The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-07
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| missionaries of the Gospel the world round are
men who believe in an entire Bible. Call the
| roll of all the missionaries who are today en-
during sacrifices in the ends Of the earth
| for the cause OF the religion and the world S
bctterment, and they all believe in an entire
| Bible. Just as soon as n missionary begins TO
| doubt whether there ever was n Garden OF
Eden, or whether there Is any such thing as
future punishment, he come right home from
| Beyrout or Madras and goes into the insur-
! aHcc business! All tle missionary societies
this day arc differed by orthodox men, and
! are supported by orthodox churches.
! Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
| islands. has captured vast regions of barbarism
! for civilization, while heterodoxy has TO cap
/ ture the first square inch Batant for many
/ wears in Great Britain and the United States
and strutting about with q peacockian brag-
| gadocio it has yet to capture the first CONT
| nent, 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 a sharp
! pin. Ninety-nine out of every hundred OF the
| Protestant churches Of America were built by
| people who believed in an entire BiDic. The
| pulpit now may preach some other gospel but
| it Is heterodOx gun on an orthodox carriage.
| The foundations Of all the churches that are
| Of very great use in this word today W.re laid
| by men who believed the Bible from lid to lid
| and if / cannot take it in that way ] will not
! take 1t at all just as il received letter
! that pretended to come from n friend, and part
! Of ii was his and part somebody else's, and the
| other part somebody else's, and 1t was sort OF
| literary mongrclsnI, ! would throw the gar
blcd sheets into the waste basket.
No church Of very great Influence today but
was built by those who believed in an en-
tire Bible. Neither will church last long
built on a part Of the Bible. You have no.
ticed, / suppose, that as soon as man begins
TO giveup the Bible no is apt TO preach in some
hall, and he has an audience while he lives,
and when lac dies the church dies II thought
that my church in Brooklyn was built on
quarter of a Bible or half Bible, or three
quarters of a Bible, or ninety-nine-one hun
dredth Of the Bible, / would expect it to die
when die; but when ! know it is built on
the entire Word of God know it will last
two hundred years after you and sleep the
last sleep. Oh, the splendors Of an ortho-
doxy, which with ten thousand hands and ten
thousand pulpits and ten thousand Christian
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. lie was tho most fascinating man |
ever heard or ever expect To hear, and came
out from hearing him thinking, in my boy
hood way, "Woll. that's the death of the
church," On that same street and not far
from being opposite, stood Park Congregation
al church, called by its enemies "Iellfre
Corner" Theodore Parker died and his
church died with him; or if IL is in existence,
1t is so small you cannot see 1t with the naked
eye. Park Congregational church still stands
on "Iellfre Corner" laundering away the
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
orthodoxy from the throne of God.
Behold the splendors of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
intellect the world ever knew? Paul. In
physical stature insignificant; in mind, head
and shoulders above all the giants of the age.
Orthordo:, from scalp to heel. Who was the
tho
to be SO both by infdelS and Christians? John
Milton, seeing more without eyes than any
body else ever saw with eyes. Orthodox from
scalp to heel Who was the greatest reformer
the world has ever seen? SO acknowledged by
infdols as well as Christians. Martin Luther.
Orthodox from scalp to heel,
Then look at the certitudes. O man, believ-
ing in an entire Bible, where did you come
from? Answer: 81 descended from per-
feet parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath of life.
am son of God" 0 man, believing in
halfand-half Bible believing in
Bible in spots, where did you come
from? Answer ct is all uncer-
tain: in my ancestral line away back there
was an oranR-outang and tadpoe and poly
wog, and it took millions of years to get me
evoluted." man, believing in a Bible in
spots, where are you going TO when yon quit
this world? Answer: "Going into q great to
be, so on into the great somewhere, and then
shall pass through on to the great anywhere,
and l shall probably arrive In tho nowhere"
That is where l thought you would fetch up.
. man, believing in an entire Bible, and be-
lieving with all your heart, where are you go
ing to when you leave this world? Answer:
~ am going to my Fathers house I am going
into the companionship of my loved ones who
have gone before; l am going to leave all my
sins, and am going to be with God and like
God forever and forever" Oh, the glorious
Certitudes of orthodoXyl
Behold the splendors Of orthodoxy in its an
nouncement 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 If all the Alhambras and
the Versailles and the Windsor castles and the
Winter Gardens and the imperial abodes of all
the earth were heaped up into Que architectu-
raj glory. At the other end Of the universe a
penitentiary whore men who want their sins
can have them. Would it be fair that you and
1 should have our choice of Christ and the pal
ace, and other men be denied their choice of
sin and eternal degradation? Palace and pen
itentiary The first of no use unless you have
the last Brooklyn and New York would BIO
better places to live in with Raymond street
Jail and the Tombs and Sing Sing, and all
the smallpox hospitals empted on them
than heaven would be il there were no hell.
Palace and penitentary. Ii see u man with
n full bowl Of SIM aud he thrsts for it, and his
whole nature Graves 1t, and he takes hold with
putA MINUS anu PRESSES tltsll pONl 10 his lips,
and then presses it hard between his teeth,
and the draught begins to pour its sweetness
down his throat shall We snatch away the
bowl, and jerk the man up to the gate of
heaven, and push him In if ho does not want
to go and sit down and sing psalms forever?
No. God has made you and me SO completely
FREQ 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 l know be.
ieye all are coming out at the same destiny !;
without regard TO faith or character we are ali
coming out at the shining gate. There
| they are. all i'll glory together.
! Thomas Paine and George Whitfield,
Je2ebel ana Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles
Wesley, Charles Guiteau and James \. Gar
| field, John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lin
| eoln--all in glory together All the innocent
men, women, and children who were massa-
cred, side by side with their nUrderors. Ii we
| are all coming ont at the same destiny, without
/ regard to character, then it is true, l turn
| away from such u debauched heaven. Against
that caUldron of piety and basphemy, philan-
! thropy and assassination, self-Sacrhce and
! heasuiness, place the two deStiuies of the Bi-
/ bic forever and forever and forever apart
Behold also the splendors of the Christian