The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-30
Creeds.

Creeds.
Editor Rutland Globe I: l regret that the
extreme beat of the past week prevented
"Credo" from making bis appearance be-
| fore your readers. The letter from a."
| mitigates my sorrow, inasmuch as l have
his sympathy. | would crush no ones
creed. l would have you stop trying to
crush creeds. Let them alone they will
go down from their own weight of evil, as
a fire will go out when the material is
| burned up. If creed sis simply what o
man believes" and man believes it his duty
to murder, docs this make numbering obey
ing Gods laws? l am not dissatisfied
with my creed" 1t is Christ's creed. You
will find in Mat. xii, 81, 80, 80, 40, and
would sustain that creed by quoting Rev.
xii, 10. Allow me to pass to the close of
the article, where he chucks in a large
bunch of his peculiar creed.
Now 81" contends the Bible sustains
only the theory of the Close Communion
Baptlsts. This is one thing l have COM
| pldihNb Os ! hhb plulplJ ouONh tuO
color of his horse in the dark. 1t is merely
a waste of time and printers ink 10 follow
such arguments, poised, as they are, upon
the point of a cambria needle. My original
purpose was to show the train of evils that
were attendant to q multiplicity Of creeds.
A theory is worthless If its fruits are bad.
Choking a fever was a handsome theory,
but bad in practice. If a creed works more
evil than good it must be a poor creed.
There is no other way to present my views
than to take churches of to-day and their
influence upon the community.
The town of Clarendon has a grand list
of $500 4S, u church, a Lax of two
mills on the dollar more than pays the tax.
Orwell with a grand list of $3.50. 90, one
church, one and one-'ourth mills on the
dollar pays the tax. Castleton, grand list
$9,075. &C, with a Congregational, Episco-
pal, Methodist, Catholic, Advent, Calvan-
istic Methodist, six churches (besides two
not now used) pays nearly seven mills on
the dollar. Fairhaven, grand list S., $3.50. As,
six churches, pays over one cent on the
dollar. 1t is not theory or creed / am 10Y
after, but the result of these church bur-
dens are the people of Castleton and Fair
haven any more just or honest to their
neighbors, do they obey the Lord their
God any better, set a better example for
the world to follow as they ascend nearer
to Christ? Do you see more of Christ
manifest in them than you do in the citi-
zens of Clarendon and Orwell If you
cannot answer this question in the aflirma-
tive, then you cannot contend that a mul-
tiplicity of churches and creeds are OF any
practical beneft-if not beneficial they
must be injurious. A man should be just
before be is generous. PAY that thou
owest" is as much a command of God as
"deny myself, take up thy cross and fol.
low me-" 1T is Just as fatal to a man IL
violate one as the other of these commands.
If each man can have a seperate creed, a
church and pastor to present these Creeds
who will pay for our meat, grain and cloth Z
Had a man told Deacon Griggs fifty
years ago that in 1877 an afghan would be
drawn at lottery in Rutland for the benefit
of the Baptist church, he would have bow
ed his knee and sent a petition to God that
He would protect that church from the
wiles of Satan. Geo. III. Beaman will tell
you that in 1888 the ladies of Rutland had
q box of fancy work in the Franklin House
for sale be and Frost sold them. Now
churches havc lotteries, fairs, grab bags,
and excursions to raise money. Sabbath
schools are converted into theatres, and
children are brought out as actors, because
they drdao. Parlors and kitchens are add
ell to the churches, because a party or sup
per will raise money. We can easily
imagine fifty years hence the Methodist
church bar-room, Congregational church
dancing hall, Baptist church billiard room.
A man that is everlastingly preaching his
creed to the exclusion of the doctrines OF
Christ is like a man having a still in Med
ford coming to Vermont to lecture IN tenn
perance; to kill two birds with one stone
would put some samples of his new run 10
his pocket to Tell, and make Vermonters
violate their statutes. l have seen b. w.
Marshall, L. N. Merriam and j. g. Baker
work together tor the glory of Christ, Meth,
er saying aught against the others Greco
or for their own. They would always Dc
so but for an influence that works upon
them as il does upon many other good men
When Paul charged Timothy to ''avoid
vain %babbling," he doubtless looked for
ward to the day of creeds. The true chris
tian need not be ashamed to follow Pault
8 charge TO Timothy as given in the frs
, Epistle, in Mat. xxi 12 and IS, Christ SEEM
to think his disciples that are forewarne'
are foreaImed.
a.. Tell me, some one, one particle of gooC
these creeds do to men, and l will shov
r you a long train of evils following in it
wake.
Fix a point where you find, love God
q love man lower one church TO that rails
up another go to the right go to the left
let all come in let your corner stone b.
i, obey God, keep his commandments throw
. away your perfection, falling from grace
: predestination, generalization, close com
= munion, come to Christ as the great hea,
of the church you will be one great churcl
t on earth and will be prepared for a seat il
, the church triumphant.
ANTI-C~REEDIsT
Aprinnlture in NaW Hamnanira