Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-06

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doxy has to capture the first square inch
Blatant for many years in Great Britain
and the United States, and strutting abou
with q peacokian brasgadocio it has vet B
capture the fret continent, the first state
the first township, the first ward, the frs
space of ground rs big as you could cove
with'the small end of sharp pin. Nine
ty-nine out Of every hundred of the Protes
tant churches of America were built b,
people who believed in an entire bible.
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 FASCINATING MAN
I ever heard or ever expect to hear, and
came out from hearing him thinking, il
my oyhood way, "Well, that's the dealt
Of the Church" On that same street ant
not far from being opposite, stood Parl
Congregational Church, called by its enc
mics "Hell-fire Corner" Theodore Park
er died and bis church died with him, or
if it is in existence, it is 50 small you can
not see it with the naked eye. Parl
Congregational Church still stands OF
"Hell-fire Corner" laundering away tn,
magnificent truths of this glorious ortho
doxy just as though Theodore Parker haf
never lived. All that Boston, or Brook
lyn, or New York, or the world ever go
that is worth having came through tn,
wide aqueduct of orthodoxy from tn,
throne of God.
Then look at the certitudes. o man
believing in au entire Bible, where did
you come from? Answer: 81 descended
from perfect parentage in Paradise, and
Jehovah breathed into my nostrils the
breath of life. / am son of God" @
man, believing in half.and-ha Bible,
believing in o Bible in spots, where did
you come from? Answer: 1T is all I'M.
certain; in my ancestral line away back
there was an orang- -outapg and tadpole
and a polywog, and it took millions Of
years to get me evoluted." o man, be.
lieving in Bible in spots, where are you
going to when You quit this world. An,
swer: Going into great to be- 30 on into
the great somewhere, and then shall pass
through on to the great anywhere, and
shall probably arrive in the nowhere.
That is where 1 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: 81 am going to my Fa'
theirs house; am going into the
COMPREHENSIVE OF MY LOVED ONES
who have gone before; I am going to leave
all my sins, and am going to be with
God and like God forever and forever"
| Oh, the glorious certitudes Of orthodoxy!
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its
announcements of two destinies.
Palace and peniteutiary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which ell may
enter 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
Windsor Castles and Winter gardens, and
the imperial abodes of all the earth heaved
up into one architectural glory. At the
other end of the universe, a penitentiary
where men who want their sins can have
them. Would it be fair that you and |
should have our choice of Christ and the
palace, and other men be dspied their
choice of sin ond eternal degradation?
Palace and penitentiary. The first no use
unless you have the last. Brooklyn and
New York would be better places TO live in
with Raymond Street Jail and the T0mbs
and Sing Sing, and all the small-po hos
pitfalls emptied on them than Heaven
would be if there were no hell. Palace
and penitentisry. If see q man with a
full bowl of sin, and he thirsts for it, and
his whole nature Graves it, and he takes
hold with both hands and presses that
bowl to his lips, and then presses it hard
between his teeth, and the draught begins
to pour it's sweetness 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 90 and
sit down and sing psalms forever? No.
God has made you and me 80 completely
free that we need not 60 to Heaven unless
se prefer it. Not more free to soar than
free to sink.
Behold also the splendors Of the Christ
ian orthodox death beds.
These who deny the Bible, or deny any
part of it, never die well. They either
GO OUT IN DARKNESS
or they 90 out in silence portentions. You
may gather up all the biographies that
have come forth since the art of printing
was invented, and challenge you to show
me triumphant death Of a man who re-
jected the Scriptures, or rejected any part
of them. Here make great wide ave-
nue.. On the one put the death-beds Of
those who believed in an entire Bibla. On
the other side of that avenue / put the
death beds of those who rejected part OF
the Bible, or rejected all of the Bibte.
Now, take my arm and let us pass through
this dividing avenue. Look of upon the
right side. Here are the death-beds on
the right side Of this avenue. Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ" Free
gracew "Glory, glory" II an sweep.
ing shrough the gates washed in the blood
of the Lamb!' "The chariots are COM
ing!" 81 mount, flyp' wings, wipgsw
"They are coming for mer' Peace, be
s,illv' Alfred Cookman's death-bed,
Richard Cecii's desth-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
IuO5c NnO ucilcNCu al DhoiS"
Now, take my arm and let rs 90 through
that avenue, and look off upon the other
side. No smile of hope. No shout Of
triumph. No face supernaturally illum-
ined. Those who reject any part Of the
Bible never die we'll. No beckoning for
angels to come. No Listening for the
celestial 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 tri.
umph is list so long it seems intermina-
BILE. Oh, ia not that
A SPLENDID INFLUENCE,
this orthodoxy, which makes that which
must otherwise be the most dreadfnl hour
of Hfe-the last hour-positively paradii
saical?
Do not Jump overheard from the staunch
old Great Eastern of old-fasbioned ortho-
doxy until there is something ready to
take you up stronger than the fantastic
yswl which has painted on the side "Ad-
vanced Thought" and which leaks at the
prow and leaks at the stern and hasa steel
pen for one oar and glib tongue for the