The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-15


mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. / say there were too many drops
of laudanum in it and this other man says
there were too many drops OF campfire.
and we must get this question settled 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 | 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 helping of the sufferers by
the accident and in that drawer,
easily opened are bandages and splints, fol
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 it Is off track.
Sin and sorrow have collided with it. The
groan of agony is fourteen hundred mil
lion-voiced. God has opened for relief and
cure a great sanitarium, great house of
mercy, and all its shelves are filed with
| balsams, with catholicons, with help. glori-
| Gus help, tremendous help, help 30 easily
| administered that you need not get upon
any step-ladder to reach it. You can
reach 1t 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 dyingl But while the
world is needing the relief and perishing for
lack of it, what of the church? Why. il is
full OF fighting doctors. On the top shelf
are some old bottles which, several hundred
| years ago, Calvin or Armiuius or the men,
bers of the Synod of bort, OF the formers of
the Nicene creed filed with holy mixtures.
and until we get revision OF these old
bottles 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 all
| means, If you cannot save anything elsel
| Now, what part shall you and l take in
| this controversy which fills all Christendom
with clangor? Ny 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 business, and in this time OF re-
| iigious riot advise you to go 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 bottles which
are all this dying world needs; the one filed
with potion which SIS for the cleansing of
all sin, the other filed with potion which
| is for the soothing of all suffering. Two
gospel bottlesi Christ mixed them out
/, of his own tears and blood. In them
| is no human admixture. Spend no
| time on the mysteries You. man
only five or six feet high, ought not try to
| wade an ocean a thousand feet deep. My
own experience has been vivid. l devoted
the most of my time for years in trying to
| understand Gods eternal DEGREES, and was
determined to find out why the LORD let sin
| come into the world, and / set out to ex-
plore the doctrine of the Trinity and with a
| yardstick to measure the throne of the In
finite. AS with all my predecessors the at
| tempt was a dead failure. For the last
thirty years l have not spent two minutes
in studying the controverted points of the
ology, and il l live thirty years longer l
will not spend the thousandth part of q
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 COM
| fort trouble.
Creeds have their uses but just now the
church is oreeded to death. The young
men entering the ministry are going to be
launched in the thickest fog that ever set
| tied on the coasts. AS / am told that in all
| our services students of Princeton and
Union and Drew and other theological semi
naries 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 associates,
keep out of their bewildering, belittling,
destroying and angry controversies
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 econ
omy 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 Mount Blanc and Mount Wash
ingtoD. 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 regurgita-
tion with the modern quacks in religion
The world has been swinging off from the
old gospel but 1t will swing back and by the
time you young men go 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 itp'
You see, God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He has
not learned single thing In six Thousand
years. He knew at the start that the human
race would go wrong, and what would be
the best means of its restoration and re-
demption. And the law which was
Numbered on Mount Sinai, from whose top
had the two tables of stone in yonder wall
transported, is the perfect law. And the
gospel, which Christ announced while dying
on that Mount from which l brought thai
stone in yonder wall and which Pau
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 armorl Nc
other sword will triumph like that. Nc
other shield will protect like that. No Other
helmet will glance off the battle-axes like
that. Our theological seminaries are doinl
glorious work, but if ever such theological
seminaries shall cease to prepare young mer
for this plain gospel advocacy. and shall
become mere philosophical schools for guess
ing about God, and guessing about tn
, Bible, and guessing about the soul, they will
, cease their usefulness. and young men, as IL
! olden time, when they would study for tn
gospel ministry, will put themselves unde
, the care of some intelligent and warm
: hearted pastor, and kneel with him il
, family prayer at the parsonage, and z
. with him into the room of the sick and tn
dying, and see what victories the grace Q
: | God can gain when the couch of the dyin
saint is the Marathon.
\ That Is the way the mighty ministers G
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