The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-08-16

promulgate the theories OF that denomi.
nation, and then the man shall proclaim
| some other theory, he has broken his
oath, and he Is an out and out periurer.
Nevertheless, I declare for largest liberty
Il religious discussion. | would no moro
have the attempt to rear q monument to
Thomas Paine interfercl with than
would have interfered with the lifting of
the splendid monument 10 Washington.
Largest liberty FOR the body, largest lib
erty for the mini, lrrgest liberty for the
soul.
Now I want to show YOU. rs a matter OF
4 advocacy for Whit | bA!ievs to be tho
right, the splendors of orthodoxy. Many
have supposed that its disciples are peo-
pie OF Hat skulls, aad NJ reading, aal be-
hind the age, aud the victims of gullibll-
! ity. | shall show you that ths word
| orthodoxy stands Toy tbs greatest
| splendorS outside OF Heaven. Behold the
| splendors of its achievem nts. All the
missionaries OF the Gospel thu world
round are men wh) believe in al entire
Bible. Call the roll OF all the mission
aries 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 soon as a missionary begins to doubt
whether there ever was 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 Offered
by orthodox men, and are supported by
orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sand
witch Islands, has captured vast regions
of barbarism for civilization. while hetro-
| doxy 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. Nlnety-nine out of every hundred of
the Protestant churches OF America were
! built by people who believed in an entire
Rible 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 world to-day were laid by men
who believed the Bible from lid to lid,
and if l can not take it in that way | will
not take it at all; just as if l received a
letter that pretended to come from
friend, and part of it was his and part
some body else's, and the other part some
body else's, and it was sort OF literary
mongrelism l would throw the garbled
sheets 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 church
last long built on part of the Bible.
- I l,IaYn
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. II thought that
my church in Brooklyn was built on a
quarter of the Bible, or half Bible, or
three quarters OF Bible, or ninety nine
one hundredths of a Bible, l would ex
| pect 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 orthodoxy which, with
| ten thousand hands and ten thousand pull
pits, and ten thousand Christian churches,
is trying to save the world.
In Music Hall, Boston, for manv years
stood Theodore Parker battling ortho-
doxy, giving it, as some supposed at that
time, its death wound He was the most
fascinating man | ever heard or expect
to hear, and l came out from hearing
him, thinking in my boyhOod way:
"Well, that's the death Of the Church"
On that street, and not far from being OPP
posite, stood Park Congregational
! Church, called by It's enemies: "Hell-fre
! Corner" Theodore Parker died, and his
church died with him; or, il it is in
existence, it is so small you can not see it
with the naked eye. Park Congregation
al Church still stands on 'Heu-fre Cor
ner," laundering away the magifce Mt
truths of this glorious orthodoxy just IS
| 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
u orthodoxy. Who had the greatest hui
man intellect the world ever saw? 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 in
| fidels and Christians? John Milton, see
! ing 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 the intidel as we'll as by the Christians?
Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp to
! heel.
Then look at the certitu les. oh man,
believing in an entire Bible, where did you
come from? Answer:
II descended from 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 a Bible in spots, where
did you come from? Answer:
sit is all uncertain; in my ancestral
line away back there was an Orang- Outang
and tadpole and a pOlywog and it took
millions OF years to get me evoluted."
o man, believing in Bible in spots,
where are you going to when you quit
this world? Answer:
Going into q great to be, SO on int o
the great somewhereT and then shall
pass through on to the great anywhere,
and l shall probably arrive in the no.
where"
That is where thought you would fetch
up. o man, believing in an entire Bible,
and believing with all your heart where
are you going to when you leave this
world? Answer:
Il am going to my Fathers house; l
am going into the cOmpaniOnship of my
loved ones who have gone before; am
going to leave all my sins, and l am 60
and forever"
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