, 1874-05-04
qutstlon In Spain by thoir rathor ovor-striot pro-
fcbgapn Of tho ortbpt1oY faith

quis!lon IN Spain by thoir rathor over-nriot pro-
foss!on Of tho orthodox faith.
But passing from tho curious facts Of the ~.
teroat Ho tako lust now IN the thing, and sho
difficulty Of finding anybody to oonfoas to 1t, !
want to Aak whether horeBy is really a sign Of
evil, tho equivalent for q lio, or, as aome would
aay, tho way to damuRtfon, or ID It one OF those
things No can turn to the nob1sst Or Tho viloae
uAoa ~ NO otlrHolv lvoa ara nohle or ytlo, and It
seems 70 No a;,. W gss oIaas hint of sAs rghs
- man who Is. to evory ono Of us, ono Of tho
loftlest and purcst souls Of his day, or Of any
dny. standing up petore the high priebt atd tho
elders, pointing to them ~ hc appeals to FoliS,
cell heresy 10 worship / The God Of my fathers y
Thero he IL standing alone on tho one side, md
On tho other, tho chiefs of faith old, doep-aat,
hodgcd about with solnmn sauotttles aud the
mon Il shs sintfh ssps . gSH gs sSe Sat
ture of truth accordtng to hls sonse Of t.. Il is
horesy to them, ho hays, to worship as do, and
l.. Am hsretlo u beyond the shador Of doubt;
him herstio, It shall be his Joy and crown of re-
1oioingi ho stands for eomstLing ,g,eator'
than thoy do. God has spoken to
a s e. h'9gsa h ss9ush 5 s Il sqs @ hs he' dbao 5as
but believe: .1Ioro 1t IL IN bis heart and on Ills
tongue, and IN tho Trainer Of that revelation
noent now AS II ie, he hsands up aud dodcs thom
Al, ono man against 4 mulsitude.
horesy: Let = man once feel true, In big own
aoul, that he has got hold Of larger and finer
truth than he had whtn ho Nas counted ortho-
do1, then this nobls old man whee,s Into limo
with him and bids him lose no time trying to
simply and frankly, and les tbs rest tako caro- Of
itaolf: Saul Il heret1o by his own confession;
he does not fear the term ea 20 many good men
aesn to do now to glorlos in Il. Is Il tho bat
IL 1t torch to kindle IRE that can nevcr bo
got under until 1t has burnt up every tomple and
ahrine Of falHs and hollow neotninR, and turned
the images Of Tue dead and gone gods to
dust :? All the bet!st;, Tho Trainer Of tho living
they burn old withered btakos, tho
6weet green grAss and forcrs break forth
to bless the land And this, as Paul defined 1t, ID
the roAl root OF the matter 90 far ~ I caro- to
means eholoo q election Any man and e!ory
man ID i heretlo, Who feels FREQ to difer from
thoss about him on any question for faic reason |;
to deny all authority e1oop! that OF the truth o.
1t oomos home TO hts soul, and to stand by his
not the nsnse our Orthodox friends give to the
word IL has taken = far more dismal meaning
shAn tliete kindly old artoks ever thought tho
force 9rea ct theologlo contention, exactly 40
tho old word hades had TO bo 0hrlstiaoizod
terrible CaivInistio hell. A heretio uas simply
a man who, for good reason 90 It seenaod
to him, he ID, = different opinion from
those about him. That ii tho moan
tnS d s: f9s Z, vS hssS'y l. n9~ ~ his T. ha
ooncllsi6n In his own way. from snoh premises
ss arc possible to him aud orthodoxy by tho
Same rule is sinaply the cumulative authority Of
the crowds In any community, who think alike
a8Aifst Tbs horesy Of the man who instats on
tt+4S nfhnrtw3NA n1Nron Whit. fa1H atn
OF telio they hsd once think in gpsin.' It was
q single hair, plucked from tho head Of Christ by
a Roman soldier. They kept II IN golden box,
aud you had to look at it through a glasa set In
lo,-1 think hc must bare como from about Boa-
ton, for liz would not be Satisfied with tho do
won't md feyerent kaKo into the aemt-darknesB
which had satisfied hosts OF people bofore him.
but went staring into the box and then said to
that hair anywhere" II don't wonder At that"
sha old man replied, II haze not seen 1t myself
theao twenty ye6ra, but II you hsye faith 1t Ia
there, II viii 10 all the sams."
That man from that moment WAS heretio, ho
would not believe tho thing which TO him could
not bb proved. Everybody slso in spnin might,
but ho would not. Was he not riglt7 Where is
tho use in profoBBiny faith In what 10 to you .
nonentity7 That is tho way harotics arc made.
To-day there muss bo ruth e1l reality to every
II He make believe wo belisye when re know We
know Ho do no such thing. In1nitely better
now and forever to atand alone resolute only to
bs trus to our own soils and to God than take
my man'a eay7so against our own insight, for
the sake Of being oou6ted among true believers.
aad just now II had come to pass BY no oon-
srlvAnoe Of cur own, that We are counted among
these herotioa, aud II this study1 have made Of
the thing be srus 1 soa no reason why VIC should
than Paul did, We also can ssy aud will B.y
after the why that they call he1esy, 30 worship
we tho God OF our fathers But as I try
to realize Hhat this man means who has takon it
upon him to speak hts mind about us. cannot
feel he has the same idea Of Aoresy hayo tried
but fhlBt Thought; not the right Of man to
differ, but the deserving Of nah for 80 differ
ing to bs condemned ~ Tho bar Of God.
We sro eharSoa with denying tho deity Of
to eAy against II. i Is heresy to do this. We aro
told. Truo again, / say, ii heresy bo simply tho
honest conclusion ct each man aud woman who
holds to conviction fof good teaaon which ~
not commonly held by tho minority abo.ls th6m.
II Psu pu "a ons ling more 10 se our ~ = vii vii
say, of ,conreo: IT am right In affirming the
mine 10 the truth, youra IL tie 1lc;" There we
on issue With 4ss. @ .r bot snanoe o. S1mnt' who who
not nos' ss men snN' suspeatod, se but ss mon @
who stand for what thoy believe to DO tho, truth,
b,,t al tl.e shtne tn4 do moi like to quarrel about
it with anybody. For it sooms to mo that OF all
things in the world, religious truth fa tint which
We should naoes carefully kaep out Of the clrolo
Of personal or party strife. Ooutendlng over
these swkes, ahy, adItcate mAttors which touch
tho soul most nearly In Its relation to God must
b6 something like dontending over = yessel OF
fresh milk, for which tho children are waiting
somewhere. Ndt only Ia thero danget Tub milk
will be lost In the contention, but something ko
a certainty that it will grow sour aud unfit for
use, aud then those will not got it that mood it.
Or It is as il two partiea hhoitld fight over tho
meantng Of nttanscendent Picture by Soma divine
uheh they arc through, tho worst Of all is, tho
picture has baon dofacod aud obsourod, it's out
line blurred, its color tarniBhed, its CHOICEST