The Delta independent., 1901-05-10

Copyright 1901. by Louis KIopsch, N. "
Washington. May 5.-In this dis
,ourse DR.. Talmage calls the roll of in
huences once antagonistic but now
friendly to the gospel and encour-
ages Christian workers; text, l. Sam
1el xxi, 8, There is none like that:
give 1t me-" . ~
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chas-
Ing good man. The country is try
ing to catch David and to slay him.
David goes into the house of a priest
and asks him for sword or spear
with which to defend himself The
priest, not being accustomed to use
deadly weapons. tells David that he
cannot supply him, but suddenly the
priest thinks OF an old sword that had
been carefully wrapped up and laid
away-the very sword that Goliath
formerly used-and he takes down that
sword. and while he is unwrapping
the sharp. glittering. memorable blade
1t flashed upon David's mind that this
q the very sword that was used against
himself when he was in the fight with
Goliath. and David can hardly keep
his hands on it until the priest has
unwound It. David stretches out his
hand toward that old sword and says:
There is none like that: give 1t me-"
In other words. Il want in my own
ltJnd the sword which has been used
against me and against the cause OF
God" So II was given him. Well.
my friends. that is not the first or
the last sword once used by giant and
Rhilistine iniquity which is TO come
INTO the possession OF Jesus Christ and
his glorious church. ! want. as well As
God may help me. TO show you that
many a weapon which has been used
against the armies OF God is yet to be
captured and used on our side. and l
only Initiate David when stretch out
my hand toward that blade OF the
Philistine and cry. There is none like
that; give II me,"
l remark frst that this is true in
regard to all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries In
astronomy and geology and chTonol-
ogy were used to battle Christianity.
Worldly philosophy came out OF its
laboratory and out OF its observatory
and said. Now. we will prove by the
very structure OF the earth and by the
movement OF the heavenly bodies that
the Bible Ia lie and that Christianity
as we have II among men Is \ posi-
tive imposition" Good men treinble.l.
The telescope. the Leyden Jars. the
electric batteries. all In the hands OF
the Philistines. But one day Chris
tianity. looking about for some weapon
with watch to defend itself. hap
pcned to zee the very old sword that
these athelstic Philistines had been
\ using against the truth and cried out.
There is none like that: give II me-"
And Copern.cus and Galilei and Kep,er
and Isaac Newton and Herschel and q.
NJ. Mitchell came forth and told the
world that In their ransacking of the
earth and heavens they had found
overwhelming presence Of the God
whom We worship. and this old Bible
began to shake itself from the Koran
and Shaster and Zendxvesta with
which 1t had been covered up and lay
on the desk Of the scholar and in the
laboratory OF the chemist and IN the
lap of the Christian unharmed and un-
answered. while the tower of the mid
night heavens struck a silvery chime
In Its praise.
The E.rnai Master.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make It." Christian philoso-
ply plungcs It's crowbar into rocks
and nnds that the world was grad
ually made. and II gradually made
there must have been some point at
which the process started. Then who
started 1T And 90 that objection was
overcome, and in the first three words
OF the Bible we ind that Moses stated
a magnificent truth when he said. In
the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: Your b.
BILE Ia q most inaccurate book. All
that story in the Old Testament. again
and again told. about the army OF the
locusts--it is ,preposterous. There is
nothing in the coming OF the locusts
like an army. An army walks; To-
Gusts fly. An army goes in order and
procession; locusts without order"
Walt" said Christian philosophy. and
in 1868 in the southwestern part OF this
country Christian men went out to ex-
anime the march OF the locusts. There
are men right before me who must
have noticed In that very part OF the
country the coming up of the locusts
like, an army. and 1t was found that
all the newspaper unwittingly spoke
OF them as an army. Why? They
seem to have commander. They
march like host. They halt like a
host. No arrow ever went In straight
er night than the locusts come, not
even turning aside for the wind. II
the wind risas the locusts drop. aAd
then rise again after It has gone down.
taking the same line OF march, not
varying foot. The old Bible Is right
every time when II speaks OF locusts