Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-03

! NO, saws the DOCTOR, MOI until We nav
| settled whether the Medicine ON that to
shelf was rightly mixed I say Their
| were too many drops Of Iaudanum in il an
| this other man says there were too man,
! crops o. campfire, we must get this ques
| tiou settled before we can attend to the rail
road accident"
And one doctor takes another doctor b.
| the collar and pushes him back against tn
counter, and one of the druggists says, II
you will not admit that / am right aboa
that one bottle will smash every bottle il
your apotheGAry store" and he proceeds Il
smash Meanwhile, on the lower shelf
plainly marked and within easy reach art
ali the medicines needed for the helping o.
the sufferers By the accident, ami In that
drawer, easily opened, are bandages an 1
splints for the lack OF which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before
apply this thought every one sees its apph-
cation. Here is this Old world, aui it is of
track. Sin and sorrow have collided with
1t. The groan OF agony is fourteen hun
dred million voiced. God has opened for
relief and cure great sanitarium, a great
house of mercy, and all its shelves are
filed with basams 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 it to
all the suffering, and the SHINING, and the
dying. Comfort for ali the troubledl Par
0Oi IOl c@A4 l. ceHIC ICT ali Tue
ing! But while the world is needing the re-
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-
ius, 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 a teaspoonful or tablespoonful,
and whether before or after meals, let the
nations suffer and groan and die. Save the
thing else.
Now, what part shall you and 1 take in
this controversy which fills all Christendom
with clangor? Ny advice is, take no part.
In time Of riot all mayors Of cities advise
good citizens to stay at home or in then
places OF business and in this time Of relig-
ious riot advise you to go about your regll-
lar 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 all
this dying world needs; the one filled with a
potion which is for the cleansing of all sin,
the other filled 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, man only five or
six feet high, ought not to try to wade
an ocean thousand feet deep. My own
experience has been vivid. I devoted the
most OF my time for years in trying to I'M
derStand Gods eternal decrees and [ was de-
termined 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 yard
stick to measure the throne OF the Infinite.
4 dead failure. For the last thirty years |
nave not spent two minutes in studying the
points of theology, and if live
thirty years longer | will not spend the thou
sandth part of a second in such exploration.
know two things, and these I will devote
Ill the years of my life in proclaiming-4od
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
aunched in the thic5lest fog that ever set
led on the coasts. AS [ am told that in all
'ur services students OF Princeton and I'm
on and Drew and other theolo gical semi
larleS are present, and as these words will
some to thousands of young men who are
soon to eater the ministry, let me say to
such and through them to their associates,
keep out of the bewildering, beittling. de-
'troylng and angry controversies abroad.
ryiDg to settle will not be settled until tbs
lay after the day of judgment. Tt is such a
DOOR economy OF time to spend years AMI
7ears IN trying to fathom toe unfathOmable,
When IN five minutes in heaven we will know
Ill we want to know. Wait till we get or
throne. Wait till the light of eternity
iashes upon our newly assembled
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
sides OF mole hill to try to discuss the COM
oarative heights of Mount Blanc and Mount
W ashlngton. Let me say to all young men
about to enter the ministry that soon the
greatest novelty in the world will be the I'M
ldulterated religion of Jesus Christ. Preach
hat and you will have a crowd. The world
S sick to regurgitatiou with the modern !
luacks In religion. the world has been
swinging OF from the old Gospel but it will
swing back, and by the time you young men
90 into the pulpits the cry will be comiug 10
rom all the millions OF mankind, ''Give us
he bread Of life; no sweetensd bread, no
bread with sickly raisns stuck here and
hera into it, but old-fashionei bread as Col |
'ur mother mixed and baked itw
Now, what is the simple fact that you in
he pew and Sabbath-school class and re- |
OrmatOry ASSOCIATION and We in the putoits |
lave to deal with? Is is this: That God has !
and it matters not where, but /
provided a great heaven. great |
or quletness Tor those VINO want quiet: great |
or vast assemblage for those who like null |
ltudes; great for architecture for those who |
Ike architecture; great for beautiful land !
cape for those who like beautiful landscape;
treat TOR music for those who like music: |
treat for PROFESSIONS for those who |
ike armies on white horses, and great .
or anything that one especially desires in !
uch rapturOuS dominion: and through the |
longs of one Who was born about !
i've miles south o. Jerusalem AMI died |
Lbout ten minutes walk from its east
I'm gate all may enter that great heaven
or the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is |
hat all? That is all. What, then, is yonr
work ana mine: Our work is to persuade !
people to face that way AMI start thitler- /