Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-09-08

it, achievements All the missionaries OF the
Gospel the world round arr men who be
lieve in an entire Bible. Call the roll OF all
the missionaries who are to dav enduring
cause Of religion and the world
bettermeat. and they al believe IN
an entire Bible. Jus. as soon as
a missionary begins to doubt whether there
ever was a Garden Of Eden. or whether there
is any such thing as future punishment he
zones right home from Beyrout or Madras. 7
and goes into the Insurance business All
the missionary societies this dav are offered
by Orthodox men, and are supported BY
Orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning withh the sandwich
Islands. has captured vast regions Of tar
tarisrn for civilization. whfe het-riCxv Ia.
to capture the first square inch. Blatant for
manv wears In Great Britain and the nite}
States. and strutting about With a peacockian
braggadocio It has vet to capture the
first continent. the first state. the
first township, the first ward, the first space
Of ground as big as YOU could cover with tn.
small end OF a sharp pin. Nlnety-nIne out
of every hundred Of the Protestant churches
Of America were built by people who
believed in an entire Bible. The pull
| pit now may preach some other Gospel,
! but it is a heteroiox gun on an orthodox
carriage. The foundations Of ali the
churches that are Of very great use IN this
world today were laid by men who be
lievei the Bible from lii TO III. and If
| cannot take it in that way | VIII not
take it at all. Just az if received
a letter that pretended to come from q
FREUD, and part of it was his and part some
boiy elses, and the other part somebody
else's, and it was a sort Of literary mongrel-
ism, and I would throw the garfield sheets
into the waste basket.
No church of very great influence to day
but was built by those who believed In an
entire Bible. Neither will a church last
long built on a part Of the Bible. You
have noticed, | suppose, that as soon
as a man begins to give up the Bible
he is apt to preach in soma hall, and
he has an audience while he lives, and when
he dies the church dies If | thought that
my church in BROOKLYN was built on a quarter
of a Bible, or a half a Bible. or three-quarter.
of a Bible. or ninetv-nine one hundredths of
a Bible, ] would expect 1t to die when
| die, but whan | know it T. built
on the entire Word r God, | know it willlast
two hundred years after you and | sleep the
last sleep. oh, the splendors Of an ortho
doxy, which, with ten thousand hands and
ten Thousand puIpits and ten Thousand hrs
sian churches, is trying to save the world,
In Music Hall, Boston, for many We're
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy.
giving it, as come supposed AT that time,
its death wonnd. He was the most fascjnat-
ing man ever heard or ever expected 10 hear,
AMI ] came out from hearing HIM think
ing IN my hovbood war: Well, that's the
r'sath of the church. On that same stree
and not far from being opposite, stood Par
congregational Church, called by its enemie
"Hell fire Corner Theodore Parker dtet
and his church died with him. or. If it Is il
existence, it is So small you cannot SO i
with the nakel eve, Park Congregations
Church stiil stands on Hell fire Corner,
laundering away the magnificent truths o
this glorious orthodoxy Just as tn yloh 1hao
dore Parker had never lived. All that 30,
ton, or Bro )klyn, OF NAw York. or the worl,
ever got that is worth having came throagl
the wide a1nednct of orthodoxy from th
throne Of God.
Behold the splen lors Of character hlilt nI
10y orthodoxy. W., bad The greatest hnmar
intellect the world ever knew Paul. Il
physical stature. insignificant. in mind. heaC
and shoulders above all the giant, Of the are
tthodox from scalp to heel Who wa7 thf
greatest poet the ages ever saw, arkt.Owledce,
to be 50 bot5 by nfid-.s.and Chris
tianst John Mfltcr, seaing more withou
eyes than anybody else ever saw with ewes
. Orthodox rom scalp to heel. Who was tn,
3 greesest reformer TIE world has ever seen s.
2 acknowledge | by inf les as we'll a. by CHRIS
tian@ Martin Luther. Ortlo to2 from sc,lr
: to heel.
] Then look At the c,rtit, ls> G nm be
+ ram IN an snt!fs b;h'ei "h r:dd yo,
i r r@r + tfn nsrsot nn - II r,ra 1 i Sc MT n L / '1i from
hreat"ed !htc M nostr is the breath Of lie
IAN. 4 son Of Got."O man. believing ii = hall
And half Bible. beler.s D., ms fitle in spots
where dill yea coma from. Answer, 1t
I'll nrcer&ai-: in my ancestral line ava
q neck thtre was an orang-outang and Il tadpol
And a po!ywog, and it took millionn IF veat
n TO Get NE evoluted." oh man. helir, va ii
: Bible ii spots, where gre 'ct foing to whe
+, YOU quit this wn'at-' Answer: Gong into
g great to he. so on into the great some her,
ar ""d .ifen | shall pass through on tC the grea
= any where, and l shall probably arrive ~ e
~ Nowhere" That Is where thought yo,
would fetch "r. q man. believing i
x an entire B!ble, and believing with all YOU
nea't. where are you gong to whe
70 leave this world. Answer. Il am goin. (
re my Fathers house; ] em going into II
t compromising of my loved ones vino hay
s, gone before; | am going to- leavt III III
al sins, md ] am goirg T. be ' III God and lik
III Got forever Ard fdretrr,' Oh, the gloriol
n certitdfte If orthodoxy
De hAh3ld 'he >plendors of orthodoxy in il
70 arnodncements of two d~eStipies.
Palace and penitentiary. Talat. Wit
10 gates on all sides through Hiilrf al nm
80 enter and live on celestial. MSu,ies .~orT
a. without end, AMI Al tQr tba tnocfiaa= al
ed Alhamhras and is veGfsailles and ,g,i the IL v " n n
70 scr ta'tFa and the Winter Gardens ana Il
=. '"peflal abodes of all earth were heavel ,
:, Into one architecture al glory, At tha 9th.
al eni OF the universe a renitentiary Ni.atr m.
re. who want their rius rap tate 'tele 'Teu
IRE It be FAIR that you ord ! shoAli ha1e o,
er- choice Of IrrS ar1 tl@ Palace. ami otht
men y fsnai their choice of sin a,
~ etet1,ssi degradation: Palace and e,nitenttar
4. The first Of no use unless yon ft,s .ht Ia,
eft Brooklyn and Ny Soth would be bett
us PLACES e INV :" 9th Raymond Street la
an ne }o'"b> and Sing Sing, and all the sma
g t~A hospitals emptied on them. than heavi
'is would be If there were no hell. Palace 81
no penltentlary. If | sae a man with q full ho
'he OF sin, and he thirst- fos #, aa bis who
1n nature Graves If and he takes he'd with DO
the hands and t,+sshs that bowl to his lips. a.
then trvsss il hard between his teet
ON And re draugtt begins 70 pour its ewes
~ hess down tis throat; snail Ne snat
away TIE bowh Ard, Jerk the man up to t
gate q heaven, and push hun in if h DC
ut, not Want to so and sit down ari sing psal,
~ forever: No. God hes mate yoi ami me
by completely FREE that We need not 20
II heaven .unlesa We prefer it. Not more f,
N 70 SA%r Than free 10 sink.
at Nearly a the heteroiox people know |
NY lieve all are coming out at the same dpstir
AXE without regard TO faith or character we /
MI all coming out at the shining gate. The
lge they are, all in glory together Tho
lSe as Paine and George White ia!i Jeze
nj and Mary. Lyon. Nero and Gharl-, vs.