The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-29

relent or to unbind his hands. Nothing
of that kind does Jesus teach. but in.
stead that God waits all the day long for
his errine children to come back to Him,
even as the father in the parable of the
Prodlgal Son waited, ready to rejoice and
glad to forgive always, without anybody
to die, in their place before he
lorglVes. any more than the father
of the prodigai wanted some.
body to die before he would f,r-
give his repentant boy. But, contrary to
al this, orthodoxy teaches that God has
always been angry. with his haman child
rem when they have sinned, and either
could not or would not (you may take
which horn of the dilemma you please)
forgive them, no matter how deeply they
repented, until an innocent person died in
their stead
Finally, to mention no other antason-
ismS, Jesus taught that the only proper
object of worship for human beings is God,
the Father of all even inditing a form of
prayer beginning, ''Our Father which art
In heaven, and never giving any hint of
encouragement or intolerance to ANYTHING
which even looked in the direction Of
worship of himself. Orthodoxy. howey-
er, that is Protestant orthodoxy of the
so'called evangelical type type which
is specially popular in England and Amer
ca just now, and which we come into con.
tact with more than any other-has re-
verseu all this AMI erected Jesus into not
slmpl y an object, but the prin ipal object
OF human worship. Virgin Mary
worship is scarcely more conspicu-
Gus In Catholic countries than
Jesus, worship is getting to be in this
country. Not only in preaching, but in
hymns and prayers. God has fallen
quite into the background, end Jesus has
taken his place.
REFERENCE TO MR.. MOODY.
Quite recently minister, discussing
the Sermon on the Mount, remarked that
this sermon Of Christ was very noticeable,
and for several reasons. First of all, it
was noticeable for what it did not say
quite as noticeable for that as for what it
did say; for the truth could not be es-
capped, he argued, that in that most
lengthy ard complete Of all Of Jesus
public discourses, III which He laid down
the great public truths He had to offer,
never more fully anywhere else, the great
Teacher altogether omitted everything
which comes under the head Of the doc.
trlnes of orthodoxy. He explained and
set forth the Christianity which lie had
10 offer to men, with all that left out.
And if We follow the teachings
Of Jesus right on from that time
to the end | do not know how VIC can
deny that we always find Him setting
fo"th Christianity which has ali these
peculiar orthodox doctrines left out. The
Trinity, Adam S fall, total depravity. he
plan Of redemption (so-calIed), the atone
ment as taught by orthodoxy and every
ether one are wanting. The only seem
ing exception is the
DOCTRINE OF An ETERNAL HE'LL,
and even in this the exception is rather
imaginary than real, for those cases
where Jesus referred to punishment in
the next world, and uses the word :sev>r.
lasting or ''eternal' in connection with
1t, IN every case the Greek aion or Gionos,
translated eternal or everlasting, is the
same word which is used repeatedly in
other places in the New Testament in
connection with things which come to an
end.
The speaker continued at some length
in opposition to the doctrine Of eternal
punishment hereafter, and then proceed
ed to argue that orthodoxy is irrational
and unreasonable.
The discourse Of Mr.. Sunderland has
created most profound impression in
Mortified, and since it's delivery nothing
else has been thought or talked of. It is
that Mr.. Moody will reply
next Sunday and that reoinder will
follow from Mr.. Sunderland. The latter
clergyman is young man, very popular
in the town, and his literary and theolo~-
ical qualifications are of an unusually
hiph 0rdor