The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-10-12


as man begins to give mp 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 / thought that
my church in Brooklyn was built on quarter
OF a Bible, or a half Bible, or three-quarters
OF a Bible, or ninety-nine one hundredths Of
Bible, / would expect 1t to die when
/ die; but when l know it Is built
on the entire Word Of God, know it willlast
two hundred years after you and sleep the
last sleep. Oh, the spiendors OF an ortho-
doxy, which, with ten thousand hands and
ten thousand pulpits and ten thousand Chris
tian churches, is trying TO save the world
In Music Hail. Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving it, as some supposed at that time,
It's death wound He was the most fascinat-
ing man Il ever heard or ever expected TO hear,
and came out from hearing him think
ing in nv boyhooi wav: We'll, that's the
eeath OF the church On that same street
and not far from being opposite, stood Park
Songregatlonai Church, called by its enemies
Hel-tire Corner Theodore Parker died
and his church died with him: or, il it is in
existence, IL Is so small you cannot see it
with the naked eye. Park Congregational
Church still stands on "Hell-fire Corner"
numbering away the magnificent truths of
this glorious orthodoxy Jus. as though Theo-
dore Parker had never lived All that Bos-
ton, or Brooklyn, or New York, or the world
ever got that is worth having came through
the wide aqueduct of orthodoxy from the
throne If God
Behold the spleniors of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
Intellect the world ever knewi 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
70 be SO both by infdels and Chris
/ tlansi John Milton. seeing more without
eyes than anybody else ever saw with eyes.
Orthodox from sralp to heel Who was the
| greatest reformer the world has ever seem so
acknowledged by intidelS as well as by Chris
| tians Martin Luther Orthodox from scalp
to heel
Then look at the certituieS o man, be-
/ lieving in an entire Bible. where did you
come FROM Answer: "a descended from
perfect pareItage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath of life.
am son Of God. " o man, believing in half
and half Bible, believing in a Bible in spots,
where did you come from. Answer: at is
all uncertain; in my ancestral line away
back there was an ordng and tadpole
and a polywog. AMI it took millions of years
| to get me evOlutedn Oh man, believing in
Bible in spots. where are you going to when
/ you quit this world Answer: Going into
| great to be, so on into the great somewhere,
and then shall pass through On to the great
anywhere, and 1 shall probably arrive in the
would fetch up. o man. believing in
an entire Bible, and believing with all your
heart, where are you gong TO when
leave this worldi Answer: II am going TO
my Fathers house; l am going into the
coDp1nionship of my loved ones who have
gone before; l am going TO leave all my
sins, and | am going 10 be with God and like
l God forever and forever Oh, the glorious
certitudes of orthodoxy
| Behold the splendors Of orthodoxy in its
announcements 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 AMI all for the knocking and
the asking. A palace grander than if all the
| Alhambras aud the Versailles and the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
I imperial abodes of all earth were heaved up
into one architectur al glory. At the other
end of the universe a pententiaTT where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
1t be fair that you and | 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. IL l see man with a full bowl
of sin, and he thirsts for it, and his whole
nature Graves it, and he takes no 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 go and sit down and sing psalms
foreveri 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 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 Whiteield, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wes'ey,
/ Charles Guiteau and James A Garfield, J ohm
! Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln-all in
/ glory together All the innocent men, wo-
men, and children who were massaered, side
by side with their murderers. II we are all
| coming out at the same destiny, without
regard to character. then it is true
! / turn away from such debauched
heaven. Against that cauldron Of piety and
bIasphemY, philanthropy ane assassination.
self-sacrifice and beastliness, 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 in silence
portentouS You may gather up all the
/ biographies that have come forth since the
art Of printing was invented. and challenge
you to show me n triumphant death Of
| man who rejected the Scriptures or rejected
any part OF them. Here | make great wide
avenue. On the one put the death beds Of
those who believed in an entire Bible. On
the other side of that avenue / put the
] bQ1g rhnEa q FpCt4A1
of the Bible, or rejected all Of
/ the Bible Now, take my arm and let us
pass through this dividing avenue. Look off
upon the right side. Here are the deathbeds
on the right side of this avenue Vic.
tory through our Lord Jesus Christ!'
Ere graceIn "Glory. glOryi" 81 am
sweeping through the gates washed in the
blood of the LAMB THE chariots are
comingir Il mount, fiyl7 Wings, wingsip
They are coming for me,n Peace, be
stillr' Alfred Cookman's death bed Richard
CeciIs death bed, Commodore Foote's death
bed Your fathers death-bed, your mothers
/ death-bed, your sisters death-bed, your
child's death-bed 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 off upon the other
side. No smile of hope. No shout of triumph.
/ No face supernaturally 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
20 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 life
the last hour-positively paradsaicali
Young men, old men, middle-aged men,
| lake sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. ask for the old paths,
walk therein. and ye shall find rest
| for your souls But you follow
this crusade against any part OF the
1 Bihle-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
Bible; then after while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find it
convenient to give IN the Ten Command
ments; and then after while you will wake
up in fountainless, reckless. treeless desert
swept of everlasting sirocco. IL you are
| laug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at
I for sfaniinp nv the Ribla inst ~ God has