Sharp County record., 1891-07-02

70 lltuFtu. WHICH VIC NOAA4N D'AAoA VIZ
have added to our population, the
church Of Wesley and Matthew Simp-
son. against which we have an especial
grudcc, and get them so absorbed in
discussing whether women shall take
part in her conference that they shall
not have so much time to discuss how
many sons and daughters she will take
30 glory
What amazes me most is that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire move
ment at this time all over ChristendOm
is satanic. Many Of the internal at
elcks are sly and hidden and strategic
and so ingenious that thry are not
easily discovered. But here is bold
and uncovered attempt of the powers
Of darkness to split up the churches, to
get ministers to take each other by the
throat, to make religion laughing
stock Of earth and hell, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or author
ity than an old almanac of 1922, witch
told what would be the change OF
weather six months ahead, and in what
quarter of the moon it is best to plant
turnips. In a word. the effort is to
stop the evangelizatiOn of the world.
1t seems to me very much like this:
There has been a railway accident,
and many are wounded and dying.
There are several drug stores near the
scene of casualty. All the doctors
and druggists are needed and
needed right away. Bandages, stimu.
lants. anHstheties, medicines Of all
sorts. What are the doctors and drug
Eists doing? Discussing the contents of
some old bottles on the top shelf, bot
Ties of medicine which some doctors
and druggists mixed two or three hun
dred years ago. Come doctors!"
Come druggists cry the people, ''and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the tim
bers of the crushed rail train. In a
little while it will be too late. Come
for Gods sake! Come right away"
mo, says a doctor, mot until we have
settled whether the medicine on that
top shelf was rightly mixed I say
there were too many drops of laudanum
in it, and this other man says there were
too many drops of camphOr and we must
get this question settled before we can
attend to the railroad accident" And one
doctor takes another doctor by the col
lar and pushes him back against the
counter and one Of the druggists says;
If you will not admit that am right
about that one bottle, | will smash
every bottle in your apothecarv store"
and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile,
on the lower shelf, plainly marked and
within easy reach, are all the medi-
zines needed for the helping of the
sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, are the bandages
and splints, for the lack of which fifty
people are dying outside the drug store.
Before l apply this thought, everyone
sees its application. Here is this old
world, and it is off track. Sin and sor-
row have collided with it. The groan of
agony is fourteen hundred million
voiced. God has opened for relief
and cure a great Sanitarium, a
great House of Mercy, and all its
shelves are filed with balsams,
with eathOlieons, with help, glo-
rious help, tremendous help, help so
easily administered that you need not
get upon any step-ladder to reach it.
You can reach it on your knees, and
then hand it to all the suffering and the
shining and the dying, Comfort for all
the troubled! Pardon for all the guilty!
Peace for all the dying! But while the
world is needing the relief and perish
ing for lack of it, what Of the church?
Why, it is full of fighting doctors. On
the top shelf are some old bottles, which
several hundred years ago Calvin or
Armnius, or the members of the synod
of bort, or the formers Of the Nicene
Creed, filed with holy mixtures, and
until we get a revision of these Old bot
ties and find out whether we must take
a teaspoonful or tablespoonful, and
whether before or after meals, let the
nations suffer and groan and die. Save
the bottles by ali means, If you can not
save anything else.
Now, what part shall you and take
In this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? My advice is;
Take no part. In time of riot all
mayors of cities advise good citizens to
stay at home or in their places Of busi-
ness; and in this time Of religious riot |
advise you to go about your regular
work for God, Leave the bottles on
the higher shelves for others 10 fight
about and take the two bottles on the
shelf within easy reach, the two bottles
which are all this dying world needs
the one filed with potion which is
for the cleansing Of all sin, the other
filed with q potion which is for the
soothing of all suffering, Two Gospel
bottles Christ mixed them out Of His
own tears and blood, In them is no hui
man admixture. Spend no time on the
mysteries You, man only five or six
feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean one thousand feet deep. My
own experience has been vivid. I de-
voted the most Of my time for years in
trying TO understand Gods eternal de.
crees, and was determined to find out
why the Lord let sin come into the