The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-06-15

God, and be good and useful and get to
Heaven, | warrant III 1t nothing which oc-
Cured eight hundred quintillion of years
e will hinder you II minute. 1t Is moi
the DEGREES of God that do us any harm,
it is our own DEGREES of sin and folly.
You need not e any further back in his
tory than about l,S5G years. You see this
is the year 1889 Chrrst died about thirty
three years of ago. You suhlract 33 from
1889 and that makes it only ! $40 years.
That is as far back as you need 10 go.
Something occurred on that day un-
der an eclipsed sun that sots US all
forever free if with our whole heart and
life we accept the tremendous p~rosfer.
Do not let the Presbyterian Church or the
Methodist Church or the Lutheran Church
or the Baptist Church or any of the Evan
gelical Churches spend any tim' in trying
to fix up Old crCeds, all Of them imperfect
as Every thing man does is imperfect. ]
move a new creed for ali the Evangelical
Churches of Christemdom, only three mr.
ticles in the creed and no need Of any
more. If | had all the cunsecraled people
of all denominations of the earth on one
great plain, md | had voice loud enough
to put it to n vote that creoi of three mr.
ticles would be adopted with n unanimous
vote and a laundering aye that would
make the earth qunke and the heavens
ring with hosanUa This is the creed /
propose for all Chr.stendom:
Article |. God 20 loved the world that
he gave His only brcOtten Son that who
soever lie eveth ia Him should not perish
but have everlnstiug life"
Articl e .. This is II faithful saying and
worthy Of all acccptntion that Jesus Christ
came into the world 10 save sinners, ever
the chief"
Article 3. Nv orthy is the Iamb that was
slain to receive blessings and riches and
honor md glory and power, world without
end. Anon"
But you 60 to tinkering up your old
creeds and patching md splicing and in
terlining and anneximg and ting
and adding and explaining and you will
lose time and make yourself a target for
earth and hell to shoot ut Let us have
creeds not fashioned out of human ingen-
uities but out of Scriptural p~hraseology,
and all the g ms OF bombardment blazrrg
from all the port holes of iniidelity and
perditiou will not in n thousand years
knock off the Church of Go a splinter as
big as a cambric needle. What is most
needed now is that we gather all our the
ologies around the boy in the temple, the
Celebrations around the simplicities and
the profundities around the clarifies, the
octogenarian of scholastic research around
the nwrinkled cheek of twelve years
juvenescence. Except you become as a
little child you can in no wise enter the
kingdom;" and except you become
as u little child you can not I'M
derstand the Christian religion. The
best thing that Rabbin Simeon and Hillel
and Shammai and the sons of Betirah
ever did was in the temple, to bend over
the lad who, first made ruddy of cheek by
the breath of the Judeau hills and on His
way to the mechanics shop where He was
soon to be the support of His bereaved
mother, stopped long enough to grapplP
with the venerable dialecticians of the
Orient, "both hearing them and asking
them questions" Some, referring to
Christ, have exclaimed Ecce Deus! Be-
hold the God. Others have exclaimed
Ecce homo! Behold the man. But to-day
in conclusion of my subject l cry, Ecce
adolescens! Behold the blyl