Telegram-herald., 1889-07-08
THE USE OF sKEPTIclsN
Address bs Res. .. ~. &<sa bsxsss ne
n IA & A YESTERDAYS.

n "A. {. A Yesterday,
Rev J. "A. keld, of the Second
Methodist Church. delivered Ga sa-
oress before lsse Young Meas Christian
ASSOCIATION yesterday afternoon, On
tAe sghleei az skepslcisn, taking Tor
las text the Nords. .Provs al things;
hold last 10 those Which are goodf'
! l1aess "A.
pr Reed is al unusually interesting
speaker as az s.nes, s'ut he seemed
mere than ordinarily pleasing and IA
su1lciise yesterday. lie IS lesides be
lag eloquent, l'old. teariess nsn, slld
Als utteranceS can r1roig be n4sseA-
slgstd.
lis subject yesterday was one that
gave u.m nne opl0ItmaA 81 eiNe = A
press oa 10 hls hloSd Ideas ot ttlIisli'tH
fellowship and h.- contempt for tho
sarroNItss uf "a secislTlal.i is3a that e..A
So no gs,oa oUtsisie ol siseit.
lie strongly oclendo0 tlse skcptlo as
necesslly IA hsugasg ahaui 81 ilIshrr
and nobl>g oOgld i4oa os 81. .ssau tll4n :
tnioyod nov iie >sld lilC skel'gle by
his inquiry and da.oilug had bt ipea 10
hrng ns ilus lar l itlig giuli, lssl .Ii,s
and soaety, and hc would do neft,
illustrating that skVf}N,l>n was not the
curse Il = generally lHilesed a. it said
that many 81 the thiugs NC cali eNil afc
tod cholOtSt blessings TUNED wfuug
aud out al th,lf CliaHllslS A. iuHg. az
the currents Icualn in ti4sif baIb- iaty
carry good clear dawn 10 tae oftAn,
hat when lhey break their bai4ks doso-
latlon comes.
Ii has been the habit Of Christians 10
throw stones al skeptcs. II is iiine tie
ministers should stop ihls. The sktptic
iias tho fgh to ask questions about aud
doubt what he can't understand. Ii Is
by thls means that our own eyes arc
opened 10 our own ignorance. Il nay
father had followed the WAYS of his
father, and had followed him, /
would not have progressed step, and
would iie back where he furfONed up
The earth With long stack, bat instead,
We invented steel pillow, and he sand,
'Well. that D. better than nay waV"
] hen he used e. drye 10 York. az they
called II, with an ca team a. trace.
Now We 80 there at the rate Oi sixty
miles an hour. Ii was the ln-
qur.ng, wondering, thinking mind
oi Stevenson, and him Who
came from the tea kettle that did thls.
The skepiic makes Use Of the highest
and nobleSt faculties, those 10 inquire
and prove thlngs. In using his mind
he often developes the best things and
We should not assail him because II We
do We may drive hinl away and never
benefit hm or be benefited ourselves.
/ should not throw stones because A
man does not believe a. ! do. Don't
do il. Let us have better under
standing and then We may each see the
good IN the other. II YOU had been
raised IN Catholic families venture
that YOU would all now be Catholics,
and ii you had been raised IN Metho-
dist preachers families YOU
would be Mcthodists The same
applies in politics and il is largely
the influence of ancestry. III
We want 10 eliminate the Objectionable
features of elther, and purify II we
must understand each other better.
As It Is IN arguing up the good of our
own DENOMINATIONS, We are only pro-
tecting our own pct ideas. God has
made us mqulung. and we must in-
qurc IN order tO do Ills VIII. - ! am
not afraid of skeptics. a. right will ul-
timatclV prevail and wrong - sure 10
90 down under thc hurryIng feet. The
world l. not worse, a. - too often
claimed. Ii is better and is still get
ting better.
Is young n man as am | can well
remember when II was the principal
business 0f preachers TO hclabor
the preachers of every other
denomination. They did little else.
and what good ever came OF ~ We
don't do 80 much of II now. but the
old feeling has not entirely disappeared
vet. We have better conception and
a better Interpretation of the relations
of one man 10 another and one religion
10 another, and IS we afvCnce skCpti-
cIsin Viii 90 away with the other old
things when he has taught us by his
inquiung that perhaps we knew as
little OF thc true purposes of Christian
ity a he. If skepucism continues
without breaking IT. banks. or Ike that
great one from Illinois who flashes ike
II meteor. and u about a. useless 80 the
systems of the sky as a meteor, the
time viii come when all Of these lines
between the churches viii bc wiped out
and we wall be one great Christian
ASSOCIATION.
lie concluded with a splendid appeal
10 tie young mer not 20 get too bot IN
the adNocacs OF their own beliefs and
not 10 FORGE that others had the same
rights 10 think a. they; the same hopes
for the same Heaven, and that perhaps
one was as much OF a skcptic after al
as the other.