&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!
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