Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-24
EWITEFIING. NOVEMBER "a 1884

in his head; no more, no less. Better van
ity oyerthrowing the philosophical theory
that an entire vacuum is an impossibihty
than lust one idea wandering around about
in perpetual loneliness and bachelorhood,
wailing through the desert of the mans in
tellects; better no idea at all than only one
idea. Run up your schools and yous col
leges and your universities. More light,
less sectarianism. There is nothing that
will SO soon kill bigotry as sunshine
Gods Sunshine.
Another great damage done BY the sec
tarianism and bgotry Of the church is that
it disgusts people with the christian religion.
Now, my friends, the church of God was
never intended for war bsrrack. People
are afraid of riot. You 60 down the
street and you see an excitement, and mis-
siles flying through the air, and you hear
the shock of firearms. Do you, the peace
full and industrious citizen go through that
street, Oh, no, you say Ill 60 round the
block. Now men come and look upon this
narrow path to heaveuand sometimes see the
! ecclesiastical brickbsts flying everywhither
and they say: Well guess Ill take the broad
| road, for there is so much sharp shooting on
the narrow road; l guess I'll take the broad
road have more admiration for Span
ish bull.fRht, think it more useful and hon.
orable than the contest of carnivorous &C.
clesiastics. Frances l. 20 hated the Luth-
erans that he said If he thought there was
one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he
would puncture them and let that drop out
Just as long as there is so much hostility
between denomination and denomination or
between one professed Christian and an
| other or between one church aud another
lust so long will men be disgusted with
the christian religion and say if that is re,
ligion want
| None oft
! Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great
damage from the fact that they hinder the
triumph of the Gospel Oh, how much
wasted animation! How many men of
splendid intellect have given their whole
lives to controversial disputes, when if they
had given their lives TO something practical
they might have been vastly useful. Sup
pose this morning, while speak, there were
a common enemy coming up the bay
through the narrows and all the forts around
New York began to fire into each other
you would cry out; National suicide
why don't those forts blaze away in one di.
! rection and that against the common
enemy? And yet ! sometimes see in the
church Of the Lord Jesus Christ q strange
thing going on: church against church,
minister against minister, denomination
against denomination, firing away into their
ewn fort or the forts that ought to be on
the same siGe instead OF concentrating their
energy and giving mighty and everlasting
volley against the navies of darkness riding
mp through the bay. ] go out sometimes in
| the summer and find two bee hives, and
these two bee hives are in quarrel. come
near enough not to be stung, but came
Just near enough to hear the controversy,
and one bee hive says: That field Of clover
is the sweetest" and another bee hive says:
That field of clover is the sweetest" /
came in between them and say: stop
this quarrel If yon like that field Of clover
best 90 there. BIT let me tell you that that
hive which gets the most honey is the best
hive" So come out between the churches
of the Lord Jesus Christ One denomina.
ton of Christians says That field OF
Christian doctrine is the best, and another
says: This field of Christian doctrine is
the best" Well, say: "Go where you get
the most honey" That is the best church
which gets the most honey Of Christian
grace for the heart, and the most honey of
Christian usefulness
For tFss. Life.
What did intolersrse accomplish against
the Baptist church? n laughing scorn, if
TRADE and denunciatior could have destroy
ed that ch'irch it would Aot have disciple
to-day. i!ev. Leonard Bernkop, Baptist
minister, burned at SaulirSury because he
was Baptist in his dying saying:
81 am roasted enough on that side; turn me
over now; the fire don't Surn, compared
with the eternal glory" ReT. Mr. James a
Baptist, because he was Baptist, drawn on
bundle from Eewgste TO Tyburn. His
dead body lifted on the city gates. His
head lifted upon spole and set up in front
of the place where he used to preach. Rev.
Obadiah Holmes, q Baptist minister and be.
cause be was Baptist, publicly whipped
and the surgeon who dressed his wounds
pursued us a criminal, and one hundred
Baoiist we're put 10 death in Flanders and
Holland because they we're Baptists. Even
Richard Baxter lost his balance on the sub
jeco and he said the Baptists were
As Bad as Wanderers
necssse they put people under water and
,Eeyeaught their death OF cold.
lnN.w England the Bsptiss were per
.ecuts,l. They were driven out Of Boston,
and ~h,n a petition was sent up, asking
enieucy IN their behalf, tse men who sign
ID he petition were fined; and it is mat.
rr oS shMch history that a!ter man had
Dctn iarAised By immersiOo. weeks having
gone Nv and his death occurring the OH
ciarir Q clergyman was thrown in prison and
Indicted for murder How near did intoi-
erancs DESTROY the Baptist church? Wen,
the Lao. statistics saw of that church was
they hsd 10000 churches, and about two
millic3 cem nunicants.
England
persecHed the Jews. England by law said
no Jew should hold any oihce in te
realm England thrust back the jew and
thrust down the Jew. who was for years The
prime minister Of Englazd2 Who became
next 20 Queen Victoria in pewerY Wbo
was higher than the thrsrs because its Cd
wiser aud. eeunselorb Bisraeh, the jew.
intolerance never puts down anything. 1t
puts i:'up.
Busnow, my friends, having shown you
the origin Of bigotry, orrsthes sectarisnAsm,
and having shown YOU the damage it does,
wara,brisay TO show sou how we are to war
sgainss. this terrible evil, and think we
oughLsto begin this war. by realizing our
own weakness and our inperfectioas. IL
we make so many mistakes in the common
afiaias- of ife, is it nat possible that We may
make mistakes in regard to our Religious
affa1s? Shall we take a man by the throat
or by thu collar because, he cannot see re-
ligisus truths jus, as we do2 In the light
o. eternity it viii be found. out. ! think
there was something wrong in all our
crssds and something tight in slbour creeds.
Bot still We may make mistakes in regard
to ,aiags OF the worll Do not let as be 70,
egC.istical and SO paffed Up as 70 have sa.
idea that we cannot make any mistake IN
regard to the religious theories and thea. /
tkiak we win do great deal 70 overthrow
the seetarianisp from our hearts, and the
seetarianisu from the world by chie2y en-