The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-21
DIFFERING TuRoIonIRa.

NOW, Ahlr. Moderator and brethren,
come 10 . point where shall point oul
% yon the difference between thsHrose
cutor's theology and my own, in some re-
spects. And as he Justly quoted the
aphorism from Newman's Grammar Of
Assent, that there are times when egotism
q modesty, ! shall repeat It here, because
LOO not wish 70 pretend that anybody
holds the views / shall express here ex.
cept myself. 1shall not pretend that they
are accepted or welcome in tho whole
Presbytery. They may DO weakness,
and hence to stand by them alone Is an
egotism that Is modesty. The remarks
about TO- be offered will explain my posi-.
ton as 10 faith and iniidelity, and 10 Old
Testament inspiration, and to the call for
the ministry. My idea Is this: PROT. Pat.
toms theology all proceeds from God as
simple despot; mine from God as q rea.
sona6le Being! By Prof.. Patton's theolo.
gy do mot mean the Presbyterian the.
'ology or the CalvlnlStic theology, for I
mean II Is infinitely worse than both
laughter his own personal theology,
IS he has untolded It since he came to
this city, and latterly at this trial.
IETRMPRRANCE.
God has pronounced intemperance to
BIO a curse. No drunkard shall enter in.
TO the Kingdom. This being announced i,
all the scientific men go 10 work and find
. reason .1nr this curse. They seek 1t
in the mind, in the blood, in the burnt
up coatings Of the stomach, IN the In.
famed brain, in the loss Of money, loss
Of mind, in the ruin Of the wife and
children.
Yes, God having said the Incorporate
man shall be bsnished, men look into this
intemperance to find the reason Of this
banishment. But when God pronounces
the woe upon the inhdel, you must not in
quire about the natural drift Of this inf
deity. That Ia "rationalisn." You dare
not ask II 1t wages any war in the soul
as intemperance does in the body
whether Il closes the gate Of moral sense
and shuts out q world from the hear, -
whether It shuts out, Christ and heaven
from the soulI-whether it be q natural
damnation like intemperanCe, as well as a
judicial one. OH No. It!you do this
you win DO arraigned before the Pres!
bytery for not regarding your ordination
vows. Well, brethren, II my ordination
VOWS impose upon me the obligation TO
live q lie Of ignorance and stupidity,
destitute Of all inquiry, the sooner you
relieve me Of these ordination vows the
better. Applause and laughter, and
cries Of "Amen." +.
The fact that intemperance Injuries
men by Gods decree does not debar me
from looking into the natural operation
of that intemperance, and the TACT that
God saves a soul by faith and condemns
q soul for infdelity does not debar me
from looking into the natural quality OF
that belief and that unbelief. But, ac-
cording to the theology Of the prosecutor,
infdelity may be o virtue, Tor all I know,
and faith may be vice. All he knows
is that God denied the one and command.
ed the other, and there he stops His
theology always terminates with the fact.
II dare not even ask single question.
1t is just believe and be saved; believe
not and be damned" That is all there
Is Of 1t. Hence l say his God hath
marched right through his theology, hath
no sweet reasonableness in 1t, but Is only
an enormous will rushing ont like a hur.
ricane to the fields Of his own dear
children, trampling alike over their cradle
and their grave.
, tQn referring to the whole speech Of
Prof. Swing, from which tho above ex-
tract taken, tho Chicago Tribune makes
the following editorial remarks J
"There is a vein Of pure humanity run
ming through the remarks Of Prof. Swing,
which will at once commend the speak
er to the hearties. sympathies of nine
teenth.century men. Hell so much Of a
Christian, so little Of a pettifogger, so
Astounding in his love Of the beautiful and
good in every creature, 50 little skilled in
theItrickeries Of theological tlnesse, that,
ithe te not a good Presbyterian, the mis-
fortune is not his but that OF the Presby-
terian Church"