The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-19

Sun, against WHICH we nave an especial
grudge, and get them so absorbed in
discussing whether women shall take
part In her conference that they shall
not have so much time to discuss how
many sons and daughters she will take
to glory"
THE SLY AND SUBTLE WORK OF SATAN.
What amaZcs me most is that all
people do not see that the entire move
ment at this time all over Christendom
is satanic. Many of the internal at
tacls are sly and hidden and strategic
and so ingenious that they are not easily
discovered But here is a bold and un,
covered attempt of the powers of dark
ness to split UP the churches, to get
ministers to take each other by the
throat, to make religion a laughing
stock of earth and hell, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or anthem
ITCHY than an old almanac of 1922,
which told what would be the change
of weather six months ahead and in
what quarter of the moon it is best to
plant turnips, In word, the effort is
to stop the evangeization of the world.
1t seems to me very much like this;
There has been railroad accident and
many are wounded and dying, There
are several drug stores near the scene
of casualty All the doctors and drug
gists are needed, and needed right
away, Bandages, stimulants, anes-
thetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing1
Discussing the contents of some old
bottles on the top shelf-bottles of med
icine which some doctors and druggists
mixed two or three hundred years ago.
Come, doctorsl" Come, druggistsl"
cry the people, land help these wound
ed 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" says a doctor,
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 ques-
ton 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 apothe
cary store" and he proceeds 10 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 band
ages and splints, for the lack of which
fifty people are dying outside the drug
store. Before l 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
million voiced.
God has opened for relief and cure
great sanitariuln, a great house of mer-
cy, and all its shelves are filed with
balsalns, with catholicons, with help
glorious help, tremendous help, help so
easily 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 needing the relief and perish
ing 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
Arninius, or the members of the synod
of bort, or the formers of the Nicene
creed filed with holy mixtures, and I'M
til 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 else!
Now, what part shall you and take
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor9 My 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 bust
ness, and in this time of religious 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 filled with potion which is
for the cleansing of all sin, the other
filed with potion which is for the
soothing of all suffering Two Gospel
bottlesl Christ mixed them out of his
own tears and blood. In them is no
human admixture. Spend no time on
the mysteriesl You, man only five
or six feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean thousand feet deep.
My own experience has been vivid
| 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 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
che last thirty years have not spent
two minutes in studying the contro-
verted points of theology, and if live
thirty years longer will not spend the
thousandth part of second in such
exploration l know two things, and
these I 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 thickes-