The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-01-06
Way TO THE MILLENNIUM.
Beecher's Ideas Of What Must
Happen Before Christianity Fills
all the World.

New York World.
For the last City or perhaps one
hundred years." said Mr.. Beecher in
his sermon, 'the whole literature OF
the world has been undergoing
change, and the community OF man,
the brotherhood Of man, the fellow
shin Of man to man, the duty OF
to weakness. these fine and
great thoughts have arisen up and are
out in every form, and all
this il closely traceable to Christianity.
Now these are the only beginnings.
The world is not connected 7; the
machinery vf human life grinds with
every wheel the whole world is full
of sin and darkness and trouble. The
have been laid, but is
the architect able to finish, 1t is held
by come that Tor reasons undisclos-d
the major part of the human family
will be damned, and that the first
work of the atonemepi is to provide
salvation for the elect. aud that there
will not be one grain Of soul saved
over and above that which was
ordained from all eternity; that the
GOSPELS are seut cut to convert all the
elect and leave all the rest of the
human family to 60 in their way and
perish. There are those who believe
that the world is mot going to he
saved, but only u very few. THESE
are the superlapsarians and the
aublapsarians. and for that matter
there is not the difference If hair
between them, for they are both Of
them simply abomniable. rhey art
what should call hedgehog theologies.
with sharp quilts printing out on
every side, aud no man car come
near them without being pierced by
them. Then there are the Second
Adventists, who believe that Christ
is to come a second time in the body
and make the righteous flourish and
populate the earth with them, and
that there will be a new heaven and q
new earth, as if Christianity were a
boat sent out to u sinking ship to
get as many of the passengers of as
they could and let the rest 60 to the
bottom. Then there are those who
believe that the scheme of the gospel
is comprehensive aud that there will
come a time when from the rising OF
the sun to the going down of the same
the whole human family will be
brought into a condition OF perfec,
holiness and there / stand. there ]
unfurl the flag of hope. | believe
that God is standing at the helm OF
affairs, and though there may be
contrary winds or adverse currents
the time will come when the Who'll.
human race shall come up into ths
brightness of the millennium day.
How is this to be done! 1t has beer
found impossible to convert the adult
world. You will not do anything
until the little children are beginning
to come into the kingdom Of heaven
When the time comes that the mother
Is the virgin, the madonna, and the
father a verltable father in Israel
then will be the beginning. Wher
the time comes when the child j.
Christian from the beginning of il.
lie. when We bring up children IN
that way, there will he no need o.
churches or any Of these extraordinary
influences. Th.re has got to come q
time when we shall have OuI
Christians born. and no! born again,
Well. you will say. Is it not. as thing.
now are, absolutely impossible that
children can he born iuto the king.
dom Of Christ if the doctrine vi
heredity is true? Yes. that is SO.
The final triumph Of Christianity ha:
got to be preceded by better under
standing of the laws Of transmission,
for If there WAS one thing true on
Sinai, it is the truth that parents
transmit to their children qualities
good or bad. We all know this
that is, We know il everywhere except
in the human family, and We know
il there. We know that it is in the
power of men to transmit a cripple OF
a blind man or dea. man or drunk
enness or insanity or almost all form.
Of arrangement. Men are born with
impaired lungs or livers or stomache.
-multitudes of men prolific of thieves
prolific of animals, Of the Neros Ol
the world, aud many of them arr
busy. busy. making Neros; all the
world busy procreating bears, foxes
lions, wolves. dragons. and where are
there any agencies raised up against
lit? Who rises an alarm What
pulpit makes it part and parcel of the
Gospel message. And vet Christian.
ity has built the foundation bu: car
never build it up until there shall
something come 10 that shall stop thi.
continual line of men born to evil.
Uncertain and chance selection j:
going ON everywhere except in sheep
there We are wiser. There has got Ia
be o stop put 10 it. How? cannot
saw. When? 1 don't know, but
before the tower is completed it has got
to be done. God working through
natural law must be listened to. and
science is yet to be religion to teach
us how to combine with the direct
inspiration of the divine nature the
knowledge OF God rs manifested in
natural Laws. and then we NAV meet
that evil form of influence which
governs the world. Howas to govern.
ments: The world will never he
converted a. long as governments are
unchristian. Can Christianity meet
and ameliorate the spirit Of govern
mental Organization! Christianity
has not 80 far and I don't think that
Christianity can lay ATTY claim to the
control If governments until Chris
tianity is able to take care Of the
churches. As it is. the churches are
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