The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
ANTAGONIST TO THE GOSPEL
HAS DISAPPEARED.
There Is None like That, Give 1t Me"
-D Samuel XXI, 0-Temptations OF
the TraveIer-Preachers Are More Re-
sourcefuI than In Former Days.


fuences once antagonistic but now
friendly to the gospel and encour-
ages Christian workers; text, !. Sam
uel xxi, 8, There is none like that;
give it me-"
David fled from his pursuers, The
world runs very fast when it is chas-
ing a good man. The country is try
ing to catch David and to STAY 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 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,
gut IL &c ~.
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 well as
many a 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"
/ remark first that this is true in
regard 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
and out of its observatory
and said, Now, we will prove by the
very structure of the earth and by the
of the heavenly bodies that
the Bible is lie and that Christianity |
as we have it among men is a posi-
tive imposition" Good men trembled. |
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.
VI. Mitchell came forth and told the
world that in their ransacking of the
earth and heavens they had found
presence of the God
whom we worship, and this old Bible
Dtkdu W Sldhc llotll llOhi tilC iNoi al
and Shaster and Zendavesta with
which 1t had been covered up and lay
On the desk Of the scholar and In the
of the chemist and in the
ap of the Christian unframed and I'M
while the tower OF the mid
night heavens struck a silvery chime
N its praise.
The Eternal Master.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal The world always was. God
lid not make it." Christian philoso-
ohy plunges its crowbar into rocks
md finds that the world was grad
tally made, and If gradually made
here must have been some point at
which the process started. Then who
started it? And so that objection was
overcome, and In the first three words
If the Bible we find that Moses stated
magnificent truth when he said, I'm
he beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: Your BIZ
,le is a most inaccurate book. All
hat story in the Old Testament, again
md again told, about the army of the
ocusts-it is preposterous. There is
lothing in the coming Of the locusts
ike an army. An army walks; To-
.usts fly. An army goes in order and
locusts without order"
Wait" said Christian philosophy, and
n 1868 in the southwestern part Of this
Christian men went out to ex-
mime the march of the locusts. There
ire men right before me who must
lave, noticed in that very part of the
country the coming up of the locusts
ike an army, and it was found that
Ill the newspaper unwittingly spoke
If them as an army. Why? They
eem to have a commander. They
march like a host. They halt like a
lost. No arrow ever went in straight
II flight than the locus,s come, not
wen turning aside for the wind. IL
he wind rises, the locusts drop, and
hen rise again after it has gone down,
aking the same line OF march, not
'arying a foot The old Bible is right
very time when it speaks of locusts
coming like an army; worldly philos-
,phy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said, "All that
tory about the light turned as clay