The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-21
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In h.a seyentietii Anniversary sermon
Mr. Bcccher made no direct allusion to
the interesting event in his own life, bat
his discourse seemed full of thought sug.
gested thereby lie spoke OF the true
idea Of God, and in abiding to some Of
the narrower conceptions OF divinity and
the desirability and neces ity for broader
ideas, he said: "The Jews would not
share their God with the GentiIes. To.
day with changed methods the spirit is
the same. The orthodox will not share
their God with the Arians. They say
Come TO our God; without him there is
no hope ia the world The Roman
Catholics have 4 God they own and will
let out to all men who viii come into
their church organization and discipline.
All Others are recusant, and God has no
business with them except to damn them
eternally. The Romish Church, with all
its benefits, hes narrow and sectarian
view of God as-as some Protest ants.
Belt the two and it would be impossible
to tell which had the greater diameter.
Among Protestants each sect claimed the
true God. Lately the idea has been adj
vanced that the spirit of missions de-
pended upon the belief that the heather
have no title to immortality, no hope of
blessedness, except by the Protestant
God. One sect carried out the God OF
Calvin-Heaven help it. Another car
ried out the God Of Arminianism. the
Methodist idea; another the Episcopal,
another carried one mixed of uncertain
cclUrs. - the pulpit Of missionaries the
uncovered hell into which millions are
pouring into periitiln: Is there in
Brooklyn any orthodox church that be-
heves the Unitarians have "A right and
title to the orthodox Cod, and that their
God Is true one: On childrens' day
Unitarian children are not allowed to
walk with orthodox children. Is it be-
cause there was fear they would steal the
orthodox God, or inoculate the Others
with the Unitarian God? These ideas
must have been carried down to the
children because Christ will have nothing
10 do with any but persons like himself.
He never went among thieves, harlots,
lepers aud such. These persons must
depend on the uncovenanted mercies of
God. | had rather depend on the un-
covenantea mercies Of God than on the
covenaDted mercies of the orthodox.
But | am not Unitarian. And | am
not Cniversalist, though Joseph Cook
does try to crowd me over there. Joseph
Cook IS good man. / expect to see him
in heaven. | mean TO be there and ex-
pect he will be there, though he will
leave more Joseph Cook on earth than
will suffice for him to know his own
identity. Men originally combined ali
their noblest conceptions in their idea of
God, and then it was literalized and mis-
interpreted. The drift of the ages
showed that God carried men from
worse to better, and he would wait until
he could raise them to the proper level.
Everything was proceeded by stages
from nothing to better, and from better
to best. GOD was the God Of the whole
earth. Marrow ideas must be thrown
away. He was the God Of all the hea.
then; missions must go to them for moral
impulse, not because they were abandoned
by God. The representation of God as
damning nineteen twentieths OF the race
was not representation OF being to be
called God. God was eternal bounty.
good, benefit, and love to men, righting
wrong by pain and penalty and lifting
men from animalism. He was the Cod
OF all sects and Of no aects, OF all men
Christian and heather. He was nearest
to those who needed hial most. lie was
the suceorer Of men, longing to upbuild
them"
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