The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-06

lieving in Bible in spots, where did you
como frum2 Answer ut is all uncer-
TAIN in my ancestral line away back there
was an ornng-Outang and tadpulc and u
| polywog, and IL took millions Of years to
| get me ovolutcd." man, believing in q
Bible in spots, where are YOU going TO
when YOU quit this wond2 Answer
Going into 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 thought YOU would fetch
up, q man, believing in an entire Bible,
| aud believing with all your heart, where
are YOU going To when You leave this
world2 Answer 81 am going to my
Fathers house, am going into the com.
panionship OF my loved ones who have
gone before am going TO leave all my
sins aud am going TO he with God and
| like God forever and forever" Oh, the
glorious certtudcs OF orthodoxy
Behold the splcndors OF orthodoxy in lis
announcement OF two dCs,lnics.
Palace and pcnitcnturyl Palace with
| gates on all sides, through which all may
enter and live ON celestial luNuTics, world
without end, and all lor the knocking and
| the asking, A palace grandcr than II all
the Alhamhras and the Versailles aud the
| Windsor castles and the winter gardens
aud the imperial ahodcs oi al the earth
wcrO hcavcd up into ono architectural
| glory. At the other end oi the universe a
| pcnitCntiary, whore men who want their
| sins can have them. Would It Ice lair
! that YOU and should have our choice OF
Christ aud the palace, and other men he
! denied their choice of sin and eternal
| dCgradaton2 Palace and pcnitcntiuryl
! The first OF no uso unless you have the
last. Brooklyn aud New York would be
better places to live ia with Raymod street
| Jail and the rombs and Sing Sing aud all
the smallpox hospitals cmpticd on them,
| than heaven would bc II there were no
hell. Palace aud ponitcnuarvl II ! SEGA
man with full bowl OF sin, and he thirsts
| for IL, and his whole nature Graves Il, and
| lac takes hold with both hands aud presses
! TINT bowl 10 his lips, and then presses II
hard between his teeth, and the dnught
begins 10 pour It's sweetness down lis
throat, shall We snatch away the bowl, and
| Jerk the man up 90 the gate OF heaven and
push him in II lac does not want to ~ and
sit down aud sing psalms forever No.
God has made YOU aud me 80 completely
free that We need not go 10 heaven unless
We prefer IL. Not more free TO soar than
free 10 sink.
Nearly all tho hctorodoN people know
| believe all are coming ont ut the same
destiny; without regard 10 faith or Chawc-
ter We urc all coming out at the shining
gate. There they arr, all inglory tcgcthcr.
Thomas Paine and George Whitciicld,
Jnzcbcl and Mary Dyon, Nero aud Charles
Wesley, Charles Guitcau aud James A..
Garfield, John Wilkes Booth aud Abm.
ham lincolu-all in glory together All
the innocent men, women and children
who were massaCfcd, side 10y side with
their murdcrcfs. II We arc all coming
out at the same destiny, without regard To
character, then Il is true. turn away
from such dobauchcd heaven. Against
that cuuldfon OF picty and blnsphcmy
philanthropy aud assassination, sclieacn
, lice aud boirsllincsg place the two desli
| mics Of the Bible forever and forever AN,
forever apart.
Behold also tho splcndors Of the Chris
tian orthodox doath.hcds.
Those " o deny the Bible, or doly any
part Of It, never die we'll. They either ~
out Ia darkness or they go out In silence
portcntous. You may gather up all thc
biographies that have come forth since the
ant ui printing WIS invented, and ! chal.
langc YOU a. show mo triumphant death
oi a man who rejected any part ul them.
Here | make u great wide avenue. On thc
one put lhc death. beds OF those Who hc.
licyc iu un entire bible. On the other
side oi that avenue put the dcalh,bcds oI
those Who rejected part Of the Bible, OF ~
jccicd all of the Bible. Now, take my
arm aud let ~ pnss through this dividing
avenue. Look oil upon the right side
Here are the death. beds on the right sid,
oi this avenue. "NiCtofy through on
Lord Jesus Christ" "Frc gruccl
"Glory, glory" 81 am sweeping through
the gates washed In the blood Of th,
lamh' "Ihu chariots are coming 81
mount. fN" "Wingz. winRs" 'ThcN
are coming Tor mel Peace, boz still"
| Alfred Cuukman's doaih-bcd. Commodore
Foote's dcaih.brd, your fathers death bed,
your mothers drath-bcd, your sister n
dolth.bcd, your Child'B dolth.hcd, 1000
radiant, s0nglul death beds Ui those Who
believed an entire bible.
Now, take my arm and let ~ so
through that avenue, and look OF upon
the other side. No smile ol hope. Nu
shout oi triumph. No face systematically
ilIumcd 1hUsy Who inject any part 81
the Bible never die well. No reckoning
for angels tD come. No listening lur ihr
celestial escort. without any exception
tlpy gu out ui iho world because they uri
pushed out. while on the other baud Nv,
list Of thUsp Nhb believed Ia an Cutii,
Bible and gone uut 81 the world IN tfi'
umph ism lIgt sb long 10 seems inlormiu.
nhl" oh. b. not that splendid influence
this orthodoxy, which makes HAT which
, must uthrrV be- bee the most dreadful hour
oi life the last hour positively para
di-airuR
Young men, old men, middlc.ng,,
men, take sides IN this contest between
b orthodoxy and heiorodoxy. ASK ior ih,
3 old paths, walk therein, aud yo shall iin,
rect ipr yuJr suuls." hut you follow
this crusade against any part Of thc Bib,
lint 0i ull YOU will give mp Genesis
which b ns true ns Matthew, then yOi
will give up Hll the historical parts u thD
| Bible. then after awhile you will give ul
, the miracles. then YOU will lind 10 rUuyCu
lent tu give up the Ten Commandments
! ! then after awhile YOU will wake up in
ipuniaiuIcF, rurklcu, trcclcsg dCsar
. swept Oi everlasting sitOccO. II you Ur
= laughed no YOU can afford ~ be laughed a
Tor standing hy thc Bible Just as God ha
I given IL 10 you and miIculously Pre-
served IT,
, DO not Jump overheard from the stanol
7 old Great Eastern IT Old.iUshionCd obhu
y doxy until there is something ready "a
y take you up stronger than The fantasia
B., yaWl which has painted ON the Eido "Ad
!. | yauccd Thought" aud which leaks nj tlr
Z, prov aud leaks at the stern, nnl hJs
. steel pen for one car and GLIDE tougu
u for The other oar, and now tips over lhi
way and then tips over that way, uuu
~ Won do not know whether the passenger