The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-10

In this discourse Or. Talmage calls
the roll of influences once antagonist
ic but now friendly To the Gospel and
encourages Christian workers. Text,
I Samuel. 2l:9. There. is none like
thai; give it me"
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it II chas-
ing a good man. The country is try
ing to catch David and to slay him.
David goes into ne house OF a priest
and asks him for a sword or spear
with which to defend himself. The
priest, not being accustomed 10 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 Co
Hath formerly uscd-and he takes
down that sword. and while lie is un-
wrapping the sharp, glittcring. mem
ora bic blade it flashes upon David's
mind that his Is he very sword that
was u a against himself when hc
was in the fight with Goliath. and
David can hardly keep his hand of
IT until the priest has unwound IT..
David stretches out his hand toward
that old sword and says: There is
none like that; give it me" In 9th
cr words. IL want in my own hand
tho sword which has been used
against me and against the cause of
God So il was given him. Well,
my friends. that is not the first or
2e last sword oncc used by giant
sld Philistinc iniquity which - TO
rcmc into The possession of Jesus
Christ and of His glorious church. |
want. as well a. God may help me.
to show you that many weapon
which has been used against the ar
mics of God IS yet to be captured and
used on our side. ard only initiate
David when | stretch out nay hand
toward that blade OF the Philistine
and cry: There is none like that;
give il me-"
remark first that this is trnc in
regard to all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries
IN astronomy and geology and chro-
nolocy were used 20 battle Chris
sianiry. Worldly philosophy came ont
Of its labora 'ory and o'It OF its oh
Scrvatorv and said: Now. we Will
prove by the very structure az the
earth and by the movement of the
heavenly bodies that the Bible Is
p Iie and that Christianity as we have it
among men j. a positive imposition"
Good men trcmbied. The telescope.
the Leyden Jars. the electric batteries.
all in the hands of the Phi!istiucS.
Bu, one day Christianity. looking
about for some weapon With which 10
defend itself. happened To see the
very old sword that these athejstic
rhiliStincs had been using against the
truth. and cried out: There j. none
like that: give il me-" And Copcrni-
Gus and Gaii.ei and Kcplcr and Isaac
Newton and IIcrschel and o. NJ. Mitch
ell came forth and told the world hat
in their ranSackinc Of The earth and
heavens they had found ovcrn helm
'ug presence of the God whom y q wor-
snip aud this old Bible began 10 shake
itself from the Koran and Shaster and
Zendavesta with which it had been Gov
cred up and lay on the desk Of the
scholar and in The laboratory of the
ehcmist and in the lap OF the Chris
tan unframed and unanswered. while
the tower of the midnight heavens
struck 4 siivery chime in lis praise
Worldly philosophy said: Matter
Is eternal. The word always was
God did not make it." Christian phi
Iusophy plungeS lis crowbar into rocks
and finds that the world was gradual
~ made. and II gradually made there
must have been some point ut which
the process started. Then who started
it: And so that objection was oveC-
come. and in the first three words Of
the Bible we find that Moses stated O
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
socusts-it is prepostcrouS. There is
nothing in the coming of the locusts
like an army. An army walks: locusts
fly. An army goes in order and process
Sion. locusts without order WAIT"
said Christian philosophy, and in 1865
In the southwestern part of this coun-
try Christian men went out 10 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 il was found that a II
the newspapers unwittingly spoke of
them as an army. Why? They seem
TO have commander. They march like
a host. They halt like a host No ar
row ever went in straighter flight than
the iocusts come, not even turning
aside for the wind. IL the wind rises,
the iocusts drop and then rise again
after il has gone down, taking the
same line of march. not varying a foot.
The old Bible is right every time when
II speaks of locusts coming like al
army; worldly philosophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said: 'All that
story about the light turned as clay
Go tae seal iSsimply an absurdity."
Old-;ime worldly philosophy said:
"Tae light comes straight" Christian
philosophy says: wait little while"
and il goes on and makes discoveries
and finds that the atmosphere curves
and bends The rays o! light around the