The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-09

thodox from scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest reformer the world has ever
seen, so acknowledged by infidels as well
as by Christians? Martin Luther. Or
tbodox from scalp to heel.
Then look at the certitudes. o man.
believing in an entire Bible, where did
gou come from? Answer: 81 descended
rom perfect parentage In Paradise, and
Jehovah breathed into my nostrils the
breath of life. am son of God" O.
man, believing in a half and half Bible, be-
lieving in Bible in spots. where did you.
come from? Answer: "It is all uncer-
tain; in my ancestral line away back
there was an orang outang 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?
Answer: ''Going into great to be, 80
on into the great somewhere, and then I
shall pass through on to the great any
where, and 1 shall probably arrive in the
nowhere" That is where I thought
you would fetch UP. Q, man, believing
| in an entire Bible, and believing with all
your heart, where are you going to when
YOU leave this world? Answer: II am
| going to my Fathers house; am going
into the companionship 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 for
ever" Oh, the glorious certitudes of
orthodoxy!
Behold the splendors Of orthodoxy in
its announcement of two destinies.
~ Palace and penltentary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
enter. and live on celestial luxuries
world without end, and all for the knock
| ing and the asking. A palace grander
than if all the Alhambras and the Yer
sailles and the Windsor castles and the
Winter gardens and the imperial abodes
of all the earth were heaved up into one
architectural glory. AT the other end of
the universe penitentiary, where men
who want their sins can have them.
Would it be fair that you and 1 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 and 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. If I see man
with full bowl of sin, and he thirsts for
it, and his whole nature Graves it, and he
takes hold1with both hands and presses
that bowl to his lips, and then presses it
hard between his teeth, and the draught
begins to pour its 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 go and sit down and sing psalms
forever? No. God has made you and
me so completely free that we need not
go to heaven unless we prefer it. Not
moro free to soar than free to sink.
Nearly all the heterodox people 1
know believe 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. Thomas 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, women and children who were
massacred, side by side with their muir
derers. If we are all coming out at the
same destiny, without regard to charac-
ter. then it is true. l turn away from
such a debauched heaven. Against that
caldron OF piety and hasphemy, philan-
thropy and assassination, self sacrifice
and beastliness, place the two destinies
of the Bible forever and forever and for
ever apart.
Behold also the splendors of the Chris
tian orthodox death beds.
Those who deny the Bible. or deny any
part of it, never die well. They either go
out in darkness or they go out in silence
portentous. You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since
the art of printing was invented, and 1
challenge you to show me triumphant
death Of man who rejected the Scrip
lures, or rejected any part of them. Here
l make a great wide avenue. On the one
| put the death beds of those who be-
lieved in an entire Bible. On the other
side Of that avenue 1 put the death beds
of those who rejected part of the Bible.
or rejected all of the Bible. Now, take
my arm and let us pass through this
dividing avenue. Look off upon the
right side. Here are che death beds on
the right side of this avenue.
Victory through our Lord Jesus
Christr Free gracer' "Glory, glory!'
81 am sweeping through the gates washed
in the blood Of the Lambp' 1.-THE
chariots are comingp' II mount, fiy"
'Wings, wingsr' ''They are coming
for mep' peace, be stillw Alfred
Cookman's deathbed, Richard Cecil's
ieathbed, Commodore Foote'S deathbed.
Your fathers deathbed, your mothers
deathbed, your sisters deathbed, your
ohild's deathbed. Ten thousand radiant,
songful deathbeds of those who believed
, an entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us go
, through that avenue, and look off upon
the other side. No smile of hope. No
shout of triumph. No face supernatu-
rally illunined. Those who reject any
part of the Bible never die well. No
, beckoning for angels to come. No listen
! ing for the celestial escort. Without
any exception they go out of the world
because they are pushed out; while on
the other hand the list of those who be-
ieved in an entire Bible and gone out OF
l the world in triumph is list so long 1t
. seems interminable Oh, is not that a
/ splendid influence, this orthodoxy which
: makes that which must otherwise be the
most dreadful hour of lfe-the last hour
r positively paradisaical?
Young rnen, old men, middle aged
men, take sides in this contest between
orthodoxy and heterodoxy.. "Ask for
the old paths, walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls" But you fol-
t low this crusade against any part of the
Bible-frst of all you will give up Gene
sis, which is as true as Matthew; then
+; You will give up all the historical parts
of the Bible; then after while you will
l give up the miracles; then you will find
t it convenient to give up the Ten Com
, mandments: and then after a while you
L will wake up in fountainless, reckless,
] treeless desert swept of everlasting sirocco.