The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-15
Dr. TaImagc or Nr. Bcechcr.
THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE PASTOR AP-
PROVES HIS COLLEAGUES COURSE AND sETs
FORTH HIS own DELICIOUS BELIEF.
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THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE PASTOR AP-
PROVES HIS COLLEAGUES COURSE AND sETs
FORTH HIS own RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
New York Hcradl
DR.. Talmage began his Friday-evening
lecture in the Brooklyn Tabernacle with n
tender farewell TO Judge Joseph Nelson.
DIR. Talmage then continued:
Another event has excited much atten-
tion in these cities during the present
week. The question is asked me on all
sides what think Of Mr.. Bcccher's rcsig-
nation from the association of which he
was member. Ny answer is, Mr..
Beechcr did just as / would have done un-
der the same circumstances. | would not
stay in the denomination Ia which belong
any longer than il would take me to
write my resignation il / diSlikcd her doe
trines. This is a wide world, and there is
no need that any religious teacher stay any
where where he does not want TO stay. Mr..
Beecher's theology is very different from
mine. but he does not differ with me any
more than differ with him. He never in
terfcrcS with me, and have no disposition
TO interfere with him. Every little while
some OF the ministers Of America get a
sort OF Beecherphobia and 20 foaming at
the mouth at something that the pastor Of
Plymouth church has said. People who
have a small congregation are apt 10 dislike
Il preacher who has a full church. Why not
realize that there is plenty Of room for all
our churches and all our theolOgieS:
WHAT DIR. TALMAGE BELIEVES.
But people all over the country, in the
Church and out-of the Church, are now
telling what they believe and what they do
not believe, so ] suppose my turn has come
to tell what ! believe. | can tell YOU III
five minutes. believe in God, the good,
the kind, the loving, the just. the indie
pendent, the Omnipotent. ] believe in
Jesus Christ, with heart large enough to
take the whole race IN his compassion,
and perhaps other worlds, for | do not
know but that He has done as much
for other spheres rs he has done
for ours. believe in the Holy
Ghost. wOOing, coaXing, eleyating, sub
limating. purifying. gracious personagc-
gentle as the dove that SymbOlized him at
the bapti>m and yet a. intense as the fiery
tongues which covered the heads OF the
DISCIPLES at the PentccOst. / believe in 4
soul. immortal. winged for eternal flight,
and having for choice whether that flight
shall be upward or downward. | believe
i'm Heaven built on so vast scale that
there is room for all angclhood, all man
hood. all womanhOod, all childhood, and
not monopoly for few, but twelve gates
for all. ] believe in a pcrdition, The abode
of those who are soul suicides, Tor COD
pushes no man oil the precipice. lie
Jumps off.
| believe in baptism, the water bcauti-
fully symbolic OF cleansing OF the s0ul,
whether the bright liquid drop from a
wooden cup. as when in holy rite the Cove
nanters Of Scotland splinklcd their chill
dren among the highlands. or whether the
candidate have the whole Jordan roll over
him. | believe in the Kings banquet, con-
monty called the Lords supper and wei
come TO the table all who acknowledge ale
france TO Him OF whose atOncment the blood
0f thc erape i parabOlic. | believe in the
Bible. from lid to lid. inspired, not always
~ precept, but sometimes IL history,
the sacred writers no more approving some
of tbc conduct described in the Bible than
Mocaulqv approves all the conduct in Eng
land described i'm his history, yet the best
book ever written by pen or printed by
tvpe-the foundation Of happy homes ana
Good eoycrnments-thc book from Whlch
most other good books have been beaten
out. as one little piece OF gold may be
beaten into gold foil OF almost illlmitable,
extension. l believe in the brotherhood
Of man-all of one blood, all having the
same rights, all made in the image OF God,
and that he who insults man, however
obscure, strikes in the face OF his Maker
These cardinal truths | have been preach
ing for twenty-five years, and | h9ye no
prospect OF changing. ,,,
DR.. Talmage said, in closing, that he liked
the kind of people the old-fashiOned re-
ligion makes. He liked the way they lived
and he liked the way they died.