Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Rev. =. w. CottreII.

the first Sunday in August. He
preached two sermons from the |
Methodist Church pulpit which
have been variously criticized. One
said that the next time he would /
bring his dinner. Causality and |
eomparison not large. Another said |
that he liked it better than anything |
he had heard recently. Rectangu-
lar forehead. The moon was down.
In the starlight to his girl: al
could listen to that man three times
a day." THERMOMETER go. "Then
you would hear him all day." and
she sweetly laughed, just a little,
and thought the preacher quite en-
tertaining. Now for me, he is very
original, quaint, sharp. His views
are broad and catholic. He has
studied to know things rather than
to know about them. He loves hui
manity, hates religious shams. For
him Christianity is predicated of
purely spiritual conditions. What
ever is Ordinal, sacramental, ritual
istic or modal, is not of the essence
of it. The law of ordinances is abol-
ished, not modified and continued.
So st. Paul teaches. The kingdom
of Jesus is universal as humanity,
free and immediate as the atmos-
phere which enwraps the globe.
Sinners in prison, out of which civic
law does not allow you to bring
them, in order to manipulate anddo
them into the kingdom by earnal
rites, can stake the kingdom of
heaven by force" without the aid
of pope or priest, water or bread, or
anything non-spiritual. So can a
sinner in the desert take it, where
there is nobody to do him and moth
ing to do him with. No substance
of matter can get between a man
and his God. The idea of such in
PREVENTION is simply preposterous.
Not much commended was that
premium Righteousness which relies
on sanity grimaces for salvation,
gloomy as a cloudy Sunday and
hard as macadamized road leading
to the cemetery. Church rites are
like a mans clothes; they are nc
part of the man. If fitted on tight
as the skin they will kill the man
with mere cramp. Wear clothes,
but don't think them divine, MOI
any part or essence of the man di.
vine. In a word, the preacher
struck down and laid about him
that ch1Tchianity which men have
substituted for the kingdom of God
as Jesus taught it.
Brother COttrell will not find uni.
versal favor with his ministerial
brethren, since tOadies are always in
the majority; but the rest will be
his friends, all the truer because
Drawer and higher. Such ecclesias'
teal dignitaries as hold the high
places in our Churches will
turn from him in piOus disgust. We
must not expect that those who
strut in the pride of position and
power, and who, on a set day in
every year, burn incense to a mil
lion of dollars, and swing their cen
sers in worship around the tomb o.
their dead god, will award the
Church's blue ribbon to a real man
who never toadieS any creature
and who has no money to buy the
ribbon and would not if he had
They trim their lamps and shine
that others seeing their light may
wish to be glorified in the same way
This shuts out brother COttrell from
their favor. TO him, all hail
Goethe is quoted as holding that, t.
love man of a certain peculiar
type, a genius, perhaps, is a defec
even in a woman otherwise perfect
Sic est volkommen und sic fehlet
DARN allain daSs sic mich libt.
Is it that he feels unworthy anC
that she knows the greatness anC
nobility of his heart? If her sweet
ness is he, and his is she, then it il
plain enough. Otherwise-dim
Moreau, dying in his youth of lacl
of food dogs rejected, wrote:
Quand j. emmittais mon pain Ioiseau d'
riVage,
L'ondc semblait medive, "Espere aux mau
vais jOures
Dieu lie rendra tot pah." Diep me lie dol
tOujOUrs.
How beautiful! Actually starving
to death. What sublime trust
Brother COttrell has "faith in God,
and has crumbled his bread to tn,
bird of the sea-shOre. Men shall b.
nourished by the very bread will
which they feed others. ItisenOugh
Come and see us again. IA rerOir,
JEAN OIL. D'ANNA.