Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-25

apply inns thought every one sees its applis
cation Here is this old world, aud it Is or
TRACK; SIN aud Sorrow have colided with
u Inc groan of agony is fourteen hun.
ured million voiced. God has opened for
relief and cure a great sanitariu1i; a great
house of mercy, and all Its shelves are
iilled With balsanis, with catholcons. with
helps glorious help, tremendous help, help
SO easily administered that YOU need not get
upon any step ladder to reach it. You dan
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 ell the dy-
ing But while the world is needing the ra-
lief and perishing for lack OF it, what 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-
lus, 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 aud find out whether we
must take teaspoonfui 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 any
thing else.
Now, what part shall you AMI / take in
this controversy which fills all Christenlom
with eangor? 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 I'M this time of relig-
lous riot advise you to 90 about your regu-
lar work for God leave the bottles on the
higher shelves for others to fight about, and
Jake ehe Two Dottles on the shelf within
easy reach, tue TWO bottles which are all
Dnls uying world needs, the one ii'led with a
potion which is for the cleansing of all SIM
the other filled with potion which is for
the soothing of all suffering. Two Gospel
bottles Christ mixel them out of His own
Nai anu pioou. LII them Is no human
adhi3lure. Speha no Time on the
mysteriesl You, man only five or
SIX ieet hlSh; ought not b try TO wade
an ocean Thousand teet deep. My own
experience mas Deen VIVID. devoted the
most or my time for years III trying to un-
aerstand tods eternal DEGREES, and was de-
termlned TO ma out why the Lord let SIN
couie inoo lne Woriu, anu SET OUT 70 explore
the doctrine OF the TRINITY, and with yard
SUCK TO measure the throne OF the Infinite
AS with all my predecessors, the attempt was
q ueau ialiure. for the last thirty years l
nave ho1 spent Two minutes III Studying Ihe
controverted points OF theology, and II i've
thirty years longer VIII not spend the thou
sahdth part OF second IN sucn exploration.
know Two thlngs ana these VIII devote
al the years Of my he IN proclaimlng rod
WI through Jesus Christ pardon sin, and
he VIII comfort trouble.
church is creeded to deauh. The young men
entering the ministry are going to be
launched in the thiczest fog that ever set
tied on the coasts As am told that in all
our services students of Princeton and I'm
ion and Drew and other theological semi
naries 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 bewidering beiittling. de-
stroying and angry controversies abroad.
The questions our doctors of divinity are
| trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of Judgment 1t is such a
poor economy of time to spend wears and
| years in trying to fathom the unfathomable,
when in five minutes in heaven we will know
| all we want to know Wait till we get our
throne. Wait till 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 com
parative 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 un-
adulterated religion of Jesus Christ. Preach
that and you will have a crowd. The world
is sick to reorganization 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 pulpts the cry viii be coming ur
from all the millions of mankind. .sGiye n.
the bread of life. no sweetened bread nc
| bread with sickly raisins stack here nnc
there into it. but oId-fasbionei bread as Co
| orr mother mixed and hakad it,u
Now what is the simple fact that Won i,
| the new and S,hhath-school c,sss ana "a
formatorv association and wa in the ,,,lo;t
have 10 deal with9 T. ;s iris. That God no,
somawbers and 4 mattsrs NOT 1vbsrs i h,,
somewhara nrovidad o.a.t heaven o,.,a
for n,;etnass fo,. tho W. va NJ ,n;at e,,a
for vast assemh. 90 for thoss WI ill.,
i titudss great for srcSitact,,ra fn,. tbnsa ,yh,
like architecture; great for beautiful land
scalJe for those who like beautiful landscape
great for music for those who like music
great for professions for those VIII
like armies on white horses. and grea
for anything that one especially desires il
such a rapturous dominion: and through tn
doings OF one who was born abou
five miles south of Jerusalem and die
about ten minutes, walk from its east
ern gate ali NAV enter that great beava
for the earnest and heartfelt asking
that all? That is all. What then. is YOU
work and mineS Our work is to persuad
people to face that way and start thither.
ward and finally 90 in. But has not reli
eion something to do with this world as wei
as the next? Oh yes: but do YOU not Sc
that il the people start for heaven on thei
way there they will do all the good they can
They will at the very start of the journe,
get SO much of the spirit OF Christ, which i
a spirit OF kindness and self sacrifice ane