The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-06

! remember that in all our Cities in time
OF political agitation there are the republi
can headquarters and the democratic head
quarters. Suppose | should go into one OF
these headquarters pretending to be in sym
pathy with their work, at the same time
electioneering for the opposite party.
would soon find that the centrifugal force
was greater than the centripetal Now, il
man enters a denomination of christians
taking a solemn oath, as we all do, that we
will promulgate the theories of that de.
nomination, and then the man shall pro
claim some other theory, he has broken his
oath, and he is an out-and-out perjurer
Nevertheless, declare for largest liberty
in religious discussion. | would no more
have the attempt to rear a monument tC
Thomas Paine interfered with than
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 s1ul.
Now, | want to show you, as a matter OF
advocacy for what believe to he the right,
the splendors of orthodoxy. Many have
supposed that its disciples are people Of flat
skulls, and no reading, and behind the age
and the victims of gullibilty. l shall show
you that the word orthodoxy stands for the
greatest splendors outside of heaven. Be-
hold the splendors Of It's achievements All
the missionaries of the gospel the world
round ere men who believe i'll an entire
Bible. Call the roll of all the missionaries
who are to-day enduring sacrifices in the
ends of the earth for the cause of religion
and the worlds betterment, and they all
believe in an entire Bible. Just as SO On as
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 this day are Off.
cered by orthodox men, and are supported
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. Blatant
for many years in Great Britain and the
United States, and strutting about with a
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 sharp pin. Ninety-nine out
of every hundred Of the protestant churches
of America were built by people who be-
lieved in an entire Bible. The pulpit now
may preach some other gospel, but it is q
heterodox gun on an orthodox carriage
The foundations of all the churches that are
of very great use i'll this world to-day were
laid by men who believed the Bible from lid
to lid, and If | cannot take il in that way
will not take it at all; just as if / received q
letter that pretended to come from IA friend,
and part of it was his and part somebody
elses, and the other part somebody else's
ana it was a sort of literary mongreism,
would throw the garbled slseets 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 part of the Bible. You
have noticed, | suppose, that as soon as q
man begins to give up the Bible he is apt tc
preach in some hall, and he has an audience
while be lives, and when he dies the church
dies. If l thought that my church in
Brooklyn was built on a quarter of "a Bible
or half of Bible, or three-quarters of a
Bible, or ninety-nine one-hundredths of O
Bible, would expect 1t to die when die
but when know it is built on the entire
Word of God, know it will last two hun
dred years after you and l sleep the last
sleep. Oh. the splendors of an orthodoxy
which with ten thousand hands and ten
thousand pulpits and ten thousand chris
tian 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 fascinating
man ever heard or ever expect to hear
and / came out from hearing him thinking
in my boyhood way, "Well, that's the dealt
of the church" On that same street. and
not far from being opposite, stood Park
Congregational church, called by its enc
mics "hell-fire Corner" Theodore Parker
died and his church died with him; or. if IT
is i'll existence, it is SO small you cannot SET
it with the naked eye. Park Congrega-
tional 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 ortho.
doxy from the throne of God.
Behold the splendors of character built
up by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest
human intellect the world ever knew2 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 infidels
and chri5tansa John Milton, seeing more
without eyes than anybody else ever saw
with eyes. Orthodox from scalp to heel.
Who was the greatest reformer the world
lUIlUelN
as well as by christiansf Martin Luther.
Orthodox from scalp to heel.
Then look at the certitudes. o man. be-
lieving in an entire Bible, where did YOU
come froml Answer: descended from a
perfect parentage in paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath OF life.
l am a son of God" o man. believing in a
half-and-half Bible, believing In Bible In
spots, where did you come FRONT Answer.
ut is all uncertain; in my ancestral line
away back there was an orang-outans and
q tadpole and polywog, aud it took mill
ions Of years to get me evOluted" oman.
belle ving in u Bible in spots, where are you
going to when you quit this worldl Answer
Going into great TO be, SO on into the
great somewhere, aud then / shall pass
through on to the great anywhere, and |
shall probably arrive in the nowhere. 81
That is where | thought you would fetch
up. o man, believing in an entire Bible,
and believing with ali your heart, where
are you going 10 when you leave this worlds
Answer: 81 am going to my Fathers house
am going into the companionship of my
loved ones who have gone before; I am
going to leave all my sins, and am going
to DO with God and like God forever and
forever" Oh, the glorious certitudes of
orthodoxy
Behold the splendors Of orthodoxy In its
announcement 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 il all the
Alhambras and the Versailles, and the
Windsor Castles, and the Winter Gardens.
and the imperial abodes of all the earth