Connecticut western news., 1891-06-17
TOO MUCH TALK OF CREEDs.

now the church is creeded to death. The young men entering the ministry are going to be launched in the thickest fog that ever settled on the coasts As am told that in all our services stu dents of Princeton and Union and Drew and other theological seminaries 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 bewildering, belittling, destroying and angry contro versies abroad The questions our doc tors of divinity are trying to settle will not be settled until the day after the day of judgment. It is such a poor economy of time to spend years and years in trying to fathom the unfathom- able when in Eve minutes in heaven we win know all we want to know Wait till we get our throne Wait un- til the light of eternity flashes upon our newly ascended spirits
 It 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 unadulterated relig ion of Jesus Christ Preach that and you will have 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 mankind, ''Give us the bread of life; no sweetened bread, no bread with sickly raisins stuck here and there into it, but old fashioned bread as God our mother mixed it and baked itl''
 You see God knew as much when he made the Bible as he knows now. He has not learned a single thing in six thousand years He knew at the start that the human race would go wrong, and what would be the best means of it's restoration and redemption. And the law which was thundered on Mount Sinai, from whose top 1 had the two tables of stone in wonder wall trans ported, is the perfect law And the Gospel which Christ announced while dying on that mount from which l brought that stone in wonder 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 sword will triumph like that. No other shield will protect like that No other helmet will glance of the battle axes like that
 Our theological seminaries are doing glorious work, but if ever such theo logical seninaries shall cease to prepare young men for this plain Gospel advo cacy, and shall become mere philo sophical schools for guessing about God and guessing about the Bible and guessing about the soul, they will cease their usefulness and young men, as in olden time, when they would study for the Gospel ministry, will put themselves under the care of some intelligent and warm hearted pastor, and kneel with him in family prayer at the parsonage and go with him into the room of the sick and the dying, and see what vic tories the grace of God can gain when the couch of the dying saint is the Marathon. .r..4
 That is the way the mighty ministers of the Gospel were made in olden times. Oh, for great wave of revival to roll over our theological seminaries, and our pulpits, and our churches, and our ec clesiastical courts and over all Christen dom That would be the end of con troversy While such deluge would float the ark of God higher and higher it would put all the bears and tigers and reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism fifteen cubits under
 WORK FOR CHRIST BRINGS PEACE.
 Now, what is the simple fact that you in the pew and Sabbath school class and reforlnatory association and we in the pulpits have to deal with2 It is this That God has somewhere, and it matters not where, but somewhere, provided great heaven great for quietness for those who want quiet, great for vast asselnblage for those who like multitudes, great for architecture for those who like architecture, great for beautiful landscape for those who like beautiful landscape. great for mu sic for those who like music, great for processions for those who like armies on white horses, and great for anything oil iv, o rapturous dominion-and through the doings of one who was born about five miles south of Jerusalem and died about ten minutes walk from it's eastern gate all may enter that great heaven for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is that oll' That is all: What then is your work and mine2 Our work is to persuade people to face that way and start thitherward and finally go in But has not religion something to do with this world as we'll as the next? Oh, yes; but do you not see that if the people start for heaven, on their way there they will do all the good they can2 They will at the very start of the journey get so much of the spirit of Christ, which is a spirit of kindness and self sacrifice and gene rosity and burden bearing and helpful ness. that every step they take will re, sound with good deeds Oh, get your religion off of stilts' Get it down out of the high towers! Get it on level with the wants and woes of our poor human race! Get it out of the dusty theological books that few people read and put it in their hearts and lives. Good thing is it to profess religion when you join the church, but every day,