The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-06-05

ingenuity, make a creed. The New |
Testament was nothing but the New
Testament. and could not by. any To- I!
genuitF- be tortured into-U Universal |
ism, Catholicism, or Unitarianism.
One Of the principles of Christianity,
which distinguished it from all other
religions, was that of sacrifice
- Bear ye one another's burdens"
That WIS the cardinal principle that
underlay the, Cross Other religions
allowed that the strong had the right
to use the weak. Christianity taught
that knowledge. and wealth were
trusts to be used for the good 81 man 1
kind. IF a man be chief. among
you let him be a servant. ~ Since the
world began God had beenf dragging
down the high and lifting up
| the lowly. Another equally alnex-
anpled and remarkable principle
of christianity was that It
sought to reform the world by ideas.
1 No other religion had ever attempted
to remodel the world BY th0nght..
81 Go out and preach the Gospel" The
agitator of the centuries was the Jesus
Christ of JerusaleInv WGhristiauity'
espoused the cause Of the poor, and
/ selected the lowliest ignorance IS the
depository of its TRUTH Because
Jesus Christ had preached against
4 Church and State in his day he was
/ persecuted,F aud if be ecould come
/ again and dolthe same thing now be
would also be prosecuted. Christi
anity trusted the human race. IL
said, : L am immortal as man ac-
cept human nature, and the evidence
of my. divinity will be that every sue
cessive development of human nature
will find its key in me. 81 An
other distinguishing feature of Chris
tianity was its idealagof nRwo-
man. Thelevel of mans kpi4itual
= life, as the spiritual life Of an age, was
tofbe measured by his ideal oil woman.
The spiritual and moral possibilities
of the future lay In the place which
woman should compel the race to aG7
cord her in the coming slime. Gle
, then argued that Christ, as the origin
J ator Of Christianity was vastly supe-
! riOr7 to Plato, Shakespeare. or any
other man who ever lived. 1T seemed
to him greater credulity &c. believe
that there. ever was. man 80 mu ch
superior to Athens and England as
, Jesus Christ than to suppose that a
higher influence than human Inter
vened to make him the bearer of the
: special messenger to the race. lie ask.
ed the man who said that ChristianitJ
was but the outgrowth of the human
intellect to explain the civilized state OIL
! Europe as she stood to day. Chris
tianity did not espouse metaphysics OF
2 speculation, but concerned Itseli
I chiefly with the relations Of man u
man. He thought that Christianity
was much nearer to Voltaire when hC
: struggled for. free speech, than utC
r Jeremy Taylor when he wrote his
J Holy Living and Dying" = With tho
exception of few personal wees, he
believed that even Thomas Paine
the name of all names that many
Christian people reViled-when he
went into the other world, was much
more likely to be received with
Well done, good and faithful ser.
want" than many bishop who died
, under the English mitre. ftEE 3
! After abiding to the origin oil
, Christianity, and speaking on some
kindred points, DIR Phillips said that
! with reference to the religion of to-
l day we had too many pulpits and toe
, many churches. Christ never intend
7 ed the pulpit in the guise in which
we had it. The people who could be
profted by preaching, could be &C
Z eommodated 10 ten churches in Bos-
ton. They did not need fifty. ~The
J remaining preachers should preach in
/ the State Prison, In North Street. On
: Sunday they should be stationed on
= the side OF ignorance, making it en-
: frightened; on the side of poverty,
making it comfortable. The worship
of the rich should be putting their
gifts to use, and not sitting down and
bearing for the hundreGth time the
recitation of the arguments against
? theft. There never would be any real
} Christianity in this land until We
ceased to be everlastingly preaching
: it, and began to learn it by praetieing
, it. The existence of a per-
manent poor class in a Christian
; community was evidence that
! it was not a Christian II conn
munity. He then went on TO argue
| that when Christianity pointed out a
sin, the Church stood in the way of
: its reformation. Christianity was am r
bodied In the peace society, in the
temperance Organization, In prison
. discipline, in anti slazery, in woman's
rights, and In eight Lour. moyement
The man who recognized the right of
= every labOring man TO sufficient leis-
ure to develop his mind and soul, was
. infinitely nearer Christianity than he
who could discuss the points of the
Godhead, whether he lived at Concord
r or anywhere else. We were now in. a
, transition state, and Christianity was
/ moving forward to fresh triumphs.
Nothing but a firm benevolent pur-
pose would unite the various sects
! in real Christian work. Ii John
Stuart Mill, whoJ rejected the 1our
Gospels, should so agitate Eng
. land as to liftrEup Ithe-a work
ingman from the terrible pit he was
now in worse than any hell ever GaI-
vim imagined, J.. he (the speaker would
!. say that Lord Skates bury was a
= dreamer, and John Stuart Mill the
! apostolic. successoFsOf st. Paul. :. BY
their fruits shall ye know then"
! They did not know Jesus. and would
not if he appeared to- day. People
thought that he was a sentimental, re-
spectacle, moderate reformer, careful
and conservative, and deoently sur
a rounded. He was the sedition of the
streets. He said, % Your wealth Is
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