West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-16


small end of sharp pin. Ninety nine out
OF every hundred Of the Protestant CHURCHES
OF America were built by people who
believed In an entire Bible The pull
but it Is heterodox gun on an orthodox
carriage The foundations of all the
churches that are OF very great use In this
world to-day were laid by men who be-
Ieyed the Bible from lid to lid, and IL
1 cannot take IL in that way / will not
take II at all; just as IL j received
letter that pretended 90 come from A
friend, and part OF IL was his and part some
body elses, and the other part somebody
eise's, and it was a sort of literary mongrel-
ism, and / would throw the garbled 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 church last
long built on part OF the Bible You
have noticed, L suppose, that as soon
as 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. IL 1 thought that
my church I'm Brooklyn was built on a quarter
OF Bible, or half Bible, or three quarters
OF Bible, or ninety-nine one hundredths of
a Bible, l would expect it TO die when
on the entire Word of God, know IL will last
two hundred years after you and sleep the
last sleep. oh, the splendors of an ortho-
doxy, which, with ten thousand hands and
tian churches, is trying 20 save the world
In Music Hall, Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving 1t, as some supposed at that time,
It's death wound. He was the most fascinat-
ing man ever heard or ever expected TO hear,
and i came out from hearing him think
ing in my boyhood way: well. that's the
death OF the church" On that same street
congregational Church, called by its enemies
"Hell-fire Corner" Theodore Parker ,iad
and his church died with him; or. IL it Is in
existence, IL IS so small you cannot see II
Church still stands on "Hell-fire Corner y
laundering away the magnificent truths OF
this glorious orthodoxy Just as though Theo-
dore Parker had never lived. All that Bos-
ton, or Brooklyn, or New York or the world
ever got that is worth having came through
the wide aqueduct of orthodoxy from the
throne OF God.
Behold the splen Tors Of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
intellect the world ever knew9 PauI In
physical stature, insignifcant i'm mind head
and shoulders above all the giants of the age
Orthodox from scalp to heel Who was the
greatest poet the ages ever saw, acknowledged
to be so both by infidels and Chris
tiansl John Milton, seeing more without
eyes than anybody else ever saw with eyes,
orthodox from scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest retormer the world has ever SEEM so
acknowledged by infidels as we'll as by Chris
tians. Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp
to heel
Then look at the certitudes o man. be-
iev.ng in an entire Bible where did you
come from' Answer: al descended from a
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrls the breath of life.
am n son of God O man, believing in half
d-half Bible, believing in Bible in spots,
where did you come fromi Answer: ut is
All uncertaini in my ancestral line away
back there was an orang-outang and tadpoie
and polYwog, and IL took millions of wears
TO get me evoluted." Oh man. believing in a
Bible in spots, whore are you going to when
you quit this worldl Answer: ''Going into a
great to be, so on into the great somewhere,
and then shall pass through on to the great
anywhere, and shall probably arrive in the
nowhere." That is where l thought you
would fetch up. o man, believing in
an entire Bible, and believing with all your
heart. where are you going to when
leave this worldl Answer: 81 am going to
my Fathers house; / am going into the
,ompanionship of my loved ones who have
gone before; am going 30 leave all my
sins, and am going to be with God and like
Tod forever and forever Oh, the glorious
certitudes of orthodoxYl
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its
announcements of two destinies.
Palace and penitsntiary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
entor and 1.-Two eoicatiai lusrurios world
without end, and all for the knocking and
the asking. A palace grander than if ali the
Alhambras and the Versailles and the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
imperial abodes of all earth were heaved up
into one architecture al glory. At the other
end of the universe a penitentiary where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
Vt be fair that you and l should have our
choice of Christ and the palace, and other
men be denied their choice of sin and
eternal degradation Palace and penitentiary.
The first OF no use unless you have the last.
Brooklyn and New York would be better
places to live in with Raymond Street Jail,
the Tombs and Sing Sing, and all the small
pox hospitals emptied on them, than heaven
would be III there were no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. IL l see a man with full bowl
OF sin, and he thirsts for it, and his whole
nature Graves it, and he takes ho,d with both
hands and presses that bowl to his hips, and
then presses 1t hard between his teeth,
and the draught begins TO pour its sweet
ness down his throat; shall we snatch
away the bowl, and jerk the man up TO the
gate OF heaven, and push him in if he does
not want to go and sit down and sing psalms
foreverf No. God has made you and me so
completely free that VS. need not go to
heaven unless we prefer IT. Not moro free
to soar than free to sink
Nearly all the heterodox people know be-
lieve all are coming out at the same destiny:
without regard to faith or character we are
all coming out at the shining gate There
they are, all in glory together Thorn
as Paine and George Whiteheld, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon Nero and Charles Wesley
Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lncoln-all in
glory together All the innocent men, wo-
men, and children who were massacred, side
by side with their murderers IL we are all
coming out at the same destiny, without
regard 20 character, then IL is true
turn away from such n debaucbed
heaven. Against that cauldron OF piety and
blasphemy, philanthropy ane assassination,
self sacrifice and beastliness, place the two
destinies OF the Bible forever and forever
and forever apart.
Behold also the splendors Of the Christian
Orthodox death beds
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part OF II never die well. They either 20
out in darkness or they go out In silence
portentous You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since the
art OF printing was invented and challenge
you 70 show me n triumphant death Of n
man who rejected tho Scriptures or rejected
any part Of them. Here j make n great wide
avenue. On the one put the death beds OF
those who believed ia an entire Bible. On
the other side OF that avenue Il put the
death beds OF those who rejected part
OK the Bible, OF rejected ali Of
the Bible. Now, take my arm and let us
pass throughthis dividing avenue. Look of
upo1 the right side. Here are the deathboda
ON the right side Of this avenue "Vic-
tory through our lord Jesus Christr'
free graceln "Glory. glOryln 81 am
sweeping through tho gates washed in the
blood Of The Lamb" "The chariots arc
cOmtngW 81 mount II nvfn agVfuos tyfno,o rs