The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-05-23
FLUENCESFORGOOD
falmage Calls the Roll of Those
Once Antagonistic.
.,sanity Now Using to Defend
.r.elf Weapons Once Used
Auniust Her Temptations
of the Traveller.

Against Her - Temptations
of the Traveller.
wright 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Washington. May s.
this discourse DR.. Talmage calls
roll of influences once antagonist
nt now friendly to the Gospel and
burages Christian workers. Text.
hmuel, 2l:9, There is none like
give it me-"
Avid fed from his pursuers. The
d runs very fast when it is chas-
a good man. The country is try
10 catch David and to slay him.
d goes into lie house of q priest
asks him for sword or spear
which to defend himself. The
ST. not being accustomed to use
ly weapons, tells David that he
bot supply him but suddenly the
st thinks of an old sword that
been carefully wrapped up and
away-the very sword that Co
formerly used-and he takes
n that swoS, and while he is un-
pping the sharp, glittering. mem
ble blade it flashes upon David's
that this is the very sword that
u d against himself when he
in the fight with Goliath, and
d can hardly keep his hand off
ntil the priest has unwound 1t.
d stretches out his hand toward
old sword and says: There is
like that; give it me-" In 9TH
kords, II want in my own hand
sword which has been used
nst me and against the cause OF
So it was given him. Well,
friends, that is not the first or
last sword once used by giant
Philistine iniquity which IS to
into the possession of Jesus
BIT and of His glorious church. l
/, as we'll as God may help me,
Ihow you that many weapon
Eh has been used against the ar
of God Is yet to be captured and
on our side. and / only initiate
d when I stretch out my hand
krd that blade of the Philistine
cry: There IL none like that;
Il mel"
remark first that this is true in
rd to all scientific exploration.
know that the first discoveries
ptronomy and geology and chro-
Ky were used to battle Chris
ty. Worldly philosophy came out
Is laboratory and out of its OBJ
htory and said: "Now, we will
e by the very structure Of the
and by tho movement of the
emily bodies that the Bible Is .
nd that Christianity as we have It
hg men Is . positive imposition"
men trembled. The telescope,
Lsyden jars, the electric batteries,
n the hands of the Philistines.
one day Christianity, looking
y for some weapon with which to
nd itself, happened to see the
old sword that these atheistic
stines had been using against the
,, and cried out: "There Is none
that; give it mel" And Coperni.
and Galilei and Kepler and Isaac
ton and Herschel and o. NJ. Mitch
ame forth and told the world that
heir ransaoking of the earth and
lens they had found overwhelm.
presence of the God whom we wor-
and this old Bible began to shake
from the Koran and Shaster and
avesta with which it had been cov-
up and lay on the desk Of the
lar and in the laboratory Of the
hist and in the lap Of the Chris
unharmed ana unanswered, while
tower of the midnight heavens
ek silvery chime in its praise.
|orldly philosophy said: matter
Eernai. The world always was.
oid not make It," Christian phi
ply plunges its crowbar to rocks
hnds that the world was gradual
ade, and If gradually made there
nave been some point mt which
process started. Then who started
And so that objection was over
y, and In the first three words of
bible we find that Moses stated q
nihcent truth when he said: "In
beginning"
orldly philosophy said: "Your
Is q most inaccurate book. All
story in the Old Testament, gain
again told, about the army of the
sts-it is preposterous. There is
ing In the coming of the locusts
an army. An army walks; locusts
An army goes in order and process
locssts without order" "Wait,"
ehristian philosophy, and in 1853
s southwestern part of this coun-
christian men went out to ex-
Ae the march of the locusts. There
men right before me who must
noticed in that very part of the
Ptry the coming up Of the locusts
an army, and it was found that all
newspapers unwittingly spoke Of
as sn army. Why? They seem
ave . commander. They march like
p" They halt like a host. No ar
ever went IN straighter flight than
'ecusts come, net even turning
= 1or the wind. II the wind rises,
.'easss drop and then rise again