The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-15
TALMAGES SERMON.
Sermon from the Text. There is
None Like That; Give It Me."

| IN ILLS DISCOURSE LII. 1a!maSS CELLS
the roll Of influences once antagonistic
but now friendly to the gospel and en-
courages Christian workers; text, l
Samuel xxi, 9, There is none like that;
give it me-
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chasing
good man. The country is trying to
catch David and to slsy him. David
goes into the house Of priest and asks
him for a sword or spear with which to
defend himself. The priest, not being
accustomed to 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
Golisth formerly used-snd he takes
down that sword, and while he is un-
wrapping the sharp, glittering, memor
able blad it flashed upon Dsvid's mind
that this is the very sword that was
used against himself when he was in
the fg hit with Goliath, and David Jan
hardly keep his hand off it until the
priest has unWound it. David stretches
out his hand toward that old sword and
ssys, There is none like that, give it
me-" In other words, II 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 of Jesus Christ and
Of his glorious church. want, as we'll
as God may help me, to show you that
many weapon which has been used
against he armies Of God is yet to be
captured and used on cur side, and I
only initiate David when I stretch cut
ny hand toward lbas blade Of the Phil
,s,iee aud cry, There is none like that;
give it me-!
remark first that this is true in re
gard to sll 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 ont 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 lie and that Christianity as
We have it among man is positive i'm
position" Good men trembled. The
telescope, the Le5den jars, the electric
batteries, all in the hands Of the Philis-
tines. Bat one day Christianity, look
ing about for some weapon with which
to defend itself, happened to see the
very old sword that these atheistis
Philistines had been using against the
truth and cried out, There is none like
that; give it me-" And Copernicus and
Caller 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
lay on the desk Of the scholar and in
the laboratory Of the chemist and in the
lap Of the Christian unhsrmed and un-
answered; while the tower Of the mid
night heavens struck a si!Very chime
in its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: 'Ma!ter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it." Christian philosophy
plunges its crowbsr into rocks and 6rds
that the world was gradually made, and
if gradually made there must have been
some point at which the process started.
TEen who started it? And SO that OBJ
jec,ion 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 a most inaccurate book. All
that story in the Old Testament, again
and again told, about the army OF the
locusts-is is preposterous. There is
nothing in the coming Of the locusts
like an army. An army walks, locusts
hy. An army goes in order aud
procession, lccusts without order"
Wait" said Christian philosophy, and
in 1853 in the southwestern
part of this country Christian men went
out to examine the msrch of the los1sts.
There are men right before me- who
must have noticed in that Very laEt Of
tie country the coming up of the
locusts like an army, and 1t Wss found
that all the newspapers unWittingly
srcke Of them IS an army. Why? They
seem to have commander. They march
like host. The halt like host. NJ
arrow ever wen, in s:rsighter fight than
the locusts come, not even turning
aside for the wind. If the wind rises,
the locusss drop and then rise again
after it has gone down, taking the same
line Of march, not varying foot. The
old Bible is right every time when 1t
speaks Of loousts coming like an army;
worldly philosophy wrong.
Wcrldly philosophy said, "All that
story about the light turned as clay to
the seal is simply an absurdity." Old
time worldly philosophy said, The
light comes straight Christian phi
losophy says, "Wait little while"
and it goes on and makes discoveries
and fuds that the atmosphere curves
AID bends the rays Of light around the
earth, literally as the clay to the seal"
The Bible right again; worldly phi
losophy wrong sgain. All" says
worldly philosophy, ali that sllusion in
Job about the foundations Of the earth
is simply al absurditY. Where vast
thou, says God, 'Wnen I set the foaA-
dstions Of The s.rtd2' The earth has