The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22

mere efigy of evangelism to shoot at. They
mis- state and falsify the Evangelical
churches. They take some OF the gospel
theories and set them in marsh and repul-
sive way and put them out Of asc c'at'on
with other truths. They are like mad anat.
omist, who, wishing to demonstrate what
man is, dissects human body and bangs up
a heart in one place and pair of lungs In
another place and q spleen in anoter place
and an ankle-oone In another place and
says: THAT is a man." They are only fEas
ments of q man and wrenched from their
God-appointed places. Evangelical religion
Is q healthy, symmetrical well-jointed
roseate, bounding life, and you can not by
the scslpel and dissecting- knife of infdelity
discover what it is. 1t is no more what its
enemies represent il than the scsrecrow
keep of the ravens is the farmer himself
They say for instance that the Pfesby terians
believe that God
SAVAGE SOVEREIGN,
who made some men Just to damn them !;
that there are infants In he'll span Ion z.
There is not an infidel on earth. though be
had q retainer OF thousand dollars day,
who could manage in the course of ten yea IS
to make An honest, fair and accurate repre-
sentstion OF what the Presbyterian Church
believes II believes that God is loving
and just sovereign, and that man is q free
agent NO, no." says the antagonist who
has che we'd up the little book of creeds an
has the consequent embittered stomacn, if
God is sovereign We can not oe free
agents." But We acknowledge that possibil-
Iiry every wbere else. /, Dewitt Talmsge,
am q free citizen of Brooklyn. That is, 90
where please and when please. Yes, but
| have four sovereigns over me. The highest
court of my denomination Is my ecclesiasti.
1t
municipal sovereign. The Governor of
New York is my State sovereign. The Pres
ident OF the United Ststes is my National
sovereign. Yet with these four sovereigus s.
in every faculty of body. mind and soul
am free man.
| If would tomorrow walk into the corrl.
dor of Mercantile Library and improve my
mind, or go through the conservatory of m y
friend al ia naics who has blooming unds 81
the arches of glass flowers from all zones and
acquariums asquirm with trout and gold
fish, aud | wish to pluck ripe oranges and
Il bananas from the branches, / may do So
And II want to go up to the furnaces of the
oil factories in Hoboken and Jump into the
flames, or leap off the platform of a Philadel
phis express train, or from the dock of a
IFulton-street ferry boat, car do 80. II | leal
i into the Hoboken furnace, who IS to plamei
Ny friend out at Jamaica who offers me bis
conservatory That is all there is In Presby
II teriauism about God 8 sovereignty and m am
free agency. God rules and regns AID ha:
conservaiories. and He has blast furnaces
Ii you want to wa k IN the garden you may
aDd II you want To leap Into the red h0l
csldrons you may. Ii you choose the cal
drons rather than the conservat Try, who i.
to blame? OF course, the one who made the
conservatory and sent you written invita-
ton TO come and spend your life among the
cactus and palm trees We simply mear
that the empire Of the future will have
palace and penitentiary.
All our cities bave their penite ntiaries
Suppose some one had charmed kew By
} which he could go through the United
'lS atss aud open RaymOnG-sreet Jail ant
J, New York Tom bs and Moyamensing prison
lof Philadelp phi q and all the dungeons ant
peniten tiaries. what would becoms OF thi
lcoun,ry N three weeks? Nov, the empire O
the future has its penitepitsry. Suppos
| all The culprlts of That penitentiary shout,
! be let out and enter the New Jerusalem
The Hrst morning the gate Of pearl would b.
found off its hin ges, the lii ch pins woul,
+ be out of the chariot wheels; the house O
> many mansions would be burglarized; an
? gels OF God would be insuited on the street
!. Assault and battery and IibertiDisrs al,
ASSASSINATION III the capital of the skies
, Heaven will be failure if there be not some
) here great lookup. If all get to Heave
H. a
, was when they left the earth l wonder
4 in the heavenly temple Charles Guitea
3 and John Wilkes Booth occupied the sam
pew.
saw photograph in Arl ansas of
al cAPsIZED RAIL TRAIN.
I Some Williams had taken up the track near
e railroad bridge, and the train mad gon
o thirty feet down and killed about twent
D people, III, silly women and children. Whe
b the desperadoes who pulled up that track ge
n to Heaven, wonder If their thrones will b
any wnere near the people they slew. II
murderer break into house and massacr
a whole family, and the police Rearing tn
disturbance, rush upon the scene and put
bullet through the skull of the rutfian, wi
they all, the slain and their slayer, arrive i
o glory about the came time? You all see tbs
= 1t is only common sense that there should b
+ 1.-TWO dsstiDies. And as to infants Ill he'll
f., span long. that is q falsehood thst come
: down from the past, and there is no ST 3
= that its longevity will ever fail. If you wi
bring me Presby terrain III sound mind GO
4 of good morals who believes that there be
e ever been Q baby, or ever Will be baby, Il
the lost world, will make over 70 that ma
9 a deed of all the property / have, and he ca
d take possession tomorrow
y The antagonists of evangelical religion sa
q that the Episcopal Church substitutes forIc
/ and ceremonies for heart religion. and il
d all q matter Of liturgy and genutisc ;ion
l. False again. All gen uine EpiscoI al ians W
y tell you that the forms and ceremonies
K their church are nothing unless the heart b
3, lin them. / never have been more owe
II whelmed with religious feelings tnan whe
d heard at Sharon springs our neighbor, ID
e Schenck, With a voice like baHd of music
70 read that passage from the pray er-bool
Z, than " hich nothir Z sublimer as ever bee
). written: by the my s.ery of Thy holy il
v carnation; by Thy holy nativity and eli
81 cumcision; by Thy baptism, fasting an
lie temptation; by Thine agony aud blood
It sweat; by Thy cross and passion; by Th
q. precious death and burial; by Thy gioriol
is resurrection and ascension, an d by the cor
% ing of the Holy Ghost In all time of OF
3 TT b 1lation; in all time of our prosperity
d the hour of death and in the day OF jud
n menk Good Lord deliver u.s."
n The antagonists of the Baptist Church "a
l. tina. they believe only those will get
il heaven wo ars baptized by immersion Fal
al again. They believe that all who acce
a Christ whether they be baptized by OF
,e drop on the forehead or by plunge out
If sight in Ohio or Susquehanna, will reac
Is Heaven. although the latter mode is Il
r. only gate into their particular society
this world. have already made arrane
or ments of communion with the close cor
o. munion Baptists on the other side of Il
al Jordan, and shall be glad If the chali
1T passes to me directly from the lip and nal
D. of my glori6ed friend, John Bowling, q
ut King of Baptist ministers in former gen.
r. alton:
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