Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-15

sions will be gloriously and magnifi
Gently injured. Diabolus the Younger
You go up and get Union Theological
seminary Of New York and the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church al
Detroit at swords points and diverted
from the work of making earnest minis
ters of religion, and turn that old
Presbyterian church. which has been
keeping US out of customers for hun
dreds Of years. into a splendid pande-
monium on a small scale Abaddon
the Third You go up and assault that
old Episcopal church, which has been
storming the heavens for centuries with
the subIifnest prayers that we're ever
uttered-church of Bishop Leighton.
Bishop White and Bishop McIlvaine,
and get that denomination discussing
men instead of discussing the eternities.
Abaddon the Fourth You go up to
that old Methodist church, which has,
through her revivals sent millions to
heaven which we would otherwise
have added to our population; the
church of Wesley and Matthew Sinp-
son. against which we have an especial
grudge, and get them so absorbed in
discussing whether women 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"
THE SLY AND SUBTLE WORK OF SATAN.
What amazes me most is that all
people do not see that the entire move
ment at this time all over Christendom
is satanic Many Of the internal at
tacks are sly and hidden and strategic
and so ingenious that they are not easily
discovered. But here is bold and un-
covered attempt of the powers of dark
ness 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 more respect or authen-
ticity than an old almanac of 1922,
which told what would be the change
of weather six months ahead and in
what quarter of the moon it is best to
plant turnips In a word, the effort is
to stop the evangeization of the world.
1t seems to me very much like this
There has been a railroad accident and
many gre wounded and dying. There
are several drug stores near the scene
of casualty All the doctors and drug
gists are needed, and needed right
away. Bandages, stinulants, anes
thetics, medicines of all sorts What
are the doctors and druggists doingl
Discussing the contents of some old
bottles on the top shelf lf-bottles of med
icine which some doctors and druggists
mixed two or three hundred years ago.
"Come, doctorsl" "Come, druggistsl"
cry the people, "and help these wound
ed and dying that are being brought
from beneath the timbers of the crushed
rail train. In a little while it will be
too late Come, for Gods sakel Come
right awayw No" says a doctor,
mot until we 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 says there were too many drops of
and we must get this ques-
ton settled before we can attend to the
railroad 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 am right about that one bottle
will smash every bottle in your apothe
cary 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 band
ages and splints, for the lack of which
fifty people are dying outside the drug
store. Before | apply this thought,
every one sees its application. Here is
this old world, and ii is off track. Sin
and sorrow have collided with it. The
groan of agony is fourteen hundred
million voiced.
God has opened for relief and cure a
great sanitarium, a great house of mer
cy, and all its shelves are filed with
balsans, 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 II 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 relief and perish
ing for lack of Il. what of the church,
Why, it is full OF lighting doctors. On
the top pshelf are some old bottles which
several hundred years ago Calvin or
Arminins. or the members of the synod
OF bort. or the formers of the Nicens
creed tilled with boly mixtures, and un.
ill we get a revision Of these old bottles
and find out whether We must take a
teaspoonful or a 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 elsel
Now. what part shall you and | take
la this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangorl My advice is
Take no part In time OF riot all
mayors OF cities advise good citizens 20
stay at home or In their places Of busl
ness, and In this time Of religious riot /
advise you 10 90 about your regular
work foF God Leave the bottles ON