The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-28
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Another 1I.lI.aense SeasaEIOn.
speeial to the Chicago Tribune.


NEW York, Dec. l6-AEr. Beech
err preached an unusual sermon to-
day, in the course of which he made
statements in substance as follows ::
He said that be believed there were
three persons united in one God
eead, but, if any one should ask why
he believed, he would tell him plain
ly that ne did not know anything
about it, ouly that it it was easier
to believe that which ne thought CO.
incided with the doctrine of the
New Testament than to contradict.
Orthodoxy says that men must be-
lieve in the trinity or they cannot
come into the church. That was
called orthodoxy, but he called it
heathenishl. '.It is not an easy
thing" said Mr.. Beecher, ''for an
honest, conscientious man, to know
Just what to preach and what not to
preach" 1t was no easy matter
to remove the rotten timbers, and
replace them with sound ones, and
not stop the voyage of the ship. 1t
was said Adam was created perfect.
II was also said that Adam sinned,
and that, in consequence of that sin,
the whole human race fell. The
| numbers of the human race were ac-
tualIy beyond computation, and for
thousands, and thousands and thou
sands of years they had been born
into the world, had lived, and strug-
gled, and finally died and gone
where? tIf You tell me that they
have ali gone TO Heaven, my answer
would be that such q sweeping of
| mud into Heaven would defile its
purity, and l cannot accept that. If
you tell me that they have gone to
hell, then | swear by the Lord Jesus
Christ, whom l have sworn to wor.
ship forever, that you will make an
infidel of me. The doctrine that
God has been for thousands years
peopling this earth with human be-
ings, during period three-fourths
of which was not illuminated by an
altar or church, and in places where
vast population of those people
are yet without that light is to trans
form the Almighty into a monster
more hideous than Satan himself,
aud L swear by ali that is sacred
that / win never worship Satan,
though he should appear in royal
| robes and seated on the throne OF
Jehovah. Men may say you will
not go to Heaven A Heaven pre-
sided over by snch demon as that,
who has been peopling this earth
with millions OF human beings and
then weeping them off into hell, not
like dead flies, but without taking
| the trouble even TO kill them, and
gloating and laughing over their
eternal misery, is not such Heav-
en- as l want to go to. cannot be-
lieve it and / won't. They say that
the saints i'll Heaven are go happy
that they do not mind the torments
of the damned in hell, but what sor;
of saints must they be, who could
be happy while looking down upon
the horrors of the botlomless pit
They don't mind they're safe $
they're happy. What would the
mother think of the is year old
daughter who, when her infant was
| lying dead IN the house, should
come dancing and singing into the
parlor, and exclaim obi I'm SO
happy, mother, [ don't care for the
dead baby ia the coffinf Would
she not be shocked? And so with
this doctripe. And by the blood OF
Christ, l denounce it; by the
wounds in His hands, and His side.
abhor it; by His grosns and ago
ny, l abhor aud denounce it as the
most hideous nightmare of theol-
/ ogy.