the fingers clutch AT
the words: In the beginning God Gre
nird the Heavens and the earth" | like
an .nfidcl a great deal better than do
one Of these namhy PANTY Christians
who hold Il part of the truth and let the
rest go. Hy miracle. God preserved this
Bible just "a il j.. and il j. Il Damascus
blade. The scvercSt test To which
sword can he put in Il sword factory is
10 wind the blade around gun barrel
like Il ribbon. and then. when the sword
is let loose. il flies back Ia its own
shape. SO the sword of Gods truth has
been fully tested. and il is bent this
way and that way and wound this way
and TINT WAY. but il always comes back
TO its own shape. Think of IT! y book
written near - centuries ago. and some
IF il thousands of years ago. and yet in
our time the average sale of this Book j.
more than $4,000 cupie. every week. and
more than million copies year. say
now that book which is Diyinely in.
>pired, and Divinely kept. and Divinely
scattered is a weapon worth holding
tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come
along and try to wrench out of Your
hand the five books of Moses. and
Strauss will come along and try 10
wrench out of your hand the miracles.
and Rcnan will come along and try to
wrench out of your hand the entire life
IF the Lord Jesus Christ. and YOUR as
,ociaics in I'll" Office or the factory or She
banking house will try 10 wrench ont
Of YOUR hand the entire Bible but in
the strength of the Lord God of Israel
and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it.
You give up the Bible. you give up any
part of il. and you give up pardon and
peace and life aud Heaven.
DO not he ashamed. Young man. to
have the world know that YOU area
friend of the Bible. This book is the
friend of all tina; is good. and il is the
sworn enemy Of all that is bad. An clo-
Gucnt writer recently gives an incident
Of a very bad man who stood in a cell
Of Il western prison. This criminal
had gone through all STYLES of crime.
aud he WAS there waiting for the gal
lows. The convict standing there at he
window of the cell. this writer SAYS,
Hooked ont and declared, I am an in
fdrL lie said that To all the men and
women and children who happened To
be- gathered there. i am an infdel,'
and the eloquent writer says, Every
man and woman there believed him."
And the writer goes on To say. "If he
had stood there SAYING. 1 am Il Chris
tian,' every man and woman would have
said, lie is a liar"
This Bible is the sworn enemy of all
that is wrong. and il is the friend of all
that is good. oh. hold on it, DO not
take part of il aud throw the rest away.
Hold on Ia all of il. There are 81 many
people now who do not know. You ask
them if the soul is immortal. and they
say: II guess il is; don't know. Per
hapS it is perhaps il isn't" Is the Bible
true? We'll. perhaps il is. and perhaps
il isn't. Perhaps il may he, figuratiye-
ly. and perhaps il may be partly. and
perhaps il may not be at ALL" They
drspisc what they call the apostolic
creed. but if their own creed were writ
ten out il would read like this: II
believe in nothing, the maker of heaven
and earth, and in nothing which il hath
sent, which nothing was born of moth
ing and which nothing was dead and
buried and descended into nothing and
arose from nothing and assembled to
nothing and now stitch ut the right
hand of nothing. from which it will
come tn Judge nothing. ! believe in the
holy agnoStic church and in the com
munion of nothingarians and in the
forgiveness of nothing, and the resur-
rection of nothing and in the life that
never shall hc. Amen" That is the