The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-19

devotional aspirations. Oce man is
Just as good as the other. ''Everyman
full, persuaded IN his own miod."
George White6eld was going over 6
Quaker rather roughly for soma of his
religious sentiments and the Quaker
ssid: 'George, l am as thou art.
am for bringing a. men to the hope o.
the gospel. Therefore, il thcu will no
quarrel with me abou. my broad brim,
will Dot quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. Gecrse, give my thy hand
In tracing ou: the religion Of sectarlan-
ism or bieotry l find that g great dea
Of it comes from wrong education IL ths
home circle. There sre parents who az
not think It wrong to caricature aad jeer
the peculiar forms cf religion in The
world and Genounce other sects snd o!hel
denominations. II IS very often the case
that that kind Ct education acts lust op
posite to what wss expected, and tne
children grow up and after awhile go anc
see for themselves, and looking In those
churches and li,ding that the people are
good there, sr6 they love God and keel
| bis commandments, by natural resct!or
they 90 and Join those very churches.
could mention the names Of prom!nen
ministers Of the gospel who spent their
whole life bombarding other denomlna
tons and Hho lived to see their children
preach the gospel in those very dsnomi'
nations. But it is often the case thai
b:ootry starts in q household, and thai
the subject of it never RECEIVERS. There
are ten thousands of bigots 10 years old
think sec:arianism and bigotry also
rise from too great prominence of any
ere denomination in community. Al
the other denominations are wrong,
aud bis denomination is right because
his denomination is the most wealthy
or the most popular, Or the most infuen.
:isl srd it is ''our" church, and our
religious organization, and "our" choir
and 'sour" minister, aad the man tosses
els head and wants other denominations
to know their places.
It is great deal better in any COM
munity when the great denominations
of Christians are about equal in power,
malching side by side for the worlds
conquest. 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 q
cathedral with magnificent harmonies
rolling through the long drawa aisle and
an angel from heaven in the pulpit il
there be no Christ in the chancel and no
Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the
child Of ignorance.
You seldom find q man with a large
intellect who is a bigot. It is the man
who thinks he knows great deal, but
does not. That man Is almost always
blgot. The whole tendency OF education
end civilization IS to bringa man out OF
that kind Of state of mind and heart.
There was in the far east great obslisk
and one side of the obelisk was white,
another side Of the obelisk was green,
another side OF the obelisk was blue,
and travellers went and looked at that
obelisk, but they did not walk around it.
One man looked at one side, 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 get into a rank quarrel about the
color of that obelisk. One man said it
was white, another man said it WAS green
another msn said it was blue, aud when
they we're il the very heat Of the contro.
Yersy mora intelligent traveller came
and said: Gentlemen, I have seen
that cbslisk, and you are all right, and
you are all wrong. Why didn't you walk
ali around the obelisk?"
Look out for the man who sees only
one side of q religious truth. Look out
tor the man who never walks around
about these grest theories Of God and
eterninty and the dead. He will be BIZ
got inevltably--the man who only sees
one side. There is 20 man more to be
pitie6 than be who has in his head just
one idea-no more, no less. More light
less sectsrianis,n. There is nothing that
will so soon Kill b!gotry as sunshine
Gods sunshine.
So I have set before you what I con.
slider to be the causes of bigotry. I have
set before you the origin Of this great
evil. What are some of the baleful ef.
fects? First Of sill. it cripples lnvestiga.
ton. You are wrong, and I am right,
and that ends it. No taste for exp1ora.
ton, ps spirit Of investigation.
Fromfhe glorious realm Of Gods truth,
ever which az archsngel night fly from
eternity to eternity and not reach the
limit, the man shuts himself out and dies
blind mole under cornshock. It stops
all Investigation.
Another great damage done by the
sectarianisn and bigotry Of the church
is that it disgusts people with the Chris.
tian religion. Now, my friends, the
church Of God was never intended for a
war barrack. People are afraid of riot.
You 60 down the street, aud you see an
excitement and missiles flying through
lbe air, and you hear the shock Of fire.
arms. Do you, the peaceful and indus.
trious citizen, 60 through that street?
Oh, no, you will say; "I'll 60 around
the BLOCK" Now, men come and iook
upon this narrow path TO heaven and
sometimes see the ecclesiastical brick
bats flying every whittier, aad they say:
sWell, I guess III take the broad road.
There IS so much sharpshootlng on the
narrow rosd guess III try the broad
road"
Francis 1 so hated the Lutherans that
he SAID that if he thought there was one
drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he
would puncture them and let that drop
out. Just IS long as there is 80 much
hostility between denomination, and
denomination or between one
professed Christian and another, or
between one church and another, so
long men will he disgusted with the
Christian religion and say, '1fthat is re-
ligion, I want none Of it."
Again, b!gotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they him
der the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how
much wasted ammunition, how many
nen.of splendid intellect have given their