THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE; OR, GOD AMONG THE CENTURIES
Scripture: DEUTERONOMY 32:7
The Chronology Of The Bible; Or, God Among The Centuries
T. DeWitt Talmage
A New Year's sermon
Deut., 32: 7: " Consider the years of many generations."
At twelve o'clock last night, while so many good people were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a stranger entered. The old friend mak- ing valedictory was the departing year; the stranger arriving is the new. The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and said nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mysteries. I did not see either the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for me the best way to be wide awake now. And I was confident that the trans- ference from year to year would go on just as well as if I were watching. Good-bye, Old Year ! Welcome, New Year! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe this order in their march, and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's existence is divided into an army, divinely commanded: the eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward! into the eternity past, out of the eternity to come. Forward ! is the command, and nothing can halt them even though the world should die. While obeying my text, "Consider the years of many gener- ations," I- propose- ta speak of the "Chronology of the Bible, or God among the Centuries." We make a distinction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece of eternity, and chronology has been engaged in the sublime work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we call time into compart- ments, and putting events in their right compartment. It is as much an injustice against the past to wrongly arrange its events, as it would be an injustice if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should, in the far distant future, be said that America was dis- covered in I776, and the Declaration of Independenc ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
A New Year's sermon
Deut., 32: 7: " Consider the years of many generations."
At twelve o'clock last night, while so many good people were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a stranger entered. The old friend mak- ing valedictory was the departing year; the stranger arriving is the new. The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and said nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mysteries. I did not see either the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for me the best way to be wide awake now. And I was confident that the trans- ference from year to year would go on just as well as if I were watching. Good-bye, Old Year ! Welcome, New Year! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe this order in their march, and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's existence is divided into an army, divinely commanded: the eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward! into the eternity past, out of the eternity to come. Forward ! is the command, and nothing can halt them even though the world should die. While obeying my text, "Consider the years of many gener- ations," I- propose- ta speak of the "Chronology of the Bible, or God among the Centuries." We make a distinction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece of eternity, and chronology has been engaged in the sublime work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we call time into compart- ments, and putting events in their right compartment. It is as much an injustice against the past to wrongly arrange its events, as it would be an injustice if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should, in the far distant future, be said that America was dis- covered in I776, and the Declaration of Independenc ...
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