The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-01


part in her conference, that they shall
not have SO much time TO discuss how
many sons and daughters she win take
to glory" ~ @-
What amazes me most 10 that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire movement
at this time all over Christendom is Sa-
tanic. Many of the internal attacks
are sly and hidden and strategic, and
so ingenious that they are not easily
discovered. But here is a 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 . laughing
stock of earth and hell, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or, anthem
ITCHY 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 word, the effort is
to stop the evangelization Of the world.
1t seems to me very much like this:
There has been railroad accident and
many are wounded and dying.
There are several drug stores near
the scene of casualty. All the doctors
and druggists are needed, and needed
right away. Bandages, stimulants,
an@sthetics. medicines Of all sorts.
What are the doctors and druggist do.
ing? Discussing the contents of some
old bottles on the top shelf, bottles of
medicine which some doctors and drug
glsts mixed 200 or 300 years ago. Come,
doctors! come, druggists!" cry the peo-
pie, land help these wounded and dy-
ing that are being brought from be-
meath the timbers Of the crushed rail
train. In a little while it will be too
late. Come, for Gods sake! Come
right away!" ''No," says a 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 of cam
phor, and we must get this question
settled before we can attend to the rail-
road accident" And one doctor
takes another doctor by the col
lar and pushes him back against
the counter, and one of the doctors
says: IF you will not admit that am
right about that one 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 the medicines
needed for the helping Of the sufferers
by the accident, and in that drawer,
easily opened, are bandages and splints,
for the lack Of which fifty people are
dying outside the drug store. Before
l apply this thought everyone sees its
application. Here is this old world and
it 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 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 up
on 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! Pardon for all the guilty!
Peace for all the dying! But while the
world is needing the relief and perish
ing 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, Cal
vim 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 revision of these old
bottles and find out whether we must
take teaspoonful or tablespoonful,
and whether before or after meals, let
the nations suffer and groan, and die.
Save the bottles by all means If you can
not save any thing else!
Now. what part shall you and take
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon 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 I advise you to &c
about your regular work of 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 filed with'a potion
which is for the cleansing of all sin
the other filed with 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, only 6
man five or six feet high, ought not tc
try to wade an ocean 1000 feet deep
My own experience has been vivid.
devoted the most of my time for years
in trying to understand Gods Eternal
DEGREES, and l was determined to find
out why the Lord let sin come into the
world, and set out to explore the doc
trine of the Trinity, and with yard
stick to measure the throne of the In
finite. AS with all my predecessors
the attempt was dead failure. Fol
the last thirty years have not spen
two minutes in studying the contro
verified points of theology, and if l live
thirty-tive years longer will not spent
the thousandth part of second in sucl
exploration. / know two things, and
will devote all the years of my life il
proclaiming: God will through Jesu
Christ pardon sin and He will comfor
trouble.
Creeds have their uses, but just nov
the church is creeded to death. Tn