The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-26
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Anti-Creedism

Editor Rutland Globe Il sympathize
with your correspondent, Anti-Creedst,
who writes in the interest of anii-creedism,
though do not fall in with all his asser-
tons, nor especially approve Of his line of
argument, presume he is not very hope
full OF crushing all the creeds in the world,
nor does he, perhaps, intend to give up his
own creed, for he must have creed of
some sort, as creed is simply what man
believes. A follower of Christ 10 a believer;
in fact, believing is made prominent and is
put among the first duties of the christian.
II man believes the truth and nothing but
the truth, of course it ia Lot worth while
to persuade him 10 Ienounce his creed. His
creed is the truth, and Jesus prayed that
his followers might be sanctiGed by the
truth. 1t is very commoa to read or hear
something against creeds. What does this
cry mean Does it mean that the writer is
dissatisfied with bis own creed, or with
some other persons creed If he is dssat-
isfled with his own creed, thinks that 1t
rests on a shadowy, "imaginary" basis
then he ought to know what to do next.
Plainly he should feel for the pillars in the
temple of truth, seek wisdom. And II he
inquiries from the christian standpoint, let
him learn OF Christ, get near to Christ and
lean on hm-let everything give way I'M
der HIM till he comes down to solid truth,
aud there rest on the truth as 1t is in Jesus.
Any other creed is hardly worth holding,
as it gives no comfort, no rest. But when
one has found peace and rest in believing,
it seems like an uncaled for labor to ehtice
Il nd bprn
perhaps your correspondent has not well
considered his subject. He seems to con-
denim ali creeds alike. This would seem
to imply that all creeds are faulty alike.
This makes no distinction between Nor
mons and Methodst's, Mohammedans and
Adventist's, Swedenborgiaus and Presby-
terians. Christ approved of what was
right in a man and condemned only what
was wrong
1t is certainly an error to condemn all
alike, or approve all alike. This confounds
things that are different, and affords no
encouragement to honest minds that are
earnestly seeking for the truth. True, a
man may adopt a form of faith without
much examination. This is often the case
with very young people. The duty that
older people owe to such people is to in
struct them in the truth. This should be
done canddly and honestly, without preju-
dice or passion toward other people. Peo-
pie that make prejudice the strong hold Of
their creed have very bad way of defend
ing their cause, even if it is good one. 1t
seems to me that the true way Of diminish
ing the points of difference among good
people is for every one to drop out of his
creed everything that is not founded on the
teachings of Christ, his commands and ex-
ample. If christian people could agree as
to what Christ has taught by his own ex-
ample, and commands, and his precepts,
they could safely leave the rest to private
opinion.
No one can be so insane as to expect &c
unite christian people on any other basis
than christian doctrine drawn from the New
| Testament. / heard of minister once
"a psuedo Baptist minister trying to prose
| lyte Baptist woman. The woman told the
minister that she could join his church, il
1t was not for one thing. What is that
said the minister, perhaps that can be re
moved. Well, said she, | could join YOU
church, If it wasn't for the Bible, and sc
could |.