Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21

words of trust IN God. "Why art thou
cast down, o my soul, and why art thou
disqnieted within me? Hope in God, for 1
shall yet praise him, who is the health
of my countensnce, and my Cod"
Never did the sound of the great bell
Roland so stir the hearts of the people of
Client as do the psalms the hearts of the
children of God. Wesley was hardly
greater than the sanity Polyoarp or his
disciple Irenaeus; or the sturdy Witten-
berger, or he of Geneva, or host of
others. Greatness is relative term, and
while no one would detract from Wesley's
fame, or deprecate the good he
wrought, still his fame was
won, and the good accomplished
as servant of Christ. Only as he follow
ed Christ was his example worthy to be
followed. Whatever rules he established that
have no foundation in Gods word, should
have no-force with Christians. Only as
witness for Christ should his testimony
have any value. If Wesley had been the
or make mistake, his rules should govern
the church forever, but as he was only an
erring mortal with all the faults Of re-
formers, arrogant, self opinionGted, of
hasty temper, witness his quarrel with
Whitefeld and Zinzendorf, he deserves
consideration only as servant of the
great Master Christ.
Every year the stream of knowledge and
Christianity is broadening and deepening
and shall Christians labor to oonfne it
within the banks Of sectarianism, or TO
span its waters by the narrow bridge built
by man who lived and labored when the
stream was narrow?
There are many reasons why men are 30
ready to come to the front in defence of
the leaders of their particular SCOT. One
is that thus they acquire a cheap fame.
As, at al l.. political meeting,
the leaders of the party
sit quietly in their seats while the small
politicians, standing around, yell them
selves hoarse, to prove their devotion to
their party, SO many preacher, as well as
layman, not being thoroughly furnished
with arguments from the storehouse of
Gods truth, call up the shade of Calvin or
Wesley in the hope that some rays from
the nimbus encircling their heads may
glorify them.
Another reason is sectarian zeal, with
which is always joined lack of knowledge.
''My party right or wrong, always my
party" is the cry of the politician rather
than the patriot. "God Almighty
only made two men greater
than Wesley" is the shout OF the sectarian
rather than Christian.
The more thoroughly man is educated
the more he knows of God and his wonder
full works, the broader and more liberal are
his views, the more surely is his zeal &C.
cording to knowledge. Knox was fear
less, honest Christian, although he thun
dered curses upon his enemies, even while
he held his Masters orders in his hand,
saying, Glove your enemies; pray for
them that perseoute YOU"
Wesley was man of some learning and
very earnest for Christ, but time and cir
cumstsnces have changed. The light
Of science and knowledge have revealed
more clearly the wondrous plan of God in
creation, and the study of the bible has
revealed more clearly his plan of saliva
ton. Many doctrines he taught have
proved erroneous, and many of his rules
need modification. "To know whereof
one believes is the part of wise man, to
be ignorant of it is the part of fool"
Thackeray says "Does week pass without
the announcement of a new comet in the
sky, or new star in the heaven, twinkling
dimly out of yet farther distance, and
only now becoming dimly visible to hu-
man ken though existent forever and ever?
So let us hope divine truths may be shining
in regions of light and lose extant, which
Geneva or Wesleyan glasses cannot per-
ceive, and are beyond the focus of Roman
telescopes"