, 1881-05-01

past all tie sects and sectariu:,isru. mast tho
'.,,t, wnt'can at Rome, nnt take up ,ne spt pre-
!eat what duty ,nd truth ure. That is want We
h!sc bccn irving tolo for these many ye.lrs;
wncn "n new sTi9Sea 1fos that tho 1Me has come
be preached; when the old Gospel Of Peace
On On e;rth, nt1.l.nt good will to men should
in od Of chriss there IS Ho aTet and aa nj
s,nall; there @ ts no high, there is low. but Mi
~ these e"-tanglet n"uons put into our holy
religion dcprives 1t of its life every time. It
}nscs 3t away the xjtAty aud the ltfe-givinE and
ought to go back to first principles md preach
it ail oyer snin, and show the people the beau
Is what should try to do in MY humble way If
we're only young again. and l believe that
with the experience now have, I could make
sec themselves, to certain extent Mt least, us
other: sec them. or r:ltlaeras the Lord Of hosts
sees them The tendcucics OF human nature Is
world. think hnvc paid so1ne pretty cnrcful
attention to it. It has always been tho same In
81 ssss. Ever Even the holy Apostles were bound
ruler The traditions OF the fathers for lunny
centuries mad SO handed it down. But
t,rf.,in tnn ehrlSs e. that came was Of humble
III Himself lie a great easdPs.sf and @naerfu
miracles, and. after bis violent death, by the In
lust convinced that Christ WIS not to be ruler
Of men but savior of souls. So long as these
Apostles lived they were ahle to keep this idea
OUT OF tile minds OF eii. and show just what the
holy religion Of Jesus was intended to be. But
their bones had hardly whItcued in their scpul-
chrcs when the foundations OF the gre;lt Roman
hierarchy were laid, and the spirit and 1fe
OF tho whoe religion was stuntca and
eventually lost in the eternal glamour OF for
1nalites, instituted by POpes, monks, and priests.
Ages Of moral. mental, and religious cropping In
the dark followed, and the light Of day wns cx-
ccedlngly slow In dslwnne. hut with it all there
was the great mistaken Idea thilt the Church
,lnst be Joined to and fostered by the Statc.
their origin backs In the cells Of medieval mon
asteries still continued and tue people were not
norintted With unclouued minds to pursue
IS IS told M Mhy tho E,anrc1isIs The lsefor.
ina ton which Alexu1lucr Campbell aud his coad
Jntors preachcd was plea Tor thetruth rs it is i'll
away before Its onswccpll,s course. So lans lis
the new people were l,crs.cutcd and not rctt'g-
nized us orthodox, they did very well: they
stuck to IT,, thn Gospel and they were IN truth,
Of thcir habits. But that day hls passed, and
now tho cifort Is to be made to join tho Church
and stick together, and consider 1t very seri-
Gus. Oh. wtl1ld thai were young again, so thAt
j might preach new KcfUrnation!"
The "d gentleman hid warmed himself up
with these last few sentences, 81 that ! could
doctrines In the early day. But, after Il pause,
he continued:
- 1t is M moro than should be expected,
pose % this is 50, had hoped to see see . ,hS rcfor-
ton which embarked In do the good that the
world needs. hut now see that 1t must be left
TO others. This. perhaps Tiled its own place iu
the 0nnlarchny course of humanity. Another
can see errors and tho rocks on which
broke, and, avoiding thcm. sail on TO tho moro
Tranquil haven. Tho timo is ripe for tho new
Reformation now, and do hope to live to see it
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