The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-01-23

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shall read s'Moses" again. Such teach
ing is eighteen hundred and seventy
nine years behind the timea. Send not
the inquiring sinner TO the Old Testa-
ment, but to the New.
From this incident we learn that some
are very eelfish in religious matters
"I'eter said unto Jesus, Master, it is
good for us to be here, and les us make
three tabernacles, one for Thee, one for
Moses, and one for Elias" Let Us PIT
up three tents, and we six can have a
heaven all to ourselves. Peter forgot
the other disciples, the great world be-
meath, and the generations yet TO come.
He was willing to have q heaven that
would contain only halEdozen persons,
provided he could be one of tie halt
dozen. How narrow and Insignificant
this proposed heaven compared with
the one that the Patmos exile saw,
wherein was gathered multitude that
no man could number 20 But Peter is
not the only one follower of Christ who
would be satisfied with little three
tent heaven. Call on come people to
help in preaching the gospel, and they
say we expect to reach heaven our
selves, aud what care we for the rest of
mankind ? In fact, if not protessedly,
his is the position of many. Such o
spirit is the death warrant of all MISSION
ary enterprise. 1t is this spirit that
says:
o Lord. bless me and my wife,
Brother John and his wife,
Us tour and no more.
One winters evening mother and
four little children, in sleigh, were
passing through one OF the dense forests
OF Russia. They have been visiting q
neighbor, and are returning home. AS
night comes on the bowling OF wolves
i'll the distance is heard by the little
party. The horses are urged forward
at their highest speed. Soon the whole
pack OF the pursuers, gaunt, hungry ard
terocious, have ovcr:aken the fugitives,
and are about TO leap into the sleigh
The mother seizes her youngest child
and throws it out into the midst of the
bowling beasts. To kill and devoul
the helpless innocent delays the wolve,
a few moments, and the remainder o
the company hurry on. Again the
wolves surround them, and another
child is thus sacrificed. Another and
another is treated in the same way until
the mother alone reached her home
II is said that when she related to heI
husband the story of her escape he
seized an ak and split her head open
| asserting that mother who would save
her OWL lite At so great sacrifice was
not fit TO live. This judgment was toe
| severe. But what shall le eald of thai
person who, if he is ouly able to gain
heaven himself, Is quite willing that al
the rest of the world should be cxclud
ed? Away with the idea of three
tent heaven.
We learn from this incident thai
some people talK very crazy on the sub
lect of religion. "Let us snake thret
tabernacles, one for Thee, one for Moses
aud one for Elias, not knowing wha
he said.'' In religious matters how
much there is of this tssnot knowing
! what lie said" There Is more down
right nonsense talked regarding reli
gion than concerning any other theme
You will observe this IN our Sunday
/ school literature. Some little boy o
girl is portrayed as an angel, never dis
obcyed parents, never told q lie, neve
did anything wrong. IT we read fucl
q story in The 4Neec York Ledger W
say it is lie, and hurl anathema at
Bonner who will persist in Publishing
fiction! When the same narrative ap
pears in a Snnday-school book we say
well, it may be q lie, but it is piuu
lie, anyway, aud let it go.
This tendency is seen in our talk Q
special providence. A child is takel
very sick, and the father, instead Q
employing physician, secures the serv
I
ices of quack. The treatment is op
posed to all medical scierce. The chill.
dies. The minister standing over tn
little coffin, says: ga mysterious pro
I violence hath done this" Il is q lie
q quack hath done this.
No other public teacher is permittet
to say SO many nnapifestly absurd thing
nnchallenged as ID the preacher. Whe
nonsense finds its way IN the editoria
column, into our courts, on the plat
| form, it meets with exposure. Wbe
known absnTdities come from the eacre'
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