The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-24

uclty than an old almanac of 1922, which
told what would be the change OF weather
six months ahead and in what quarter of
of the moon it is best to plant turnips
In word, the effort is to stop the
evangelization of the world. 1t seems
to me very much like this: There
has been a railroad accident and many
are wounded and dying. There are sew
eral drug stores near the scene of casualty.
All the doctors and druggists are needed,
and needed right away. BandRges, slim
ulants, anesthetics, medicines of all sorts.
What are the doctors and the druggists
doing? Discussing the contents of some
old bottles on the top shelf, bottles of
medicine which some doctors and drug
gists mixed two or three hundred years
ago. Come doctoIsm "Come drug
gists!" cry the people, land help these
wounded and dying that are being
brought from beneath the timbers OF the
crushed rail train. In little while it
will be too late. Come for Gods sake
Come right awayw NO" saws a doctor,
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. L say there were too many drops
CT laudanum In it, and this other man
says there were too many drops of cam
phor, and we must get this question set
tied before We can attend to the
railroad accident" And one doctor takes
another doctor by the collar and
pushes him back against the counter, and
one OF the druggists says: "If you will
not admit that l am right about that one
bottle, will smash every bottle in your
apothecary store" and he proceeds TO
smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf,
plainly marked and within easy reach,
are all the medicines needed for the help
ing of the sufferers by the accident, and
In that drawer, easily opened, are banda
ges and splints, for the lack of which fifty
people are dying outside the drug store.
Before apply this thought, every one
sees its application. Here is this old
world, and il is off track. Sin and sorrow
have collided with it. The groan of
agony is fourteen hundred million-voiced.
God has opened for relief and cure great
sanitarium, great house of mercy, and
all its shelves are filled with Dalsams,
with catholicOns, with help, glo-
rious help, tremendous help, help so cas-
lily 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 need
ing the relief and perishiug 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 Arminius or the men,
bers OF the synod of bort, or the formers
of the Nicene creed, filed with holy mix
lures, and until we get revision Of these
old bottles and find out whether we must
take teaspoonful or tablespoonful, and
bot hafo &c Aa1z La ksa
nations suffer and grOan and die. Save
the bottles by all means, if you cannot
save anything else
Now, what part shall you and take in
this controversy which fills all Christen-
dom with clangor? My advice is Take
no part. In time OF riot all mayors ofcities
advise good citizens to stay at home or In
their places of business; and in this time
of religious riot j advise you to 90 about
your regular work for God. Leave the
bottles on the higher shelves for others to
fight about and take the two bottles on
the shelf within easy reach, the two bot
ties which are all this dying world needs;
the one filed with potion which is for the
cleansing of all sin, the other filled with
potion which is for the soothing of all suf-
tering. Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed
them out of His own tears and blood. In
them is no human admixture. Spend no
time on the mysteries. You, a man only
five or six feet high, ought not to try to
wade an ocean ], 200 feet deep. Ny own
experience has been vivid. l devoted the
most OF my time for years in trying to IN
derstand Gods eternal DEGREES, and was
determined TO find out why the Lord let
us come into the world, and ! set out to
explore the doctrine of the trinity, and
with a yardstick to measure the
throne OF the Infinite. As with all
my predecessors, the attempt was dead
failure. For the last thirty years i have
not spent two minutes in studying the
controverted points of theology, and if
live thirty years longer l will not spend
the thousandth portion OF a second in such
exploration. / know two things and these
will devote all the years OF my life in
proclaiming: God will through Jesus
Christ pardon sin and He will comfort
trouble.
Creeds have their uses, but just now the
church is creeded to death. The young
men entering the ministry are going to be
launched in the thickest logs ever settled
on the coasts. AS am told that in all
our services students of Princeton and
Union and Drew and other theological
Summaries are present and as these words
will come to thousands of young men who
are soon to enter the ministry, let me say
to such and through them to their asso-
| ciates, keep out of the bewildering, BELT
Ting, destroying and angry controversies
| abroad. The questions of our doctors of
divinity are trying TO settle will not be
settled until the day after the day OF judy
ment. 1t is such a poor economy of time
to spend years and years in trying to
fathOm the unfathomable, when in five
minutes in heaven we will know all
we want to know. Wait till We
| get our throne Wait until the light of
eternity flashes upon our newly assembled
| spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
sides OF a mole-hill to try to discuss the
comparative nights of Mt. Blanc and
! Mt. Washington. Let me say to all
| young men about TO enter the ministry
| that soon the greatest novelty in the world
will be the unadulterated religion of Jesus
| Christ Preach that and you will have a
! crowd. The world is sick to reorganization
with the modern quacks in religion. The
world has been swinging off from the old
gospel, but it will swing back, and by the
time you young men 90 into the pulpits
] the cry will be coming up from all the
| millions of mankind, "Give us the bread
! of life, no sweetened bread, no bread with
sickly raisins stuck here and there into it,
but old-fashioned bread as God our
mother mixed it and baked itr'
You see God knew as much when he