St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-02
A BIFF AT BURRELL.
The Eloquent Minneapolis Di-
vine Taken to Task by
Rev. Vail.
DR.. Burrell Was Shocked by
the Capers Of an Opera
Company,
And Preached a Sermon
Which Rev. Vail Now An
SWePS.
Rev. Andrews Reads a Cur
tain Lecture to st. Paul
Mothers.


with which he was connected on ac-
| count OF an attack that had been re-
| Gently made by most able, worthy and
| eloquent, but mistaken clergyman. DIR.
| Burreli had recently given a prelude to
1 sermon that was attractive because of
| the unique conditions which produced
| it, and the peculiar conclusions he drew
from his consideration of the theme.
| Briefly the case was as follows: On
! recent trip to California, DR.. Burrell
| went in Pullman car with comic
opera company. He was the only p9r-
son in the car who was not profess
sional. On the four days Journey they
| outraged his sense of fitness2 by singing
the airs of '.Girofle-Girofia.'' by drinking
| liquor and by gambling. He felt these
people were incorrigibly bad. He be-
lieved that those who attended their
! performances were equally bad. And
he was forced to remember in the pulpit
there were men who preached that all
men would be saved, even i'll view of
| such experiences as this. This thought
came to him with great force when he
left the car and its occupants.
This" said the preacher, sis the
case, and now | want to say some words
on the conclusion, as it touches my own
church and belief. The assumption of
|
the final publication of the race We
must hold. also, that heaven will be
beer garden, with gambling house at
| tachment. The idea that anybody be-
lleyed that happiness could be
Found without Holiness
was against all knowledge of law, nat
| ural or spiritual. The mistake came,
the preacher thought, by a conception
| of methods entirely misleading. The
| court room, the judge, the books open
and the sentence might be used as fig
ures OF speech, but never as the abso-
| lutte statements of truth. All studen
of social life. all students of history, all
men who had the spirit of the time at
| all-and these III all churches, Pro-
| teStant and Catholic-believed that real
law Of cause and effect. Therefore a
man by lis actions, his thoughts, his
tastes, his choice of good or evil, made
| his happiness. The exception to all this
| came in the influence that the action of
other people had on q mans life. and
this was oftentimes ten-fOld more than
his individual choices. He lived by in
herltance. His taste for liquor or ten
dency TO theft might come across
the gulf of several generations.
| Consequently the generations of
solid chain. Therefore 1t seems to us
that a wise Father, depending on men
to work ont this problem. must Ordain
| that by the working together OF all
forces for good. the mass Of mankind is
punished rather than the individual,
and that by purifying processes the
| mass is to be lifted out of its bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of God. And remember
| hot 20 mol hot
holiness and true happiness are inSep
| arably Connected;
| The preacher here took up the charge
| that UniverSalistS claimed that all men
| were going to heaven. The criminal
was constantly cited, and the statement
| made that these were to be saved and
enter the felicity of another world with
| out change. An examination of Statis-
| tics, however, would prove that a ma
jority of men who are hanged for crime
'get religion" and are assured that
| they Will swing off into glory, while
| their victims, hurried away without
| preparation, are lost forever. Is this
| much improvement over the other idea?
| Oh, yes; because they are cleansed by
the blood of Christ. Well, anybody
else who makes the claim that
| Criminals VIII BE Saved
| makes It on the basis of moral refor-
nation, and the moral renovation of
| character. AS to living in the same
| world with people who have been care
| less and sinful, it may be said we are
| allowed TO do so here. God allowed DR..
| Burrell to go to San Francisco with
| these people who so deeply shocked
| him. Possibly that was in order that he
might obtain sensational prelude to
his sermon, The ways of Providence
RI -tf.4.IE ftn mt
tend to know whether we shall all Ii We
in one world or not The only book of
| the Bible that has its word on this is the
| Book of Revelation. And how many
| men agree as to this pr0duction?. 1t
| probably had meaning once, but re-
| suits OF Biblical study suggest that it is
| at present a sealed book. Surely its pict-
ures of golden streets are Of little value
| to thoughtful people. But suppose
| there be only one world: then presume
| that those who are evil, through the
| fires of conscience. will be purified.
! presume we shall choose our friend
ships there. There are some SimOn-pure
| ChristlanS-if YOU allow them to take
| their own nIeaSure-WhoSe company
| would prefer to do without, both in this
world and the next.
do not pretend to know whether the
| future will show one world or million,
| but | think if we are favored we can
| afford to be kind to those who are less
| favored. 1t seems to me that the best
! people [ have met are those who have
| been earnest to make humanity better,
| rather than to seek for eXclusivenesS.
Outside of this hope for publication
| of mankind there is only one theory that
| can stand the light Of logic. The laws
! of dramatic construction demand the
| utter annihilation of the wicked man.
| Macbeth, and the wife who was his part
| ner in crime, must die and be removed
before harmony can be restored. So
| must Othello. Our hope for man who
Has Gone Wrong
| is that good motives, entire cOnsecra-
| ton, purity, and moral enthusiasm will
| lead him to the noble life and the inner
happiness that comes from true
harmony. And if this fails. then the
only logical alternative for that life is
| determination. But the facts of hered-
ity: thes personal Welding of genera
| tiOns together; and especially the fact
| that our ideas as a whole people are in
| herited from the society i'll which we
| live, and the life of the people that pre-
ceded Us, seem 10 me strong evidences
that God is working through the slow
| instrunentalIty of human development,
and that the logical conclusion will be
| the purlHcdliOH Ol TIE Idce. Ii SeeHS
to me that with conditions just as they
are, and with the tendencies of the
| world established and moving as they
do. if little progress has been made in
1 thousand years, ten thousand would
| show much more. q million would make
much larger sweep. and ten millions
would almost make heaven of earth,
And when we take eternity instead of
time for our field of operation. we may
hope that the whole mass of mankind
will be made pure,
The fundamental requirements of the
gospel were laid down as the double
| love of man for God and man for hui
| manity. Back of This lay the claim of
eternai goodness. Alongside of this
claim of eternal goodness was the claim