&EBIBLFSGEOLOGY In the following ermoa Dr. Tsl mage d'.s-usacs a iubjoct of laucJj ,TV ij dent The text Is "And when they came to Nachon'a threshing floor U-- sat piH forth hli hand to the ark of Gd and took hold of it; for the oxen Hook it And the anger of the Lord wkt kindled agalast Uriah, and God mote Mm there for his error, and thre he died by the ark of God." X band of tamiis U coming down the rtfUl. oorneta blows, timbrels struck, harps thrummed and cymbals clapped, all led on by Darld, who was himself a musician. They are ahead of a wagon on which is the sacred box called the ark. The yoke of oxen drawing the wagon imperiled It. Some ctltics say fhat the oxen kicked, being struck with the driver's goad, but my knowledge of oxen leads me to say taut If on a hot day they see a shadow of a tree or wall, they are opt to sud denly shy off to get the coolness of the shallow. I think these oxen so suddruly turned that the sacred box smed about to upset and be thrown to the ground. I'nah rushed forward and laid bold of the ark to keep It up right Hut he had no right to do so. A special command had been given by the Ixinl thnt no one save the priest under any circumstances should touch that box. Nervous and excited nud Ir reverotit, Uzziih disobeyed when he took hold of the ark, and be died as a consequence. In all agC3, and never more eo than In our own day, there are good people all the time afraid that tte Holy Bible, which Is the sacred ark of our time, will be upset, and ttjpy have been a long while afraid tkut science, and especially goology, would overthrow it. While we are not forbidden to touch the holy book and, on the contrary, are urged to fondle and study it, any one who is afraid of the overthrow of the book is greatly offending the Lord with his unbelief. The oxen have not yst been yoked which can upset that ark of the world's salvation. Written bf the Lord Almighty, he is going to protect it until Its mission is fulfilled aad there shall be no more need of a Bible because all Its prophecies will have been ftriflfled and the human race will have exchanged worlds. A trumpet and a violin are very different Instruments, but they may be played la perfect accord. So the Bible ac count of the creation of the world and the geological account are different one story written oa parchment and the other on the rocks and yet In per fect and eternal accord. The word "flay," repeated in the first chapter of Genesis, has thrown Into paroxysms of crlticlsni many exegetes. 1 The He brew word "rem" of the Bible means sometimes what we call a day,' 'add' sometimes It means ages. It may mean 24 hours or 189,000,000 years. The order of creation as written in the book of Genesis is the order of cre ation discovered by geologists' crow bar. So many Uisahs have been nerv ously rushtng about for fear the strong ocea of scientific discovery would up set the Bi'ble that I went somewhat ap prehensively to look Into the matter, when I found that the Bible and geol ogy agree in saying that first were built the rocks, then the plants greened the earth, then marine crea tures were created from minnow to whale, then the wings and throats of aerial choirs were colored and tuned, and the quadrupeds began to bleat and bellow and neigh. What is all this tlias that has been Oiling the church and the world concerning a fight be tween Moses and Agassis? There is no fight at all. But Is not the geolog ical impression that the world was millions of years building antagonis tic to the theory of one week's crea tion in Genesis? No. A great bouse Is to be built. A man takes years to draw to the spot the foundation stone and the heavy timbers. The house is about done, but it Is not finished for comfortable residence. Suddenly the owner cans In upholsterers, plumbers, gas fitters, paper hangers, and In one week it is ready for occupancy. But for years good people feared geology, and without any imploration on tbelr part apprehended that the rocks and mountains would fall on them until Hugh Miller, the elder of it John's Presbyterian church is! Edinburgh and parishioner of Dr. Suthrle, came forth and told the world ! that there was no contradiction be tween the mountains and the church, and O. M. MHchell, a brilliant lecturer J Ocfore he became brigadier general,! lying at Beaufort, 8. C, during our civil war, took the platform and spread his map of the strata of rock in the presence of great audiences, and Pro fessor Alexander Wlnchell of Michigan university and Professor Taylor Lew is of Union college showed that the "without form and void" of the first chapter of Genesis was the very chaos out of wbich the world was formulated, the bands of God packing together the land and tossing up the mountains in to great heights and lining down the seas into their great depths. Before God gets through with this world there will hardly be a book of the Bi ble that will net tnd confirmation either In archaeology er geology. Ex humed Babylon, Nlnevah, Jerusalem. Tyre and Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying out in the ears of the world: "The Bible is right! All right! Ev erlastingly right!' Oeology is say ing the same thing, not only confirm in, the truth about the original crea tion, but confirming no many passsgea Of the Scriptures that I can. only slightly rear Co But yort do not realty believe that story of the deluge and the sinking of the r.ta.us under the wave? Tell u.i .'-iniethlng we can believe. ', tiers th t." fays geology, "for howj do you ici oiict for those seaahe'.'.s and : seaweeds and skeletons of sea an'rcals found on the top of some of the h Sdt n.ounta.ns. If the waters did not gurnet. me rise about the mountains, hew did those seashells snd seaweeds and skeletons of sea animals get iters? Did you put thsm there?" But, new, you do not really believe that story about the storm of fire aud brimstone, whelming Sodom and Go morrah, and enwrapping Lot's wife In such saline Incrustations that she hal ted, a sack of salt? For the confirma tion of that story the geologist goes to that region snd after trying in vain to take a swim In the lake, so thick with salt he cannot swim it the lake beneath which Sodom and Gomorrah lie burled, one drop of .the water so full of sulphur and brimstone that It stings your tongue, and for hours yon cannot get rid of the nauseating drop the scientist then digging down and finding sulphur on top of sulphur, brimstone on top of brimstone, while all round there are jets and crags and peaks of salt, and if one of them di'd not become the sarcophagus of Lot's wife, they show you how a human be-J lng might in that tempest have been, halted and packed into a white monu-' rocnt that would defy the ages. But, now, you do not really believe that New Testament story about the earthquake at the time Christ was cru-j clfled. do you? Geology digs down' into Mount Calvary, and finds the rocks ruptured and aslant, showing the work of an especial earthquake for' that mountain, and an earthquake1 which did not touch the surrounding1 region. Go and look for yourself, and 8eo there a dip and cleavage of rocks as nowhere else on the planet, geolo gy thus announcing an especial earth quake for the greatest tragedy of all the centuries the assassination of the Son of God. But yon do not really believe that story of the burning of eur world at the last day? Geology digs down and finds that the world Is already on fire and that the center of this globs Is Incandescent, molten, volcanic, a burning coal, burn out out toward the surface, and the in ternal Ires' have so far reached the outside rim that I ae not see- how the world is to keep from complete con flagration until the prophecies con cerning it are fulflled. Instead ef disbelieving the Bible story about the final conflagration, since I have looked a little Into geol ogy, finding that Its explorations are all In the line of confirmation of that prophecy, I wondsr how this old craft of a world can keep sailing on much longer, It is like a ship on Are at sea, the fact that the hatches are kept down the only reason that it does not become on complete blase masts on flre, , ratlins on fir's, everything from cutwater to taffrall on fire. If anything in th history or condi tion of the earth seems for the time contradictory of anything in geology, you must remember that geology Is all the time correcting Itself and more and more coming to harmonization with the great book. In the last century the French Scientific association print ed a list of 80 theories of geology which had been adopted and afterward rejected. Lyell, the scientists, an nounced 61 theories of geology that had been believed in and after ward thrown overboard. Meanwhile the story of the Bible has not changed at all, and if geology has cast out be tween 100 and 200 theories which It once considered established we can afford to wait until the last theory of geology antagonising divine revelation shall have been given up. The geology of the Bible shows that our religion Is not a namby, painby, nerveless dilettantish religion. It was projected and has been protected by the God of the rocks. Religion a balm? Oh, yes. Religion a soothing power? Oh, yes. Religion a beauti ful sentiment? Oh, yes. But we must have a God of the rock, a mighty God to defend, an omnipotent God to achieve, a force able to over come all other forces In the universe. Ross of Sharon and Lily of the Valley Is he, combination of all gentleness and tenderness and sweetness? Oh, yes. But If the mighty forces now ar rayed for the destruction of the na tions are to be met and conquered, we must have a God of the rocks. The "Lion of Judah's tribe," as well as the ''Lamb who was slain." One hun dred snd thirty times does the Bible speak of the rock as defease, as ar mament, as refuge, as overpowering strength. David, the psalmist, lived among the rocks, and they rlmlnded him of the Almighty, and he ejaculates "The Lord liveth; blessed be my rock." "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I." And then, as if his prayer had been answered, he feels the strength come into his soul, and he cries out, "The Lord is my rock." "Ho shall set me np upon a rock." Would the Bible present a subNme picture of motherly desperation ka de fense of her children, It shows us Rlz pah on the rock for three months with disheveled hair and wild screams fight ing back vultures and Jackals from the corpses of her eons. Would the Bible set forth the hardness of the heart and the power of gospel to overcome it, it tells us of th "hammer that break- eth the rocks in pieces." Would onr Lord represent the durability of his church" against all assault, he says, "Upon this rock will I build shy church aad the gates ef hell shall not pre vail against It" Would be close his sermon ea the mount with n perora Uea thai wool resenad through een- torien, staalfag ck no high that It overlooks Lake Oelllee to th right and on a clear day overlooks th Med iterranean to the left. I hear n stamp his foot oa the rock bene...: him es he cries to the surging mn't: ti:!?s at the base ef that rock. "Who soever heareth these sayings of m':e and doeth them I will liken him uuio a wise men, which built his house up on a rock, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and It fell not, for It was founded upon a rock." But while I go on with my study of the geology of the Bible, or God among the rocks, I get a more Intelligent and helpful idea of divine deliberation. These rocks, the growth of thousands of years, and, geology says, of millions of years, ought to show the prolongs tin of God's plans and cure our impa tience because things are not done In short order. Men without seeing It become critical of the Almighty and think. Why does he not do this and do that and do It right away? We feel sometimes as if ws oould not wait Well, I guess we will hare to wait. God is never in a hurry except about two things. His plans, sweeping through eternity, sre beyond our com prehension. They have such wide cir cle, such vastness of revolution, such Infinitude' that we cannot compass them. Indeed he would not be much of a God whom we could thoroughly understand. That would not be much1 of a father who had no thoughts or plans larger than his babe of 1 year could compass. If God takes millions of years to make one rock, do not let us become critical if he takes 20 years or a century or several centuries to do that which we would like to have done immediately. But that was not a slip of the tongue when I said that God is never in a hur ry except in two things. Those who things are when he goes to save a re pentant sinner and comfort a praying mourner. The on divine hurry was set forth in the parable of the prodigal son when it says, "the father ran." He was old, and I suppose bed as much as he could do te walk, but the sight of his bad boy coming home limbered the stiff knees and lengthened the short ened pace of the eld man in an athletic stride. "The father ran!" Put it into your oratorios. Souad it with full orchestra. Repeat it through all heavens. "The father ran!" O, ssul farthest off, com back, and God, your Father, wiH com out to meet you at full run!. ..The other time when Ged is In a hurry is when a troubled soul calls for comfort Then she Bible represents the. drvine gait and swing and velocity by th reindeer, saying, "Be thou like a roe or a young hart on the mountains ef Bother." That parenthesis I put In thinking that there may be soms repentant sinner who wants t find pardon or some mourning soul who needs eomfert, and therefore I mention the two things about which God is in a great hurry. But concerning all the vast things sf God's government of the universe be patient with th carrying out of plans beyond our measurement Naturalists tell us that there are Insects that are born and die within an hour and that there are seversl generstlons of them in one day, and if one of those July In sects of an hour should say: "How slow everything goes! I was told In the chrysalis state by a wondrous in stinct that I would find In this world seasons of the year spring, summer, sutumn snd winter. But where are the autumnal forests upholstered In fire, and where are the glorious spring times, with orchards waving their cen sers of perfume before the altars of the morning? I do not believe there are any autumns or springtimes." If, then, a golden eagle, many years old, in a cage nearby, heard the hum of that complaining Insect, it might welt answer "O summer Insect of an hour, though your life is so short you cannot see the magnificent turn of the seasons, I can testify as to their reality, for I have seen them roll. When I was young, and before I was Imprisoned in this cage, I brushed their gorgeous leaf age and their fragrant blossoms with my own wing. You live sn hour. I have lived 80 years. But in one of my flights high up, the gate of heaven open for a soul to go In or a seraph to come out, I beard the choirs chant ing, 'From everlasting to everlasting thou art God!' And it was an antlphon si In which all heaven responded, 'From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.' O man! O woman! So far as your earthly existence is concerned, only the Insect of an hour, be not Im patient with the workings ef the Om nipotent and the Eternal!" j And now, for your solace and your safety, I ask you to come under the shelter, snd Into the deep clefts, and tbe almighty defense of a rock that is higher thsn you, higher than sny Gib raV.er, higher than tbe Himalayas the Rock of Ages that will shelter you from the sterm; that will hide yon from your enemies; that will stand when the earthquakes of the last day get their pry under the mountains and hurl them Inte seas boiling with the fires which ere already burning their way out from reilhot centers to ward the' snrfnecs -Ahluh are already here and there spouting with flre amid the quaking of the mountains under the look and touch of him of whom it is said In the subllmest sentence ev er written: "He looketh upon th mountains, and they tremble. He toucbeth the hills, and they smoke." Hie you on and all to th Rock of Ages. And now as before this sermon on the rocks I gave out the significant aad appropriate hymn "How firm a foundation y saints of the Lord" I will give out after this sermon oa the rocks th significant and appropriate hymn: Rock of Ages, cleft for me, fast htl snysctt in thee! Oawl Start. I cried all day yesterday." -Whatferr. "It wasourweddlngannlversery.aBd rtenrysald: "It seems to me fhat ome thinf awful occurred tea years ago to day, but I caa't remember what it was." Detroit Free Pre. Jul VThmt She Want. Teddy Thoughtless Do you aw think Miss High fly would tnahry me. don't you know? Charley Colddeal I think so. I heard her say she was looking for a soft thing. ?i. Y. Journal. A Pnrtltia. Penelope Their engagement created quite a sensation, but I believe that some cruel misunderstanding parted them. Murte Yes; he understood that her father was wealth. Brooklyn Life. Jlnt.m Flrat-Claaa Jofc. "Yea," be said proudly. Tm a self made man." 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