News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

| body elSeS, and the oJher parG SonepodJ
elses, and it was a sort of literary mongrel-
ism, and 1 would throw the garbled sh ,ets
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 the 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 l Thought that
my church in Brooklyn was built on a quarter
of Bib'e, or half Bible, or three-quarters
of Bible or ninety-nine one hundredths of
a bible, L would expect it to die when
L die; but when | know it is built
| on the entire Word IF God know it will last
two hundred years after you and sleep the
last s'eep Oh, the sp.en1ors of an ortho
| doxl, which, with ten thousand hands and
ten thousand pu'p.ts and ten thousand Chris4
tan 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 fascinat-
ing man ever heard or ever expected to hear,
and I came out from hearing him think
ing in nv bovhool way: ''Well. that's the
and not far from being opposite, stood Parl
Congregational Church, called by its enemiet
'Hell-fire Corner" Theodore Parker dice
and his church died with him; or, if it is ir
with the naked eye. Park Congregational
Church still stands on "Hell-fire Corner, "
laundering away the magnificent truths Of
this glorious orthodoxy just as though Theo-
dore Parker had never lived. All that Bos.
ton, or Brooklyn, or New Y ork or the world
ever got that is worth having came through
the wide aqueduct of orthodoxy from the
throne of God,
Behold the splen lofs of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
,fAlIR Ra& -, D.. T.
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 Chris
tians! 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 has ever seen? so
acknowledged by infidels as we'll as by Chris
tianS Martin Luther. Ortho lox from scalp
to heel.
Then look at the certitudes o man, be-
lievjng In en entire Bible, where did you
come from? Answer ~ descended from d
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath of life
| am son of Col. o man. believing in half
andha Bible, believing in Bible in spots,
where did you come from! Answer: ut is
all uncertain; in my ancestral line away
back there was an orang-outang and a tadpole
and polywog, and it took millions of years
w Scb 0NOIut6u Ou IIdl, D6llSNlllS III u
Bible in spots, where are you going to when
you quit this world? Answer: Going into a
great to be, so on into the great somewhere,
and then I shall pass through on to the great
anywhere, and l shall probably arrive in the
nowhere" That is where thought you
hft entife Bible, and believing with all your
heart. where are. you going to when
leave this world. Answer: 81 am going to
my Fathers house; am going into the
companionship of my loved ones who have
gone before; | am going to leave all my
sins, and 1 am going to be with God and like
God forever and forever" Oh, the glorious
certitudes of orthodoxy
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its
announcements of two destinies.
Palace and penitentary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
enter and live on celestial luSuries world
without end, anil all for the knocking and
Alhanlbras and the Versailles and the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
into one arcRitecfur al oy Ht se othe
end of the universe pententiary where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
it be fair that you and 1 should have our
choice of Christ and the palace, and other
men be denied their choice of sin and
eternal degradation? Palace and penitentiary
The first of no use unless you have the last.
Brooklyn and New York would be better
places to live in with Raymond Street Jail,
the Tombs and Sing Sing, and all the small
pox hospitals emptied on them, than heaven
would be if there were no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. If see a man with full bowl
of sin, and he thirsts for it, and his whole
nature Graves it, and he takes ho'd with both
hands and presses that bowl to his lips, and
then presses it hard between his teeth,
and the draught begins to pour its sweet
ness down his throat; shall we snatch
away the bowl, and jerk the man UP to the
gate of heaven, and push him in if he does
not want to 60 and sit down and sing psalms
forevers No. God has made you and me so
completely free that we need not go to
heaven unless we prefer it. Not more free
to soar than free to sink.
Nearly all the heterodox people I know be-
lieve all are coming out at the same destiny;
without regard to faith or character we are
all coming out at the shining gate. There
they are, all in glory together Thorn.
as Paine and George Whitefeld, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wesley,
Charles Guiteau and James A. Garfield, j. ohm
Wilkes Booth and Abraham Linco.n-all in
glory together All the innocent men, wo-
men, and children who were masSacred, side
by side 18th their murderers. If we are all
coming out at the same destiny, without
regard to character, then it is true.
I turn away from such a debauched
heaven Against that cauldron of piety and
blasphemy, philanthropy ane assassination,
self sacrifice and beastliness, l place the two
destinies of the Bible forever and forever
and forever apart.
Behold also the splendors of the Christian
Orthodox death beds.
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part of it never die well. They either go
out in darkness or they go out i'll silence
portentouS You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since the
art of printing was invented, ami | challenge
you to show me a triumphant death of a
man who rejected the Scriptures or rejected
any part of them. Here [ make n great wide
Il,,t hoo I 1nnf !, ads Of
those who believed in an entire Bible. On
the other side of that avenue l put the
death beds of those who rejected part
of the Bible, or rejected all of
the Bible Now, take my arm and let us
pass through this dividing avenue. Look of
upon the right side. Here are the deathbei Is
on the right side of this avenue "Nic-
tory through our Lord Jesus Christ!'
Free grace!" 'Glory, glory!" 81 am
sweeping through the gates washed in ths
blood of the Lamb?" THE chariots are
coming!" 81 mount, fly!" wings, wingsl"
'They are coming for mel" "Peace, be
stiIln' Alfred Cookman's death-bed, Richard
Cecil'S death bed, Commodore Foote'S death
bed. Your fathers death bed your mothers
death-bed, your sisters death-bed, your
childs death-bed. Ten thousand radiant,
songful death-beds of those who believed an
entire Bible. ......-..sj
Now, take my arm and let US go through
that avenue, and look off upon the other
side No smile of hope. No shout of triumph.
No face supernaturaly illumined. Those
who reject any part of the Bible
never die well. No beckoning for
angels to come. No listening for the ce
lestial escort Without any exception they
go out of the world because they are pushed
out; while on the other hand the
list of those who believed in an entire
Bible and gone out of the world in
triumph is a list so long it seems intermina-
able. Oh, is not that splendid influence, this
orthodoxy, which makes that which must
otherwise be the most dreadful hour OF me-
,he last hour-postively paradsaical!
Young men, old men, middle-aged men,
take sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. ASK for the old paths,
walk therein, and ye shall find rest
ior your souls" But you follow
;his crusade against any part of the
Bible-first of all you will give up Genesis,
which is as true as Matthew; then you
will give up all the historical poets of the
Up the miracles; then you will find 1T
convenient to give up the Ten Command
nents: and then after while you will wake |
Up in fountainlesS, reckless, treeless desert |
swept of everlasting sirocco. IL you are
aug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at |
or standing by the Bible just as God has |
given it to you and miraculously preserved
Do not jump overheard from the stanch
I'D Great Eastern of old fashioned orthodoxy |
Until there is something ready to take |
you up stronger than the fantastic yawl |
which has painted on the side: "Ad- !
Janced Thought" and which leaks at the |
brow and leaks at the stern and has steel
)an for one oar and a glib tongue for the
Itber oar and now tips over this way and |
jhen tips over that way, until you do not
will nInH