The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-17

NOW ! Mulb 10 &uHW YOU ldh q mUNIeFt OF
advocacy for what believe tofbe right, tho
splendcrs Of orthodoxy Many have sup
posed that the disciples are people OF Hat
! skulla. and no reading, and behind the age,
n the victims of gullibility. j shall show
yeH thar the word orthodoxy stands for the
greatest ~splendors outside Of heaven. bpnold
the splendors of its achievements. All the
missionaries Of the gospel the world round
are men who believe in an entire Bible. Call
the roll of ali the missionaries b are today
enduring sacrifices in the ends Of the earth
for the cause of religion end the worlds bet-
torment, and they all bnleiye 10 en- entire BIZ
bic. 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 righthome from
Beyrout or MadFasi All th8 missionary so
rleties thus day are otticered o. GfthodOx men,
and are supported by orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
islands, has captured vast regions Of barhar-
ism for civilization, while heterodoxy has to
capture tue first square inch. Blatant for
many years in Great Britian and the United
States, and s~truttingabout with peacocaan
b~raggadocio, il has vet to capture the first
continent. the first state, the first township,
first ward, the first space of grouHd as big as
you could cover with the small end ofasharp
pin. Ninety-nine ont Of every hundred Of
the Protestant churches of America were
built by people who believed in an entire
Bible. The pulpit o may preach some
other gospel, but ID Is q hetetodox gun or an
orthodox carriage. The foundation of all
the churches that are Of very great use in
this world to-day were laid BY men who be-
cannot take IL in that way / viii not take IL
at all; just as If received q letter that pre-
tended to come from q friend, and part of 1t
was his and part somebody else's, and the
other part somebody else's, and it was q sort
d literary mongrelism, | would throw the
garbled sheet into the waste basket.
No church of very great intiueneetoday but
was built by those who believed in an entire
Bible. Neither win a church last long built
on a part ofthe Bible, You have noticed, I
suppose, that as soon as a man begins to
give up the Bible he is apt to preach in some
hall, and ne has an audience while he lives,
and when he dies the church dies. IfIthought
that my church in Brooklyn was built on a
quarter Of a Bible, or q half q Bible, or three.
quarters Of a Bible, or 99-l00 of a Eible, I
would expect ii to die when ! die; but when /
know Il is built on the entire word of God. i
EnoW u VIII last 2 years after you and !
sleep the last sleep. Oh, the splendors Of an
orthodoxy, which with 0 1000 hands and TO-
600 puipits and 10, 1000 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 ut that time, its
death wound. He was the most fascinating
man / ever heard or ever expect to hear. and
| came out from hearing him thinking, in my
boyslood way, "Well, that's the death of the
church" On that sans street and not far
from being opposite, stood Park Congrega-
tional Church, called by it's enemies, Hell
hro Corner" Theodore Parker died and his
church died with him; or, fiji is in existence,
it is 50 small You cannot see IL with the
naked eye. Park Congregational Church
still stands on "Hell-ire corner" laundering
away the magnificent truths Of this glorious
orthodoxy just as though Theodore Parker
had never lived. All that Boston, or Brook
lyn, or New York, or the world ever got that
is worth having came through the vide
aqueduct Of orthodoxy from the throne Of
God.
Behold the splendors Of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who hadthe greatest human
intellect the world ever knew Paul. In
physical stature insignificant; in mind, head
and shoulders above al the giants Of the age.
Orthodox ftom scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest poet that ages ever saw, acknowl.
edged to be SO both byinhdeis and Christians?
John Milton, seeing more without eyes than
anybody else ever saw with eyes. Orthodox
from scalp to heel. Who was the greatest re-
former the world has ever seen? so acknowl-
edged by inhdels as we'll as by Christians.
Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp to
heel.
- \ nbu LOOK dB the G&IIiIuQe8. ~ man, De-
heving in an entire Bible, where didyou come
from2 Answer: II descended from q perfect
p~arentage in Paradise, and Jehovah brsathed
into my nostrils the breath OF life. / am a
son of God" 0 man, believing In ahalEand-
half Bible, believing in q Bible in spots where
did you come FROM Answer: st is ell uI-
certain; in my ancestral line away back there
was an o-rang-outang and q ta6pole and a
polywog, and it took millicns Of years to get
me evoluted." 0 man, believing in a Bible
IN spots, where are o going to when you
quit this worldg Answer. Going into a
great to be- so on TO q great somewhere, and
then I shall pass on through to the great
anywhere, and l shall probably arrive In the
nowhere. !" That Is whore Ithoughtyou would
fetch up. o man, believing in an entire Bible,
AMI believing with all your heart, where are
you going to when you quit this world2 AM
swer: Il am going to my Fathers house; /
am going into the companionship ofmy loved
ones who have gone before; / am going to
leave all my sins, and | Inn going I'd be with
God D like God forever and forever" Oh,
the glorious certitudes of orthodoxy
Behold TIE srlendors OF orthodoxy IN its
announcement 0 ftwo cestinies. Palace and
p~enitentiary. Palace with gates on all sides
through which all may enter and live on ce-
lesfial luxuries world without end, and all
for the knocking and the asking. A palace
grander than II OIL the Alhambras and the
Versailles and the Windsor Castles and the
Winter Gardens and Che imperial abodes OF
all the earth were heaved up IN one archi-
tectural glory. AT the other end of the uni
verse O penftentiary where IBsif WHO Want
their sins can have them. Would It be- fair
that you and / should have our choice oi
Christ and the palace, and other men be de-
MED their choice of sin and degredation2
Palace and penitentiary. The first Of no
nse unless yon have the last. Brooklyn and
New York would be better places to live III
with Raymond street Jail and the Tombs
and Sing Sing and ell the small ox hospitals
emptied on them than heaven would be X
there were no he'll. Palace and pententiary.
III see q man with a full bow of Sin, and
he thirsts for 1t, and his whole nature
Graves il, and he takes hold with both hands
aud presses that hroHi to hts lips, and then
presses iG hard between his teeth, and the
dranght begins TO pour its sweetness down
his throat, while we snatch away the bowl
and jerk the man up TO the gate OF heaven
and sit down and sing psalms forever No.
$50 has made You and me 80 completely free
that we need not go 70 heaven unless we pre-
fer II. Nor more free to soar than free to
sink.
Nearly All the h~eterodox people / know be-
leve all are coming out at the same destiny;
without regard to faith or character we are
coming out Ut the shining gate. There they
are, all ia glory together. Thomas Paine
and George Whitefeld, JezebeI and Mary
Lyon, Nero and James A. Garfield, John
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