The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-09-08

liberty for leterodoxy as for orthodoxy.
If IL should change my theories of re-
llgion should preach them out and
out, but not in the building where am
accustomed to preach, for that was
erected by people who b-lleve in an en-
tire Bible, and it would be dishonest
fOr mo to promulgate sentiments differ
Sant. frolik those for which that bujld ,ng
was put up. When we enter any de-.
nomination rs ministers Of religion, we
take a solemn vow that we will preach
the sentiments Of tha5 denomination.
If we change our theories, as wa have a
right to change them, then there Is q
world several thousand miles in circum-
ference, and there are hundreds of halls
and hundreds OF academies of music
Where we can yeltilate our. sentiments.
IrememDer that in all our cities, in
time of political agitation, there are the;
Republican headquarters and the Dem
ocratic headquarters; Suppose should
go into one or these headquarters, pre-
work, at the same time electioneering
for the opposite partyl I would soon
find that the centrifugal force was great.
or than the centripetal. Now, IL "a man
enters denomination of Christians,
taking u solemn oath, as wo all do, that
will promulgate the theories Of that
denomination, aud then the man shall
proclaim some other theory, lie has
broken his oath, and is an cut-and-out
perjurer. Nevertheless, l declare for
largest liberty in religious discussion.
would no more have the attempt to
rear q monument to Thomas Paine III
| terfered with than would have inter-
fered with the lifting of the splendid
monument to Washington. Largest
liberty for the body, largest liberty for
the mind. largest liberty for the soull
Now, want to show you, as a matter
of advocacy for what I believe to be
right, the splendors Of orthodoxy. Many
have supposed that its disciples ara
people with fat skulls, and no reading,
and behind the age, and the victims Of
gullibility. shall show you that the
word orthodoxy stands for tho greatest
splendors outside OF heaven.
BEHOLD THE sPLENDoRs
Of It's achievements. All the missions
aries Of the Gospel the world round are
the men who believe in an entire Bible.
Call the roll Of all the missionaries who
are to-day enduring sacrifices IN the
ends Of the earth for the cause of relig-
ion and the worlds betterment, and
they all believe In an entire Bible just
as soon as a missionary begins to doubt
whether there ever was Garden Of
Eden, or whether there is any such
thing as future punishment, he comes
right home from Beyrout or Madras.
Land goes into the insurance businessl
AllSthe missionary societies this day; are
oflicered by orthodox men, and are sup
ported by orthodox cliVfcllss.
| Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sand
Wlch Islands, has Captured vast regions
= s ~
has to capture the first
square inch. Blatant for many years
in Great Britain and the United States,
aud strutting about with peacockiun
1t has yet to capture tile
first continent, the first State, the first
township, the first ward, the first space
Of ground as big asyou could cover
with the small end of sharp pin.
the Protestant churches of America
were built by people who believed in ali
entire Bible. The pulpit now may
preach some other gospel, but it is a
teterodO.r gun on an orthodox carriage.
THE FOUNDATION OF ALL THE
CHURCHES
That are or very great use In this world
to-day were laid by men who believed
not take it in that way l will not take
1t at all; just as If received letter that
pretended to come from o friend, and
part Of 1t was his and part somebody
else's, and the other. part somebody
elso's, and 1t was a sort Of literary mon.
grelism, I would throw the garbled
sheets into the waste basker. No
church Of very great influence to-day
but was built by those who believed in
an entire Bible. Neither will church
last long built on part Of the Bible.
You have noticed, I suppose, that as
soon as q man begins to give up the
Bible he is apt to preach in some hall,
and he has an audience while he lives,
and when he dies the church dies. III
thought that my church in Brooklyn
was built on n quarter of q Bible, or o
half Bible, or three-quarters Of a
Bible, or ninety.nlne One.hundredths of
q Bible, would expect it to die when l
die;, but when know it is
BUILT ON THE ENTIRE WORD
Of God, / know 1t will last two hundred
years after you and sleep tile last
sleep. Oh, the splendors Of an ortho-
doxy, which with ten thousand hands
and ten thousand pulpits and taa thou
sand Christian churches, are crying to
save the worldl In Music Hill, Boston,
fol many years stood Theodore Parker,
battling orthodoxy, giving it, as some
at that time, Its death wound.
!la wus The most fascinating man
over heard, OF ever expect to hear, and
] came ont from hearing him thinking,
Ill my boyhood way, "Well, that's tile
death Of the Church.'' On that same
street, and not far from being opposite,
stood Park Congregational Church,
called by It's enemies, "-Hell-Gre Cor.
ner.n Theodore Parker died, and his
church died with him; or, if it is in ex-
istence, 1t Is SO small you cannot see 1t
with tile naked eye. Park Congrega-
tional Church still stands on "Hell-fire
Corner" laundering away the magnia-
cent truths of this glorious orthodoxy
Just as though Theodore Parker had
never lived. All that Boston or Brook
Ign or New Y ork or the world ever got
that is worth having came through the
wide aqneduct Of orthodoxy from the
throne OF God.
Behold the splendors Of character
built up by orthodoxy Who had the
greatest intellect the world ever knewp