The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-12
DR. TALMAGE'S
 SERMON.

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 1aGton. May 5.-In this discourse
 4Almage calls the roll of influences
 ssS but now friendly to the
 Amuei xxt 3. There is none like
 E G1ve 1t me"
 4yM edd from his pursuers. The world
 1g WY fast when 1t is chasing a good
 1A The country is trying to catch Da-
 4ud to slay him. David goes into the RN99 el . priest and asks him for
 2fa Sr spear with which to defend him.
 The priest, not being accustomed @i N3o deadly weapons, tells David that
 49nnot supply him, but suddenly the
 Q4t thinks of an old sword that had cersfuily wrapped up and laid away
 9-4nd he takes down that sword, and
 xo he is unwrapping the sharp, gilt
 0& memorable blade it flashes upon l1y1Gg mind that this is the very sword 1A4t was used against himself whom he W11 n the fight with Goliath, and David 11n hardly keep his hand off it until the
 !e4 has unwound it. David stretches &4xA There is none like that; give 1t uJS-<n other words, '1 want in my own 911 the sword which has been used
 ne snd ISsn asainst si tHs cause of fr;sO SOd &64t 11 not the first or the last sword @4co usod by giant and Philistine iniquity x0lc4 1s to come into the possession of eDns Christ and of his glorious church. I 1nnt. as we'll as God may help me, to 4oW you that many q weapon which has >ee4 used against the armies of God is et - be captured and used on our side, n4 only initiate David when I stretch TT my hand toward that blade of the i 11nts give it me!'
 A Magnificent Truth. % 5 rouaxk. first, that this is true in re- xord 70 all scientific exploration. You know that the first discoveries in astron- omy and geology and chronology were 11ged fo battle Christianity. Worldly H6flos0phy came out of its laboratory and Nut of tts Observatory and said. Now Me yi1l prove, by the very structure of 4he saFth and by the movement of the 1e1veriy bodies. that the Bible Is a lie 4nd that Christianity. as we have 1t Eesi men trembled. The telescope the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all in 4he hands of the Philistines. But one day Ehristtanity, looking about for some weapon with which to defend itself, hap pened to see the very old sword that fhose ntheistic Philistines had been using eCainst the truth and cried out, There ~ none like that: give 1t mel! And Co., Newton and Herschel and O. M. Mitchell casne forth andtold the world that in their rAnsacking of the earth and heavens acd % whom whom we worship. sensS and tSis Si ths ols
 
 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 lab- uratory of the chemist and in the lap of the Christian unharmed and unanswered, while the tower of the midnight heavens
 a olay sSfEy pScsophg sh~s saa n its PMssiss is eternal The world always was. Ged did not make it." Christian philosophy |piunges it's crowbar into rocks and finds r gradually made, m there must have been been some point at which the process started. Then who started it? And so that obiec- of tns Rbs in the shat stated a magnificent truth when, he said, s.Ln the beginning.' 1a1
 Worldly philosophy said: Your Bible fH most inaccurate book. All that story 5n she osd Testament again and again told about the army of the locusts-it is preposserous. There is nothing in the conNfng of the locusts like an army. An army walks: locusts fly. An army goes in order and procession; locusts without or 6er.H Walt" said Christian philosophy, and in 16ss in the southwestern part of this country, Christian men went out to saxamfne the march of the locusts. There are men night before me who must have noticed in that very part of the country the coming up of the locusts like an army. and N was found that all the newspapers junW4tt.HEiy spoke of them as an army. WhyT They seem to have commander. They march lick host: they halt like e?st No array roy eyer ., went in straisnter turning aside for the wind. If the wind xisca. the locusts drop and then rise again after it has gone down. taking the same line of march. not varying foot. The old Bible right every time when 1t Hpeaks of locusts coming like an army; worldly philosophy wrong.
 Worldly philosophy said, All that story about the light turned as clay to the ssar is simply an absurdity." Old time worldly philosophy said, ''The light comes ftraight." Christian philosophy says; snakes discoveries and finds that the at mosphere curves and bends the rays of light around the earth literally Gas the clay to the seal. The Bible right again; says worldly philosophy. "all that allu- eion in Job about the foundations of the earth is simpy an absurdity. Where vast thou says God. when I set the ao foundation." Christian philosophy xorsaes and finds that the word as trans lated .foundations" may be better trans lated ..soekets" So now see how it. 1t will vast thou when I set the sockets of the earfh?ss. Where Is the socket? 1t is the Hollow of Gods hand-a socket large anough for any world to turn in.
 Religion and Science.
 Worldly philosophy said: What an ab- ana moon stand still. If the world had stopped an instant, the whole universe would have been out of gear Stop" Haid Christian philosophy; not quite so o1l It's own axis and the other around the sun. It was not necessary, in making them stand still, that both motions should bs stopped-only the one turning the