The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-25


him had been cripple for years,
and he touched him and he became
well and healthy of body; and sup.
pose he should meet sad procession
going to a cemetery and he should
stop the procession and ask the under
taker to take the coffin out of the
hearse and take the top off the coffin,
and he should say to the dead, come
forth, and the dead would arise and
the boy clasp his mother in his arms.
Suppose he went to your cemetery and
found there a poor woman standing
at the grave, to which they had just
borne her husband, and this man
should come and restore the husband
to life again, and he should hold her
in his arms and put his kisses again
upon her lips and upon those Of his
children, do you think they would
have killed that man in this town?
Let us be honest In the matter
Would not every one VINO had lost
his child, would not every one WIN
had dead in the graveyard come and
kiss his very feet aud implore him to
give back their dead ? Now think
about it; and 90 you know that if
Christ had worked miracles in Je-
rusalem he never would have been
touched. Those miracles were not
thought Of until he had been dead
fer over two hundred years. Then
there is another doctrine in this bust
ness that | hate above all others, and
that is the doctrine Of eternal pain
If you take hell away from the
orthodox churches what have they
left? Nothing. 1t is the backbone Of
orthodoxy. If there is 10 hell, there
is no damnation, no damnatiOu n"
divine grace, no divine grace no fall
of man, no fall of mau no orthodoxy.
Suppose there are some men on the
Niagdra river and they are raising a
mandatory TO make rope to throw
30 people who come over the fall.
That is a reasonable business. But
suppose there are no falls. What is
the reason of starting another rope
factory there? That is exactly what
the Uni, ersalists are doing, and that
is why l object to their theology.
These persons, these clergymen stand
up in their pulpits AMI speak of etern
al wrath ami pain visited upon the
best men of the human race. II
orthodoxy be true, Humboldt, tie
Shakespe r, of science is now in per
dition. What did he do? He investi-
gated and he explained nature; he
examined the earth and he gave tC
his fellow-men honestly what he found
and cow he is there. And so it j:
with Goethe and Schiller, the great
est minds in German literature They
are there, with all their poetry and
all their philosophy. Thomas Paine,
the first man who wrote these word:
United States of America, he is there
Beethoven, with his master mind
whose musical creations will stand fol-
all time, he is there. George Eliot
who carried in her heart the purest Of
all earthly sympathy; and Shelley
whose soul like a sky-lark was a wing
ed song, he is there; and Shakespeare
the greatest intellect that ever touch
ed this globe, and who did more tC
elevate mankind than all the ministers
who ever lived or ever will live, he is
there. | say | might 60 on all night
of the good men who are in hell, ant
of the wretches who are in heaven
When | was a boy | heard a mar
preach from the text of the parable
of Lazarus and the rich man, and he
went ON to tell about this rich man
being in hell and calling on Abraham
for drop of water. And he went
on to say that for over two thousand
years had that man been calling fol
water, and he said the man is call
ing still. Just think of that sort o
belief. Read that, and you viii
find that the rich man In hell was q
pretty good sort of man. He asked
for water, and they wouldn't give it IL
him, and then in that state he thought
of his brother, and begged for Lazar
us to send word to his FIVE brothers
that they come not to this place.
Lazarus didn't care whether thi:
fellow had any water or not. Abra
ham did not express the slightest re
gret that he was in torment, but il
the heart of the rich man here wa.
pity, and this parable showed how
much Abraham thought of miracles
He was opposed to miracles Thinl
of the horror of the idea, that mar
is crying there yet for water, tiding'
of great joy. God so loved the
world that he made up his mind t
damn almost everybody. L was read
ing a short time ago of wicked crew