Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

religion laughing stock of earth and
| hell, to leave the Bible with no more re-
spect or authenticity than an old alma
nae 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 evangelization 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 druggists
are needed, and needed right away.
HANDBAGS, stimulants, anBsthetics, medi-
cines OF all sorts. What are the doctors
and druggists 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. sCome; doctorsv'
''Come, druggists!'' cry the. people, land
help these wounded and diving that are
being brought from beneath TIL, timbers
of the crushed rail train. In. little
while it will be too late. Come, for Gods
sake! Come right away!' s.No,;'' saws 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
question settled before we can attend. to
the railroad accident.:,
And one doctor takes another doctor
by the collar aud pushes him back against
the counter, and one of the druggists
says, ''If you will not admit that l 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,
Tor the lack Of which fifty people are
dying outside the drug store. Before 1
apply this, thought, every one, sees its
| application. Here is. this old world, and
it is off track. Sin and sorrow have col
lided with it. The groan Of agony is
/ fourteen hundred million voiced.
Now, what part shall you and 1 take.
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? My advice is:
Take no part. In time of riot all may
ors of cities advise good citizens to stay
at home or in their places Of business, and
in this timeof 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 a
| potion which is for the cleansing of all
sin, the other filled with potion which
is for the soothing of all suffering. Two
Gospel bottles! 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 thousand feet deep.
My own experience has been vivid. !
devoted the most of my time for years. in
trying to understand Gods. eternal de-
! crees. and was determined to find out
why the Lord let sin come into the
world, and l set out to explore the doc.
trine of the Trinity, and with yard.
stick to measure the throne of the Intin.
i lite. AS with all my predecessors, the at
tempt was dead failure. For the las
thirty years have not spent two min
| utes in studying the controverted point
} of theology, and if live thirty year
longer 1 will not spend the thousandtl
part of 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.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church is creeded to. death. The
young men entering the ministry are go
ing to be launched in the thickest fog
that ever settled on the coasts. As an
told that in all our services students Of
Princeton and Union and Drew and other
theological seminaries 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 controversies abroad. The ques.
tions our doctors 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 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 as
cended spirits.
1t is useless for ants on different sides
of a mole hill to try to discuss the COM
parative 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 unauthorized religion
of Jesus Christ. Preach that and you
| will have a crowd The world is sick to
reorganization with the modern quacks in
religion. The world has been swinging
| off from the Gospel, but it will swing
back, and by the time you young men
go into the pulpits the cry will be COM
/! ing up from all the millions of mankind,
''Gige us the bread Of life; no sweetcned
; bread, no bread with sickly ralsins stuck
here and there into it, but old fashioned
bread as God our mother mixed it and
baked it's
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 that would be the best means Of its
restoration and redemption. And the
law which was thnndered on Mount
Sinai, from whose top had the two
tables of stone in yondcr wall trans
ported, is the perfect law. And the Cos
pei which Christ announced while d,rinp