Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-08-12

ShhCH' Ol tlliJ Sdinc street, ana not
far from being opposite, stood Park Con-
gregational church, called by It's ene-
mics "Hellfire Corner" Theodore Parker
died and his church died with him; or,
II II is in existence, II is so small you
cannot see il with the naked eye. Park
Congregational church still stands on
"Hellfre Corner" laundering away the
truths of this glorious ortho-
doxy Just as though Theodore Parker
had never lived. All that Boston, or
Brooklyn, OF 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 splenders Of character built
up by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest
human intellect the world ever knew?
Paul. In physical stature Insignificant;
in 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 intidels apd Christians9 John
Milton, SEEING more without eyes than
anybody else ever saw with eyes. Or
thodox from scalp to heel Who wssthe
greatest reformer the world has ever
seen, so Acknowledged by infidels as well
as by Christiansl Martin Lulher. Or
thodox from scalp TO heel.
Then look at the certitudes o man,
believing in an entire Bible, where did
you come FRONT Answer: 81 Il, scended
from a perfect parentage in Paradise, and
Jehovah hreathed into my nostils the
breath Of life. l am son of Col" o
man, believing in half and half Billie, be-
lieving in Bible in spots, where I'D you
come froml Answer: at is all uncer-
tain; in my ancestral line away back
there was an orang outang and tadpole
and polywog, and it took millions Of
years 20 get me evoluted." D man, be-
lieving in Bible in spots, where are you
going to when you quit this world?
Answer: ''Going into great to be, 20
on into the great somewhere, and then /
shall pass through on TO the great any,
where, and shall probably arrive in the
nowhere" That is where / thought
you would fetch up. o, man, believing
in an entire Bible, and believing with all
your heart, where are you going to when
you leave this worldi Answer: II am
going to my Fathers house; am going
into the companionship of my loved ones
who have gone before; am going to
leave all my sins, and am going to be
with God and like God forever and for
ever" Oh, the glorious certitudes of
orthodoxy
Behold the splendors Of orthodoxy in
its announcement of two destinies.
Palace and penitentiary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
enter and live on celestial luxuries
world without end, and all for the knock
ing and the asking. A palace grander
than If all the Alhambras and the Ver-
sailles and the Windsor castles and the
Winter gardens and the imperial abodes
Of all the earth were heaved up into one
architectural glory. At the other end Of
the universe a penitentiary, where men
who want their sins can have them.
Would it lie fair that YOU and | 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 10
live in with Raymond street Jail and the
Tombs and Sing Sing, and all the SMALL
pox hospitals emptied on them than
heaven would he if there were no hell
Palace and penitentiary. If l see man
with full bowl of sin, and he thirsts for
il. and his whole nature Graves it. and he
takes holdiwith both hands and presses
that bowl to his lips, and then presses IL
hard between his teeth, and the draught
begins to pour its sweetness 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 60 and sit down and sing psalms
forever: No. God has made you and
me 10 completely free that we reed not
90 to heaven unless we prefer it. Not
more free to soar than free to sink.
Nearly all the heterodox people I
know believe 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. Thomas Paine and
George Whitefeld, Jezebel and Mary
Lyon. Nero and Charles Wesley, Charles
Guiteau and James A. Garfield, John
Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln-all
in glory togetherl All the innocent
men, women and children who vera
side by side with their muir
derers. II we are all coming out at the
same destiny, without regard 10 charac-
ter, then il is true. | turn away from
such debauched heaven. Against that
caldron Of piety and blasphemy, philan-
thropy and assassination, self sacrifice
and beastliness, place the two destinies
Of the Bible forever and forever and for
ever apart.
Behold also the splendors Of the Chris
tian orthodox death beds.
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part Of it. never die well. They either go
out in darkness OF they 60 out In silence
portentous. You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since
the art Of printing was invented, and I
challenge you 10 show me a triumphant
death Of aman who rejected the Scrip
lures, or rejected any part Of them. Here
| make a great wide eavenuo. On the one
l put the death beds of those who be-
lieved In an entire Bible. On the other
side OF that avenue put the death beds
OF those who rejected part Of the Bible,
or rejected all Of tho Dilln N,,y ,.L.