Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-15

the top shelf, bottles of medicine which
some doctors and druggists mixed two or
three hundred years ago. "Come doctors"
Come druggistsr cry the people, "and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the timbers Of
the crushed rail train. In little while 1t
will be too late Come for Gods sakel
Come right away" mo" says the doctor,
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. ! sag there were too many drops
of laudanum in it, and this other man says
there were too many drops of campfire.
and we must get this question settled be
fore we can attend to the railroad accident
DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE.
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 hostile 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
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 greet sanitarium, a great
house of mercy, and all its shelves are
filled with balsams, with cathoicons, with
help-glorious help, tremendous help, help
% 1u ~ i,,{c hot
get upon 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 dyingl But while the world is needing
the rehef 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 Arminius, or the members of the
synod of Dort 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 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, if you cannot save anything else.
Now, what part shall you and take In
this controversy which fills oil Christon
dom with c!angor? 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 go 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 oil this dying world needs; the one
filled with potion which is for the cleans
ing of all sin, the other filed with pc
ton which is for the soothing of all suffer.
ing. Two gospel bottlesl Christ mixed
them out of his own tears and blood. In
them Is no human admiXture. Spend no
time on the mysteriesI You, man only
five or six feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean 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 yardstick to measure the throne of
the Infinite. AS with all my predecessors,
the attempt was dead failure. For the
last thirty years | have not spent two
minutes in studying the controverted
points of theology, and If live thirty
years longer will not spend the thousandth
part of second In such exploration.
know two things, and these will devote
ali the years of my life in proclaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin,
and he will comfort trouble.
Creeds 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 ain told that in all
our services students of Princeton and I'm
ion and Drew and other theological semi
naries are present. and rs these words will
come to thousands of young men who are
soon to enter the ministry, let mo say to
such and through them to their associates,
keep out of tho bewildering, belittlng, 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 |
n poor economy of time to spend years and |
years in trying to fathom the unfathoma-
BILE when in five minutes in heaven we will |
know all we want to know. Wait till we
get our throne. Wait until the hight of |
eternity flashes upon our newly assembled |
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different |
sides of n 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
unadulterated 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 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 sckly raisns
stuck here and there into it, but old fash
toned bread as God our mother mixed 1t |
and baked itW
You see, God knew as much when he !
made the Bible rs he knows now lie has |
not learned n single thing in six thousand |
years. He knew Mt the start that the hu
man race would 90 wrong and what would |
be the best means of its restoration and re
demption. And the law which was thun-
dered on Mount Sinai, from whose top |
had the two tables of stone in yonder wall |
transported, is the perfect law. And the |
Gospel which Christ announced while dy. |
ing on that mount from which | brought |
that stone in yonder wall and which Paul |
preached on that hill from which brought |
yonder granite, is the Gospel that is going |
to save the world Young man, put on |
that Gospel armorl No other swor' ~
triumph like that, No other shield VIII /
protect like that No other helmet will |
glance oil the battle axes like that Our |
theological seminaries are doing glorious
work, but if ever such theological semina-
RES shall cease to prepare young men for