The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-10
THE FIGHT ON SATAN
DR.. Talmage Says We Have Lust
Many of the Weapons.
A Warning to the Christian Church
10 Protect Itself Against the As
sauits of Unrighteousness
and Unbclief.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsca.1
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many of its weapons and how they are
to be re%captured and put into effective
operation: text, /. Samuel Kill, 1921:
"Now there is no smith found through
out all the land of Israel. for the Philis-
tines said: Lest the Hebrews make
them swords or spears. But all the
1sraelites went down TO the Philistines,
to sharpen every man his share, and
his coulter, and his ~. and his mat
took. Yet they had a file for the mat
took, and for the coulters, and for the
forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen
the goads."
What a calling subjugation for the
Israelites! The Philistines had carried
off all the blacksmiths and torn down
all the blacksmiths' shops and abol-
ished the blacksmiths' trade in the land
of Israel. The PhilistineS would not
even allow these parties to work their
valuable mines of brass and iron, nor
might they make any swords or spears.
There were only W swords left in
all the land. Yea, these Philisines went
on until they had taken all the grind
stones from the land of Israel, so that
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sharpen his pillow or his AK he had TO
go over to the garrison of the Phiiis-
tines to get it done. There was only
n sharpening instrument left in the
land, and that was u file. the farmers
and mechanics having nothing to wbet
up the coulter. and the goad, and the
pickaX. save a single file. Industry was
hindered and work practically dis
graced. The great idea of these Philis-
tines was to keep the Israelites un-
armed. They might get iron out of
the hills to make swords of, but they
would not have any blacksmiths to
weld this iron. If they got the iron
welded, they would have no grindstones
on which 10 bring the instruments of
agriculture or the military weapons up
to an edge.
Oh, you poor, ~weaponless Israeiites,
reduced to Il file, how l pity YOU! But
these Ph;listines were not forever to
keep their heel on the neck of Gods
children. Jonathan, on his hands and
knees, climbs up a great rock, beyond
which were the Philistines, and his ar
NOR bearer, on his hands and knees,
climbs up the same rock, and these two
men, with their own swords. hew to
pieces the Philistines, the Lord throw
ing u great terror upon them. So it
was then; so it is now. Two men of
God on their knees mightier than a
Philistine host on their feet.
| learn, first, from this subject, that
it is dangerous for the church Of God
to allow its weapons to stay in the
hands of its enemies. These lsraelites
might again and again have obtained
a supply of swords and weapons, as,
for instance, when they took the spoils
of the Ammoni:es, but these Israelites
seemed conten; to have no swords,
no spears, no blacksmiths. no grind
stones, no active iron mines, until it
was too late for them TO make any re-
sistance. l see the farmers Juggling
along with their pickaXcs and p.ow,
and say: where are you going with
these things?" They say: 'Oh, we
are going to the garrison of the Phil
istiues to get these things sharpened,'
/ say: You foolish men, why don't
you sharpen them at home?" Oh
they say, the biacksmiths' shops are
all torn down, and we have nothing
left us but a file
So it is in the church of Jesus Christ
to-day. We are too willing to give VI
our weapons to the enemy. The world
boasts that it has gobbled up the
schools and colleges and the arts and
the sciences and the literature and the
printing press. Infideiity is making d
mighty attempt to get all our weapon.
in its hand, and then to keep them
You know it is making this boast al
the time. and after awhile, when th,
great battle between. sin and righteous
ness has opened, if We do not look ou'
we will be as badly off as these Israel
ties, without any sharpening instru
ments. l call upon the s~uperintend
ents of literary institutions 10 see Il
it that the men who go into the class
rooms to stand beside the Lcyden jar.
and the electric batteries and the mi
croscopes and telescopes he children o
God, not Philistines.
The Tyndallean thinkers of our time.
are trying to get all the intellectual
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scientific Christians to capture the sci
ence. and scholastic Christians to cap
ture the scholarship, and philosophi
Christians to capture the philosophy
and lecturing Christians to tax
back the lecturing platform. W
want to send out against Schen
kel and Strauss and Renan
Theodore Christlieb of Bonn AM
against the infdel scientists of to-da.
a God-worshiping Silliman and Hitch
cock and Agassiz. We want to car
ture all the philosophical apparatus an,
swing around the telescopes on tn
swivel until through them we can Sc
the morning star of the Redeemer an
with meteorological hammer discove
the Rock of Ages and amid the flor
of all realms find the Rose of Share
and the Lily of the Valley. We war
some one able to expound the frs
chapter of Genesis, bring to it the e.
ology and the astronomy of the worl
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