The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-09
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Al,TAcoNIsM TO THE GOSPEL
HAS DISAPPEARED.
"There Is Mono like That, Give 1t Nc"
I'D Samuel XXI, 9-Temptations of
the MISUNDERSTANDING Are More Re-
soorceful than in Former DayA.

the Observation-Disclosures Are More Re-
soorceful than in Former Day..
Copyright. 1901, by Louis Nlopsch, ~. "
Washington, May Sin this dis
course DR.. Talmage calls the roll of in
fuences once antagonistic but now
friendly to the gospel and encour-
ages Christian workers; text, l. Sam
uel xxi, 9, There is none like that;
give it me-"
David fled from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chas-
ing good man. The country is try
ins to catch David and to STAY him.
David goes into the house of priest
and asks him for 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 Goliath
formerly used-and he takes down that
sword, and while he is unwrapping
the sharp, glittering, memorable blade
it flashed upon David's mind that this
| is the very sword that was used against
himself when he was in the fight with
Goliath, and David can hardly keep
his hands off 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 other 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 of Jesus Christ and
his glorious church. | want, as we'll rs
God may help me. to show you that
many weapon which has been used
against the armies of God is yet to be
captured and used on our side, and
only initiate David when ! stretch out
my 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
:egard to all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries in
astronomy and geology and chronol-
ogy 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
movement of the heavenly bodies that
the Bible is lie and that Christianity
as we have it among men is posi-
tive imposition" Good men tremblel
The telescope, the Leyden jars, the
electric batteries, all in the hands of
the Philistines. But one day Chris
tianity, looking about for some weapon
with which to defend itself, hap
pened to see the very old sword that
these atheistic Philistines had been
using against the truth and cried out,
There is none like that; give it mel"
And Copernicus 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 lay
on the desk of the scholar and in the
laboratory Of the chemist and in the
lap Of the Christian unframed and I'M
answered, while the tower OF the mid
night heavens struck a silvery chime
in its praise.
The Eternal Master.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it, Christian philoso-
ply plunges it's crowbar into rocks
and finds that the world was grad
ually made, and if gradually made
there must have been some point ut
which the process started. Then who
started it? And sc, that objection was
overcome, and in the first three words
Of the Bible we fiAd that Moses stated
magnificent truts when he said, In
the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: Your BIZ
BILE is most inaccurate book. All
that story in the Old Testament, again
and again told, about the army of the
locusts-it is preposterous. There is
nothing in the coming of the locusts
like an army. An army walks; To-
Gusts fly. An army goes in order and
procession; locusts without ORDER
Wait" said Christian philosophy, and
in 1863 in the southwestern part of this
country Christian men went out to 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 it was found that
all the newspaper unwittingly spoke
of them as an army. Why? They
seem to have commander. They
march like host. They halt like a
host. No arrow ever went in straight
er fight than the locusts come, not
even turning aside for the wind. If
the wind rises, the locusts 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 it speaks Of locusts
coming like an army; worldly philos-
ophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said, Cali that
story about the light turned as clay
to the seal is simply an absurdity."