The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-08-23

Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
Islands, has captured vast regions OF bar.
barism for civilization, while heterdoxy has |
to capture the first square inch Blatant for
many yeNrs IN Great Britain and ths unit4Ai
States, and strutling about with peacockiau
braggadocio i has YET, to capture the
first township, tho first ward, the first space
of ground as big as you could cover with tho
small end Of q sharp pin. Ninety nine out |
Of every hundred Of the Protestant churches |
of America were built by people who |
believed in an entire Bible. The pull
pit now may preach some other Gospel.
but it Is a heterodox gun on an orthodox
carriage The foundations OF all the
churches that are OF very great use IN this
lieved the Bible from lid 10 lid, and il
l cannot take 1t in that way ! will not
take it at all; just as il l received
a letter that pretended to como from
friend, and part Of it was his and part some
body slss's. and the other part somebody
eises, and It was sort OF literary mongrel-
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. You
have noticed, I suppose, that as soon
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 quarter
of Bible, or a half Bible or three-quarters
of Bible, or ninety.nine one-hundredths OF
q Bible, / would expect it to die when
l die; but when ! know it is built
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 Chris
tian churches, is trying to save the worldl
In Music Hall, Boston. for many year,
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving it, as some supposed at that time,
its death wound. He was the most fascinat-
ing man ever heard or ever expected to hear,
and / came out from hearing him think.
ing. in my boyhood way: "Well. that's tbs
death Of the church." On that same street.
and not far from being opposite, stood Park
Congregational Church, called by its enemies
"Hell.fire Corner" Theodore Parker died
and his church died with him; or, If it is in
existence it is so small you cannot see it
with the naked eye. Park Congregational
Church still stands on "Hell-fre Corner"
numbering away the magnificent truths Of
this glorious orthodoxy just as though Theo-
lore Parker had never lived All that Bos-
'on, or Brooklyn, or New York, or the world
The wide aqueduct Of orthodoxy from tho
throne of God.
Behold the spendors of character built up
BY orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
intellect the world ever knew! Paul In
physical stature, insignificant; in mind, head
ind shoulders above all the giants Of the age
Orthodox from scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest poet the ages ever saw, acknowledged
10 be SO both by infidels and Chris
tiansi John Milton, seeing moro without
syes than anybody else ever saw with eyes.
Orthodox from scalp to heel Who was the
greatest reformer the world has ever seens so
acknowledged by infidels as well as by Chris
ians Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp
10 heel.
Then look at the certitudes. o man, be-
lieving In an entire Bible. where did you
rome 'FRONT.' Answer: ~ descended from
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath Of life.
I am son Of God. 0 man, believing in a half
lnd-half Bible, believing in Bible in spots,
where did you come from? Answer: ut il
Ill uncertain; in my ancestral line away
back there was an orang-outang and a tadpole
md polywog, and it took millions of years
10 get me evoluted" Oh man, believing in
Bible in spots, where are you going to when
fou quit this worldi Answer: "Going into
great to be, so on into the great somewhere,
ind then shall pass through on to the great
lnywnere, ana snail propaDIy arrive IN the
lowhere." That is where | thought you
would fetch up. o man, believing in
IN entire Bible, and believing with all your
heart. where are. you going to when
ny Fathers house; | am going into the
eompanionship of my loved ones who have
gone before; l am going to leave all my
Ins, and am going to be with God and like
God forever and forever" Oh, the glorious
sertitudes of orthodoxy
| Behold the splendors OF orthodoxy in it,
announcements of two destinies.
| Palace and penitentiary Palace with
yates on all sides through which all may
snter and live on celestial Injuries world
without end, and all for the knocking and
the asking A palace grander than If all the
| Alhambras and the Versailles and the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
imperial abodes of all earth we're heaved up
into one archtectur al glory. At the other
end of the universe penitentiary where men
| who want their sins can have them. Would
it he 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 OH them, than heaven
would he If there were no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. II sec man with a full bowl
of sin, and he thirsts for it, and his whole
nature Graves it, and he takes ho!d with both
hands and presses that bowl to his lips, and
then presses it hard between his teeth.
and the tiraught 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 II no does
not want to 60 and sit down and sing psalms
forevert 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-
leve all are coming out at the came destiny;
without regard to faith or character We are
all coming out at the shining gnta There
they are, all in glory together. Thorn.
as Paine and George Whitefield, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wesley,
Charles Guiteau and James A. Garfield, John
Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln-all in
glory together All the innocent men, wo
men, and children who were massacred side
by side with their murderers If 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 forevel
and forever apart
bonOlu also tn6 splenQOrS OF the CnIiSIid
Orthodox death beds.
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part Of it never die we'll They either &
out in darkness or they 60 out in silencs
portentous You may gather up all thu
biographies that have come forth since the
art of printing was invented, and challenge
you to show me a triumphant death OF I
man who rejected the Scriptures or rejected
any part of them. Here / make great wid'
avenue On the one put the death beds o
those who believed in an entire Bible. U
the other side of that avenue I put tn
death beds OF those who rejected par
Of the Bible, or rejected all o
the Bible. Now, take my arm and let u
pass through this dividing avenue. Look of
upon the right side. Here are the deathbed
on the right side Of this avenue "Vic
tory through our Lord Jesus Christi
s.Erea RranaIn 'Glorv. Rlorvi" 81 az
sweeping turuugn tue gates wasned IN tn
blood of the Lamb!" 1.-THE chariots ar,
comingIn ~ mount, fyi" wings, wingsI'
"They are coming for mel" "Peace, b,
still" Alfred Cookman's death-bed, Richart
Cecil's death bed, Commodore Foote's death
bed Your fathers death bed, your mother
death-bed, your sisters death-bed, you
child's death-bed Ten thousand radiant
songful death-beds of those who believed al
entire Bible.
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