The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-12

ping with the waters of baptism
which signifies the washing away Of
sin. Let either have his own way.
One man likes no noise in prayer, not
word, not a Whisper. Another man,
just as good, prefers by gesticulation
and exclamation to express his devo-
tional aspirations. One man is just as
good as the other. Every man fully
persuaded in his own mind"
George Whitfield was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some OF his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said George, / am as thou art; l am
for bringing all men to the hope OF the
gospel; therefore, if thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad brim
] will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
hand"
In tracing out the religion of sectari-
anism, or bigotry, find that a great
deal of it comes from wrong education
in the home circle. There are parents
who do not think it wrong to carica-
ture and jeer the peculiar forms of re-
ligion in the world, and denounce other
sects and other denominations. 1t is
very often the case that that kind of
education acts just opposite to what
was expected, and the children grow
up and after while go and see for
themselves; and looking in thoss
churches, and finding that the people
are good there and love God and keep
His commandments, by natural reaction
they go and join those very churches.
! could mention the names of promi-
nent ministers OF the gospel who spent
their whole life bonbarding other de.
nominations, and who lived to see their
children preach the gospel in those
very denominations. But it is often
the case that bigotry starts in house
hold and that the subject of 1t never
RECEIVERS. There are tens of thousands
OF bigots 10 years old.
think sectarianism and bigotry also
rise from too great prominence of any
one denomination in community. All
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and his denomination is right because
his denomination is the most wealthy,
or the most popular, or the most infiu-
ential, and it is ''our" church, and
"our" religious organization, and "our"
choir, and ''our" minister, and the man
tosses his head and wants other de-
nominations to know their places. 1t
is a great deal better in any community
when the great denominations of Chris
tians are about equal in power, march
ing side by side for the worlds con-
quest. Mere outside prosperity, mere
worldly power, is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God. Better a
barn with Christ in the manger than
a cathedral with magnificent harmo-
nies rolling through the long-drawn
aisle, and an angel from heaven in the
pulpit, if there be no Christ in the
chancel, and no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often the child of ignorance
You seldom find man with large In
tellect who is bigot. 1t is the man
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deals, but does not. That man is al
most always bigot. The whole tend
ency of education and civilization il
to bring man out Of that kind of state
of mind and heart. There was in the
far east greal obelisk, and one side Of
the obelisk was white, another side Of
the obelisk Of green, another side Of
the obelisk was blue, and travellers
went and looked at the obelisk, but
they did not walk around it. One mar
looked at one side, another at another
side, and they came home each one
looking at only one side; and they hap
pened to meet. the story says: and they
got into rank quarrel about the color
of the obelisk. One man said 1t was
white, another man said it was green
another man said twas blue, and when
they were in the very heat of the con
troversy a more intelligent traveller
came, and said: Gentlemen, have
seen the obelisk, and you are all right
and you are all wrong. Why didn't you
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Look out for the man who sees only
one side of religious truth. Look Out
for the man who never walks around
about these great theories of God an6
eternity and the dead. He will be 9
bigot inevitably-the man who only
sees one side. There is no man more tc
be pitied than he who has in his head
just one idea-no more, no less. More
light, less sectarianism. There is moth
ing that will so soon kill bigotry a:
sunshine-God's sunshine. So have
set before you what consider to be
the cause of bigotry. have set before
you the origin of this great evil. What
are some of the baleful effects? First
of all it cripples investigation. You
are wrong and am right, and that ends
it. No taste for exploration, no spirit
of investigation. From the glorious
realm of Gods truth, over which ar
archangel might fly from eternity tc
eternity and not reach the limit, the
man shuts himself out and dies, a blind
mole under a corn-shock. It stops ali
investigation.
While each denomination Of Chris
tians is to present all the truths of the
Bible, it seems to me that God has
given to each denomination an especial
mission to give particular emphasis tc
some one doctrine; and sothe Calvinist
ic churches must present the sovereign
ty of God, and the Armenian churches
must present mans free agency, and
the Episcopal churches must present
the Importance of order and solemn
ceremony, and the Baptist churches
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