Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

! shelf; bottles of medicine which some doc
| tors and druggists mixed 200 or 800 years
ago Come doctors!' aCome druggists ,,'
| cry the people, land help these wounded
and dying that are being brought from be-
/ meath the timbers Of the crushed rail train.
| In little while 1t will be too late. Come,
| for Gods sake! Come right away % "No, u
says doctor, mot until we have settled
| whether the medicine on that top shelf was
rightly mixed. l say there were too many
drops OF laudanum in it, and this other man
says there were too many drops OF cam
phire, and we must get this question set
tied before we can attend to the railroad &C
cident.", And one doctor takes another
doctor by the collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one of the drug
gists says: 'sIf you will not admit that
am right about that 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 tbs
medicines needed for the helping of TIE
sufferers by the accident, and in thht
drawer, easily opened, are bandages aid
splints, for the lack Of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before
apply this thought, every one sees its appli-
cation. Here is the old world, and it Is off
track. Sin and sorrow have collided with
it. The groan of agony is fourteen hundred
and cure great sanitarium, great house
of mercy, and all its 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! Par
don for all the guilty! Peace for all the
dying But while the world is needing the
relief and perishing for lack of it, what of
the church2 Why, il is full of fighting
doctors. On the top shelf are some cid
bottles which several hundred years ago,
Calvin or Arminius or the members of the
synod of bort, or the formers of the Nicene
creed filed with holy mixtures, and until
we get revision of these old bottles and
find out whether we must take a teaspoon
ful or tablespoonful, and whether before or
after meals, let the nations suffer, and
groan, and die. Save the bottles by all
means,
II YOU CANNOT SAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
Now what part shall you and / take in
this controversy which fills all Christen-
dom with clangor? 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
filled with a potion which is for the cleans
ing Of all sin, the other filed with a 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 TO 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 l set out to explore the doc
trine of the Trinity, and with yardstick
to measure the throne of the Infinite. AS
with all my predecessors, the attempt was
a dead failure. For the last thirty years l
have not spent two minutes in studying the
controverted points of theology, and if l
live thirty years longer l will not spend the
thousandth part of second in such explor-
alton. know two things, and these will
devote all the years of my life in proclaim
ing: 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 going to be
launched in the thickest fog that ever set
tied on the coasts. As / am told that in all
our services, students of Princeton and
Union and Drew and other theological SEM
inaries 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 questions our doctors of divinity are
10 hne 1nI
day after the day of judgment 1t is such
poor economy of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the unfathomable,
when in five minutSS 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 assembled
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
sides of a mole-hill to try to discuss the
comparative, 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 crowd. The world is sick to regurg-
itation with the modern quacks in religion.
The world has been swinging off from the |
old gospel, but it will swing back, and by |
the time you young men go into the pulpits !
the cry will be coming up from all the |
millions of mankind Give us the bread of |
life: no sweetened bread, no bread with |
sickly raisins stuck here and there into it. |
but old-fashioned bread, as our
MOTHER MIXED AND BAKED IT.
You see, God knew as much when he |
made the Bible as he knows now. He has |
not learned single thing in six thousand /
years. He knew at the start that the 4
human race would go wrong and what would |
De the best means of its restoration and re- 1
iemption. And the law which was thun- |
Tered on Mount Sinai, from whose top had |
he two tables of stone in yonder wall |
is the perfect law. And the |
gospel which Christ announced while dying /
IN that Mount from which I brought that |
tone in yonder wall and which Paul
preached on that hill from which brought
yonder granite, is the gospel that is going
o save the world. Young man, put on that
gospel armor! No other sword will
triumph like that. No other shield will |
protect like that. No other helmet will |
lance off the battle-axes like that Our
theological seminaries are doing glorious |
work. but If ever such theological semi
laries shall cease to prepare young men
or this plain gospel advocacy, and shall be-
ome mere philosophical schools for guess
ng about God, and guessing about the
Bible, and guessing about the soul, they
will cease their usefulness, and young men, !
S in olden time, when they would study |
or the gospel ministry, will put themselves |
nder the care of some intelligent and
pastor, and kneel with him
q family prayer at the parsonage, and go
With him into the room of the sick and the
wing and see what victories the grace of |