The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-03

ont scru s.., | say, ''Hand up the ric
treasures, stiey are mine"
AliScierce Of theology IS mine. hav
right 10, and must use it, taking frou
all creeds and confessions aud system,
the living good they may teach me o
Gods word, and rejecting the old fossil
that must go into formations on whicl
future religions continents shall be build
ei. So my freedom dismounts the boun
dar!es Of the highest sects. Luther, Cal
van, Arminius, Swedenborg, Wesley,
Campbell, Channing, Edwards. Parker
ali hail, ye royal princes of theological
Thought; ye are all my brothers. Bring
me the rici! treasures ye have gathered
in ear;hen vessels. Ye, too, are all mime
So is Paul and Apollos a2i Cephas; and
yet in none of you all do glory; but in
Jesus Christ alone. ard forever
SO all denominations are mine Ihave
a right to enter their doors whenever the
spirit cry Is in my ear; to sit in their
! D5ws, to eat at their tables, to stand, IL
/ will. in their puIpits. They are mine
to give me all the truth they know. But
more than this. | am not theirs; to be
would be carnaI. lam forbidden to stop
at saying am Baptist, Methodist, Luth-
erap, Presbyterian, Congregationalist. II
contained by any or all OF them, am
/ not Christian, but sectarian. must
! be something larger; and taking them all
in, have yet I0om to be a member of the
| true Church, w IA more than compre-
hends the sects, Id is 'mother of us
| all"
\ true religion must find ample place
for every genuine relation and fact, phys
ical, moral and spiritual. Otherwise it
is but comparatively better than other
religions So, If Darwin or Huxley, Straus
or Bhntn, find n truth relative to relig-
ion. | will not be alarmed, but accept it
Just as readily rs If it came from out
the bosom of the orthodox churches
For Paul, Apollos, Cephas, every man
that has thought, or now thinks, and
thus picks up grain of gold anywhere
on the shore OF the vast sea of knowl-
edge, has found something that is mine.
All that is true in men and their systems
is mine.
And now why? Simply because all
truths are Gods. OF the truth no man
dare say, at is my truth. l made it; it
is ing right; dare not to touch it." But
truth is Gods offspring. He made it.
Man only discovers Aad 50 he mas tIe
right, and gave it to NE.
For God himself set up all the types
that printed those old pages on the stone
strata beneath our feet, and the cuts
that Illustrate eternity on the pages of
heaven and earth, and in the tablets of
the heart and mind OF mau. '',rhe
works OF the Lord are great, and sought
ont of all them that have pleasure there
in" They were made for my delight. and
on them have need to feast my rational
and moral nature. l must search them
all out, accept them all ais Gods child
and her, (and more especially that an
set foT an example to the f.ocil.
Thus the great past is all Inine iii
"things present" Icannot afford, wish
reckless, free religionism, to Danish its
teachings, and stand alone in desolate
room 20 hold communion with my own
musings Rather would | be the living
cathedral, whose walls are hung with the
faces of countless WORTHLESS, whose dim
religious aisles resound with the footsteps
of untold generations of worshippers;
whose tireless dome echoes their precious
thoughts, and whose galleries answer
back, day and night, in subdued strains,
the thunder peal of its great organ Chant
of praise.
Only so get six thousand years the al
vantage of the infant OF days, and, stand
| iag Oh its high pinuacles, view broad fields
OF usefulness and truth, unseen till now.
! along whose extended valleys mighty
engines OF progress bear their rich
ifrsights, while on every hand swelling
rivers ofknowledge widen and deepen, as
they roll on to pour their treasures into
my bosom.
/ Here l realize thai am
..-;lwelling
| In a grand and awful time;
In an age on ages telling;
When to be living is sublime.
s,T tbuS .n.n,ui.Cfnpaj ,-:tb th.sa
great truths a message vast as ever pro
! phet ever bore, whstIersgaining, VIII ether
losing, il is mine Co nuke them heard
and felt wherever there is voice to reach
or ear to hear.
The future also : mine, in the things
to come" whatever good in store, what
storm overwiielm or floods sweep away,
my growing prospect, or rod OF disci
pine need. Gray hairs, unsteady hand,
faltering step, aad heavy ear, OF prenia
ture grave, or sudden death and as sud
den glory; all these are mine, because al
ready assumed To my advantage; For
he that beii,yeth hath everlasting life. -
But more cannot be uninterested
in what shall b. after ne. Aud 50 lay
ing aside all narrowness Of opinion,
spurning the barriers of sectS, sealing
the mountains of prejudice that inter
cept Loves broad domain, and running
on before history, see far and wide the
coming Church redeemed from schisms
and names of men, cs,liei OF Christ, of
whom the whole family, in heaven aud
earth, IS named. 0ne, as God and Christ
are one, that the world may believe, anl
thus the promise be fulfilled to make her
praise In all the earth. Such bound
less heritage is sealed, not TO those who
glory in men and are sect-ridden, but to
all Christians "All things are yours.
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or
the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things TO come; allare yours
and We are Christ's, and Christ Is Gods.
PARs0S BRowNLow on GEN. HAYES
IN his paper, the Knoxville Wig, Par
son Brownlow speaks of ''the Leader
IN Ohio, and says:
From the first speech in this inemor
able canvas down to the last Genera
Hayes was the central figure OF the fight
He was not noisy and blatant and over
bearing as Alien, for be is in every ro