Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-08

| but now friendly TO the gospel anu
encourages Christian workers; text, /.
| Samuel xxi. 8, There is none like that;
| give it me-"
| David fled from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chasing
| good man. The country is trying to
catch David and TO slay him. David
| goes into the house Of priest and ASKS
! him for n sword or spear with which 10
defend himself The priest NOT being ac-
customed TO use deadly weapons. tells
| David that he cannot supply him. out
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 hc IL uI,-
wrapping the sharp, glitterins. memora-
BILE blade it flashes upon Oar IDS mind
| that this is the very sword that was used
against himself when he was in the fight
with Goliath, and David can hardy keep
his hand off it until the priest has I'M
wound it, David stretches out his hand
toward that old sword and says, There
is none like that give it me-" In otner
words, Il want in my own hand the
/ sword which has been used against me
| and against the cause of God" So it
was given him. Well, my friends, that
Is not the first or the last sword once
used by giant and Philistine iniquity
which is to come into the possession o.
Jesus Christ and of his glorious church.
want, as we'll as God may help me, 10
show you that many weapon which has
been used against the armies of God is
yet to be captured and used on our side,
aad / only initiate David when stretch
cut my hand toward that blade Of the
Philistine and cry, There is none like
| that give ii met
/ remark first that this is true in re-
gard to all scientific exploration. You
| know that the first discoveries in astron-
omy and geology and chronology We're
| 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 is lie
and that Christianity as we have it
among men is a positive imposition"
Good men trembled. The telescope. the
Leyden Jars, the electric batteries, all in
the hands of the Philistines. But one
day Christianity. looking about foi 50 ne
weapon with which to defend itself. hap
pened to see the very old sword that
these atheistic Phiistines had been using
against the truth and cried out. There
is none like that; give it me-" And Cop
ernicus and Galilei 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 had found overwhelming presence of
the God whom we worship, and this old
Bible began to shake itself from the
Koran and Shaster and Zendavesta with
which it had been covered up and hay on
| the desk OF the scholar and in the labora-
tory of the chemist and in the lap of the
Christian unframed and unanswered,
while the tower of the midnight heavens
struck silvery chime in its praise.
The Eternal Master.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it," Christian philosophy
plunges it's crowbar into rocks an( finds
that the world was gradually made, and
if gradually made there must have been
some point at which the process started.
Then who started it? And so that OBJ
lection was overcome. and in the first
three words of the Bible we find that
Moses stated magnificent truth when
he said. In the beginning
Worldly philosophy said: "Your Bible
is most inaccurate book All that story
in the Old Testament. again and again
told, about the army of the loeusts-it is
preposterous. There is nothing in the
| coming Of the locusts like an army. An
army walks; Iocusts fly. An army goes in
II IL, -ttb
der" Wait" said Christian philosophy,
and in 1868 in the southwestern part of
this country Christian laen went out to
examine 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 loeusts like an
army. and it was found the all the news
papers unwittingly spoke of them as an
army. Why? They see to have a
! commander. They mare h like host.
1 They halt like host, No arrow ever
! went in straighter flight chan the locusts
come, not even turning aside for the
wind. Ii the wind rises the locusts drop
and then rise again after it has gone
down, taking the same line of march. not
varying a foot. The old Bible is right
every time when it speaks of locusts
coming like an army; worldly philosophy
wrong.
Worldly philosophy said. Gan that sto-
ry about the light turned as clay to the
seal is simply an absurdity." odd time
worldly philosophy said. THE light comes
straight" Christian philosophy says.
wait little while" and it goes on and
makes discoveries and finds that the at
mosphere curves aud bends the rays Of
light around the earth literally las the
clay to the seal" The Bible right again:
worldly philosophy wrong again. All"
says worldly philosophy. ''all that allu-
sion in JOB about the foundations OF the
earth is simply an absurdity. Where
vast thou says God, when | set the
foundations Of the EARTH The earth
has no foundation" Christian phloso-
ply comes and finds that the word as
translated foundations may be better
translated sockets So now see how it
will read if it is translated right. Where
vast thou when | set the sockets Of the
earthE" Where is the socket: II is the
| hollow of Gods hand-a socket large
enough for any world TO turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: What an alb
surd story about Joshua making the sun
and moon stand still, If the world had
stopped an instant. the whole universe
would have been out Of gear" stop"
said Christian philosophy; mot quite so
quick" The world has two motions
one on its own axis and the other around
the sun. Il was not necessary in making
them stand still! that both motions should