Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-08
INFLUENCESFORG GOOD
DR.. Talmage Calls the Roll of Those
Once Antagonistic.
ChristinnIfy Now Using to Defend
Herself Weapons Once Used
Against Her Temptations
OF the Traveller.
tcopyrish, 1901. by Louis klopsch. N. VI

ic but now friendly To the Gospel and
encourages Christian workers. Text,
Y Samuel, 21:9, There is none like
that; give it me"
David fled from his pursuers. The
world runs very fast when it is chas-
Ing a good man. The country is try
ing so catch David and to Stay him.
David goes into ne house of a priest
and asks him for "A 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
lard away-thc very sword that Co
Hath formerly uscd-and he takes
down that sword. and while r. is uu-
wrapping the sharp. glittcring. mem
orable blade it flashes upon David's
mind that this is the very sword that
was W against himself when he
was in the fight with Goliath, and
David can hardly keep his hand off
1T 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
the sword which has been used
against me and against the cause of
God SO it was given him Well.
EnY friends. that is not the first or
Che last sword once used by giant
aud Philistine iniquity which IS to
come into the possession Of Jesus
christ and Of His glorious church. /
want. as well as God may help me,
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which has been used against the ar
mics of God rs yet TO bc captured and
used on our side. and | only initiate
David when i stretch out my hand
toward that blade Of the Philistinc
and cry: There is none like that;
give it met"
I remark first that This is true in
regard 60 all scientific exploration.
You know that the first discoveries
I'm astronomy and geology and chro-
uoIoCY were used to battle Chris
tianity. Worldly philosophy came out
of It's labora 'ory and out Of its OBJ
scrVatory and said: Now. we will
prove by the very structure of tho
Garth and by the movement of the
heavenly bodies that the Bible is a
lie and that Christianity "a we have it
among men is a positive impoSition."
Good men trcmbled. The telescope.
the Icyden jars. the electric batteries.
all an the hands of the Phiiistincs.
But ono day Christianity. looking
about for some weapon with which to
defend itself, happened to see the
very old sword that these ajhciStic
Phliistines had been using against the
Srnth. and cried out: There is none
like that: give ii me-" And Copcrni-
Gus and Gali,ci and Kcplcr and Isaac
New ton and IlcrSchcl and q. NJ Mitch
ell came forth and told the world that
In their ransacl,ing Of the earth and
heavens they had found ovcrvhcIm-
ing presence of the God whom We wor-
ship. and this old Bible began to shake
itself from the Koran and Shastcr and
ZcndaVesta with which ii had been COW
cred up and lay on the desk of the
scholar and in the laboratory of the
chemist and in the lap of the Chris
van unframed and unanswered. while
Nhc tower OF the midnight heavens
Struck silvcry chime i'm its praise.
worldly philosophy said: Matter
, eternal The world always was.
qIod did not make it," Christian pbi-
l0sophY plungcs lis crow bar into rocks
and finds that the world was gradual
~ made. and II gradually made there
must have been some point mt which
thc process started. Then who started
az And so that objection was over
come. 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 is a most inaccurate book. All
that story in the Old Testament. again
and again told. about the army Of the
tocU9t s-it is prepostcrous There is
oothing in the coming Of the locusts
like an army. An army walks: Iocusts
ny An army goes Inv order and process
sion. locusts without order" "Wait."
said Christian philosophy. and in 1865
IN the southwestern part of This coun-
try Christian men went ont to ev-
amino the march of the Iocusts. There
arc men right before me who must
nave noticed ~ that very part of the
country the coming up Of The locusts
Hkc an army, and 10 was found thataI
she newspapers unwittingly poke OF
thrm as an'army. Why? They seem
=" have commander. They march like
= host They halt like a host. Nos
row ever went in straightcr fight than
tic iocusts come. not even turning
p side for the wind. " the wind rises.
she iocusts drop and then rise again
after it has gone down. taking the
same line Of march. not VARYING a foot.
The old Bible is right every time when
- speaks Of locusts coming like an
army. worldly philosophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said. "Nll that
story about the light turned as clay
to thc seal is simply an absurditv.''
a'ld-iime worldly philosophy said.
Idc light comes straight" Christian
E'hIios ophy SAYS: Wait little while"
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