The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-07

~ tney could see Him, and hear Him talk, and
% win him, as those persons were 1900 years
wouldn't do anything OF the sort You would
oe IKE the great majority of them. You are no
oetter than they were then. l have no doubt
you honestly think you would. though from
10 see you running after somebody who
leader of society, in some
SOCIAL deyilment of the day, one would think you
would follow almost anything thattwould come
along. See how you run after theaters balls,
progressive euchre-af.er the circus even The
way you do follow things in this world is a pref
" good evidence that you would follow almost
anything; but the things you are following gen.
eraiy Lead In the opposite direction to that in
when christ was going. Laughter.
Inc test of the honesty of your declaration, the
honesty OF your statement that you would follow
Cnrlst II lie were in Indianapolis to- night if He
were IN tins hall commanding You to follow Him.
rnns ;s;on have nes=@r given h. Cad the record
OF His Son IN such way that II you would have
followed Him in that day there Is no
reason why you should not follow Him
now. Christ Is Ia this bosk in the
entirety of his life. He is here in the ennety of
his ministry. He is here Ia the spirit which anil
mated Him from the time He began to manifest
himself until He assembled to His Father If you
are honest about saying there is any emergency
In which you might live this life, then this book
takes away from you all that declaration, unless
you begin to live it.
All but you say 81 don't know if could get
into the entire spirit OF it. I can read what He
taught l can read the life He led, but can't
see how am to follow Him." Well, you sea a
great many people around you who are lead
Ing lives that are not their own, living
lives that are not their own inven-
ton. You some fellow living
a pretended life of atheism. He never invented
that. He has dressed himself up in it. It's a
plagiarism. Some man may be living according to
Plato. He has read Plato and become saturated
N @ vi linn fn fha
tonian philosophy. Some fellows are living ac-
cording to the Darwinian theory. The only way
they can get around recognizing God at ali and
recognizing His Son IS to trace themselves back
TO tadpole and end in mud puddle You find
the fellow tracing himself from mud puddle
winds up in one occasionally Sometimes there
are persons protesting believe in literary
God and an historical Christ, and get whole lot
shackle ideas and organize themselves
into community, and live together like
happy family in menagerie, mingling all
sorts and kinds of beliefs and creeds- Others
live kind of modern paganism. getting ready
to damn their own souls. and furnish place of
refuge for every other vicious character In the
community who doesn't want to live according
to the example Of Christ.
But there is another example that may fit you
better. can go out on these streets, and viii!
speak to man and say to him: "What are
yonr politics2'
He will Say II am Democrat
say THAT is all right / expect to meet
Democrats up here. What kind of Democrat
are your
Il am one of the old Jeffersonian Democrats
why are you aJeffersonian Democrats What
is the difference between them2"
We'll. believe In the principles laid down by
Thomas Jefferson. and he sticks to it through
thick and thin. He is always Democrat every
where and anywhere. He has just simply got
the JefforSonian ideas into him. He has studied
Thomas Jefferson and.J efferson's idea of govern
ment Another man says, Il am Republican,"
and ask him, Where did You get your doc
trine?" He tells me from Seward and Sumner.
and other great men of the Republican party.
He has learned from them and has got their
ideas until he IS thoroughly saturated with them
and filled up with Republican principles, and
you cannot shake them from him. have seen
them in the South, where they might be
scorched, might be run chased, or they
might be thrown to death even, and
they would hang to their Republican
principles. They had got them into them. and
they intended to live and die by them. If you
can explain how it is that can so utterly
saturate themselves with Democracy Repub-
licanism to be always Democrats or always
Republicans, anywhere or everywhere. always
ready to spend time to march in the street with
torches AID ready to fight for their principles at
the polls, or even on the battle feld-tell me how
can become so thoroughly saturated
with this political principle, and how it is not
possible for him to be saturated with the
religious and Christ-like. If you can do this
you will explain to me an anomaly that you
have raised and L cannot understand. l say
whenever man tells he is Democrat,
whenever he tells me he is Republican. when
ever he tells me he is Prohibitionist. whenever
he tells me he has got any settled principles in
this life, and that they are grounded as bed
rock truths IN his life, and he lives according to
them. he demonstrates TO me that ne has got the
power to be true exemplar of what Christ want.
0A n hn 1tan with y1vh
TO be Democrats men with sense enough to be
Republicans, men with enough to be any
thing positive in this world, have sense enough
to be able and active Christians, and, If they are
not, the only reason why they not is because
they don't want to be. This question of whether
you will be a Christian or not is question of
choice. 1t is question that you have got to de-
eide for yourself, just the same AS you have TO
decide the question OF whether you will be
Democrat, or a Republican. or a mug
wump, with this difference: In politics
you may be mugwump. but in religion
there is no such thing. [Applausel Yon have
got to be a Christihn or heather. That is all
there is about that If you not Christian.
you are heathen-with this difference. that you
belong to the worst class of heathens. seeing the
truth all around, and going to hell, with every
inducement held out to you to be Christian
and 60 to heaven.
Another thing There is no excuse in the
world for anybody that has ever had conviction
in their heart of their duty and necessity of be-
ing Christian, and has followed mp that con-
viction by going up to one of the recognized
churches of Christ and putting their names down
on the roll as soldier of Christ-there is no ex
cuse for anybody in that position not
being thorough Christian from head to
heel The church Of God is suffering more from
these pretended Christians inside it's walls and
on it rolls than it has by infdet'... ,,,s;as
the church. Bob Insers-, cannot hurt the
church OF God ,ne- nalf as much in twenty years
as haaf a dozen Christians who pretend
70 belong to the church can hurt the
cause OF Christ in Indianapolis in one
week yerv few people pay any
attention to Bob fnsersol. Their only interest
is in seeing how faithfully Bob serves the devil,
and how faithfully he dances when the devil
pulls the string. You take four five protesting
Christians in the churches of Indianapolis and
let them set their heads to work and they can
damage the cause of Christ IN this city more