The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-06-18

TOO MUCH TALK or CREEDS.
Creeds have their uses, but just
now the church is crceded TO death
The young men entering the ministry
are going 70 be launched in the thickest
fog that ever settled on the coasts. As
am told that in AL our services stu
dents of Princeton and Union and
Drew and other theological serninaries
are present, and as these words will
come TO thousands Of young men who
are soon 10 enter the ministry, let me
say TO such. and through them To their
associates, keep ont Of the bewildering,
belittling. destroying and angry contro-
VERSES abroad. The questions our doc
tors of divinity are trying to settle will
not be settled until the day after the
day of Judgment Ii is such a poor
economy of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the unfathom-
able, when in five minutes in heaven
we viii know all we want to know.
Wait till we get our throne Wait un-
til the light of eternity flashes upon our
newly assembled spirits.
1t is useless for ants on different sides
of mole hill to try to discuss the CON-
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
Ill hax sha 10
sick to regurgitation 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 It'll"
You see God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He
has not learned 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
its restoration and redemption Ana
| the law which was Numbered on Mount
| Sinai, from whose top had the two
tables of stone in yonder wall trans
ported, is the perfect law. And the
| Gospel which Christ announced while
| dying 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 armor!
No other sword will triumph like that
No other shield will protect like that.
No other helmet will glance off the
battle axes like that
Our theological Summaries are doing
glorious work, but if ever such theo-
logical seminaries 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 fol
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 parsonge
and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see what vic
tories the grace of God can gain wher
the couch of the dying saint is the
Marathon
That is the way the mighty minister.
of the Gospel were made IN olden times
Or, TOT q great wave or revival TO rol
over our theological seminaries, and ou
pulpits, and our churches, and our &c
clesiastical courts and over all Christen
doml 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 tiger
and reptiles of raging ecclesiasticisn
fifteen cubits under
WORK FOR CHRIST BRINGS PEACE.
Now, what is the simple fact that 20,
in the pew and Sabbath school elias
and reformatory association and we il
the pulpits have to deal with2 1t
, this: That God has somewhere, and
matters not where, but somewhere
provided a great heaven-great fo
quietness for those who want quiet
, great for vast assemblage for those VIII
like multitudes, great for architecture
for those who like architecture, grea
, for beautiful landscape for those VIII
. like beautiful landscape, great for mu
, sic for those who like music, great TO
professions for those who like armie
D on white horses, and great for anythin
t that one especially desires in such
rapturous dominion-and through th
I dOings of one who was born about fiv
q miles south of Jerusalem and die
\ about ten minutes walk from its easter
/ gate ali may enter that great heave
@ for the earnest and heartfelt asking
: Is that all? That is all. What the
. is your work and mine? Gu
n work is to persuade people to fac
h that way and start thitherward an
p finally go in But has not religio
\ something to 90 with this world as we
q as the next? Oh, yes; but do you nc
!. see that if the people start for HEAVIER
&c on their way there they will do all tn
a good they can? They will at the yer
4 start of the journey get SO much of til
% spirit of Christ, which is spirit {
70 kindness and self sacrifice and gen
# rosity and burden bearing and helpful
ness, that every step they take will r
q sound with good deeds Oh, get yor
; religion off of stiltsl Get it down o,
:. of the high towersi Get it N lev
n with the wants and woes of our pc.
= human racel Get it ont of the dus
j. theological books that few people rea
7 and put it in their hearts and live
n Good thing is it to profess religion whe
m you join the church, but every da
bt somehow, we ought to profess religio
10 A peculiar patchwork quilt was, du