The Progress., 1894-09-15
TABERNACLE PULPIT,
ThLMACE ON THE COMMUNION
OF SAINTS.

Iib"ralitv Coming,

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EEoDKIYN, y. Y, Sept ".--E"v. DR.. /
IaImage, who is now in Australia
whence he will shortly sail for Ccy ION ,
and India, has selected rs the subject !
for to-day's sermon through the press, |
NommnniOn Of Saints, The text
chosen being Judges ;H:vI, "rhen said
they unto him, say now ShibbOlcth;
and he said Sibboleth; for he could not
frame to pronounce it right. Then
they took him, and slew him at the
passages Of Jordan
DO you know the difference of pro
nunciation between shibbolcth and
sibboleth? A very small und nnlm'
portant difference you say. And yet,
that difference was the difference be
tween life and death of Il great many
people. The Lords people, Gilcad ana
Ephraim, got into a great fight and
Ephraim was worsted, and on the re-
treat came to the fords Of the rive,
Jordan to cross Order was given that
all Ephraimitcs coming there be
slain. But how could it be found
out who were Ephrami:es?
They were detected by their pro-
nunciaton. Shibboleth was u word
that stood for river The Ephraimites
had brogue of their own, and when
they tried to say ''shibboleth always
left out the sound of the 'h. " When
it was asked that they say shibboleth
they said sibboleth, and were slain.
Then said they unto him, say now
shibboleth; and he said sibboleth, for
! he could not frame to pronounce 1t
right. Then they took him and slew
him at the passages of Jordan very
small difference, you s1y, between
Gilead and Ephraim, I'D yet no"
much intolerance about that small DIFF
ference! The Lords tribes in our
timely which ! mean the differen
denominations of Christians some
times magnify a very small difference
and the only difference between scores
of denominations to-day is the differ
ence between shibbOleth and SibbO
leth.
The church of God is divided into ;
great nun Der of denomir atoms. Tim
would fail me to tell of the Calvinists
| and the ArminiaDs, and the Sab
, batarlans, and the Baxterians, an'
J the Dunkers and the Shakers, AM
: the Quakers and the Methodists an
. the Baptists, and the Episcopalians
, and the Luthcrans, and the Congre
| gationalists. and the Presbyterians
t and the Spiritualists, and score G
other denominations of religionists
5 some of them founded by very goo
r men, some of them founded by YER
5 egotistic men, some of them founde
by very bad men. But as l deman
for myself liberty of conscience
must give that same liberty to ever
r other man, remembering that he II
l more differs from me than | ditfe
from him. advocate the largest Ii
erty in all religious belief and Tor
:, of worship. In art in politics,
. morals and in religion, let there
-. no gag law, no moving of the previo'
. question, no persecution, no intole
G ance.
q You know that the air and Il
water keep pure by constant circnl
I ton, and think there is tendent
l in religious discussion to puritlcatlt
. and moral health. Between Il
= fourth and sixteenth centuries Il
church proposed to make people THU
Alright by prohibiting discussion, al
al by strong censorshipof the press, al
'g rack. and gibbet, and hot lead dov
le the throat, tried to make people
le thodox: but it was discovered tn
lg YOU can not change a mans BELIEF
twisting of his head, nor make m
see diffe tently by putting an a
tn e: gh his eyes There is someth
OF in a mans conscience which will M
a off the mountain that you threw up
ng it, and unsinged of the fire, out of
as fame will make red wings on viii
ny the martyr will mount to glory.
In that time Of which | speak,
- tween the fourth and sixteenth CT
turies, people went from he house
God into the most appalling lniqui
and right along by consecrated ait
there were tides of drunkenness a
Righteousness such as the world ne
heard of, and the very sewers or
dition broke loose and flooded
church. After awhile the print
press was freed, and it broke
/ shackles of the human mind. III
J there came large number OF
J hooks, and where there was one n
hostile to the Christian religion tn
were twenty men ready to advoc
It: so have not any nervousness
regard to this battle going on betw
Truth and Error. The truth
conquer just as certainly as that
is stronger than the devil Let I'll
run if.you only let Truth run al
lnu with it. Urged~on by sceptlc's 81
zen and Observation-Disclosures spur, lie
~; ;th run, Gods angels of wrath are in
ti In pursuit, and quicker than eagles b
- clutches out hawks heart, T.
.uo,noo ,,,;Il tear IL to pieceS,