Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-15


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'Coa4s &rnggiseSl7 cry tbs people. ~ssAa
hNss1 thuss soahde.l aud aylDts thzt are
being brought from be1slfh the tinbsrs q
the cTs1siea rsail tTasG- Ia a iIt.e shils t
vii De too laJe Come for Gods sakei
Come right assayi" NO" says the docIor
not u2tsl 80 have etled whether tie
Eaesiieins GA that top shelf We rightly
mixed / say there were too mary DROPS
81 laudanum "a 4. and this other man seys
there were too mauy drups Of campfire,
ard We mslst set teas question settied lie
fore sc can attend JOtEs railroad accident"
DoCrOIs UisPCTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE.
Aud oAe doctor taxes another doctor by
the collar and pushes hien tack against the
eounter. aud ote OF the druggists says, III
yoa will not 1dnit that | am right about
taaI one bOrtle ! viii smash every bo.sie in
your aPotLecarY store, )" and be proceeds 20
smash Meanwhile. on the lover shelf
plainly marzcd and within easy reach are
ali the medicines nesGed for the helping OF
the sufferers By the accident, and in that
drawer. easily opened. are bandagvs aud
spiints for the lack OF which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before
apply tais thought every one secs its appii-
cation Here Is this Old world, and IL Is of
track san and sorrow have sollided with
IL 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 lts shelves ara
filed with balsams, with eatholicons, with
help-giorIC-hs help. tremendous help, help
90 easily administered that you need not
get upon any step ladder 10 reach il. You
can reach Il 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 dyingl But while the world Is needing
the relief and perishing for lack OF IL, n hat
OF the church, Why, 1t Is fall OF fighting
doctors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles. which several hundred years ago
Calvin or Arninius. or the members of the
synod OF bort, or the formers OF the Nicene
creed Tiled with holy mixtures, and until
we get a revision OF these old bottles and
find out whether we must take a teaspoon
full or 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 else.
Now. what part shall you and take in
this controversy which fills all Christen-
dom with clangor9 Ny advice is. take no
part la 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 l advise you 10 90 about your
regular work for God. Leave the bottles
on the higher shelves for others TO fight
about, and take tue two bottles on the shelf
within easy reach. the two bottles which
a-c all this dying world needs the one
filled with u potion which is for the cleans
ing Of all sin. the other filled 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 admixture. Spend no
time on tine mysteriesi You, a man only
five or six feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own
experience has been vivid | devoted the
most Of my time for years in trying to un-
derstand Gods eternal DEGREES, and was
determined to find out why the Lord let
sin come into the world, and set out to
explore the doctrine OF the Trinity, and
with a yartistick To measure the throne Of
the Infinite. AS with all my predecessors,
the attempt was u dead failure For the
last thirty years | have not spent two
minutes In studying the controverted
points OF theology, and IL l live thirty
part of n second in such exploration. l
know two things. and these will devote
al. the years Of my life in proclaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin,
and he will comfort trouble
KEEP OUT OF THE sQUADBLE.
Crecds have their uses, but just now the
church is creeded To death. The young
men entering the ministry are going TO be
launched in the thickest 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 aud other theological semi
naries are present, and as these words will
come 10 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 bewildering, belittling, 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 years and
years in trying TO fathom the uufathoma-
bic, when In Eve minutes in heaven we will
know all we want TO know. Wait till we
get our throne. Wait until the light OF
eternity flashes upon our newly assembled
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
ctht, Va a. W tDtto'd>S tut tOtUT
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 viii be the
unadGlterated religion Of Jesus Christ
Preach that and You will have crowd
The world il sick 10 reorganization with the
modern quacks in religion The world has
been swinging of from the old Gospel. but
10 will swing back. and by the time you
young men go into the pulpits the cry will
be coming up from all the millions OF man
kind, Give US the bread of life: no sweet
ened bread. no bread with sickly raisins
stuck here and there into il, but old fash
toned bread az God our mother mixed 1t
and baked iti''
You ace, God knew as much when he
made the Bible "a be knows now. lie has
not learned n single thing I'm six thousand
years lie knew at the start that the hu-
man race would GO wrong and what would
be the hest means of its restoration aud re
demption. And the law which was thun-
deresi on Mount Sinai. from whose top |
bad The two tables If stone in yonder wall
transported. IL the perfect law And the
Go~pel which Christ announced while dy-
trE on that mount from which brought
that stone In Wonder wall. and which Paul
preached on thns bill from which brought
you,Iey granite. IL the Gospel that Is going
o. save the word. Young man, put on
tha. lso~pel srmCr' No other sword will
triumph Hike that No other shield will
protect Ike that No other helmet will
glance OF the battle axes like that Oar
theolcG,csl seminaries are doing glorious
work, but II ever such theological semina
ries shall cease To prepare young men FOE
this plain Gospel advocacy aud shall be