, 1881-04-17

Shout with rapture. AllelutA:
Christ has conquered death and ntghts
He our Puschal Lamb will feed us.
Guard us, keep us. in His might!
DOUBT AND DOURTERS.
GuAr THEY HAVE ACHIEVED IN TIE RE
L1GIOCS WOI:LD.
Tht Hon. L. p. Iiddtrin In the Alliance.
Doubt is to the soul what salt and waves
arc to the sea. In doubt we have 1.-THE po
tency and promise" of every kind of prog
ress. Without doubt there could be no civil
ization or advance Of any kind.
4 century and a half ago the right Of taxa
tion without representation began to be
doubted. Under the leadership Of John and
Samuel Adams and other brave doubters tina:
doubt began to spread and to grow, and the
outcome was the revolution and the Repub-
lic~ Three centuries ago some one began to
doubt tie divine right Of Kings to rule,
and out of that doubt has grown the
modern doctrine Of the divine rights
Of the. people. Fifty years ago few
brave men doubted the lawfulness OF slav-
cry; Church and State frowned and scowled,
but the doubters doubted and bred doubts
in the minds Of others, and the result has
been not merely the abolition of slavery. but
the renationalization Of this Republic by new
ideas and new forces Three centuries ago
Rome had apparently reduced Europe to the
dead level Of certainty and uniformity, when
up started the fearless doubter Luther, and
from the crop Of doubts he sowed out came
the great Protestant Church. Luther, how
ever, only half accomplished his work. He
threw off the yoke of an infa1lible church,
but left upon his new church the yoke of all
infallible Book. y" matter what was writ
ten in it, it was the Bible, and that was the
end of tho r,attar IF rho c1ain, had haox
that ~ t,a ae Ran1 - ea,i;, Ia1l , tIau oet,l m
- l.'S .1o ooA vas 'e o"ls ~
us general SCOPE dAo purpose, or ILL
fallible only in. spiritual -anatters, there
would have been but little question, But
# .,vee ,n,da infa1,;hia ,,non ,1 e,h;a.tr
~, w.. 49, 80, . u1oo ... ''"oee'''
aato even oo"n ~ VERSE anu "oru,-a renl-
na1lt OF the old Ronlisil principle Of shutting
out inquiry by absolute authority. Butts
ewdoubters came along and bIasplcmously
5o,,ht,d ,,,1'a+,er '.t.ar ~ thasa .s ,,.aa .s.
a,.sI .s ~. a1l' uo,e "a> ans
great oiuerence between church and
book. They began to assert, these doubters
did, the broad principle that man was no
;nf,1i;hiss chMrch h,,t thaf hot1, 1 ILL., loa a az
chn.n ,yara ,naI, f,r n,s 9,1;,,t1 ,a 1eV.. su
san,i,,rs - ,, na'',as 49,. se iCley
bath as their precedent, they began to say
+har tt,n orfinr,fz. ~ 1ha Tr,non -one.-;. ~ -,
=; ~ III ,,;. ~ 49,, ~ .,v 81 % aeaoon "ts1
~, ~! .ae ttu.!e " aeasui was suplene' auu lla1
.sibly be right in God. They began to teach
that any creed that violates nlau' sinstincts Of
justice and mis- sense Of right was wrong, no
matter from what source it came If thew
+fe.s { aa ~ ILL a... ~ auuu ~ Ei1 ~.
ton and Il mistake,
This Is now the tendency of modern relie-
ious thought, and the outcome Ut It win srr..
ly be not to destroy God or Christ. or eiv, ms
and purify our contention Of hnth f;od o and
Christ Tins The ruIipinns tlo,,,fer. .ora
slowiv 1,ut s,1retv e;m;,'st;n,r FROM, Cnr;+;a,
ity its nagan nnd sc,nias1;,c stinitnra3inns