The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-06-17


otherwise have added to our population,
the church of Wesley and Matthew
Simpson, against which we have an
especial grudge, and get them so abb
sorbed in discussing whether women
shall take part in her conference, that
they shall not have so much time to
discuss how many ms and daughters
she will take to glory"
What amazes me most is that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire movement
at this time all over Christendom is Sa-
tanic. Many of the internal attacks
are sly and hidden and strategic and SO
ingenious that they are not easily dis
covered. But here is bold and uncov-
cred attempt of the powers of darkness
to split up the churches, to get minis
ters to take each other by the throat, to
make religion a ughingstock of earth
and hell, to leave the Bible with no
more respect or authenticity than an
old almanac of 1929, 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
a word, the effort is to stop the evan
gelization 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 several drug
stores near the scene of casualty. All
the doctors and druggists are needed
and needed right away. Bandages,'
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all sorts. What are the doctors and drug
gists doing? Discussing the contents Of
some old bottles on the top shelf, bottles
OF medicine which some doctors and
druggists mixed two or three hundred
years ago. Come doctors!" "Come drug.
gistsp cry the people "and help these
wounded and dying that are being
brought from beneath the timbers Of
the crushed rail train. In little while
II will be too late. Come, for Gods salSel
Come right away!" NO" says doc
tor, mot until we have settled whether
the medicine on that top shelf is rightly
mixed. say there were too many drops
of laudanum in IL and this other man
says there were too many drops of cam
phor, and we must get this question
settled before we can attend to the rail-
road accident" And one doctor takes
another doctor by the collar and pushes
him back against the counter, and one
of the druggists says: 'Tf 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, for the lack
of which fifty people are dying
outside the drug store Before
apply this thought, every one sees
its application. Here is the old
world. and it is off track. Sin and sor.
row 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 filed
with balsams, with catholicons, with
help, glorious help, tremendous help
help so easily administered that you
need not get upon any step ladder tC
reach II. You can reach II on YOU
knees and then hand IL to all the suffer
ing and the SHINING and the dying
Comfort for all the troubled! Pardon
for all the guilty Peace for all the dy
ing! But while the world is needing the
relief and perishing for lack of IL, what
Of the church, Why, it is full Of fight
ing doctors. On the top shelf are some
old bottles which several hundred year:
ago, Calvin or Arminius or the members
of the Synod of bort, or the formers Of
the Nicene creed filed with holy mix
lures, and until we get revision o.
these old bottles and find out whether
we must take teaspoonful or table
spoonful, and whether before or aftei
meals, let the nations suffer and groan
and die. Save the bottles by all means
II you can not save anything else.
Now, what part shall you and / takt
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? My advice is
Take no part. In time Of riot all mayors
Of cities advise good citizens TO stay a
home or in their places Of business ant
in this time Of religious riot / advis,
you TO go about your regular work fol
God. Leave the bottles on the higher
shelves for others to fight about ant
take the two bottles on the shelf within
easy reach, the two bottles which ar,
all this dying world needs; the one
filed with a potion which is for the
cleansing OF all sin, the other filed with
potion which is for the soothing Of al
suffering. Two gospel bottles! Chris
mixed them out OF his own tears ant
blood. In them is no human admixture
Spend no time on the mysteriesl You
man only five or six feet high, oughf
not try to wade an ocean Thousand
feet deep. Ny own experience has beer
vivid. devoted the most Of my time
for years in trying TO understand God'i
eternal DEGREES, and was determined
TO find out why the Lord let sin com'
into the world, and set out TO cxplor,
the doctrine Of the Trinity, and with {
yardstick TO measure the throne of the
Infinite. As with all my predecessor
the attempt was dead failure. For the
last thirty years have not spent two
minutes in studying the controvertet
points Of theology, and II live thirty
years longer I will not spend the thou
sandth part Of second in such explora
ton. 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.