Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09
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course DR.. Talmage calls the roll Of
influences once antagonistic but now
friendly to the gospel and encourages
Christian workers; text, l Samuel XXI,
8, There Is none like that; give 1t me-"
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it Is chas-
ing good man. The country is trying
to catch David and to Stay him. David
goes into the house of a priest and asks
him for a sword or spear with which
to defend himself. The priest, not be-
ing 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 flashes upon Dav-
ids 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 it
until the priest has unwound it. DAY.
i'd 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 of his glorious church. l
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 captured and used on
our side, and l only initiate David
when / stretch out my hand toward
that blade of the Philistine and cry,
There Is none like that; give 1T me!'
A Magnificent Truth.
1 remark, first, that this is true in re
gard to all scientific exploration. You
know that the first discoveries in as
tronomy and geology and chronology
were used to battle Christianity. World
ly philosophy came out of its laborato-
ry and out of it's observatory and said,
"Now we will prove, by the very struc-
ture of the earth and by the movement
Of the heavenly bodies, that the Bible
is a lie and that Christianity, as we
have it among men, is a positive impo-
sition." Good men trembled. The tel
escope, the Leyden jars, the electric
batteries, all in the hands of the Philis-
tines. But one day Christianity, look
ing about for some weapon with which
to defend itself, happened 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 me!' And Copernicus
and Galilei and Kepler and Isaac New
ton and Herschel and o. NJ. Mitchell
came forth and told the world that in
their ransacking of the earth and heav-
ems they 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
unanswered, while the tower of the
midnight heavens struck a silvery
chime In it's praise.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal The world always was. God
did not make It" Christian philosophy
plunges it's crowbar into rocks and
finds that the world was gradually
made, and, il gradually made, there
must have been some point at which
the process started. Then who started
IT? And so that objection was over
come, and In the first three words Of
the Bible we find that Moses stated
magnificent truth when he said, I'm
the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: "Your Bible
is a most inaccurate book. ALI that
story in the Old Testament again and
again told about the army Of the To-
Gusts = it is preposterous. There Is
nothing in the coming of the locusts
like an army. An army walks; locusts
fly. An army goes in order and process
sion; locusts without order" wait"
said Christian philosophy, and in 1868,
in the southwestern part Of this coun-
try, Christian men went out to exam
ine the march of the -locusts. There
are men right before me who must
country the coming up of the locusts
like an army, and it was found that all
the newspapers unwittingly spoke Of
them as an army. Why? They seem
to have a commander. They march
like host; they halt like host. No
arrow ever went in straighter fight
than the locusts come-not even turn
ing aside for the wind. If the wind
rises, the locusts drop and then rise
again after 1t has gone down, taking
the same line of march, not varying a
foot. The old Bible right every time
when it speaks of locusts coming like
an army; worldly philosophy wrong.
Religion ard Science.
Worldly 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 phil
losophy says, "Wait a little while"
And it goes on and makes discoveries
and finds that the atmosphere curves
and bends the rays of light around
the earth literally ''as the clay to the
seal" The Bible right again; worldly
philosophy wrong again. "Ah," says
worldly philosophy, "all that allusion
In Job about the foundations Of the
earth is simply an absurdity. Where
vast thou says God, when 1 set the
foundations Of the earthp The earth
has no foundation" Christian philos-
ophy comes and finds that the word as
translated foundations" may be bet
ter translated sockets" So now see
how 1t will read If it is translated
right, Where vast thou when 1 set
the sockets of the earth" Where is
the socket? 1t is the hollow Of Gods
banda socket large enough for any
world to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: What an
absurd story about Joshua making the
sun and moon stand still. II the world