The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19

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the ,ears Il
two minutes in stu b.
verted points of theologJ Il
thirty years longer | will he
thousandth part Of seed Idcf,
exploration. know two tin and
these will devote all the years of my
life in proclaiming: God will through,
Jesus Christ pardon sin, and he will
comfort trouble.
TOO MUCH TALK or CREEDs.
Creeds have their uses, but lust
now the church is creeded to death.
The young men entering the ministry
are going to be launched in the thickest
fog that ever settled on the coasts. As
I am told that in all our servicaa str
dents of Princeton and Unit
Drew and other theological sen
are present, and as these woi
come to thousands Of young inS
are soon to enter the ministry, 4
say to such, and through them to 0
associates, keep out of the bewilderr
beiittiing, destroying and angry contrd
versies abroad. The questions our doc
tors Of divinity are trying to settle will
not be settled until the day after the
day of judgment. 1t is such poor
economy of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the unfathom-
,ble, when in five minutes in heaven
we will know all we want to know
Wait till we get our throne. Wait un.
Ill the light of eternity flashes upon our
newly assembled spirits.
It is useless for ants on different sides
If a mole hill to try to discuss the CON-
,,arative heights of Mount Blanc and
Mount Washington. Let me say to all
young men about to enter the ministry
that soon the greatest novelty in the
world will be the unauthorized relig-
ion of Jesus Christ. Preach that and
you will have crowd. The world is
sick to regurgitation with the modern
luacks HI religion, The world has been
swinging off from the old Gospel, but it
will swing back, and by the time you
young men go into the pulpits tie cry
will be coming up from all the millions
If mankind, "Give us the bread O life;
no sweetened bread, no bread Fith
sickly raisins stuck here and the, into
it, but old fashioned bread as Sd our
mother mixed it and baked it'll"
You see God knew as much VIII
made the Bible as he knows now.
has not learned single thing
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that the human race would go wrd q,
and what would be the best means OF
its restoration and redemption. And
the law which was Numbered on Mount
Sinai, from whose top l had the two
tables OF stone in yonder wall trans
ported, is the perfect law. And the
Gospel which Christ announced while
dying on that mount from which
brought that stone in yonder wall, and
which Paul preached on that hill from
which brought yonder granite, is the
Gospel that is going to save the world
Young man, put on that Gospel arInorl
No other sword will triumph like that.
No other shield will protect like that.
No other helmet will glance off the
battle axes like that.
Our theological senlinaries are doing
glorious work, but if ever such theo-
logical Summaries shallcease TO prepare
young men for this plain Gospel advo-
cacy, and shall become mere philo-
sophical schools for guessing about God
and guessing about the Bible and
guessing about the soul, they will cease
their usefulness, and young men, as in
olden time. when they would study for
the Gospel ministry. will put themselves
'undert the care of some intelligent and
warm hearted pastor, and kneel with
him in family prayer at the parsonage,
and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and seq what VIC
tories the grace of God can gain when
the couch OF the dying saint is the
Marathon.
That is the way the mighty ministers
of the Gospel were made in olden times.
Oh, for a great wave OF revival to roll
over our theological seminaries, and our
pulpits, and our churches, and our &C.
clesiastical courts and over all Christen.
doml That would be the end of con.
troversy. While such a deluge would
float the ark of God higher and higher.
it would put all the bears and tigers
and reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism
fifteen cubits under.
WORK FOR CHRIST BRINGS pEAcE
Now, what is the simple fact that YOU
in the pew and Sabbath school class
and reformatory association and we in
the pulpits have to deal WITH II is
this: That God has somewhere, and it
matters not where, but somewhere.
provided great heaven-great for
quietness for those who want Quiet.
great for vast assemblage for those who
like multitudes, great for architecture
for those who like architecture. great
Tor beautiful landscape for those who
ike beautiful landscape, great for mu.
nc for those who like music, great for |
professions for those who like armies