Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-15


I own tears and blood. In them Is n
human admixture Spend no time o.
? the mysteriesl You, man only fiv
or six feet Aigh. ought not try to wad
an ocean a thousand feet deep
My own experience has been vivid
devoted the most of my time fo
years in trying to understand God
eternal DEGREES, and I was determined
to find out why the Lord let sin com,
into the world, and set out TO explor,
the doctrine of the Trinity, and with
yardstick to measure the throne of tn,
Infinite. As with all my predecessors
the attempt was a dead failure. Fol
the last thirty years have not spent
two minutes in studying the contro
verted points of theology. and II live
thirty years longer | will not spend the
thousandth part 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.
TOO MUCH TALK OF CREEDs.
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
fog that ever settled on the coasts AS
| am told that in all our services stu
dents of Princeton and Union and
Drew and other theological seninaries
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 the bewildering,
belittling, destroying and angry contro
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 a poor
economy Of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the unfathom
able, when in Eve minutes in heaven
we will know all we want to know
Wait till we get our throne. Wait un.
til the light of eternity flashes upon our
newly ascended spirits.
of mole hill to try to discuss the com.
paratve 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 unadulterated relig-
ion of Jesus Christ. Preach that and
you will have crowd The world is
sick to regurgitation 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 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 it,"
You see God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He
has not learned a 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 redemption And
the law which was thundered on Mount
Sinai, from whose top | 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 armorl
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 seininares are doing
glorious work, but if ever such theo
logical seininaries shall cease 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 viii cease
their usefulness, 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 parsonge,
and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see 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
clesiastieal courts and over all Chrsten
DOM That would be the end of con
troversy While such a delnge would
float the ark Of God higher and higher,
it would put all the bears and tigers
and reptiles of raging ecelesiasticism
fifteen cubits under
WORK FOR CHRIST BRINGS PEAcR.
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 withg II Is
this That God has somewhere, and il
matters not where, but somewhere,
provided great heaven great for
quietness for those who want quiet,
great Tor vast aSsemblage for those who
like multitudes great for architecture
for those who like architecture. great