The Yale expositor., 1901-05-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
ANTAGONIST TO THE GOSPEL
HAS DISAPPEARED.
"There Ii Mono like That. Give 1t Me"
-(D samuel XXI, 9-Temptations of
the Traveier-Preachsrs Are More Re-
sourcefui than In Former Days.

course LII. ldl1dBe Calls the toll OL III
fiuences once antagonistic but now
friendly to the gospel and encour-
ages Christian workers; text, l. Sam
uel xxi, 8, There is none like that;
give ii me-"
David fed from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when 1t Is chas-
ing a good man. The country is try
ing to catch David and to STAY him.
David goes into the house Of a priest
and asks him for q 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 unwrapplng
the sharp, glittering, memorable blade
IL 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, II 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
his glorious church. l want as well as
God may help me, to show you that
many a 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 l 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
laboratory and out of it's observatory
and said, Now. we will prove by the
very structure OF the earth and by the
movement of the heavenly bodies that
the Bible is lie and that Christianity
as we have it among men Is posi-
tive imposition" Good men tremb,ed.
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.
NJ. Mitchell came forth and told the
world that in their ransacking of the
earth and heavens they had 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 I'M
WlillC lhC IOnCi Va lhO
night heavens struck silvery chime
in its praise.
The Eternal Master.
Worldly philosophy said: Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God
did not make it." Christian philoso-
ply plunges it's crowbar into rocks
and finds that the world was grad
a. ii IL
there 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
of the Bible we find that Moses stated
a magnificent truth when he said, I'm
the beginning"
Worldly philosophy said: your BIZ
BILE Is a most inaccurate book. All
that story in the Old Testament again
and again told, about the army of the
locusts-it is preposterous There is
nothing in the coming of the locusts
like an army. An army walks; To-
Gusts fly. An army goes in order and
professions; locusts without order"
wait" said Christian philosophy, and
in 1858 in the southwestern part Of this
country Christian men went out to ex-
anime 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 loeusts
like an army, and 1t was found that
all the newspaper unwittingly spoke
of them as an army. Why? They
seem to have a commander. They
march like a host. They halt like a
host. No arrow ever went in straight
.er flight than the locusts come, not
even turning 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 foot. The old Bible Is right
every time when It speaks OF locusts
coming like an army; worldly phllos-
ophy wrong.