The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-27

OF darkness TO split up the churches. to yet
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 authenticity than an old almau;c
of 1922 which told what would be he
change of weather six months ahead and
in what quarter of the month it is best to
plant turnips. In word. the effort is To
stop the evangelization of the world II
seems to me very much like this. There
has heen II 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, stimulants.
anasthetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cussing 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 doctorsr
Come druggistsl'' cry the people, land
help these wounded 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 awayP NO." says the doctor
:'not until 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 saws
there were too many drops of campfire
and we must get this question settled be
fore we can attend to the railroad accident
DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE
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 it's appli
cation Here is this old world, and it is of
track. Sin and sorrow have collided with
it the groan of agony is fourteen hun
dred million voiced God has aopened for
relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great
house of mercy. and all it's shelves are
filled with balsams, 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 relAef and perishing for lack of it, what
of the church? Why, it is full of fight. .ng
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bottles, which several hundred years ago
Calvin or Arminius, or the members of the
synod of bort, or the formers of the Niceue
creed filed with holy mixtures, and until
we get I; revision of these old bottles and
find out whether must take a teaspoon
full 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.
\nvy hat ,rpfS hal nd 7 t.,I-e -,
this controversy which fills all Chris;eu-
dom with ciangora 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 business 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
filed with potion which is for the cleans
ing of all sin, the other filed with IL po
tion which is for the soothing of all suffer
ing Two gospel bottlesi Christ mixed
them out of his own tears and blood In
them is no human ad mixture Spend no
time on the mysteries You, man only
i've or six feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean II thousand feet deep My own
experience has been vivid. / devoted the
most of my time for years in trying to un
derstand 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 a dead failure For the
last thirty years | have not spent two
minutes in studying the controverted
points of theology, and if | live thirty
years longer will not spend the thousandth
part of a second in such exploration. |
know two things. and these l will devote
al. the years of my life in proclaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin
and he will comfort trouble.
KEEP OUT OF THE SQUABBLE.
Creeds have their uses, but Just now the
church is creeded to death The young
men entering the ministry are going to be
launched i'll the thickest fog that ever set
tied on the coasts. AS ain told that in all
our services students of Princeton and I'm
ion 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 the bewildering, belittling de-
stroying and angry controversies abroad
The questions our doctors of divinity are
trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of judgment. 1t is such
poor economy OF IlIne TO Spenu years ana
years in trying to fathom the unfathoma-
BILE, 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 cur newly assembled
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
sides of mole hill to try to discuss the com
para i've 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 religion of Jesus Christ
Preach that and you viii have a crowd
The world is sick to regurgitation with the
modern quacks in religion. The world has