Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

broad, all inclusive fraternity. deep immor-
tai filial passion toward the household and
the Father.
Here stand summed up, all the law and
the Prophets. Just here is the whole duty
of man. Christ preached veracity, purity,
charity, nobility Of soul. He preached in
spiratons that should exalt man 10 his pur-
pose and in. His nature. He taught that
which should tend and feed Him and fur
nish Him to the end; that He should be
more like the Father whom He protested to
reveal. he even said to His followers, "Ex
cept your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the Scribe aud the Phari-
SO that you sac what are Gated the essentials
of salvation, Christ did not preach. In
deed, I myself have heard men acknowl-
edge, through their writings, that so far as
the bare teachings of Christ are CONCERNED,
they are very imperfect statement of the
way Of salvation. Yes, a very imperfect
statement But if men are to splice out
the shorEness of Christ's teachings, if we
are no longer to depend upon tue length of
gospel rope-let us spin one ourselves that
shall lie adequate to reach us in our neces-
sites
But to the testimony. What is the Cos
pei according to the commonly accepted
idea of il? Let mc quote fron standard
auth GRITTY:
The whole world is fallen and lost. In
consequence Of the sin of our first parents,
the entire race lies under the wrath of God,
guilty and condemned, the penalty ofwhieh
is eternal tormenis. Unless this penalty he
ia some way satisfied. there can be no SAL
vation. Christ interposed aud took upon
himself the wright of the torment and SUI
fered the penalty which the forgiven would
otherwise have suffered Because he thus
appeased the wrath of God, enabled God TO
forgive, and thus Christ redeemed or ran.
somed man. If now man Will t-ust 10 this
substitute, have faith in it without any re-
gard to works, and ACCEPT the arrangement
as satisfactory TO God, he can be saved,
otherwise he must rema;a under the wrath
OF Gea, and suffer the pains and penalties
of He'll fire.
S{ach is the press ntasion OF the pure Cos
pei according to the standard authority Of
men, who complain that preaching only
repeats what Christ preached, aud is not the
pare gospel. My friends. il you want to
| believe that statement yon can. For my
self would soone: be a respectable Pagan,
iEasmuch as it reflects more onor upon God
| aad holds out better pros pect for man kind :.
Read the sermons that Christ preached
| through and through; the grea, one en- the
mount, the briefer ones in the parables the
practical hints thrown gu: here and there,
! in His conversations with men of His times;
they contain not one word of that scholas
tic stuff Not one word Read over what
he sail time and again; not one word of it
appears from first TO last I wou'e wonder
that men who believe In scholastic gospel
say that the teachings of Christ very i'm
perfectly represent the way of salvation.
That Is the reason why said. s,&dying the
| language of Christ, [ come to the conclus-
lou that He did no, preach a pure gospel;
fused the phrase ''pure gospel" in the COM
mon, technica! sense. He preached His
own gospel; just that gospel which has been
declared 10 be inperfect and partial, very
INADEQUATE statement of the way of saliva
ton.
Now what Christ's own Cos spells, is that
referred to in the text from Marx. s.Tbe
gospel of Christ the kind found in His
sermons. L We cannot depend or what he
says for Himself and Of Himself, what can
we depend upon? Let as drop the name
Christian and take something better ra-
peat, golag through all the range of His
sweet discou-sing you can find none of
these bitter hes bs in the fresh clover field of
His life. There are no bean pods of Egypt
or Persia ia ii. There is mistake some
where. These things. do not &C together.
Men have felt grinding attrition of the two
systems for ages. And the wit of man.
kind unto its WEAKNESS has been called into
reqaisition to effect some sort Of adjustment
But still the grinding goes on. Either
Christ is wrong or that ssother gospel" is
wrong. Either HIS gospel is pure and suffi-
eient in itself, or we must look for the
purity and sufficency clsewhere / have
no doubt myself where the mistake is. ard
imagine you never suspected l had any
doubt. think If we all look carefully at
the matter there will sa no doubt in any,
bodys mind We choose here to abide for
the primal aut hority, having forced our way
back through all rumor and commentary to
the original words. They are good enough
for US. Then if we are rejected of men, so
ha II we shall he fnund IN tho oo,,na