The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-16

| n SOiEhif3 Ddiut dS No dtl i1s tiut " Y N'tf
 promulgate the theories Of that dsnomi-
 nation, and then the man shall proclaim some other theory, he has broken his | oath, and he is an out-and -out perjarcr. l Nevertheless, declare for largsst liberty l in religious discussion, wonld no m pro have the attempt to rear a m onumeut to l Thomas Paine interferel with than l would have interfered with the li'ti ng of
 the splendid mouument to Washington.
 Largest liberty for the body, largest lib- erty for the mind largest liberty for the | soul.
 Now I want to show you, as matter of | advocacy for what I believe to be the right, the splendors of orthodoxy. any
 have supposed that it's disciples are peo- | pie of flat skulls, and no reading, and be-
 hind the age, and the victims of gullibil- ] ity I shall show you that the word | orthodoxy stands for the greatest l splendors outside of Heaven. Behold the l splendors of it's achievem ,uts. All the I missionaries of the Gospel the world l round are men who believe in a1 entire Bible. Call the roll of all the mission aries who are to-day enduring sacrifices l in the ends of the earth for ths cause of l religion and the worlds bettermsnt, and | they all believe in an entire Bible, Just 1 as soon as a missionary begins to doubt ] whether there ever was Garden or l Eden, or whether there is any such thing 1 as future punishment. he comss right home from Beyrout or Madras and goes | into the insurance business. All the missionary societies this day are offi cered | by orthodox men, and are supported by orthodox churches.
 l Orthodoxy, beginning with. the Sand wich Islands has captured vast regions l of barbarism for civilization, while hetro-
 doxy has to capture the first square iach. Blatant for many years in Great Britain and the United States, and strutting about I with a peacockian braggadocio, it has yet l to capture the first continent, ths first State, the first township, the first ward, l tho first space of ground as big as you
 could cover with tho small end of sharp I pin. Ninety nine out of every hundred of l the Protestant churches of America were l built by people who believed in an entire Bible. The pulpit now may preach some other Gospel, but 1t is a heterodox gun on | an orthodox carriage. The foundations | of all the churches that arc of very great | use in this world to-day were laid by men
 who believed the Bible from lid to lid, l and if I can not take it in that way will
 not take it at all; just as if received | letter that pretended to come from q
 friend, and part of it was his and part | some body else's, and the other part some l body else's, and it was & sort of literary
 mongrelism, I would throw the garoied 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 a church last long built on a part of the Bible. | You have noticed, suppose, that as soon | as man begins to give up sthe Bible he Is | apt to preach in some hall, and he has | an audience while he lives and when he | dies the church dies. If I thought that I my church in Brooklyn was built on a
 quarter of the Bible, or q half Bible, or | ree-quarters of Q Bible, or ninety nine one hundredths of Bible l would ex- l pect it to die when I die; but when | know it is built on the entire word ot God know it will last two hundred years after you and I sleep the last sleep Oh,
 the splendors of an orthodoxy which, with ten thousand hands and ten thousand pull I pits, and ten thousand Christian churches, i is trying to save the world.
 In Music Hall. Boston, for many years stood Theodore Parker battling ortho- doxy, giving it, as some supposed at that | time it's death wound. He was the most fascinating man ever heard or expsct to hear. and I came out from hearing him, thinking in my boyhood way | "Well that's the death of the Church" On that street, and not far from being op-
 posite, stood Park Congregational
 Church, called by its enemies: "Hell-nre l Corner.n Theodore Parker died, an his | church died with him; or, if it is in | existence, 1t is so small you can not see It | with the naked eye Park Congregations | al Church still stands on ''H Hsll- fire Cor
 ner," laundering away the magifice nt 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 aquedu ct
 of orthodoxy from the throne of God. Behold the splendors of character built
 up orthodoxy. Who had the greatest hu- | man intellect the world ever saws Paul
 In physical stature insignificant; in mind, head and shoulders above all the giants of the age. Orthodox from scalp to heol. Who was the greatest poet the ages ever | saw, acknowledged to be so both by in- fdels and Christians? John Milton, see-
 ing 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 tho infidel as we'll as Dy the Christiansf
 Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp to heel.
 Then look at the certitudes. Oh man,
 believing in an entire Bible, where did you
 come from? Answer:
 "I descended from a perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah breathed into
 my nostrils the breath of life. l am
 son of God"
 o man, believing in & half-and- half Bible, believing in Bible in spots, where
 did you come fromY Answer:
 '.It is all uncertain; in my ancestral
 line away back there was an orang- outang
 and tadpole and polywog, aud it took millions of years to get me evolUted," o man, believing in Bible in spots,
 where are you going to when you quit
 this worldS Answer:
 ''Going into great to be, so on int O
 the great somewhere, and then l shall
 pass through on to the great anywhere,
 and shall probably arrive in the mo-
 where."
 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: 4lAa M
 ''I am going to my Fathers house; l
 am going into the companionship of my
 loved ones who have gone before; l am
 going to leave all my sins, aud am go-
 ing to be with God and like God forever
 and forever"
 Oh the glorious certitudes of ortbo-
 doxyl
 Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in
 it's anno uncement 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 knocking and the asking. A palace grander than if all the Alhambras and Versailles and the Windsor castles and the winter gard ems [ and the imperial abodes of all the earth
 were heayed up into ono architectural , glory. At the other end of the universe
 a penitentiary whore men who want their , sins can have them. W ould it be fair that , you and I should have our choice of Christ