Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-05-25
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DR.. Talmage Calls the Roll Of Those
Once Antagonistic.
Chrfssfsaity Now Vsing 60 Defend
Rer.en Weapons Once Used
Against Her - Temptations
of the Traveller.
lcopyrsght. 1891. by Louis Kiopseh. n. VI
Washington. May 5.

In this discourse DIR. Talmage calls |
the roll of influences once antagonist
ic but now friendly To the Gospel and
encourages Christian workers. Text.
samuel. 21:9. There is none like
that: give IL me-"
David fled from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when IL Is ehas-
ing a good man. The country rs try
ing TO catch David and TO slay him.
David goes into re house OF a priest
and asks him for sword or spear
with which 90 defend himself. The
priest. not being accustomed 20 use
deadly weapons. tells David that he
cannot supply him but suddenly the
priest thinks Of an old sword that
had been carefully wrapped mp and
laid away-the very sword that Co
Hath formerly uscd-and he takes
down that sword. and while r is un-
wrapping the sharp. glittering, mem
orable blade il flashes upon David 5
mind that this is the very sword that
was rs against himself when he
was in the fight with Goliath, and
.. David can hardly keep his hand on
IL until the priest has unwound It
David stretches out his hand toward
that old sword and says; There Is
none like that; give IL me- In 9TH
er words. Il want in my own hand
the sword which has been used
against me and against the cause OF
| God" So IL was given him. NeH'
| my friends, that Is not the first or
| the last sword once used by giant
| and Philistine iniquity which s. TO
| come into the possession Of Jesus
| Christ and of His glorious ch1rch. !
want. as well as God may help me
10 show YOU that many a weapon
which has been used against the ar
mics of God a. Yet 20 BE- captured and
used on our side. and l only initiate
David when I stretch out my hand
toward that blade Of the Philistin'
and cry: There IS none like that
give IL met"
| remark first that this is true II
regard 20 all scientific exploration
You know that the first discoverie
in astronomy and geology and chro
| nolorv were used 20 battle Chris
| fianity. Worldly philosophy came on
OF its laboratory and out Of its oh
scrvatorv and said: "Now, we vii
prove by the very structure 81 tn
earth snd by tho movement of III
heavenly bodies that the bible h
lie and that Christianity as we have
among men is a positive imposition.
| Good men tremblcd. The telescope
the Leyden Jars. the electric batteries
al IN the hands OF the Philistine.
Dut one day Christianity. lookin
/ about for some weapon with which
: defend Itself happened To see III
D very old sword that these atheist
philistines had been using against tb
? truth, and cried out: There Is nOI
r like that; give Il mel" And Copern
7 Gus and Galilei and Kepier and lsas
q Newton and Herschel and o. NJ. Mitcl
I ell came forth and told the world ths
D in their ransackiug of the earth an
o heavens they had found overwhelr
g ing presence Of the God whom we wo
d ship. and this old Bible began 10 shall
r. itself from the Koran and Shaster al
Y Zendavesta with which il had been CO
cred up and lay on the desk of q
p scholar and in the laboratory Of q
r. chemist and in the lap OF the Chr
!. tian unframed and unanswered, viii
e the tower of the midnight heave
r. struck a silvery chime in its praise.
Worldly philosophy said; Matt
~ Is eternal. The world always WI
DC God did not make it." Christian pl
l. losophy plunges its crowbar into roc
\, and finds that the world was gradu
"a ~ made. and If gradually made the
Pr must have been some point at viii
a the process started. Then who start
~ 81? And so that objection was ov,
come and in the first three words
g, the Bible we find that Moses state
rc magnificent truth when he said:
h.. the beginning"
hs Worldly philosophy said: 40
90 Bible is a most inaccurate book.
or that story IN the Old Testament, ag'
~ and again told. about the army OF I
od | l6custs-it is preposterous. There
cx nothing in the coming OF the locu
a. like an army. An army walks: locu
fly. An army goes In order and proc
nd sion, locusts without order" "Wai
of said Christian philosophy, and in l
,s- In the southwestern part of this co
az try Christian men went out TO
ae anime the march OF the locusts. Tn
ce are men right before me who IN
of have noticed in that very part OF
nv | country the coming up of the locu
10 like an army, and il was found that
ed the newspapers unwittingly spoke
nd them as an army. Why? They Sc
tiu 10 have commander. They march
,er "A host. They halt like host No
In row ever went In straighter flight q
nj the locusts come, not even turn
aside for che wind. II the wind rs
-, the loeusfe dro0 and then rise 40