Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-08-09

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a monument to Thomas Paine interfered
| with than l would have interfered with
the lifting of the splendid monument to
Washington. Largest liberty for the
body, largest liberty for the mind, largest
liberty for the soul.
Now, want to show you, as matter OF
advocacy for what l believe to be the
right, the splendors of orthodoxy. Many
have supposed that its disciples are people
of fiat skulls and no reading, and behind
the age, and the victims of gullibility.
shall show you that the word orthodoxy
stands for the greatest splendors outside
of Heaven. Behold the splendors of its
achievements. All the missionaries of the
Gospel the world round are men who be-
lieve in the entire Bible. Call the roll OF
all the missionaries who are to-day en-
during sacrifices in the ends of the earth
for the cause Of religion and the worlds
betterment, and they all believe in an en-
tire Bible. Just 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 comes
right home from Beyrout or Madras and
goes into the insurance business. All the
missionary societies of this day are Of
ficered by orthodox men, and are sup
porte1 by orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
Islands, has captured vast regions of bar
barism for civilization, while heterodoxy
has to capture the first square inch. Blat-
ant for many years in Great Britain and
the Unitad States, and strutting about
with peacockian braggadocio, it has yet
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 the small end of a 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 pulpit may now preach some
other gospel, but it is heterodox gun on
an orthodox carriage.
The foundations of ali the churches that
are of very great use in this world to-day
We're laid by men who believed the Bible
from lid to lid and if | can not take it in
that way | will not take it at all: just as If
l received a letter that pretended to come
from friend, and part of it was his and
part somebody's else, and it was a sort of
literary mongrelism, l 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 en-
tire Bible. Neither will church last long
built on a part of the Bible. You have
noticed, | suppose, that as soon as man
begins to give up the Bible he is apt to
preach in some hall, and he has an audi
ence while he lives, and when he dies the
church dies. If | thought that my church
in Brooklyn was built on quarter of a
Bible, or half Bible, or three-quar-
tiers of a Bible. or ninety one hum
dredths of Bible, 1 would expect it to
die when die; but when l know that it is
built ON the entire word of God, l know
it will last 200 years after you and 1 sleep
the last sleep. ., the splendOrs of an
orthodoxy, which with 10000 hands and
10000 pulpits and 10, 900 Christian churches,
is trying to save the world.
In Music Hall, Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving it, as some supposed at that time,
its death wound. He was the most fasci-
mating man ever heard or ever expect to
hear, and l came out from hearing him
thinking, in my boyhood way, swell, that
is the death of the Church." On that same
street and not far from being opposite,
stood Park Congregational Church, called
by its enemies ''Hell-fire corner" Thee
dore Parker died and his church died with
him; or, if it is in existence, it is so small
you can not see it with the naked eye.
Park Congregational Church still stands
on "Hell-fire corner" laundering away
the magnificent truths of this glorious
orthodoxy just as though Theodore Parker
had never lived. All that Boston, 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 splendors 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 in
fidels and Christians: John Milton, seeing
more without eyes than any body else ever
saw with eyes. Orthodox from scalp to
heel. Who was the greatest reformer the
world has ever seen-so acknowledged by
infidels as well as by Christians: Martin
Luther. Orthodox from scalp to heel.
Then look at the certitudes. o, man, be-
lieving in an entire Bible, where did you
come from? Answer: Il descended from
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jeho-
yah breathed into my nostrils the breath
of life. am a son of God" o, man, be-
lieving in half-andhalf Bible, believing
in Bible in spots, where did you come
from: Answer: SIT is all uncertain: IN
my ancestral line way back there was an
ourang outang and tadpole and polly
wog, and it took millions OF years to get
me evoluted." ., man, believing in a
Bible in spots, where are you going
to when you quit this world: An
swer: ''Going into great to be,
so on into the great somewhere,
and then l shall pass through on to the
great anywhere, and l shall probably
arrive in the nowhere" That is where I
thought you would fetch up. o man, be-
lieving in an entire Bible, and believing
with all your heart, where are you going
to when YOU leave this world: Answer:
81 am going to my Fathers house: am
going to the companionship of my loved
ones who have gone before; am going to
leave all my sins and l am going to be
with God and like God forever and for
ever" o, the glorious certitudes of ortho-
doxy.
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its
announcement of two dest;nies. Palace
and penitentiary. Palace with gates on all
sides through which all may enter and live
on celestial luXuries world without end,
and all fer the knocking and the asking. A
palace grander than if all the Alhambras
and the Versailles and the Windsor Castles
and the Writer Gardens aud the imperial
abodes of ali the earth were heaved up in
to one architectural glory. At the other