Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-15
WHAT HE BELIEVES.
a SERMON DETAILING THE CREED
or DR. TALMAcE.

His Words Have No Uncertain sound.
.-rrusk Love and Obey the Lord
rhn Il the Beginnins, and the Middle.
and tho End.
BRooKLYr, Feb. IL. AT the Tabei
nacle service this morning, after the
usual reading of the Scriptures. the
congregation sang
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Doth hia successive Journeys run.
The sermon which followed was
apparently suggested by the storm,
OF Theological controversy now rag
ing in the churches In these times
when II Is quite uncertain what many
Of the clergy really do believe, thir
serinon makes It very plain what the
pastor OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle
believes. His text was taken from
Lake vi. II, And he came down
with them and stOd in the plain.
Christ on the mountains IL FIRE
auent study We have seen him or
the Mount OF Olives. Mount of Beat
tiidtss Mount MoI1ah. Mount Calvary
Mount OF Ascension. and it Us giorl
0us 10 study him ou these great mai
urai elevatlons But how ia 1t thay
never before have we noticed him Of
the piains Amid the rocks. high NJ,
on rhe mountain, Christ had passed
the night. but now al early dawn
he " coming down with some espe
cial friends, stepping from shelving
to oahelving. here and there a loosepe'i
stone rolling down the steep side
ahead Of him. until he gets III level
place, 40 that he can he approached
without climbing from all sides. He
is on the level Ny text says. He
came down with them and stood i'll
the plain
WHAT THE WORLD WANTS.
Now that Is what the world wants
today more than anything else a
Christ on the level. easy TO get at, no
ascending. no descending, approach
able from all sides Christ on the
plain. The question among all con
secrated people today IL, What If the
matter with the ministersG Many OF
them are engaged IN picking holes III
the Bible aud apologizing for this and
apologizing for that. In an age when
the whole tendency IL to pay too
little reverence 10 the Bible, they are
fighting against Bihliolatry or too
much reverence for the Bible. They
are building a fence on the wrong
gde OF the road not on the side
where the precipice IL and OF which
mnltitRles are falling. but on the
upper side OF the road, so that people
will not fall up hill, of which there If
no danger
There IL no more danger OF Bibli
olatry, or too much reverence for the
Scriptures. than there is that astrol
ugy will take the place ot astronomy
or alchemy the place OF chemistry,
or the canal boat the place OF the
limited express rail train What a
theological farce II is. ministers
lighting against too much reverence
for the Scriptures. ministers making
apology for the SCRIPTURES, ministers
pretending 10 he friends ot the Bible,
vet dong the Book more damage
than all the blatant lniidels on all the
earth The trOuhle ~ ouI theologian'
are up IN the mountain IN hgh'
above the clouds about things whict
they do not understand Come down
on the plain and stand beside CHRIST
who never preached technlcailty o
didacuciSm. What 60 you. . Wis
headed eUylesillstle, know about thu
DEGREES of tiodI Nho cares u III
about your snblaparlanirm OF you
supialalaar1anisIni
What a spectacle we have IN on
denomination to,lay cOmmlttestry
mg 70 patch up IN old creed mad
two or three hundred years ago, =
that Il viii lit on the Nineteenth cen
uny. Why do not our millinery ei
tablishments take out OF the garnet
the coal st'utte hats which you
great grandmothers wore and try I
iii them ou the head OF the mnder
maldeng You cannot fix upa thre'
hundred year old ,re,si ~ rs 70 I
our time PRINCETON VIII sew ON
little pl,s'e. aud Union seminary wi
sew on a little wee, and Allcghan
seminary and Danyille seminary WI
sew on other pieces aud by the tim
the clneSl IA done II will be rs v'ut'
gats~l ~ I,sa'phs coal of many =
ofs
1hink of having "a change an nl
creed 70 make lt clear that all lnian
dying 20 to heaven ann So gla
that the committees are gnlng Ia l.
the babies Ia Thank you SO man
OF them are already IN that all Il
hills OF heaven look like a Sunda
school anniversary Now what
the use OF fixing up creed whie
left any doubt on that subl@tI J
man ever doubted that all infan
dyinR 40 10 heaven. unless be he
Herol on a Charles Guitau. w
opposed 70 overhauling the old cres
Al an. but now ghat u has boen lilte
20 and its nnperi@tions set up m q
mght of the world. ! ray. overlAsli
with II aud make a new creed
Theleare to-day an our denolnlnatl,
ave hundnd men who could make
better one couisl make lS'tlei ~
myself. A. We are now IN pr'sy'ss'
changing the creed and no one know
what We are expeclsd 10 believe
wlll two oF three years hen,e b' =
pected 10 believe. ! ennld not wal
and ~ have made a citssl of "a
own which 4 intend 20 ohserye q
rest ~ my life. wrnie u down