The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-14
s.ptu.senari.,s, He asking HE own quss.

ssptuagenaria,s, He asking HE y quss.
lions and answering theirs.
am not % much interested in the quss.
lions ,hsy asked Him ~ In the questions
He asked them. He asked the questions
for He knew it already, but 70 humble
them BY showing them the height and
depth and length and breadth Of their
own ignoranca While the radiant boy
thrusts these sslf.concsited philosophers
with the interrogation point they put the
~fore6nger Of the right hand to b temple
a. though 70 start their thoughts into
more vigor. and they would look upward
and hon they would wrinkle their bfows
and then BY absolute silence or In positive
words confess their incapacity to answer
the interrogstory. With any q OF .
hundred gu .stions about theology, about
philosophy, about astronomy, about time.
about eternity. He may have baked them.
Disconnected them. flung them nat Be-
hold the boy Christ asking questions and
listen when your child asks questions He
has the right to ask them. The moro no
asks the better. Alas for the stupidity Of
the child without inquisitfveness! It 10
Christlike to ask questions. answer
them il you can. Do not say: Il can't
b. bothered now" 1t Is your place to
b bothered with questions II you are
not able to answer, surrender and confess
your incapacity, a l have no doubt did
Rabbin Simeon and Hiilel and Shammai
and the sons Of Betirah when that splendid
boy, sitting or standing there with . gar.
ment reaching from neck to ankle. and
girdled at tie waist, put them to their
very wits end. 1t is no disgrace to say:
~ DONE know" The learned doctors
who environed Christ that day in the
temple did not know or they would not
have asked Him any questions. The only
being in the universe who never needs to
say. II do not know" is the Lord
Almighty. The fact that they did o
know sent Keppler and Cuvier and COlum.
bus and Humboldt and Herschel and
Morse and Sir William Hamilton and all
the other Of the worlds mightiest natures
into their lifelong explorations. Telescope
and microscope and s~tethoscope and
battery and all the scientific up.
paratus Of all the ages are only questions
asked at the door Of mystery. Behold the
Naxarene lad asking questions. giving
dignity to earnest interroga.
ton.
But while I SEQ tn, old theologians
standing around the boy Christ ! am inn.
As never before with the fact that
what theology most van is moro OF
simplicity. Ths world aud the
Church have built up i'm mense systems Of
theology. Halt OF them try to tell what
God thought what God planned. what
God did five hundred million years before
the small star ON which We live was ere.
ated. l have had many . sound sleep nm.
der sermons about tho DEGREES Of God and
the eternal generation OF the Son and dis.
courses showing who Melchisedsk wasn't.
and l give . far warning that if any min.
ister ever. begins q sermon on such . sub
ject in my presence / will put my head
slumbsr I can reach. Wicked
and fathom the u~nfathomable
the nations want the bread
Of life and to be told how they can get rid
Of their sins and their sorrows. Why
should you and I perplex ourselves about
the DEGREES of God: Mind your own bust.
ness and God will take care OF His. In
tbs conduct Of the universe I think He
will somehow manage to get along with
US Ii you want 70 o v n serve
God, and be good and useful and get to
Heaven. I warrant that nothing which oc.
CURED eight hundred quintillion Of years
$50 will hinder you q minute 1t 10 mol
the DEGREES of God that do Us any harm.
Il 10 our own DEGREES Of sin and folly.
You need not 60 any further back in his
tory than about l.S56 years You SEQ this
10 the year 1889. Christ died about thirty
three years Of age. You subtract 50 from
1859 and that makes it only 1855 years.
That Is as far back as you need to 60.
occurred on that day I'm.
an eclipsed sun that sets rs all
free IL with our whole heart AID
life We accept the tremendous pro6er.
Do not let the Presbyterian Church or the
Church or tho Lutheran Church
or the Baptist Church or any Of the Evan.
gelical Churches spend any time in trying
to az up old creedG all Of them imperfect
every thing man does Is imperfect l
move Q new creed for all the Evangelical
Churches Of C~hristendom. only three ar.
ticles in the creed and n need Of any
moro. II I had all the consecrated people
Of all denominations OF the earth o. one
great plain, and I had voice loud enough
TO put it to Q vote that creed of three sr.
ticles would be adopted with . unanimous
vote and . laundering aye that would
the earth quake and the heavens
ring with osanna. This Is the creed !
propose for all Christend0m:
Article I. God so loved tho world that
he gave His only beeotten Son that who.
soever bel eveth in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life"
Article This is q faithful saying and
worthy Of all a~cceptation that Jesus Christ
came into the world TO saw sinners even
The chief"
Article 8. Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive blessings and riches and
honor and glory and power, world without
Amen"
But you 60 to tinkerinR up your old
and patching and splicing and in.
and annexing and subtractins
and adding and explaining and you will
lose time and make yourself . target fos
Earth and hell to shoot at Let Us have
creeds not fashioned out Of human ingsn.
uities but out Of Scriptural phraseOlogy, |
md all the guns OF bombardment blszius
from all tho port holes Of in6delity aud
perdition will not In . thousand years
knock Oh the Church Of Col . splinter -
big ~ . cambria needle. What 10 most
needed now Is that We gather all o the.
around the boy In the temple. the
bla boratiOus around the SimplicitieS md |