The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-26

church, Why, II h full Of fighting doc.
tors On the top shelf are some old
bottles which several hundred ear
ago Calvin or Arminius, or the mem
bers Of the synod of bort, or the franz
ers Of the Nicene creed filed with holy
mixtures and until We get q revision
OF these old bottles and find out
whether we must take . teaspoonful or
tablespoonful and whether before or
after meals. let the nations suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles By all
means, II you cannot ave anything else!
Now, what part shall you and ] take
in this controversy which fills ali
C~hristendom with elangor? My advice
Il: Take no part In time Of riot all
mayors Of cities sdvise good citizens TO
stay a4 home o. IN their places Of bu&i
nea and In this time of religious riot I
sdvise you to 20 about your regular
work for God. Lesxe the bottles on
the higher shelves for others TO fight
about and take the two bottles on the
shelf within easy reach, the two bottles
which al this dying world needs; the
ooe filed with . portion which is for
the cleaning Of all sin. the other filled
With . portion which is for the soothing
Of al suffering. The gospel bottles!
Christ mixed them out of his own tears
and blood In them In no human ad-
mixture. Spend no time on the mystic
ries! Yoa, . man only five or six feet
high. ought not try TO wade an ocean .
thousand feet AAen
Ny own experience has been vivid I
devoted the most Of my time for years
In trying TO understand Gods eternal
DEGREES, and ! was determined 20 find
out why the Lord let sin come into the
world, and set out TO explore the doc
trine Of the Trinity, and with q yard
stick to measure the throne Of the In
finite. As with all my predecessors,
the attempt was a dead failure. For
the last thirty years I have not spent
two minutes in studying the contro-
verted points of theology. and IL I live
thirty years longer ! will o spend the
~thousandth part Of q second in such ex-
ploration.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
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young men entering the ministry, are
going to be launched in the thickest fog
that ever settled on the coasts. As I
am told hat In all our services students
of Princeton and Union and Drew and
other theological seminaries are pres
ent 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 10 their associ-
stes, keep out of the bewildering bclit-
Ting, destroying and angry controver-
sizes abroad. The questions our doctors
of divinity are trying to settle will not
be settled until the day after the day
of judgment 1t Is such q poor econo
my of time to spend years and years in
trying to fathom the unfathomable,
when in five minutes in Heaven we will
we get our throne. Wait until the light
Of eternity flashes upon our newly as
cended spirits.
You see, God knew as much when He
made the Bible as He knows now. He
has not learned a thing in six thousand
years He knew at the start that the
human ace would GO wrong and what
would he the best means of its ~restora-
ton and redemption. And the law
which was Numbered on Mount Sinai
is the perfect Law. And the gospel
which Christ announced while dying N
that moun and which Paul preached
is the gospel hat is going TO ave the
world. Young man, put on that Cos
pei armor! No other shield will protect
like that No other helmet will glance
off the battle axes like that Our thee
logical seminaries are doing glorious
work, but il ever such theological
seminaries shall cease to prepare young
men for this plain gospel advocacy and
shall become mere philosophical schools
for guessing about God, and guessing
about the Bible. and guessing about
the soul they will a their useful
ness. and young men as in olden time,
when they would study for the gospel
ministry, will put themselves under the
care Of some intelligent and warm
hearted pastor and kneel with him in
family prayer at the p~astorate and 60
with him into the room of the sick and
the dying and see what victories the
grace of God car gain when the couch
Of the dying saint is the Marathon
Now. what Is the simple fac that
you in the pew and Sabbath school
class and reformatory association and
we in the pulpits have to deal with?
1t is this: That God has somewhere.
and II matters not where, but some
where, provided a great Heaven. great
for quietness for those who want quiet,
great for vast assemblagc for those
who like multitudes, great for archi-
lecture for those who like architecture,
great for beautiful landscape for those
who like beautiful landscape, great for
music for those who like music, great
for professions for those who like
armies on white horses and great for
anything that one especially desires in
such q rapturous dominion: and through
the doings OF One who was born about
five miles south of Jerusalem and died
about ten minutes walk from its east.
ern gate. all may enter that great
Heaven for the earnest and heartfelt
asking. Is that all? That is eli?
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Our work Is to persuade people to face
that way and start thitherward and
finally 60 in
A peculiar patchwork quilt was dur
ing the civil war, made by a lady and
sent to the hospitals at the front She
had q boy In the army, and was nat
urally interested in the welfare of SOL
disrs. But what a patchwork quilt she
sent. On every block of the quilt was
q passage of Scripture or 4 verse of .
hymn The months and years Of the
war went by. On that quilt many .
wounded man had lain and suffered
and died. But one morning the hospi.
tai nurse saw a patient under the blan-
ket kissing the figure of . leaf in the
quilt and the nurse supposed he WAS
only wandering in his mind. but no,
he was the son Of the mother who had
made the quilt and he recognized that
figure Of a Leaf rs part of q gown his
mother used to wear. and il reminded
him Of home. DO You know where
this quilt came FROM" he asked The
nurse answered: Il can find out for