The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-11-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF RELIGION LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From Job xxxyIH as Follows -canst
rhou Bind the Most Influences Of the
Pieladss~ The Meaning Of the Pas
sage Clearly Defined.

tcopyright 1901. BY Louis Kiopseh. N ~
Washington. Oct Gin this dis
course Dr. Talmage demonstrates that
We are affected by forces that we sell
ION recognize and enlarges upon hui
nan accountability the text is JOB
gxxvin. 81. "Canst thou bind the sweet
Influences Of Pleiades2'
What is the meaning Of that question
lhat God put 10 Job? Have We an our
gyes been reading it and are most Of
rs ignorant Of its beauty and power
and practical suggestiveness2 A mean
.neless passage OF Scripture many
thought it to be- But the telescopes
we're busy age after age and astronom-
ical observations kept on questioning
the skies until the meaning Of my text
comes out lusrously. The Pleiades Is
a constellation Of seven stars appear
ing 20 the naked eye, bnJ seienunc IN
rtruments reveal more than 400 prop
erly belonging to the group. Alcyone
Is the name OF the brightest star OF
that group called the Pleiades. A Rus
sian astronomer observed that Alcyone
Is the center Of grayitation Of our solar
system Hugh Macmillan says that the
sun and its planets wheel around that
center at the rate OF i22 900 miles a day
in an orbit which it viii take 10000 900
/ years to complete. The Pleiades APP
pear in the springtime and arc o.
ciated with flowers and genial w-iA.th
and good weather The navigation Of
the Mediterranean was from May 20
NoYember-the rising and the setting
Of the Pleiades The priests of Belus
noticed that rising and setting 1000
years before Christ
Now the glorious meaning Of my
text is plain as we'll as radiant To
give jon the beautiful grace OF humil-
iiy God asked him. "Canst thou bind
the sweet influences Of the Pleiades2"
I Have you any power over the laws Of
gravitation2 Can you modify or change
an influence welded by a star more
than 400. 900 miles away2 Can you con-
troll the winds Of the springtime? Can
yon oall oDt the aowersg How little
you know compared with omnisciencei
How little YOU can do compared with
1mnipolence.
Armed with Interrogations.
Called upon. as We an are at times
10 defend our aoiy religion, instead OF
argument thgt can always be answered
by argument let us try the power Of
Interrogation. We ought TO be loaded
with at least half a dozen questions.
and always veady. and when Chris
ianity is assalled and We are told there
Is nothing In Il. and there is no God.
and there aever was a miracle. and
that the Scriptures are unreasonable
and cruel. and that there never viii be
q judgment day. take out Of your port
able armory Of Interrogation some
thing like this. What makes the con
dition OF woman In Christian lands
better than ia heather lands2 Do you
think it would be kind in God TO turn
the human race into a world without
any written revelation 10 explain and
encourage and elevate ANA saye2 And
~ a revelation was made which DO you
prefer. the Zenda-Vesta 81 the Persian
or the Confuclan writings OF the Chi
nese or the Koran OF M0hammed or
our Bible! 10 Christ is not q divine
being what did be mean when he said
Before Abran was Z am II the
Bible is a bad book. where are the evil
results Of reading 1t? Did you see any
degrading influence OF the book IN your
father or mother or sister, who used
to read f.? DO you not think that a
| judgment day Is necessary in order to
explain and fix up things that were
never explained OF fixed up2 II our
religion is illogical and an imposition
upon human credulity. why were
Herschel and Washington and Glad
stone and William Mckinley its adj
yocates2 How did it happen that our
religion furnished the theme for the
greatest poem ever written, Paradise
Lost and 20 the painters their great
est themes in the Alteration OF the
Magi.7 The TRANSPORTATION. THE
Last supper" THE Crucif1ion. 'The
Entombment" "The Last supper
and that an the schools Of painting
put forth their utmost genius In pre-
seniing The Madonna o.
sweet Influence from Afar.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Pieiades. They viii take you into their
ohservatories on clear night and aim
their revealing instruments toward the
part in the heavens where those seven
stars have their habituda. and they
will point to the constellation Taurus.
and you can see for yourself But Il
is impossible to point 70 influences far
back that have affected our character
and viii affect our destiny. We know
the influences near by-paternal. ma
tornal. conlugal-but BY the time we
have gone back two generations or az
most three our Investigations falter
and fail Through the modern interest
ing habit OF searching back to find the
ancestral tree we may find a long list
OF names. but they are only names. The
conservation or abandonment OF some
one 200 years ago was not recorded
It would not be 30 important if you
and / by our good or bad behavior
blessed or blasted only those imme-