Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-25

msuisten " take eacu otner oy the throat,
70 make religion a laughing stock OF earth
and hell. to leave the Bible with no more
respect or authenticity than an old almanac
Of 1922. which told what would be the
change OF weather six yaonths ahead and
in what quarter Of the Isonth it is best TO
plant turnips. Iu ySrd. the effort is to
stop the evangelization OF the world. II
seems to me very much like this: There
has been a railroad accident and many are
wounded and dying There are several
drug stores near the scene of casualty All
the doctors and druggists are needed and
needed right away. Bandages, stimulants,
anasthetics. medicines Of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doingi Dis
cussing the contents of some old bottles on
the top shelf, bottles of medicine which
some doctors and druggists mixed two or
three hundred years ago. "Gome doctorsp
Come druggistsl' cry the people, "and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath thetimbers of
the crushed rail train In lit1e while it
will be too late Come for Gods sake
Come right awayl' mo" says the DOCTOR
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. ! say there were too many drops
of laudanum in it, and this other man saws
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 bostle 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
are dying outside the drug store Before
apply this thought every one sees it's appli.
cation. Here is this old world, and it is off
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 great sanitarium, great
house of mercy, and all its shelves are
filled with balsams with catholicons, with
help-glorious help, tremendous help, help
so easily administered that you need no.
get upon any step ladder to reach it. Yo,
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 ali
the dyingl But while the world is needing
the relief and perishing for lack of it, wh.
of the church, Why, it is full of fighting
doctors On the top shelf are some OIL
bottles, which several hundred years ag
Calvin or Arminius, or the members of til.
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 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 I take in
this controversy which fills all Christen-
dom with clangori My 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 aboutyo
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 all this dying world needs; the one
filled with potion which is for the cleans.
ing of all sin, the other filled with po-
tion 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 the mysteries! 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 a 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 a second in such exploration.
know two things, and these will devote
all the years Of my life in proclaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin,
and he will comfort trouble.
KEEP OUT OF THE sQUABBLE.
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 am told that in all
our services students of Princeton and Un-
ion and Drew and other theological semi
naries 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, 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 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 light of
eternity flashes upon our newly assembled
spirits 1t 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 religion of Jesus Christ.
Preach that and you will have crowd.
The world is 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 man.
kind, "Give us the bread of life; no sweet
ened bread, no bread with sickly raisins