St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-12
MINNEAPOLIS \ PuLPlTs.
The Religions Of the World Discussed
by Rev. Shutter.
ADDRESSES TO YOUNG MEN
By Rev. D. ]. Burrill---The- Heather
the Subject Of Rev. Simmons
J. Talk.

Rev. Marion D. Shutter preached to
the congregation of the Church of the
iRedeemer in the Grand opera house,
| from John X. 16:
It was once said, eff the heart of
Florentine were cut in two golden lily
would be found in it. Cut an error in
two and you will find in the center a
golden lily of truth EMBEDDED. We are
5in position to-day to deal more justly
with other religions Of the world than
those before us have done. We find i'll
many of them words that would be re-
garded as inspired if found in our
| Bibles. Whatever test we apply in one
case we must apply in the other. Here
spring bursts out of the hillside. Over
| the hill you find another spring equally
sweet sending forth its waters. Is it
not reasonable to believe that both
come from the same underground
| source.
1t has been altogether too common to
| contrast the worst parts OF heathenism
| with the best parts of Christianity.
| Heather nations have their good points
| and Christian nations their bad ones.
| Missionaries and whisky have gone out
| together to distant tribes. Chunder Sen
| Christian England'S debauching the ma
TONS young men by teaching them
| to drink. In China men interrupt
| the missionaries to ask them why, il
| their religion be true, Christian ma
| ton forced the opium traffic upon an
unwilling emperor. When heather ma
| lions look at us, they see that, in spite
| of our boosted religion, our cities are as
full of disSolute characters as theirs;
our aims no higher; our devotion to ma
| terlal things even greater; our treat
| ment OF the inferior races among US
even more barbarous, as il we had
never heard of Christ's golden rule.
While Christianity may justly claim
superiority, it can no longer lay claim
! to exclusiyeneSS. 1t is the best religion
that has ever arisen in the world, but
the same God is also manifested in the
religions beyond its boundaries. No
prayer that ever faltered from human
fallen unheard to the earth. The Wor-
ship accorded to shapcess blocks and
stones has gone beyond them to the God
who implanted the sentiment of wor-
ship in the human heart. The SUMS
light plays with fuller radiance upon
the upper branches of the trees and the
birds that sing there; but its rays creep
downward through the foliage to the
very worms that crawl over. the roots.
The worm can look up and say: 20
sun, thou art mine." The lowest races
of the earth can say: so God, Thou
art my God!' If the worst hell that the
Imagination of man has devised be true.
if it be filed with legions of devils,
the same light and love that play
upon the brows of saint and angel
creep down through the dark
ness, till they reach with saving power
the heart of the blacklist fiend in the
bottomless pit! The forms of statement
of many Christian sects contain a gem
of truth in garb of error. The minds
that framed them were earnest and SIN
cere. The doctrine: of the Trinity, of
total depravity, of atoncment. each was
the record of an honest search after
truth, and each has some truth in it by
which it lives, though that truth is put
into absurd and CHASTITY shapes. We
ought to learn from it all to he modest
and charitable, to have faith i'll man
and to put our trust in the practical
duties of life. Heaven is not built upon
jasper aud onyx, but upon justice and
love!