News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-10
PLYMOUTH PULPIT GEMS.
| Thoughts CuIled From Hours Dis
| course on Liberty of Conscience.

Mr.. Beecher took thewhole of Romans,
xiv, for his text, on Sunday. He spoke
for more than an hour, and said in the
course of the sermon:
"Don't Cypress a man because his ig-
norance does not keep pace with your
intelligence"
eff a man thinks in his conscience it
is religious duty to wash his hands
every time he sits down to meal. he is
squandering his conscience ON an ex-
ternal object that is of no more conse-
quence than is buckle or strap on a
horse"
"You are not to NEEDLE with other
mems consciences."
"Have your own way, you that keep
Sunday and you that don't; only, what
ever you do, let it not be with careless
ness or Indifference; look into it; come
to decision and then stand by it,
"The tendency of the Gospel to pro-
duce manhood as opposed to childhood
is one of the things that has not been
brought out. The tendency of the old
religions has been to govern men, not to
teach man to govern himself"
'In the family and in the Church
there are two ways of governing. One
is to teach the children to govern them
selves, and then you save them; the
other is TO do all the governing yourself,
and then you lose them"
''It is said that ministers children are
the devils grandchildren. I don't be-
lieve it.
''There is a good deal of conscience
whipped in through the skin"
make men think and give them lib
erty to think; make men choose and give
| them liberty to choose"
"Men don't like to think. 1t is work,
and nobody likes work. Professor
| Stuart says that laziness is two-thirds
total depravity. I will throw in the
other third"
'"Ihe capitalization of the cross has
ceased to inspire any idea of suffering.
| What idea has she of suffering upon
whose bosom rises and falls diamond
cross"
'In Paul's days mems liberty could
have been symbolized by fly in a
spiders web. They had liberty to buzz
a little while and that was the END of it. ~
"In our day which is the right church,
know which it is. I shan't tell you
except in this way-that it is the church
that makes folks live most nearly right. "
''How to adapt statements so that
they shall meet the top and the bottom
and the middle men in society is one OF
the greatest puzzles In preaching the
Gospel"
'Don't make your conscience the law
of other mems consciences. [ think the
next greatest evil to not having con-
science is to have one. A man without
a conscience is like a jelly fish on all
moral questions-not even crustaceous.
And yet see how men carry their con-
! sciences. That which is right to them
they think is right to every body else. u
''Some men keep whole stable full
of consciences for livery; they let them
out to other men,"
SIN all your pleasures and in all your
liberties you are not to go tramping like
an elephant through a chicken yard
crushing everything that comes under
your ponderous feet. Your knowledge
| and your liberty are not to work destruc-
ton to Others"
81 have right to drive my horse, if
I have one to drive-which, unfor-
tunately, L haven't now-at ten miles an
hour along the driveway; but if 1 meet
a little miss in her curricle, and my
horse frightens hers and he runs away,
/ am not gentleman, to say nothing of
Christian, if 1 drive in that way
Glands off, ministers Hands Off
churches ! Hands off, sectarians
Hands off, everybody, when a man has
got to manhood, and has made up his
mind fully how to live in Christ Jesus.