Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-20
REV. DIR. TALMhGH.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divines Sun.
day Sermon
Subject: The Battle of creeds. .

HgEts which they ught to shiip, They do
no good to offers aud get damage for them.
selves lie compares it to theexperiment Of
taxing dog by the cars Nothing so irri.
tates CANNES as to be c,utchad tJy the luss.
Take them by the back of the neck and lift
them and 1t does not seem to hurt or offend.
but you take the dog by the ear. and ne viii
take you with bis teeth. In all the history
OF kennels 70 intelligent Of spirited dog will
stand that. Now, says Solomon, '.you 90
INTO quairels or controversies that are ,fes
yours and you VIII get lacerateI and torn
and bitten. He that passeth by aud med
dieth With strife belonging not to him is Ike
one that taketh a dog by the ears. -
IRIS IS the time OF resembling ecclesiastical
quarrel. Never within your memory or
NINE has tie air been so full of missiles.
The Presbyterian Church has on hand A con.
troyersy so great that IT finds it prudent to
postpone It's settlement for at least one more
year, hoping that something viii turn m.
somebody might die or a new general assem-
bly, may have grace TO handle the exciting
questions. The Episcopal Church has cast
cut some recalcitrants, and its digestive or.
eslbS are taxed 10 the utmost in trying to as
simulate others. shall women preaclg'
Or be sent as delegates to confersncesyi
arc questions that have put many OF
our Methodist brethren on the ''anxiotis
seat" And the waters in some of the great
faptistrles are troubled waters Because 81
the controversies throughout Christen1om
the air is now like an August afternoon
about five O'Clock, when it has been sfeaninq
rot ell Gay, and clouds are gathering. and
'here are lions of thunder with grumblinE
voices ana fashing eyes coming forth from
their cloudy lars, and people are waiting
Tor the iull burst OF the tempest | am not
much OF weather prophet, but the Clouds
JOCK TO me mostly like wind clouds. 1t may
be big blow, but | hope it will soon be
over In regard to the Battle OF the Creeds.
am every day ked about it. / want to
make 1t so plain this morning what think
that no one will ever ask again.
Let those who are juryInen IN the case--I
mean those WHO in the different ecciesiast-
cai courts have the gu stions put directly
before them--weigh ard decide. Let the rest
OIL us Keep out The most damaging thing
on earth IS religious controversy No one
ever comes cut Of it as good man as he
goes IN; Some of the ministers in all de-
nominations who before the present acerbity
were good and kind and useful, now seem "a
most swearing mad. These brethren | notice
always open their violent meetings with
prayer before devouring each other, thus
saying race before meat. They have a moral
nydrophobla ttat makes US think they have
taken dog by the ears They never read
the lmprecatory Psalms of David with sllch
Zest as since the Briggs and Newton and
Mact1ueary and Br.dgman AMI Brooks ques-
'aShs oOb 1ilbO lulI SWING. May b1e rams OF
Inc sheepIold soon hare their horns sawed
on! Before the controversies are settled a
GOOD many ministers will, through what they
eau liberalism, be landed INTO practical in
hdellty, and others Through what they call
conservatism will shrink up into bigots tight
ana hard as the mummieS of Egypt which
got through their controversies three thou
sand years ago
This trouble throughout Christeniom
was directly inspired by Satan. He saw
that too much good was being done. Re-
cruits were being gathered by hundreds OF
thousands 10 the gospel standard. The
victories for God AMI the truth were too
near together. Too many churches were
being dedicated Too many ministers were
helng ordained Too many phianthrop;es
were being fostered. Too many souls were
being saved. It had been dull time in the
neither world and the arrivals were too few.
80 Satan one day rose upon his throne aud
SAID, "Ie powers Of darkness. hearw And
al up and down the caverns the cry was,
Hear! Hearp Satan said: There is that
American Board Of Commissioners for For
elgn Missions. II must either be dem olished
OF crippled, or the first thing you know they
VIII have all nations brought to God Apo!-
lyon the Youngerl You go up to Andover
and get the professors to-discussing whether
the heather can be saved without the Cos
pei Divert them from the work of missions
ana get them in angry convention in
room at Young's Hotel, Boston, AMI
by the time they adjourn the cause of
foreign missions will be gloriously and
lnagnlfcently injured. Diabolus the Youn-
ger! You go up and get Union Theological
Seminary of New York and the general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church at De-
trolt at swords points and divarte from the
work OF making earnest ministers of religion,
and turn that old Presbyterian Church
which has been keeping US out OF customers
Tor hundreds Of years, into a splendid pan
demonium on 4 small scale. Abandon the
lhird You go up and assault that old Epis-
copal Church, which has been storming the
heavens for centuries with the sublimest
prayers that were ever utteFe church of
Bishop leighton, Bishop White AMI Bishop
Mclivane, and get that denomination discuss
ing men instead of discussing the eternities
Abaddon the Fourth You go Il . to that old
Methodist Church which has, throug I'll her
revival, sent millions to heaven which we
would otherwise have addei to our popula-
ton; the church of Wesley ana Matthew
Simpson, against which we have an especial
grndse, and get them 50 absorbed in discuss
ing wlether womeH 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"
W hat anazes me most is that all people
do not see that the entire movement at this
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OF the internal attacks are sly and hidden
and strategic and so ingenious that they
are not easily discovered But hera is a
bold and uncovered attempt of the powers
OF darkness 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 mora
respect or authenticity than an old almanac
OF 1872, which told what would be the
ehange 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 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. Bandages stimuants,
anRsthetlcs medicines of al sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cusslng the contents of some old bottles on
the top shelf, bottles of medicine which
some doctors and druggists mixed two or
tnree hundred years ago. Come doctorsw
Tome druggists" cry the people, land help
these wounded and dying that ara being
brought from the timJars OF the crushed rail
train, In little wlile it will be too late
Come for Gods sake! Co ne right away"
No says the doctor, mot until we have
settled whether the me licine on that top
were too many drops of laudanum in it, and
this other man says there were too many
drops of campfire, we must get this ques-
uou 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, ''If
you will not admit that | an right about
that one bottle will smash every bottle in
your apothecary store and he proc seds to
smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf,
plainly marked AMI within easy reach are
ali the me iicines needed for tbs helping of
the sufferers BY the accident, ami in tnat
drawer, easily opsnel, are bandages AMI
splints for the lacl of winch fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. before [
apply this thought every one sees its appli-
cation. Here IS this old world, nal it is OF
track. Sin and sorrow have colliiel with
it. The groan OF agony is fourteen hun
dred million voiced. Col has ooened for
relief and cura a great sanitariunl, great
house Of mercy, and all its shelves are
filed vita ha.sams, with catholicons VITA
heip-glorIous help, tremendous help hello
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, AMI the sinninr. and the
diving. Comfort for all tae troubIeii Par
don tor all the guilty. Peace for all the dy-
ingi But while the world is nee ling the re-
lief ANA pershing for lack OF it, wnat 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 Armin-
Jus, or the members o the synod of bort. or
the formers OF the Nicens creed filled with
holy mixtures, aud until we get a revision of
these cd uottles and fini out whether Wa
must take a teaspooaiul or tablespoonful,
ami whether before or after meas, let the
nations suffer and groan and die Save the