The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-09-01
THE STORY OF CHRIST.
Told to a Large Audience by Bishop
WhippIe Last Sunday.

Bishop Whipple was in the pulpit
at the church of the Holy Communion,
this city, Sunday afternoon, commenc-
ing at three o'clock. His visit was
merely one to his Indian mission at
the Lower Sioux Agency, and was not
known until Friday afternoon. He
preached at the Agency in the fore
noon of Sunday, and as above stated,
at Redwood in the afternoon.
The church was crowded, every seat,
and chairs in the aisles being full.
Rev. Williams, of the Methodist, and
Prof. Upton, of the Christian, both
being among the congregation. Mes
danes Ward, Schmahl and Everett,
and Gene Drake and Geo. Dickinson
we're in the choir box, while Miss Car
rothers presided at the organ. Vases
of natural flowers and golden rod
we're scattered about promiscuously
and perfumed the air.
The venerable Bishop, partly bald,
and with long hair from the lower por-
ton of his Uranium reaching almost to
his shoulders, was in an excellent mood
for pleading. His voice, now raising
with an appeal that could not be re-
sisted, and then falling in that pathet-
ic tone that cannot fail touching q
tender chord in the hardest human
heart, was at it's best. During song,
he stood silent, with head bowed low,
and eyes resting on the aoor,and when
kneeling in prayer, with the faint re-
sponse of "Amen" from the audience,
the solemnity was as deep as the most
religious could have expected.
The Bishops text was taken from
St. John, the third chapter and 18th
verse, "God SO loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth may have ever
lasting life." He stated that there
were many thoughtful men and women
who are perplexed and who do not put
their foot down boldly and say II be-
lieve." They acknowledge no Chris
tianship. They are bewildered by
certain bold statements of infdelity,
and if he could help any in the audi
ence to put their feet down for Chris
tianity he would be overpaid for his
trip. He stated that the thoughtful
scholar started back with amazement
when infdelity was before him. The
greatest infdel in England admits the
first cause, and that there IS nothing
takes place but by that cause. God is
an eternal fact. There is not a single
thing that man has ever created. God
has permitted some men to look at his
storehouse, and see new things, and
through thsse men has given them to
His people. Show me want and I'll
show you supply.
Bishop Whipple then told the story
of Christ in that touching manner SO
natural to the Bishop. He stated that
no man in the congregation had the
time to go back and settle for himself
the authenticity of the Gospel. "Take
that long line of Justices of our U. s.
Supreme Court" said he, "and then
cross the ocean to England, "and re.
view the words of the many justices
of the English court, who have exam
ined the Gospels. They have never
asked "Is this genuine and worthy o1
being accepted" They are convinced
of their truth. There is not scholar
who doubts Aristotle and his works.
and yet it was 300 years after he
passed away that his first works were
discovered. And 200 years after ou1
Lord died on the cross there was not
a land in which His career was known
that doubted the truth of the Bible. II
isn't full of dogmas. It is the story oi
a person, of Saviour to pity, of real
God to save. He was boy who had
never learned to read, yet He knew ali
things, was pure and stainless and
lives in a million hearts to-day. He is
the only Being who has ever walked
this earth who was free from sin abso-
lutely. No man has ever dared to i'm
pute the slightest stain to His spotless
character. He was the only being who
walked the earth who could use the
words: II and Ny Father are One.
If Plato, Socrates, or any man of their
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