Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-25

of fae So Called Advanced Clergy. Dr.
Taip1age's Faith Is Secure and Easily
Unaerstood by All.
BROOKLYN. Feb. l4.-At the Tabernacle
servise this morning. after the usual read
ing Of the Scriptures the congregation
sang
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Doth his successive journeys run.
The sermon which followed was appar
entity suggested by the storm of theological
controversy now raging in the churches
IN these times, when it is quite uncertain
what many of the clergy really do believe,
this sermon makes it very plain what the
| pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle believes.
| His text was taken from Luke vi. IL. And
ne came down with them and stood in the
plain"
Christ on the mountains is a frequent
study. We have seen him on the Mount OF
Olives. Mount of Beatitudes. Mount Mo
riah Mount Calvary. Mount of Ascension,
and il is glorious to study him on these
great natural elevations. But how is it
! that never before have we noticed him on
the plainS Amid the rocks. high up on the
mountain Christ had passed the night, but
now at early dawn, he is coming down
with some especial friends. stepping from
shelving TO shelving. here and there loos-
ened stone rolling down the steep sides
ahead Of him. until he gets in level place,
I so that he can be approached without
/ climbing from all sides. He is on the level.
Ny text says. He came down with them
and stood in the plain.
CHRIST on THR LEVEL
Now that is what the world wants today
more than anything elsa Christ on the
| level, easy to get at no ascending. no de
scending approachable from all sides
! Christ on the plain The question among
all consecrated people today is, What Is the
matter with the miniStersf Many Of them
are engaged in picking holes in the Bible
and apoogizing for this and apologizing
for that In nm age when the whole ten
deney is TO pay too little reverence to the
Bible. they are fighting against Bibliolatry.
or too much reverence for the Bible, They
are building a fence on the wrong side OF
the road not on the side where the preci.
pice Is and off which multitudes are fall
ing. but on the upper side Of the road, SO
that people will not fall up hill. OF which
there Is no danger
There H. no more danger Of Bihlioatry.
or too much reverence for the Scriptures,
than there is that astrology will take the
place OF astronomy or alchemy the place
of chemistry or the canal boat the place OF
the limited express rail train What
theological farce il is Ministers fighting
against too much reverence for the Scrip
lures. ministers making apology for the
Scriptures. ministers pretending TO be
| friends Of the Bible, yet doing the Book
more damage than all the blatant infidels
Oh ali the earth
The trouble is our theologians are up in
the mountain in fight above the clouds
about things which they do not under
stand Come down on the plain and stand
beside Christ. who never preached tech
nicality or didacticism What do you,
o wise headed ecclesiastic. know about
the DEGREES OF Godi Who cares "A fig about
your suhlapsarianism or your supralapsa-
rianismy
What a spectacle we have in our denomi-
nations today committees trying to patch
up an old creed made two or three hundred
years ago so that il will fit on the Nine
teenth century Why do not our millinery
establishments take out OF the garrets the
coal scuttle hats which your great-grand-
mothers wore and try to fiji them on the
head OF the modern maidenp You cannot
fix upa three hundred year old creed so as
to fit our time Princeton will sew on a
little piece, and Union seminary will sew
on little piece, and Allegheny seminary
and Danvlle seminary will sew on other
| pieces and by the time the creed is done it
will be ~ variegated as Joseph's coat OF
many colors. Think OF having TO change
an old creed to make il clear that all in.
fants dying go to heavenl
am 30 glad that the committees are 20
ing TO act the babies in Thank you So
many Of them ARE already in that all the
hills Of heaven look like Il Sunday school
anniversary Now what IL the use Of fix
ing upa creed which left any doubt on
that subject, No man ever doubted that
all infants dying 20 to heaven, unless he be
Herod or a Charles Guiteau. was OPP
posed TO oyerhauling the old creed ut all,
hat now that it has been lifted up and its
imperfections set up in the sight Of the
world. say Overheard with il and make
a new creed There are today in our de
nomination five hundred men who could
make better one could make better
one myself
As we are now in process Of changing
the creed. and no one knows what we are
expected TO believe. or will two or three
years hence be expected to believe, could
not wait. aud 20 ! have made a creed OF my
own which ! intend TO observe the rest OF
ms life wrote il down in my memoran
dunn book some six months ago. and It reads
az follows My creed The glorious Lord.
To trust him. love him and obey him is all
that is required To that creed invite all
mankind T De Witt Talmage.
THE PEOPLE ASK TOO MANY QUESTIONS.
The reason Christianity has not made
more rapid advance is because the people
are asked to believe too many things
There are. believe. toiay millions OF
good Christians who have never joined the
church aud are not counted among the
Lords friends because they cannot believe
all the things that they are required e
believe One half the things man is ex
pected 10 believe in order TO enter the
church and reach heaven have no more "a
do with his salvation than the question
How many volcanoes are in the moons or
How far apart from each other are the