New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-26
CHRISTIANS WHO MnRsHIp Innts


Darksns the stree then wander form The sons
OF Bclial. flown with insolence and wine
CHRISTIANS WHO WORSHIP IDOLS.
Do OF you. my brethren worship Moloch or Nam
mon Baal Poor ! Have OF you in your heart. .
niche for BelIa When your lie absorbed in
passion OF envy, hatred and rage when you are Al,
ternined II you 70 wound by false words by b,,
attacks. by open secret injuries when you dlsn,,v
the eternal spirit Of the popuIace by giving yourss
up passion OF reckless depreciation OF social pof
cal religious Opponents when you invoke the yery
name Of God that you may emphasize curses agaIn
your enemies; Is God the God OF your wOrshlpl on
your lips, yes; Of your life, What are you thent
Whatever you may call yourself whit are you buts
And When you talk Of nothing think OF notbin,
scheme after oohiug. for nothing had almost sad
prayed for nothing, but money, III )ney money, all The
day long hastiny TO be rich ana being innOcsn
ready II not downright FORGE steal In order 10
get IT, yet ready to aduerate goods scamp work h
nave false balances and unjust weights, iefraud
OF their rights and claims, 10 your whole trad
commerce or profession on footing which, perhaps
cOnvenonay honest yet goes TO the very verge OF a.
honesty; toing for mouey yaluing IL first among
earthly goods looking uD to those who have II a.
though they little.hunan GODS boarding IT, dwell
ing it, measuring the sole in life by it, marry
Ing your sons ana your Daughters with main reference
TO its God the God OF your worship OF your lps
yes your life. no. VA at arc you then but ldoa
ter a wUFshipper OF MdmmOn
II you are drunksrd. or impure II the current Of
your life is absorbed aud swayed by uahOly
the neck OF evil PASSIONS II the temple OF Your
body Is full OF chambers In which wicked Thought, ars
lowed imagery-again is Gcd the God Of your worshpi
or your lips YES OF Your life no. What you thea
idOlatcrt In what pect then less guilty
than Zimri the Prince OF Simeon. who worshpped Bas
Peorl Not an idoaterl Alas! my brethren, every one
Ct us is an doater who has not Got IN all MS thoughts
aud who has east away the laws OF God from the GOV
eminent OF his life. know not that It is much worse
idoatry To deny God altogether and openly defy the
impulses OF our lower nature than IL is In words
confess God yet not TO do. pot to intend do
seriously to try to do what he commands. or to abandon
yhat lie fOrDlds.
Htheismi All there is the defiant, speculative athe
ism which thinks thinks that It thinAs there is no
God aud there is the practical atheism which confess
ing God the lips, denies him III the life thai atheism
Christ cares nothing for his preeepts; the .egulsr
uierance OF Lord Lord, by who live IN dishon-
esty adultery drunkenness. revcings and all Of
abominable iaOstries what bad In the secret
ntrgues Of sehshness IN the quodian ague OF frvot
iy, III the seethng hnoDu6 OF sanderous worlines
tue CHASTITY, smooth life, dead heart OF religious in
slncerity-how many are the atheists then! And il the
love Of pleasure and the love OF money and the love Of
the world be tioatry alas. how few OF have truly
kept even that first commandment, Thou shalt have
none other gods but Ne"
II was said not long ago by great ortor IN the House
Of Commons that the wording classes little for
the dOctsines OF Christianity as the upper classes
for its precepts. IL that charge be true and node
imagine viii deny that there grounds which
IL be suOstantate, may IL not be that the God OF
the wording IL an IDOL false image, totally wrong
conception OF the living God or the thousands OF
OF the world, OF the hundreds OF gded YOUTH OF al
those In this great city whose god is their belly whose
glory is their shame. who mind earthly things. not
In hundred but would DO shocked II charged with not
believing in God. But might not some stern prophet
to him that tremendous sarcasm OF the Apostle
James "Thou bellevest that there is a God. Thou
doest we'll The devils also believe and much more
than thou dOest, they believe and trembe DOst hOu
believe that God righteous that He is OF purer eyes
than 10 behold iLiquty; that visiteth nquty
gressOn and sin DOs thou believe that the moral law
which thou art violating deliberately every day Gods
law and that thy sn Will nd thee and that though
hand Join in hand the wicked shall not be unpunishedl
Thousands either do not believe this or live as hey
did not. Their lives give tue lie their lips Aud what
God say To them but this: why dost thou break
whereas thou latest TO be reformed and hast
behind thee When thou sawest thief thou coR
sentedest unto him and hast been psrtaker with the
adulterOuS
and with thy tongue tDou hast set forth deceit These
though test wicsedy that such an thy
self but will reproye thee, and set before thee Tia
all biography, all the voices OF the conscience
Of mankind. bear witness that tue God who is te
idol OF the. wOrldngs-fancy the God who II
not righteous who does not punish snis Goo. The
had man knows pot God He alone who strives TO DO
his conversation Alright will show the salvation OF
Goa.
NO EXCEPTIONS To THE LAWS OF GOD.
II you do worship this public idol OF the make.
place have you personal lido! Of the cayei You fully
admit you definitely believe that In general God pun
shes sin; that lie does not clear the guilty IN ther
guilt that lie did give the moral law but turning God
into private idol do not OF you imagine that
neverthles~ you will get of that there is sometans
Tor yout snat your tempatons have been so strong
QUIZ Snam"es 80 sn, your passions so lrresistDs
how you may sin and escape aye and continue SIN;
aye. and live IN SIM aye, and die In s.u and yet some.
escape the consequences OF SIM 1t NV breth.
rem that is not Goi whom you worshippiag; 1, s
an idol Of the cavern God e God OF laws not OF sk
captions; God is God OF justice, OF fayOritlsm
Whatever charge OF folly may Justly attach to the say
Ing There is God, that folly is prouder. deeper
differently with me than with others Because you are
because fancy that temptations have bea
exceptions which Is not true because you think that
your passions have been strong which only thai
your reason has been weak because you think you
have SO many virtues and amiaOle qualities because
you love and value yourself aud yoGr sins so macn
that you think that God must look partially upon
ham all ,nl NJ
OF these filthy rags OF your own Righteousness. break
in your case and yours alone the adanantne roes
that links punishment 10 nnrepented crmei SO mlshs
your idol of the cavern do; SO will not Cod
And yet my brethren: 4 We fling to the moles ana
let not our Go, our Father In Heaven, the God las
In goodness truth keeping mercy for thousands LEI
HIM not became to us, as He mas become TO many as
mere idol OF the school God is spirit, confined
to temples; not bound up In books not c0hned IN
ancient creeds II be true that the mass OF the wo,
Ing classes care nothing for the doctrines OF Christianity
may 1t not be at least in part because those docrS s
have been grcyonsy msrepresentGd to them ke
for what purpose she thought Christ ascended. Her
'hT St the p nao OF
speeding Him who died that might live and wne
rem how expect the ignorant, how can we eM
pect any To love God II 1t an idol OF the school IA
night, where their day II God Is bugbear, what
ef" Is there mono 70 tell them that God pun,,nes
hem only because lie loves because He would for s.
thing The only thing that can be our ruin tnat ne
shes not moment longer than whom the wor1 VI
punishment IL done a..
when was young" says Luther. all at once tes
sight OF the Holy Sacrament, carried by Dr. StahpiL
terrified that perspirei from every pore. sa
thought 1! should de with fright. When .he proeesM
was over I confessed TO Dr. staupitz. and YOU
him what had happened 70 mo. Ny thousnsss.
he answered are not according to Christ Cnrss Win
not terrify. He consoles Thoso words nled me VIZ
rue father OF the Rsformuton Yes Christ does nov
crrify He consoles The God of the God VINO -
supposed very ANAL number to bliss, anu
reprobae all the rest to perdton aud anguish By
forH Tia fha cd Ia auppoeeo w