Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-10


tan Unity and the Communion Of Saias Pre-
diced.
BROOKLYN. September 0-Rsv. DR.
/. Talmage, who is now in Australia,
whence be will shortly sail for Ceylon
aad India, has selected FOR the subject
for to-day's sermon through the press
Communion Of Saints, " the text chosen
being Judges 1876, Then said they unto
him, Say now ShiOboleth: aud he said
Sbbole:h, for he could not frame to
pronounce It right Then they took
him and slew him at the passages Of
Jordan"
Do you notice the difference Of pro-
nOuncation between shibbosth and sib-
boleth? A very small and unimportant
- difference, you say. Aad yet that Diff
ference was the difference between DE
and death for a great many people, The
Lords people, Gilead and EDhraim, got
into q great fight, and Ephraim was
worsted, ard on the retreat came &c
tue A0l4s Va VIC ka0A u0AAGl " NAVeSs
Order was givee~t6at all Ephraimites
coming thergbe slain. But how could
it be fogDA out who were Opportunities?
They kere detected by their pro-
nuOc ,ion. shibbOleth was word that
SOL for river The Ephraimites had a
cue Of their own, and when they
ed 70 say ''shibbOieth" ALWAYS leftout
he sound OF the "h." When It was
asked that they say shibbOleth they said
sbboleth and were slain. A very small
difference, you say, between Giiead and
EphTaim, aud yet how much intOler-
ancs about that small difference! The
Lords tribes iR our time-bY which
mean the different denominations OF
neutrality-suspicious. magnify very
small difference, and the only difference
between scores OF denominations
to-day is the difference between shibbo-
leth and sibboleth.
The Church OF God IS divided into 4
great number OF denominations. Time
would fail me TO tell OF the Cal yinists,
and the ArmiuisRs, and the Sabbatari-
ans, and the Baxterians, and the Dunk
ers, and the Shakers, aud the Quakers,
aud the Mathodists, and the Baptists,
AuQ NAo 4plSC0 N4llauaf 0AA VIC LULU
rams, and the Congregationalists, and
the PreSbyterians, and the Spiritus.ists,
aud a score Of other denominations OF
relgionists soma of them founded bY
very good men, and some Of them
founded by very egotlstic men, some OF
them founded by very bad men. But
IS 1 demand for myself
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE,
must give that same liberty 10 every
other man, remembering that he no
more ditfvrs from me than differ from
him. / advocate the largest liberty in
all religious belief and form OF worship.
In art, in politics, in morals, and 10 re-
ligiQn,l et there be No gagcISw, no NOV
SfsVio6s question, ~ >perse-
cution, no intolerance.
propose to speak 70 you OF sectari-
snism-its, origin, its evils ana its
cures. There are those who would
make us think that this monster, with
horns and hOOis, is religion. l shall
chase IL TO it's hiding-place, and drag 10
ont OF the caverns OF darkness and rip
of its hide. But want to make a dis
Noahpn between bigotry and the lawful
! PISS for peculiar religious beliefs
and forms Of worship. l have no aimi-
ration for a nOthinRarian.
A style OF psalmOdy that may please
me may displease you. Some would
like TO have 3 minister In gown and
bands and surplice, and others prefer to
have minister In plain citizens sppar-
oil. Some are most impressed when q
little child is presented at the altar and
sprinkled OF the waters OF a holy Dene-
dctioH "in the name o. the Father, and
Of the Son, aud Of the Holy Ghost, aud
etAers are more impressed when the
psnitent comes up out the river, his
garments dripping with the waters OF s
baptism which signifies the washing
away OF sin. Let either have his own
way. One man likes DO noise in prayer.
NOS word not whisper
Another man, just as good, prefers by
gssticulatiOn and exclamation to eX-
press his devotional aspirations. One
Is just as good as the other. Every
man fully persuaded in his own mind"
You seldom find a man with large
intellect who is a bigot. IL Is the man
who thinks be knows q great deal, but
does not That man is almost always
bigot The whole tendency OF educa-
sion and civilization is 70 bring man
out Of that kind OF state OF mind and
heart There was In the far East 3
great obelSk, and one side OF the obelisk
was white, another side OF the Obelisk
was green, another side of the obelisk
was blue, aud travellers went and
looked az that ObeIiSk, but they did not
walk around 10. One man looked at one
eide, another at another side, and they
came home each one looking at only one
side; and they happened to meet the
story says; and they got into 3 rank
quarrel about the color OF the obeliSk.
One man said II was white, another man
said IL was green, another mau said il
was blue. aud when they were 10 the
very heat OF the controversy q more in
telligent traveller came and said, Gen
tlemen, / have seen that Obelisk, aud
you are all right aud you are all wrong.
Why didn't you walk all around the
obeiisk?
Look out for the man who sees only
one side Of a religious truth. Look out
for the man who never walks around
about these great theories OF God and
eternity aDd the dead. tie will be
bigOt inevitably-the man who only
sees one side. There is no man more
\ 70 be pitled than be who has in his
head Just one idea-nO more, no less
More light, less sectariauism. There is