Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-19
WHICH Is THE TRUE CHURCH i?
Rev. J. A. Gray's Sunday Evening
Lecture.

Lecture.
The Rev. J. A. Gray's remarks or
the above subject are conceived in
broad and liberal spirit, and are to be
commended for the absence of any
thing approaching ~narrowness or big.
otry. A study of the following lecture
will reveal the secret of Mr.. Gray's
popularity:
Acts 10, 34-5-"Of a truth l perceive
that God is no respecter of persons.
But in every nation he that teareth God
and worketh righteousness is accepted
with Him.
The churches all profess to have a
great work. But drop a man down
into these troubled years with a sense
of guilt, and where shall ne go? Each
church processes to be the best. Each
declares the other wrong. They all
profess to take Christ for their teacher
and example. Which is right? Christ
founded a church. 1t was for all time
and all peoples. But He did not
give a creed to be subscribed !:
he commanded his apostles to preach,
but he did not say with or without
ioDOos AAO oN BbU PAoNidO q iltudi,
he said nothing about posture in pray
err. All these forms we're left to the
tastes and circumstances of his follow
ers. His religion was a spirit that
could worship sin this mountain or at
Jerusalem" with or without form, Gin
spirit and in truth" True love may
flourish in almost any form. The
comprehension of truth on the part of
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mentary; yet when denomination gets
make it personal property. If there
were a patent office for religious
thought, theologies would be patented,
for the use of ideas or customs. Eaul
says, LET no man glory in men, for
all things are yours" etc. The truth
and love of christianity are for all men,
and a man comes into the true church
when he seeks these and recognizes
them everywhere. Although jmper-
fectly expressed and formulated, it is
the spirit that has vital worth. You
look down a fertile valley, and the
land is owned and cultivated by differ
eut men. Here is a garden; there, a
vineyard; yonder, broad fields. You
have no legal title to any; but you go
upon the hills and look down, and you
own the best beauty of all-the land
scape, that is for all, and no deed can
give it to any a
| look down into these gardens of
the Lord. My Catholic friends have a
large field, filled with various
growths, but they have a very narrow
gate, and say you must come in here.
NJ Draeh :, arta ~ frianAS ha vn a IN riftu
garden all laid out in straight rows,
with trees growing very straight, and
they say ''if you want these, come in
here" My Baptist friends have a
luxuriant vineyard across a beautiful
you must wade over" My Episco-
their grounds and gathered choice
flowers which they train on old trelliS
work made after the pattern of things
seen in the mount, and they say, "seek
after the old paths if you want to get
in here.n
The Metbodists have a garden. and
they say ''you can if you want to come
i'm here, try il for six months, and if
you don't like it you can go out, and if
We don't like you we will put you
out"
These all have their advantages and
peculiarities adapted to different
minds, but no one has all the truth,
and the true church is the spirit on
the Mountains that looks down on
good in all, and good everywhere, and
forbids no one that is casting out
devils to follow Christ. OF course the
spirit and purpose of religion must be
organized and formulated, and hence
the need of denominations, but the
more of truth they posses, the nearer
they come together.