The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-05-10
OR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY The NOTED
ClvlNs.
subject; Influences once Hostile Now
Friendly tn Christ-weapons Former
ly Used Against the Lords Armies
Captured and Tut tn His Service.

once antagonistic but now friendly to the
gospel and encourages Christian workers
text, | Samuel Xxi, ., There Is none like
that; give II me-
David fed from his puvsuers The world
runs very fast when it Is chasing a good
man. The country Is trying - catch David
and 10 slay him. David goes into the
house Of priest and asks HIM for a sword
or spear with which 20 defend himself
The priest, not being accustomed 10 use
deadly weapons, tells David that he can
not supply him, but suddenly the priest
thinks Of an old sword that had been care
fully wrapped up and land away-the very
sword that Goliath formerly used-and
he takes down that sword. and while he is
unwrapplng the sharp, glttering, memor-
able blade II flashes 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 hand off II until the priest has un.
wound II. David stretches out his hand
toward that old sword and says, There
Is none like that; give Il me'--in other
words, IL want in my own hand the
sword winch has been used against me and
against the cause OF God 80 IL was
gwen him. Well, my friends. that Is not
the first or the last sword once used 10y
giant and Phllistine iniquity which is TO
come into the possession OF Jesus Christ
and of His glorious church. | want. as well
as God may help me, TO show YOU that
many weapon which has been used
against the armies of God is yet To be cap.
tured and used on our side. and only imi.
tate David when | stretch ont my hand
toward that blade Of the Phlis,inc and
cry, There is none like that; give 1t me- 20
| remark. first, that this Is true IN regard
10 all scientific exploration You know
that the first discoveries in astronomy and
a II, I,tt u,
Christianity. Worldly philosophy came out
of its laboratory and out of It's 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 a lie and that Christianity, as We
have 1t among men, ~ positive lmposl-
ton" Good men trembled. The telescope,
the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
in the hands of the Phillstnes. But one
day Christianity, looking about for some
weapon with which 20 defend itself, hap
pencd to see the very old sword that these
stheistic Philstlnes had been using against
the truth and cried out, There il none
like that; give II met" And Copernicus
and Gahe 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
! found overwhelming presence of the God
wnom we worship, and this old Bible be-
gan to shake itself from the Koran and
| Shaster and Zendavcsta, with which II 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 un.
! harmed and unanswered, while the tower
of the midnight heavens struck a silvery
| chime in its praise
Worldly philosophy said Matter is
! eternal The world always was. God did
| not make it," Christian philosophy pluges
! its Crowbar into rocks and finds that the
world was gradually made, and. If gradu.
ally made, there must have been some
| point az which the process started. Then
! who started ity And so that objection was
| overcome, and in the first three words of
| the Bible we find that Moses stated a
magnificent truth when he said In the
! beginning
Worldly philosophy said: Your Bible
| il a most Inaccurate book All that story
| in the Old Testament again and again
! told about the army of the locusts-It "a
! preposterous. There Is nothing IN the
! coming of the locusts like an army. An
army walks locusts fly. An army goes m
order and procession; locusts without or
| der" "Wait," said Christian philosophy,
| and in 1868, IN the southwestern part oi
this country, Christian men went out to
| examine 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 newspapers
unwittingly spoke Of them IA an army.
! Why They seem TO have commander.
! They march like host; they halt like a
! host.
No arrow ever went in straighter 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 ~ speaks OF 10
! Gusts coming like an army; worldly phlIo'
| sophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said "All that story
| about the light turned "A clay TO the seal
! ia simply an absurdity.' Old time worldly
! philosophy SAID, "1he light comes straight.
! Christian philosophy says, Wait little
! while" And IT goes on and makes dlscOy.
| cries and finds that the atmosphere curves
! and bends the rays OF light around the
! earth literally "as the clay 90 the seal.
! The Bible rght again; worldly philosophy
/ wrong again. "Ah,' says worldly phlioso.
! ply. "al that allusion TO job about the
! foundations of the earth - simply an ah.
! surdity. Where vast thou says God,
/ when ! set the foundations Of the earth
/ The earth has no foundation Christian
/ philosophy comes and finds that the word
| a. translated "fouudations' may bc better
/ translated sockets 80 now we see now
II will read II u u translated right.
! Where vast thou when ! set the sockets
/ OF the earthE' Where is the socket j.
/ Il the hollow Of Gods hand-a socket large
/ enough for any world 20 turn ~:
/ Worldly philosophy said: What an alb
surd story about Joshua making the sun
] aud moon stand still II the world had
| stopped an instant, the Whole unlveTsn
would have been ont ot gear stop,
/ said Christian philosophy, mot quite 30
] quick" The world has two notions
/ on It's own axis and the other around TIE
1 sun II was not necessary, m making them
| stand still. that both motions should Do
/ stoppcd-on'y the one turning the "'r'l
! on it, own a..s There Was no reason why
! the hating OF tho earth should have Jared
/ and dIgarraugrd the whole universe
| Joshua right and God right; inhdclity
/ wrong every time. ! knew II would be
I wrong
/ / thank God that the time has come
/ when Christians need not be- scared AZ any
] ss.cntifc exploration. The fact ~ that fe.
/ hgion and science have struck hands m
| eternal friendship, and the deeper down
/ geology can dig the higher up astronomy
I can soar all the better for ~.
The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ
I have st0rmed the obscrs atDries Oi the
/ vYrld'g science. and from the highest tow.
| ers have Alng out the banner Of the cross
| and ChrI..ianity now. from the observltOf
/ ~. a. Albany and Washington, stretches
out its hand toward Tie opposing seen.
tifc weapon, cry ng, There y none IKE
/ that. give 10 me''
! / was reading of Herschel, who vas
| booking 40 a meteor through a teiescDpo
and when % came over the face ~ tne te'.
] osagua ID trga I'D powerful be had 90 avert
hIs cyes and 90 hls been just % that
na-y an astronomer has gone into an Do.
/ sffyatsr, and looked up INTO tbe midnight
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