Sharp County record., 1888-08-23

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a solemn oath, as we oil do, that VIC VIZ
Dromulgate the theories OF that d9uVui.-
nation. and then the man shall PFocl@,i..n
so,ne other theory, he has broken nl'
oath. and he is an Out-and-ou' P7,y"'g-.
Nevertheless. | declare for largest HOeE'y
in raIfoious discussion. Iwou.d no more
have the attempt to rear monulii7uU ~
Thomas Paine interferei with tnau =
would have interfered with the Ii,'l ny u
the splendid monument to washington
LARGEST liberty for the body, largest IlO'
crry for the mind, largest liberty for the
soul. o.,
Orthodoxy, beginning with the oanu- ,
witch Islands, has captured vast reslou'
of barbarism for civilization, WnIie n5VrO,
doxv has to capture the first square lncn'
blatant for many years in Great Britain
and the United States, and srutting ABOUT
with a peacockian braggadocio, 1t mas yeI
TO CAPTURE the first continent the hr9'
State, the first township, the first Waru'
the first space of ground as big as you
couId cover with the small end OF a SnaIP
min. Nlnety-nine out Of every hundred oL
tha Protestant churches Of America were
built by people who believed in an en'lre
Bible. The pulpit now may preacn some
other GOSPEL. but it is heterodOX gun Oh
an orthodox carriage. The foundations
of all the churches that are OF very great
use in this world to-day were la!d OY men
who believed the Bible from lid to Iiu,
and if can not take it in that way Will
not take if at all; lust as if | 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
bodv else's, and it was sort OF literary
mongreltsm l would throw the garDLeo
sheets into the waste baske
No church OF very great influence TO,
dav hu t was built by those who DeIleVeu
in an entire Bible. Neither will a church
last long built on part OF the BloIe'
You have noticed, I suppose, that as soon
as man begins to give up the Bible ne Is
ant to preach in some hall, and he mas
an audience while he lives, and when he
dies the church dies. II thought that
NV church in Brooklyn was built on a
quarter Of the Bible, or half Bible or
three-ouarters Of a Bible, or njnety-nlne
one hundredths Of a Bible, | would eX-
meet il TO die when l die; but when l
know it is built on the entire word 0,
God, | know it will last two hundred years
after you and | sleep the last sleep Ol,
the spleudors Of an orthodoxy which, with
te Il thousand hands and ten thousand pull
pits, and ten thousand Christian churches,
is trying to save the world
In Music Hall, Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling ortho-
doxv, giving it, as some supposed at that
time, its death wouad, H. was the most
fascinating man | ever heard or expect
TO hear, and | came ont from hearing
him, thinking il my boylood way:
"Weu. that's the death Of the Church"
On that street and not far from being op-
posite, stood Park Congregational
Church, called by Its enemies: "Hell-ire
Corner" Theodore Parker died, AMI his
church died with him; or, il it IS in
existence, it is 50 small You can not see 1t
with the naked eye. Park Congregations
al Church still stands on "Hell-tire Cor
ner," laundering away the magitlce Mt
truths Of this glorious orthodoxy 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 aqueducI
of orthodoxy from the throne Of Cod
Behold the splendors of character built
up orthodoxy. Who had the greatest hu-
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
fdels and Christians? Johu Milton, see-
ing more without eyes than any body else
ever saw with eyes. Orthodox from scalp
to heel. Who was the greatest retOrmer
the world has ever seen: 50 acknowledge d
by the infdel as we'll as by the Christians?
Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp to
| heel.
Then look at the certitudes, Oh man,
believing in an entire Bible, where did you
come from? Answer:
Il descended from q perfect pareutHge
in Paradise, and Jehovah breathed into
my nostrils the breath Of life am a
son Of GOd.n
o man, believing in half-and- half
Bible, believing in Bible in spots, where
did YOU come from> Answer:
at is all uncertain; in my ancestral
line away back there was an orang-outang
and tadpole and a polywog aad it took
millions OF years to get m oyoluted." D..
o man, believing in Bible in spots
where are you going to when you quit
this world? Answer:
"GOiug into a great to BE-, 50 Ou int .
the great somewhere, and then shall
pass through on to the great anywheye,
and shall probably arrive in the no.
where"
That is whore I thought you would fetch
up, man, believing in an entire Bible,
and believing with all your heart where
are you going to when you leave thi S
world? Answer:
81 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 60
| ing to be with God and like God forever
| and forever"
Oh, the glorious certitudes of ortbo
doxy.
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in
/ its announce ment of two destinies.
Palace and peuitentiary. Palace witt
gates on all sides through which all may
enter and live on celestial luXuries, worlC
without end, and all for the knocking ant