Milford chronicle., 1891-06-19
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1891

the crushed rail train. In little while
OF will be too late. Come for Gods sake
" Come right awayp "No. says the doctor
az mot until we have settled whether tn
medicine on that top shelf was righti
mixed. / say there were too many drop
It OF laudanum in it. and this other man say
v there were too many drops Of campfire
T and we must get this question settled be
n fore we can attend to the railroad accident
IS DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE.
n And one doctor takes another doctor b.
s the collar and pushes him bnck against tn,
d counter, and one Of the druggists says, al
! you will not admit that am right about
1 that one bottle will smash every bottleir
r your apothecarY store, and he proceeds &C
=. smash. Meanwhile. on the lower shelf
=. plainly marked and within easy reach art
4 all the medicines needed for the helping OF
t the sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer easily opened, are bandages and
? spHntS for the lack Of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store Before /
J apply this thought every one sees its 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 opened for
relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great
house Of mercy, and all its shelves are
filled with balsams, with eatholieons, with
help-glorious help, tremendous help, helm
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
1t to all the suffering, and the SHINING, and
the dying. Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all the guilty. Peace for all
the dyingi But while the world is needing
the relief and perishing for lack OF it. what
Of the church, Why, it is full of lighting
doctors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles, which several hundred years ago
! Calvin or Arminius, or the members of the
( synod Of bort, or the formers of the Nicene
/ creed filled with holy mixtures, and until
we get a revision of these old bottles and
/ find out whether we must take 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.
Now, what part shall you and take in /
this controversy which fills all Christen- /
dom with clangor9 Ny 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 20 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 potion which is for the cleans
ing Of all sin, the other filed with po-
ton which is for the soothing of all suffer
ing. Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed
them out of his own tears and blood. In
them is no human admiGture. Spend no
time on the mysteriesl You, man only
five -iE
an ocean a Thousand feet deep Ny own
experience has been vivid. / devoted the
most Of my time for years in trying to I'M
derstand Gods eternal DEGREES, and was
determined to find out why the Lord let
sin come into the world, and I set out to
explore the doctrine of the Trinity, and
with yardstic5 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 controyerUed 4
points Of theology, and if l live thirty
years longer will not spend the thousandth = !
part of a second in such exploration. /
know two things, and these will devote !
al. the years of my life in proelaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin, =
and he will comfort trouble. :
KEEP OUT OF THE soUABBLE. :, =
Creeds have their uses, but just now the a
church is creeded to death. The young T,
men entering the ministry are going to be I,
launched in the thickest fog that ever set b
led on the coasts. As l am told that in all n
our services students of Princeton and I'm n
on and Drew and other theological semi
laIies are present, and as these words will
'ome to thousands Of young men who are -
Don TO enter the ministry, let me say to ~
4 81 4. A. -. Al
-eep out of the bewildering, belittHng, de- -
troying and angry controversies abroad. " "
The questions our doctors of divinity are "
rying to settle will not be settled until the u
ay after the day of Judgment. 1t is such -
poor economy of time to spend years and Y.
ears in trying to fathom the unfathoma- q
lie, when in five minutes in heaven we will ~
now all we want to know. Wait till we = =
ct our throne. Wait until the light of -
ternity flashes upon our newly assembled -,
pirits. 1t is useless for ants on different -
des OF mole hill to try to discuss the com ~
aratiTe heights of Mount Blanc and Mount "a "a
Washington. Let me say to all young men ~
bout to enter the ministry that soon the ~
reatest novelty in the world win be- the - %
religion of Jesus Christ. -
reach that and you will have crowd. -
he world is sick to reorganization with the ~, ~
Odern quacks in religion. The world has - -
cen swinging off from the old Gospel, but ~
will swing back, and by the time you ~ ~
'ung men so into the pulpits the cry will -
coming up from all the millions of man "a a.
nd, give us the bread of life; no sweet -
led bread, no bread with siekly raisins W.
uck here and there into it, but old fash ~
ned bread as God our mother mixed ii S,.'s
ID baked itr -, ~
Won $40 Cod kDaur ae vnuob xybar hs - I
ade the Bible as he knows now. He has IN
It learned a single thing in six thousand = -
airs. He knew at the start that the hui -
an race would so wrong and what would ~ ~
the best means Of its restoration and re- -
mption. And the law which was thun- s
red on Mount Sinai, from whose top "
d the two tables OF stone in yonder wall ~ ~
lnsported, is she perfect law. And the
ispel which Christ announced while dy- -
: on that mount from which brought our
1t stone in yonder wall, and which Paul On
cached on that hill from which l brought he'l
nder granite, is the Gospel that is going I'm
save the world. Young man, put on wa
1t Gospel armori No other sword will Dlie
umph ike that. No other shield will SON SON
,tect like that. No other helmet will lOls
nee of the battle axes like that. Our ~ ~
oiogical seminaries are doing glorious -
rki out II ever such theological semina- ,,s,c
) sail cease to prepare young men for ~
$ plain Gospel advocacy and shall be- , 80
le mere philosophical schools for guess n,
about God and guessing about the -, :,
Ne and guessing about the soul, they 80
cease their usefulness, and young 80,
D, as in olden time, when they would 49,
dy for the Gospel ministry, will put 80
nlselves under tue care of some intelli- tbes.
and warm hearted pastor and kneel 49,
b him in family prayer at the parson- eSn,.
i, and go with him into the room OF the ~
and the dying. and see what victories - 49,
grace Of God can gain when the couch -,a7,o
he dying saint is the marathon. 49, 49,
VITAL RELIGION IS THE REMEDY. IA 1,
hat is the way the mighty ministers of Office
Gospel were made in olden times Oh, and
n great wave Of revival to roll over our Then
Illogical seminares and our pulpits and that
churches and our ecclesiastical courts, the Z
over all Christendomi That would be the h