Milford chronicle., 1888-08-10


terfered with the lifting Of the splendid
monument to Washington. Largest liberty
for the body, largest liberty for the mind
largest liberty for the soul.
Now, want to show you. as matter Of
advocacy for what believe to be the right,
the splendors Of orthodoxy. Many have sup
posed that its disciples arc people Of flat
skulls and no reading, and behind the age,
and the victims Of gullibility. / shall show
you that the word orthodoxy stands for the
greatest splendors outside Of heaven. Be
hold the splendors Of its achievements. All
the missionaries Of the Gospel the world
round are men who believe in an entire Bible.
Call the roll Of all the missionaries who ere
enduring sacrifices in the ends Of the earth
for the cause Of religion and the worlds bet
terment, and they all believe in an entire
Bible Just as soon as a missionary begins
to doubt whether there ever was a 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 businessl All the missionary soci-
ties this day are ofilcered by orthodox men
and are supported by orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
Islands, has captured vast regions Of barba-
risn for civilization, while heterodoxy has
to capture tine first square inch Blatant for
many years in Great Britain and the United
States, and strutting about with peacocllian
braggadocio, it 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
a sharp pin. Ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred Of the Protestant churches Of America
were built by people who believed in an entire
Bible. The pulpit now may preach some
other gospel, but il is a heterodOx gun on an
orthodox carriage. The foundations Of all
the churches that are of very great use in
this world today were laid by men who be-
lieved the Bible from lid to lid, and If can
not take it in that way will not take It at
all; just as IL / received a letter that pre-
tended to come from a FRIEND and part of It
was his and part somebody else's, and the
other part somebody else's, and it was a sort
Of literary mongrelism, would throw the
garbled sheets into the waste basket
No church Of very great influence today
but was built by those who believed in ar
entire Bible Neither viii church last long
built on part of the Bible You have
noticed, Isuppose, that as soon as a man be
gins 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. III
thought that my church in Brooklyn was
built on a quarter of Bible, or a half
Bible, or tEfree-quarters OF a Bible, or ninety
nine one-hundredths Of a Bible, I would
expect it to die when die; but when know
it is built on the entire Word Of God, know
it will last two hundred years after YOU and
l sleep the last sleep. Oh, the splendors Of
an orthodoxy which with ten thousand hands
and ten thousand pulpits and ten thousand
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, its
death wound. He was the most fascinating
man l ever heard or ever expected to hear.
and came out from hearing him thinking,
in my boyhood way: "Well, that's the death
Of the church On that same street. and
not far from being opposite, stood Park Con-
gregational church, called by its enemies
''Hell Fire COrner.n 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 Fire Corner.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
Behold the splendors of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest hu-
man intellect the world ever 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 he so both by in
Gdels and Christiansl John Milton, seeing
more without eyes than anybody else ever
saw with eyes. Orthodox from scalp to heel.
Who was the greatest refOTmer the world
has ever seen, so acknowledged by infidels as
well as by Christiansl Martin Luther Or
thodox from scalp TO heel.
Then look at the certitudes. o man. be-
lieving in an entire Bible, where did you
come 'FRONT.' Answer: q descended from a
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
Dreathed into my nostrils the breath Of life.
am son Of God" o man, believing in
half and half Bible, believing in a Bicle in
ipots, where did you come from! Answer:
1T is all uncertain; in my ancestral line
away back there was an ourang-outang and
4 tadpole and pollywog, and it took mill
ons of years to get me evolutedn o man,
in q Bible in spots, where
lrc you going to when you quit
his worldl Answer: "Going into a
great to be, so on into the great Somewhere,
md then / shall pass through on into the
reat anywhere, and I shall probably arrive
n the nowhere.n That is where l thought
7ou would fatch up. o man, believing in an
,ntire Bible, and believing with all your
leart, where are you going to when you
cave this worldl Answer: "Iam going to
ny fathers house; am going into the COM
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 for |
,ver and forever Oh, the glorious certi- |
udes Of orthodoxy
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its |
Of two destinies
Palace and penitentiary. Palace with |
rates on all sides, through which all may |
inter and live on celestial luxuries world |
without end, and all for the knocking and |
he asking. a palace grsnder than II all the |
Alhambras and the Versailles and the Wind |
or castles and the Winter gardens and the |
imperial abodes Of all the earth were heaved |
Up into one architectural glory. At the other
nd Of the universe a penitentiary, where |
men who want their sins can have them. |
Yoilld it be fair that you and should have /
,ur ,shoice Of Christ and the palace and other
mel be denied their choice of sin and eternal |
egradationl Palace and penitentiary. Ths
rst Of no use unless you have the last
brooklyn and New York would be better
laces to live in with Raymond Street Jail
nd the TOmbs and Sing Sing and oil the
mallpox hospitals emptied on them than
eaven would be il there were no hell Pal
&c and penitentiary. If see a man with a
ull bowl of sin, and he thirsts for it, and his
7hole nature Graves it, and he takes hold
nth both hands and presses that bowl to his
ps, and then presses it hard between his
seth, and the draught begins to pour its
weetness down his throat, shall we snatch
way the bowl, and jerk the man up to the
ate Of heaven, and push him in if he does
OF want to go and sit down and sing psalms
oreverl No. God has made you and me so
ompletely free that we need not 20 to heaven