The Forrest City times., 1888-08-11

else'S and it vss sorf of hterars nonkIer i.n. l would throw the gareied sheets mo the waste basket
 No church of yerr great influence today but -ss buflt bF those who believed tn sn entire RIfse. Neither viii c church las. long built on part of the Bibie. You have noticed, suppose that as soon &s man begins 70 gi.s up Joe Bible he is sps to preach in rcrDe ball. and be hs. sn suaisnce while he lives, and when be dies the church dies II thoughs that my church ia Brooklyn was built on quarter of s Bible. or half Bible. or three quarters of s Bible, or ninety nine oue-nun- dredths Of ( Bible, 1 would expeet II 10 die when die; bot when l know t is ouilt on ,he entire Word of God. l know t will last two hundred years after you and sleep the last sleep On. the splendors of an orthodoxy, which with ten thousand pulpi,s and ten thousand Christian churches Is trying to save The world lieviug in sn entire Bible, where did you come frusnT Answer: II descended from s perfect rarentace in Paradise. and Jehovsh breathed into nv nosirils the breath of life l am s SOD of Gods o man, believing in hall and hsn Blbie believing in Diuse in spots, shere did you c0rrs fronf Answer "it all un- certain; in my ancestral line away back there was sn oraDg-ogt2ng aud tadpoie and ral.voz. and ff took millions Cf years 10 get me evoluted.r o man, believing ir bius iu spots where gre you going to when y0u quit this woridi Answer: Going into great 10 be, 90 on into the great somewhere. and then shsli pass through on to the great anywhere, and shall probably arrive in the poxhere.h That Is where l thought you would fetch up o man, believing in sn en- tire Bible, snd believing with all your heart, vhefe gre you going to when you leave this worldi Ausserf Tamg going to my Fathers house: am going into ibe cOmp4nionship Of -rF loved ones who have gone before; l am going to leave all rfF sins, and am going to b- with God and ise God forever aud for- eyer.u On, the glorious esriisades Of ortho- doxyl
 nouncement of two dsstinies
 Palace aud uenitentiary. Palace with gstes on all sides through which all may enter anu live on celestial lGxGFies world without eno. and all for the knocking and the asking. A p.lace grander thsn If sll the Albsmbrss spd the Versailles and the Windsor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the imperial abodes of all the earth were hesved up into one architectural glory. At inc other end of The universe 6 r'euii entisry where men who want their sin. can have them. Would Y be lar that you and should have our choice ot de gradsiioni Palace and periisntiary. The first of 10 usc duless you have the isst Brooklyn and New Fork would De better clae' es to live in with Raymond Street 5aii and tbe Tombs and Sing Sing. and all the stnsE- DOT hospitals empiied on them thsn heaven woufd , tiary. If see a man with full bowl of sin, and he tbirsts for it, and he takes hold with both hands and presses that bowl 10 his lips, and then presses il hard between his teeth, and the drsught begins tn pour its sweetness down his throat, shall we snatch away tue bowl and Jerk the man up to the gate Of heaven, and push him in if be does no, want 10 go and sit down and girg psalms fOrevcrs No. God has made you and fr'e 30 completely free that we need not go to beaseu rnlsss we prefer l. Not more free to soar than fres 10 sink
 Nearly all the beterodox people know be- lieve all are coming out at the same destiny; without regard to faith or character we gre sll coming out al the shining gate There Trey are Pain, all and in G.SI9 glSry ws;esi5 i0gssse5 Jezebel and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wesley. Charles Guiteau and James A. Gar field. John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lint coln-sll in glory together! All the innocen men, women. snd children who were massa- cred. side by side with their murderers If we are all coming out al the same destiny, wiih- out regard to character then fl is true. turn away from deosuehed heaven. Against that caudrou of pieiy and blasuhemY, pbuan- thropy and assassination, selfsacrifce and beastliness, l place the two destinies of the Bible forever and forever snd forever apart
 Behold also the spleudors of the Christian orthodox death-bed
 Those who win deny the Bible or any part of u never die well. They either go out in darkness or they go cut in silence por.entous You may gather up all the biographies that may come forth since the art of IriDting was invented and ehallange you 10 show ne a triumphant death Of & man who rejected the Scriptures, or rejected any part of them. Here make great wide avenue. On one put the death-beds of those vho believe 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 death beds on the right side of tn Is avenue 'Yietory through our Lord Jesus Christi" Free graceP' 'Glory, gloGyr' T am sweeping through the gates washed iu the blood of the LsmbF, .Ihe ehariots are comlngm "I mount fypi "WIngs, wiugs!" They are coming for mep' Peace be stiIir Alfred Cookman's death bed, Richard Cecii's death bed, Commodore Foote's death.bed. Your fathers death bed yonr mothers death bed, your sisters death bed, your child's death Ten thousand radiant, songful death-beds of those who believed an entire Bible.
 Now, take my arm and let us go through that avenue, and look of upon the other side. No smile of hope. No shout of triumph. No face supernaturally illumlned. Those who reject any part of the Bible never die well No beckoning for angels to come. No listen
 
 ception they go out of the world because they are pushed out; while on the other hand the list of those who believed in on entire Bible and gone out of the world in triumph Is list 80 long it seems intermiuAble. Oh, Is not that a splendid influence, this oribodxoy, which makes that which must otherwise be the most dreadful hour of life--the last hour positively paradisaicall
 Young men, old men, middle aged men, take sides in this contest between orthodoxy and heterndoxy. Ask for the old paths, walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls" But you follow this crusade against any of the Bibie-frst of all you will give up Genesis, which is as true as Matthew; tben you will give up all the historical parts of the Bible; then after a while you will give up the miracles; then you will find it convenient to give up the Ten Commandments; and then after a while you will wake up in a fountain. less, reckless, treeless desert swept of ever lasting siroceo. If you are laughed at you can afford to be laughed at for standing by the Bible just as God hss given it 10 you and miraculouslE preserved it.
 Do not jump overheard from the stsunch old Great Eastern of old-fashioned orthodoxy until there Is something ready 10 take you up stronger than the fantastic yawl which has painted on the side "Adysneed Thought" and which leaks at the prov and leaks at the stern and has 6 steel pen for one oar and glib tongue for the other oar and now tips over that way, until you do not know whether the passengers will land in the breakers of dispair or % the sinking sand Of inhdelity and atheism
 am in full sympathy with the advance. menis of our tlme, but this world will never advance another inch bcYond this old Bible God was just ss capable of dletating the truth to the prophets and apostles ss He is capable of dictating the truth to these modern apostles and prophets God has not learned any thing in a thousand years He knew just as much when He gave the drst dictation as He dose now, giving the last die tatiou, If he is giving any dieiaiion at all. So l will stick to the old paths. Naturally . .keptie and preferring new things to old, I never so much as to day felt the truth of the entire Bible, especially ssI see into what spectacular iInbecility men rush when they try to chop up ihe Scriptures with the neat-sx of tbeir own preferences new calling upon philosophy, now calling on the Church, how calling on God, DON calling on the deyil prefer the thick, varm robe of the old religiOn-old ss God-the robe which has kept so many warm amid the cold pill grimage of tn life and amid the chills Of death. The old robe rather than the thin, un- certain gauge offered us by these wiseacres who believe the Bible in spots.
 On July 29th, 1874, al SC yenty-tso years of