The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-03-08
rALMAGE ON CREEDS
He Does not Believe in Infant
Baptism and Neither
Did Calvin.

Nor the Substitution Of Tests
in Religion Not Warrant
ed in the Bible.
BROOKLYN, Specialize subject ofMr. Tai.
IMAGES discourse was "Revision OF Creeds,
and he took for his text John Il. A.: Loose
him, and let him GO" DIR. Tnlmnge said:
My Bible ID, at the place Of this text, writ
ten all over with lead pencil marks made
Inst December at Bethany on the ruins o the
house Of Mary and Martha and Lazarus.
We dismounted from our horses on the way
up from Jordan to the Dead sea. Bethany
was the summer evening retreat of Jesus.
After spending the day in the hot city OF Je-
rusalem he would come out there almost every
evening to the house OF his three friends. l
think the occupants Of TINT house were or
phans. for the father and mother are not NEIL
toned. But the son and two daughters must
have inherited property.
Fol it must have been, judging from what
| saw of the foundations n the size OF the
rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, tho
brother, was now the head of the household
and his sisters depended on him n were
proud Of him, for he was very popular and
everybody liked him, and these girls were
splendid girls. Martha o first-rate house
keeper and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat
dreamy, but affectionate, and as good a girl
as could be found in all Palestine. But one
day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in
CONSERVATION. Father gone and mother
gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose
their brother also. Disease did it's quick
work. How the girls hung over his pillow!
Not much sleep about that house, no sleep
Mt oil. From the characteristics otherwhere
developed. l Judge that Martha prepared the
medicines md made tempting dishes of food
for the poor appetite OF the sufferer, but
Mary prayed and .sobbed. Worse and worse
gets Lazarus, until the doctor announces
that he can do no more. The shrek that
went up from that household when the last
breath had been drawn and the two sisters
were being led by sympathizers into the ad-
joining room, ali those OF us can imagine who
have had our own hearts broken. But why
was not Jesus there as he SO often had been?
Far away in the country districts preaching,
healing other sick, how unfortunate that
this ~omIipotent doctor had not been at that
domestic crisis at Bethany. When at last
Jesus arrived in Bethany Lazarus had been
buried four days and dissolution had taken
place. In that climate the breathless body
disintegrates moro rapidly than in ours. II.
Immediately after disease, that body had
been awakened into lie, unbelievers might
have said that he was only in O comatose
state, or in q sort of trance, and by some
vigorous manipulation or powerful stimu-
liant vitality had been renewed. MOL -Four
crowd of people, but the three, most
memorable are. Jesus, who was the family
friend. and the two. bereft sisters.
We vent into the traditional tomb in Deem
Der, and it is deep and dark, and with torches
we explored it. We found it all quiet that
afternoon of our visit, but the day spoken OF
in the Bible there was present an excited
multitude. / wonder what Jesus will do. He
orders the door OF the grave removed, and
then he begins to descend the steps. Mary
md Martha close after him, and the crowd
after them. e.
Deeper down into the shadows and deeper!
Tue hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks
and plash on the backs of his hands. Were
ever SO many sorrows compressed into so
down after Christ, all the time benoaning
that he had not come before? Now oil the
whispering and all the crying and oil the
sounds of shutting feet are stopped. 1t is
the silence o expectancy. Death has con.
quered. but now the yanquisher OF death con-
fronted the scene. Amid the awful hush OF
the tomb the familiar name which Christ has
often had upon his lips in the hospitalities OF
the village home came back to his tongue,
and with q pathos and an almightiness of
which the resurrection Of the last day shall
be only an echo, he cries: "Lazarusl come
forthlS The eyes OF the slumberer open
and he rises and comes to the foot OF
the steps and with great difficulty begins to
ascepdy fen the ceTements Of the tomb are yet
uponThim, and his feet are fast and ,hishands
are fast, and the impediments to allhis move
ments are 40 great that Jesus commands:
Take off these cerements;n remove thsss
h~indrances; nntasten these grave clothes;
loose them and let him goI" Oh, / am so
glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus, he
went on and commanded the loosening ofths
cords that bound his teet so that he could
walk, and the breaking of. Of the cerement
that bound his hands SO thatlle could stretch
out HIS hands in salutation. and the touring
of Of the bandnRe from ~aroundihis jaws 10
that he could speak What would resurrected
lie have been to Lazarus file had Q been
freed from all those cripplements ofhisbody?s
/ an glad that Chfast Commanded his COM
plete emancipation, saying: "Loose him,
ind let him eo.nna 80 fs4~.EI .s5a
The u~nfortunats thing now i shat SO many
Christians are only half liberated. They
havs been raised from the death and burial
Of sip into spiritual life, hut they get have
t ns. srsss k S3sssss 81 s s sss1 .tas nn s. che aT so aa,ts
bound head and foot, ana the object of .this1
sermon!i In to help freetheir body and their
soul, and / shall try to obeythe Master 'scom-s
mand hat comes to me and Gomez TO every
minister OF religion,sLoose him. and let him
GO" First, many are bound hand and foot
by religious crseds. Let no man mieinter-
pref me az antagopizing creeds. l have eight
or ten of them; . creed about religion, agreed
abont art. n creed about social life. a creed