The Penn's Grove record., 1901-05-10
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.


captured and Put to His Service.
downright 1901
WASHINGTON, d. Gin this discourse
DIT. Ialmage calls the roll of inanences
once ~antagonistic but now friendiv 70 tbo
gospel and encourages Christian Workers.
text, l Samuel xxi, 9, "Therc is none Ike,
that; give it me-" 'N0
runs very fast when it is CHASING a GOOD
man. The country is trying to catch David
ana to STAY him. David goes into the
mouse OF a priest and asks him for a sword
OF spear with which to defend himself
me priest, not being accustomed to use
ueauly weapons, tells David that he can.
not supply him, but suddenly the priest
thinks OF an old sword that had been care.
iuiy wrapped up and laid awav-the very
sword that Goliath formerly used-and
ne taxes down that sword, and while he is
u~hwr9ppi,ng the sharp, glittering, memoir,
ape 9lade 1t flashes upon David's mind
that this is the very sword that was nsed
against himself when he was in the frbt
with Goliath, and David can hardly keen
his hand off it until the priest has nm.
wound 1t. David Stretches out his hand
toward that old sword and saws, There
Is none like that; give it me"-in other
words l want in my own hand the
sword Which has been used against me and
against the cause of Cod SO it was
gwen INN. Well, my friends, that is not
the first or the last sword once used nv
giant and Philistine iniquitv which is to
come INTO the possession of Jesus Christ
and OF 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 vet to be cap.
tured and used on our side. and | only imi.
tate David when l stretch out nv hand
toward that blade of the Philistine and
cry, There IS none like that; give it mel"
l remark, first, that this is true in regard
to all scientific exploration. You know
that the first discoveries in astronomy and
geology and chronology 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 move
ment of the heavenly bodies, that the
Bible is a lie, and that Christianity, as we
nave 1t among men, is a positive imposi-
ton. Good men trembled, The telescope,
the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
in the hands OF the Philistines. But one
day Christianity, looking about for some
weapon with which to defend itself, hap
pened to see the very old sword that these
atheistlc Philistines had been using against
the truth and cried out, There is none
like that; give it mel" And Copernicus
and Galilel and Kepler and Isaac Newton
and Herschel and o.. NJ. Mitchell came
forth and told the world that in their
ransacking of the earth and heavens they
found overwhelming presence of the God
whom W worship, and this old Bible be
gan to shake itself from the Koran and
Shaster and Zendavesta, with which it 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 un-
harmed and unanswered, while the tower
Of the midnight heavens struck a silvery
chime in its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God did
not make it, Christian philosophy pluges
its crowbar into rocks and finds that the
world was gradually made, and, if gradu,
ally made, there must have been some
point at which the process started, Then
overcome, and in the first three words of
the Bible we find that Moses stated a
magnificent truth when he said, In the
beginning
Worldly philosophy said; "Your Bible
is a most inaccurate book. All that story
IN the Old Testament again and again
told about the army OF the locusts-lt is
preposterous. There is nothing in the
coming of the locusts like an army. An
army walks; locusts fly. An army goes in
order and procession; locusts without or
der Wait" said Christian philosophy,
and in 1868, in the southwestern part OF
this country, Christian men went out to
y M rnen rigbt heiore me Who must have
1oriead in that verv mart Of the country
the coming up of the locusts like an army,
and it was found that all the newspapers
: unwittingly spoke OF them as an army.
WhyE They seem to have a commander.
- - mat Inv
NJ ror r-ert in stra;gbter Aight
than the locusts come-not even turning
aside for the wind. If the wind rises the
locnsts dron and then rise again aS.er it
~ T. +at;ng the same line of
n"s 'I ~ ! foot The old Bible
;.' r;IL+ srery i;me when If sneaks of 10.
aana Eta an army. worldly nhilo- |
sHnb,. T,rnn5
WEG5-IJiH, TbiIosonbv said can that story |
.bout he Itgbt ,t5rned as CLAW TO the seal
a'ouv ne isrs 'r5tTn 0Id time worldly
Is 3llpty d n a9su LII rbt oomns 81 raiabt b
PinIo9GpnS 1%ios ,onbw ssrs Wat a little |
T ,r1iis A pdH If goes on and makes discov-
cries and finds that the atmosphere curves
and bends the rays OF light around the
earth literally "as the clay to the seal"
The Bible right again; worldly philosophy
wrong again. "Ah," says worldly philoso-
phy, All that allusion to job about the
foundations OF the earth is simply an a6'
surdity. Where vast thou, says God,
when / set the foundations of the earth?'
The earth has no foundation" Christian
DhilosoDhv comes and finds that the word
| as translated foundations may be better
translated Sockets" So now we see how
it will read if it is translated right.
Where vast thou when | set the sockets
of the earth?" Where is the socket? 1t
is the hollow of Gods hand-a socket large
enough for any world to turn in;
Worldly philosophy said: "What an alb
srrd storv ahont Joshua making the sun
and moon stand stiiI. If the world had
stoned an instant, the whole universe
would have been out of gear" Stop
said Christian philosophy, mot quite so
o,,rti5 The world has two motions-one
ON it, OWE axis and the other around the
sun, 1t was not necessary, in making them
Stand still, that both motions should be
on rs own axis There was no reason why
tIe baIt;ng NJ the earth should have Jared
and disarranged the whole universe.
joshua right and God right; infdelity
wrong every time. l knew it would be
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