Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
TALl[AGE ON CREEDS.
Best Not to Interfere in Theological
Disputes of the Day.
THEY ARE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL
Enough CertiudeS to Ponder Without Dely-
ing in Mysteries.
r. A TINE TO step RELIGIOUS STRIFE
! THEYARETH WORK OF THE DEVIL
"A TINE TO STOP RELIGIOUS STRIFE
-srrCrAu TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. J


.Talmaces timely sermon this morning was
The Battle Of Creeds." His text was
taken from Proverbs XVI, Il: ''He that
Fa>seJh lay and meddleth with strife belong
iug not so him IS like one that taketh dog
lv the ears.
solomon here deplores the habit of rush
iug i'm between contestants. of taking part in
5le autagoniSms Of Others, of joining in
Sights which they ought to shun. They do
mo- good so others and get damage for them
selves. He compares it to the experiment of
taNiU- dog hy the ears. Nothing so irri-
tafr~ the CANNES as being clutched by the
hugs. Vow says solomon, you go into
gVarrcls or controversies that are not yours
sNl YOU viii get lacerated and torn and bit
ten.
This is time Of resouudirg ecclesiastical
quarrel. Never within your memory or
,uine has the air been so full of missiles. The
Presbyterian Church has on hand contro
yersy 50 great that it finds it prudent TO
fru~JpOue its settlement for at least one more
year, hoping that something will turn up.
Somebody might die or a new General As
-eubly may have grace to handle the eNcit-
iH- questions.
Troubles Rending MANY Sects.
The Episcopal Church has cast out some
rccalriirants, and it, digestive organs are
taxed TO the utmost in irving to assimilate
. others. shall women preach?' cor be sens
- delegates to Conference" are questions
that have put many of our Methodist breth-
-yu on the anxious seat And the waters
iii some OF the great baptistries are troubled
waters. Because of the controversies
throughout ChristendOm the air is now like
:u August afternoon about o'clock when
it has been steaming hot all day, and clouds
are gathering. and there are lions of thunder
with grumbling voices and flashing eyes
coming forth from their cloudy lairs and
people are waiting for the full burst of the
In:ufr-t-
s.ul not much OF a weather prophet, but
g.- clouds look to me mostly like wind
clouds. Ii may be a big blow. but hope it
will soon be over. In regard to the Battle of
thc trecds, am every day asked what L
tET2tE about it. l want to make plain
This morning what think that no one will
ever ask again.
Let those who are jurymer in the case,
mean those who in the different ecclesiaSti-
cal courts have the questions put directly
before Ihcu weigh and decide. Let the rest
OF u~ keep ont. The most damaging thing
ou earth II religious controversy. No one
ever comes ont OF it as good a man as he
Gyc- IN
species of Moral Hydrophobia.
some OF the ministers, in ali denOmina-
lions. who. before the present acerbity were
good and kind and useful, now seem almost
swearing mad These brethren / notice al
ways open their violent meetings with
prayer before dcvouring each other. thus
saving grace before meat. They have a
moral hydr"phobia that makes US think
they have taken a dog by the ears. They
never read the imprecatoTy psalms of David
with such Zost ~ since the Briggs and New
.Iln and NaCQUCaTE and Bridgman and
Brooks questions got into full swing. Nav
me rains Of the sheepfold soon have their
horns sawed OF.
Before the controversies are settled, a
good many ministers will, through what
they call liberalism, be landed into practi- |
cal in1idelity, and Others through what they
call conservatism, VIII shrink up into bigots |
tE-at ard hard as the mummies of Egypt |
Eaieh got through their controversies 5000 |
NtET- ago
This trouble throughout Christendom was |
directly inspired of Satan. He saw that too |
mach good was being done Recruits were
being gathered by hundreds OF thousands to
,ar gospel Standard. The victories for God
tld Nh" truth were too near together Too |
many churches We're being dedicated Too |
many ministers We're being ordained. Too |
,EanE philaurhrOpies were being fostered. !
Too many souls were being saved. 1t had |
been dun time in the neither world, and |
the arrivals were too few.
Satan's Guiding Hand Visible.
So satan one day rose upon his throne and |
said, "le powers of darkness hear And |
an up and down the caverns the cry was: |
"Hcar, Hear" satan said: There is that |
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. 1t must either be de-
luul~hCd ur crippled, or the first thing you
know they Will have all nations brought to
God. Apollyon the Younger You 90 up to
AuGovcr and get the professors discussing
whether the heather can be saved without
the gospel Divert them from the work of
missions and get them in angry convention
III room at lOung's Hotel, Boston, and by
the time they adjourn the cause of foreign
missions Will 0e glorlously and magnificent
ly injured.
"Dabolus the Younger! You go up and
get Union Theological Seminary of New
York and General Assembly of the Presby-
ueriuu Church at Detroit at words points |
&T! diverted from the work of making
eaIucs, ministers of religion, and turn thar |
Old Pres .gterian Church, which has been
keeping Ms out OF customers for hundreds of
Eonf-. INTO splendid panGemonium on
AIadGou the Third, You go up and as
sauit that old Episcopal Church, which has
been 7torning the heavens TOR centuries
with The sublimest prayers that were ever
utrerea-church OF Bishop Leighton, Bishop
"a hite and Bishop McIlvaine and get that
dcuumiaa Uon discussing men instead of dis
You 90 up to that old Methodist Church !
which has through her revivaIs, sent mill
ions TO heaven.
The World Full of Moral Remedies
p Here Is this old world, and it is off track |
Sin and sorrow have collided with it. The
gGoan and agony is fourteen hundred mill
.0n-vOiced God has opened for relief and
"tltt great SdulIaTlunl, Il great House OF
Mercy. and all its shelves are filled with
aaIsau!s with cathoIicons, with help glo-
rlou- help, tremendous help, help so easily
administered that you need not get upon
ANY Step-iGGdcr to reach it You can reach
it on your knees and then hand it to all the
suffering and the SHINING and the diving.
BUI While the world is needing the relief
and pgrlsLlug Tor lack OF it, what of the |
coUrcn2 Why, 1t il full of fighting doctors |
On the top shelf are some old bottles which |
several hundred years ago Calvin or Ar |
minus or the members of the synod of |
bort, or the formers OF the Nicene creed |
4il.su with holy mixtures, and mt we get a /
Tey sion OF these old bottles and find out
whether We must take a teaspOonful or a /
tahlc~i ipnniGi, and whether before or after
meals let the nations suffer and groan and |
die. save the bottles by all means if YOU 5
cannot save anything else, n
Now. what part shall You and l take in
this controversy which fills all Christend- m !
wirb r';ugor? My advice is: Take no part,
IN iiLur If riot al Mayors of cities advise
good citizens to stay at home or in their
place. ni business and in this time of re- {
li-aul- riot ! advise you to go about your
Regular work for God.
Don't Explore Intricate Doctrines.
Leave the bottles on the higher shelves for
others TO fight about and take the two bot
7lo- ou the shelf within easy reach, the two ,
uuitius which are all this dying world needs;
the one filled with potion which is for the
cleansing OF all sin, the other filed with a
.Igaiun which is for the soothing of all suf-
frliuE. Christ mixed them out of His own .
fears and blood. In them is no human
admiNture. spend no time on the mys- :
ferie~,
N.u % man only fye or Siv fao+ l,i,b