The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-09

the missionaries who are today enduring
sacrifices in the ends OF the earth for the
cause of religion and the worlds
ss se''s%sr.' sm;Ts and RIbs they a" believe icO in
n 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 busuessl All
the missionary societies this day are Differed
by Orthodox men, and are supported by
Orthodox churches
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 years In Great Britain and the United
States, and strutting about with peacockian
braggadocio IL 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 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,
carriage. The foundations of all the
churches that are of very great use in this
world to-day were laid by men who be.
lieved the Bible from lid to lid and IL
l cannot take 1t in that way | will not
take it at all; just as IL received
-
friend, and part Of it was his and part some
body else's and the other part somebody
eses, and it was sort OF literary mongrel-
ism, and l would throw the garbled sh .ets
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, / suppose, that as soon
as man begins to give up the Bible
ha iQ nnt 10 .sh In, hall anI
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 Bib'e, or n half Bible, or three.quarters
OF Bible, or nineiy-ninc one hundredths OF
a Bible, / would expect II to die when
i die; but when | know it Is built
on the entire Word Of God know IL will last
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 pulp is and ten thousand Chris
tian churches, is trying to save the world
In Music Hail. Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving it, as some supposed Mt 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 boyhooi way; well, that's tho
death of the church, On that same street
and not far from being opposite, stood Park
Congregational Church. called by its enemies
and his church died with him: or, IL it is in
existence, IL is so small you cannot see it
with the naked eve. Park Conversational
Church still stands on "Hell-fre Corier,n
laundering away the magnificent truths of
this glorious orthodoxy Just as though Theo-
dore Parker had never lived All that Bos-
ton, 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.
4.
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
intellect the world ever knew! 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 iniidcls and Chris
tiansi John Milton, seeing more without
eyes than anybody else ever saw with eyes,
Orthodox from scalp to heel Who was the
greatest reformer the world has ever seem so
acknowledged by infidels as we'll as 10y Chris.
tians. Martin Luther Orthodox from scalp
to heel
Then look at the certitudes. o man, be-
lievng In au entire Bible. where did you
come fromi Answer: al descended from a
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath of life.
/ am son OF God " o man, believing in half.
and half Bible, believing I'm Bible in spots,
where did you come front Answer: "It Is
all uncertain In my ancestral limo away
n
and polywog, and IL took millions Of years
to get me evoluted." Oh man, believing in a
Bible in spots, where are you going to when
you quit this worldl Answer: ''Going into
great to be, so on into the great some where
and then l shall pass through on to the great
anywhere, and shall probably arrive in the
nowhere" That is whore l thought you
would fetch up. man, believing in
an entire Bible, and believing with all your
heart. where are you gong TO when
leave this world! Answer: II am going to
my Fathers house; am going into the
compinlonship of my loved ones who have
gone before; 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 pent,ntiary Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
enter and live on celestial uNuries world
without end, AMI all for the knocking and
the asking palace grandor than il all the
Alhambras and the Versailles aud the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
imperial abodes of all earth were hcavei up
into one architectur al glory At the other
end OF the universe a ententiary where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
II be fair that you and i should have our
choice of Christ and the palace, and other
men he 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 on them, than heaven
would be If there were no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. II see man with 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 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 il he does
not want to go and sit down and sing psalms
foreveri No. God has made you and me SO
completely free that we need not go to
heaven unless we prefer it. Not more FREQ
to soar than free TO sink.
Nearly all the heteroiox people know be-
lieve all are coming out at the same destiny;
without regard to faith or character we are
all coming out at the shining gate. There
they are, all in glory together. Thorn =
as Paine and George Whiteileld, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wesley,
Charles Guiteau and James A. Garfield, j Ohm
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 mnrderers. II we are all
coming out at the same destiny, without
regard 10 character, then it IN true