Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

physical globe. Because one doesn't be-
ieve that when new soul is created God
takes down soul from the shelf, like an
apothecary, and says, go down into that
body it does not follow that he is an
atheist"
Mr.. Beecher frequently read passages
from Paul's epistles during his discourse,
and upon one of those occasions prefaced
his reading by an aside-'sIt is surprising
how many of my sermons Paul preached"
IN ADAMS FALL WE DIDN'T SIN ALL.
The browning and most forcible point in
his discourse was his plain disavowal of
doctrines inculcated by the catechisms
and ministers generally, that
SIN Adams fall we sinned all.''
He declared that the doctrine that all men
we're sinners because those two children.
Adam and Eve ate an apple, in the garden
of Eden, was monstrous. It would have
been appropriate to have spanked them
like naughty children. He did not believe
| that God had said:
Now Adam and Eve, because you broke
my command and ate that apple, am 60
ing to drive you out of this garden, and
then I am going to create more millions
and billions and trillions of beings than
there are hairs in your head land on account
of your sins am going to curse every one
OF them, and by and by will save few
of them, and the rest shall go into endless
torment"
For his part he would not worship such
God. He would not fall down and say
"Our Father to such being. Towering
up almost as though he was in a rage, he
declared:
"There never entered into the brain of
Dante. or any one else, such conception
of monster as that God would be; and
everything that is rational calls upon a
man to stand up and say: IF I am to be
damned for it, I wont worship such God
as that;' and yet that is the theory that
now stands in all the creeds of Christ
endom."
Lowering his voice he added, 'and yet
not one minister in five hundred dares to
repudiate the horrible doctrine" There
was no terror, he said, in preaching to any
one that God was such horrible being.
They felt that if God was such a monster
they did not want anything to do with
him, and would take the chances of going
to hell, and when a preacher tells his
congregation that they are responsible
for Adams sin they laugh in his face as
they ought to.
He argued that God was God of love
and benevolsnce, and that sin consisted in
a man allowing his animal appetites and
passions to gain supremacy over his rea-
son, his moral sense and his spiritual ma.
ture.
brief prayer, hymn, and the bene-
diction concluded the service, (the sermo n
proper having occupied an hour and ten
minutes) and the vast audience
slowly dispersed. venture to say
that no one listened to this dis
course, no matter what opinion might bs
entertained of Mr.. Beecher, without q
kindlier feeling towards religion and true
religious teachings. It was an advanced
view," from the ordinarily accepted pulpit
utterances, and was calculated to draw
men and women to closer fellowship with
the God they claim to worship than the
hell fire monstrosity they are usually called
upon to love and embrace.
TRANSPORTATION.
When I entered the church, at half-pasi
ten, the sun was shining brightly. When
made my exit at 12:45 the sky was over.
cast with. clouds, and driving snow storm
was raging. The snow continued nearly
all of the afternoon, and a few venturous
persons INDUCED in sleigh rides during the
day. Boys were coasting on the side
walks, and a sufficient amount of snow.
balling was INDUCED in to cause half
dozen arrests. The day was as wintry in
New York as in st. Paul, and damp and
uncomfortable, Notwithstanding which, the
| lily Informed but kind hearted New Yorker
overfows with sympathy for those who
have to undergo the rigors of the Min
nesota climate. Sympathy should
run in the other direction, and I conse-
quently feel real sorry for the benighted
Eastern individual who lives in everlasting
slush and thinks it is nice. He is as wide
of the mark as the ministers who depict
the "horrible God' so eloquently and en-
phatically repsdiated by Beecher.
II. P. II.