The Iola register., 1888-08-17


tha man .hsII nrocl,im soene Other theorv.
- ~ hroh<n his eaAh s1Ad IN A m 80
IA ont nsrturer. Neverthsleas. declars
for larrest lihertv n relieious discussioo.
would NO more have the attsmpt 70 rear
= monument TO Thomas Paine interfsred
with than I would have interfered with
the liftine OF the splendid monument TO
Washinpfon. Iarrest liberty for the
body. Iarr,st libertv for the mind, largest
libertv for the soul.
NOV. wsnt Ia shov Won. a q matter Of
aivocacv Tor what I believe 20 be the
rieht the .njandors of orthodoxy. Nanv
hsve .unnosed thaA its Disciples are peouie
az flat stuIIs and no reading. and behind
The .oe. and the victims Of Rullibilitv. I
eh.II .hov vou that the word orthodoxy
.tand. for the preatest splendors outside
of Heayen. Rshold the splendors Of its
achievements. AM the missionaries Of the
Gospel the world round are mon who be-.
liave IN The sotira pihla. Call the roll of
aIl the missionaries 20 arc TODAY On.
dur,ng ..cr;flce. N tSe ends Of the earth
for the cause of religion and the worlds
better,f,eut and fhev all believe in an an.
t;re Rihle Jn,t :. ,nou a n uisaionarv
begins 70 doubt whether there ever was .
Garden Of Eden. or whether there IL any
such thing A future punishment, he comes
right home from Bevrout or Madras and
goes int the insurance business. All the
missienarv societies Of this dav are Of.
ficered bv ORTHODOXY men. and are sun.
ported nv orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy. beginning with the Sandwich
Islands. has cantured vast regions of bar.
barism for civilization. while heterodoxv
ant for manv wears in Great Britain and
the Unitad States, and strutting about
with a peacockian brageadocio, it has vet
to capture the first continent, the first
State. the first township, the first ward,
the first space of ground a. big a YOU
could cover with the small end of a sharp
pin. Ninety mine out of every hundred of
the Protestant churches OF America were
built bv people who believed in an entire
Bible, The pulpit may now preach some
other gospel. but IL is 3 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 il l can not take IL In
that way l will not take it at all; just % IL
received a letter that pretended to come
from q friend, and part Of il was his and
part somebody's else, and it was sort of
literary mongrelism, I would throw the
gsrbled sheets into the waste basket. No
church of very great influence to-day 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
noticed, suppose, that as soon as q man
begins to give up the Bible he is apt to
preach in some hall, and he has an audi
ence while he lives, and when he dies the
church dies. II thought that my church
in Brooklyn was built on . quarter of q
Bible, or q half q Bible, or three-quar-
ters Of a Bible. or ninety mine one hun
dredths Of Bible, would expect It to
die when die; but when know that it il
built on the entire word Of God, know
It will last 200 years after you and sleep
the last sleep. o, the splendors Of an
orthodoxy, which with 10000 hands and
10000 pulpits and 10, 900 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,
It's death wound. He was the most fasci-
Mating man ever heard or ever expect to
hear, and came out from hearing him
thinking, in my boyhood way, 'Well, that
Is the death of the Church" On that same