The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-20

he will somehow manage to get along with
out us. fyou want to love and serve God
and be good and useful aud get to heaven,
l warrant that nothing which occur
red eight hundred quintillion Of years
a g th will da. hinder h e; cS yG4 9,. e IN minute in. snv 1t is
it Is our own DEGREES of sin and folly. You
need not 60 any further back in history
than about 1856 years. You see this in the
year 1889. Christ died about 80 years Of
age. You substract thirty-three from 1889
and that makes it only 1856 years. That
is az far back as you need to go. Something
occurred on that day under an eclipsed sun
that sets all forever free if with our whole
heart and life VIC accept the tremendous
proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian church
or the Methodist church or the Lutheran
church or the Baptist church or any of the
other evangelical churches spend any time
in trying to fix up old creeds, all Of them i'm
perfect as everything man does il imperfect.
l move a new creed for all the evangelical
churches of Christendom, only three articles
in the creed and no need Of any more. II l
had all the consecrated people Of all denom-
ihations Of the earth on one great plain, and
l had voice oud enough to put it to a vote
that creed of three articles would be adopted
with q unanimous vote and q laundering
aye that would make the earth quake and the
heavens ring with hosanna. This is the
Il PloPSSC OIL Chl lCiuoh
ARTICLE l. God SO loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son that whosoev-
er believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life.
ART. 2. This is a faithful saying and
worthy OF all a~cceptation that Christ Jesus
came into the word to save sinners, even the
chief.
ART. 8. Worthy is the lamb that was
slain to receive blessing and riches and honor
and glory and power, world without end.
Amen.
But you go to thinking up your old creeds
and patching and splicing, %interlining and
annexing, and substracting and adding and
explaining and you will lose time and make
yourself q target for earth n hell to shoot
at. Let us lave creeds not fashioned out OF
human ingenuites but out of scriptural
ment blazing from all the portfolios of in.
fidelity and perdition will not in a thousand
years knock off the church of God a splinter
as big as a cambria needle. What is most
needed now is that we gather all our theo.
logies around simplicities. and the
~profundities around the charities
the octogenarian Of scholastic research
year juvenesoence. Except you become as a
little child you can in no wise enter the king
DOM" and except you become as o little chile
you can not understand the Christian relig
ion. The best thing that Rabbin Simeon
and Hillel and Shammai and the son of Be
tirah ever did was in the temple to bend ovel
the lad who, first made ruddy of cheek BY
the breath of the Judean hills and on his way
to the mechanics shop where he was soon tc
be tho support OF his bereaved mother, stop
ped long enough to grapple with the venera
BILE dialecticians of the orient both hearing
them and asking them questions" Some re
ferring to Christ have exclaimed, Ecce Deus
Behold the God. Others exclaimed, Ecct
homo! Behold the man. B utto-day in con
clusion of my subject l cry, Ecce adolescens
Behold the boy.