The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-13

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there be no Christ in the cbancel and no
Christ In the robes.
Bigotry Is often the chilli OF Ignorance.
You seldom find man With large intellect
who is bigot. IL IL the man who thinks no
knows great deal, but does not. That man
Is almost always bigot. The whole ten
dency OF education and civilization IL to
bring man out OF that kind OF state OF mind
and heart. There was In the far east great
obelisk. and ono side OF the obelisk was
wntc, another SIDE ortne ooensK was green.
another side OF the obelisk was blue, and
travellers went and looked at that obelisk,
but they did not walk around Il. One man
looked nj one side, another at another side,
and they came homo each one looking at
only one side, and they happened to meet,
the story says, and they got into rank
quarrel about the color OF that obelisk. One
man said II was white, another man said II
was green. another man said II was blue.
and when they were in the very heat OF tho
controversy n more intelligent traveller came
and satd "Gentlemen, L have seen that
obelisk, and you are all right, and you arc
all wrong. Why didn't you walk all around
the obellsk2"
Look out for the man who only secs one
side OF n religious truth. Look out for tho
man who never walks around about these
great theories OF God and eternity and the
dead. He will bo binot inevitahlv-the
man VINO oniy sees one sidc. 1nere is no
man more TO DO pitled than he who has In
his head Just one idoa-no more, no less.
More light, less sectarlanism. There IL moth
Ing that will so soon kill bigotry rs sunshine
Gods sunshine.
SO I havo set before you what consider
10 be the cause OF bigotry. have set before
you the origin OF this great evil. What arc
some OF the baleful effects2 First OF nll, II
cripples investigation. You are wrong and
am right, and that settles II. No taste for
exploration. no spirit OF investigation. From
tho glorious realm OF Gods truth, over
which an archangel might fly from eternity
20 eternity and not reach the limit, the man
shuts himself out and dies, n blind mole un-
dera cornshock. IL stops all investigation.
Another great damage dono by the sectar-
tnnism and blgo,ry OF the church Is that II
disgusts people from the Christian religion,
Now, my friends, tho church OF God was
never intended for q war barra,k. People
are afraid OF a riot. You go down the street
and you SEQ an excitement and missiles fly-
ing through the air and you hear tho shock
OF firearms. Do you, the peaceful and In
dustrious citizen, go through thct street2
"Oh, no" you will say; "Ill go around the
block Now, men como and look upon this
narrow path to heaven, and sometimes SEQ
The ecclesiastical brickbat flying every
whittier. and V;ey says We'll. | guess III
lakc the broad road. There is so much
,harpshooting on the narrow road guess
I'll tcy the broad road "
Francis 80 hated the Lutherans that he
,aid that II he thought there was one drop
of Lutheran blood in his veins no would
puncture them and let that drop out. Just
Is long as there is so much hostility between
denomination and denomination, or between
bne professed Christian and another. or be-
ween one cnurcn ana another, so long men
will be- disgusted with the Christian religion
and say, III that Is religion, l want none Of
L."
Again, bigotry and sectarianism. do great
damage In the fact that they hinder the
triumph OF the gospel. oh, how much
wasted ammunition, how many men OF
splendid intellect have given their whole lilo
20 controversial disputes when, IL they had
given their life to something practical, they
might have been vastly useful suppose,
while I speak, there were common enemy
coming up the bay, and all the forts around
the harbor began to fire int zach other you
would Scsy csisA "Nationf-7suicids! Why
don't those forts 5laSs way In one a ii s,s.soc,
and that against the common enemyT And
yet / sometimes sec In the church OF the
Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on
church against church, minister against
minister, denomination against denomina-
ton, firing away into their own fort, or the
fort which ought TO be on the same side, in
stead OF concentrating their energy and Civ
ing one mighty and everlasting volley against
the navies OF darkness riding up through tho
bay.
What did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist Church? II laughing scorn and
TRADE could have destroyed the church, Ii
would not have to-day disciple left. The
Baptists were hurled out OF Boston In olden
times. Those who sympathized with them
were imprisoned, and when pstition was
offered asking leniency in their behalf all
the men who signed II were indicted. Has
intolerance stopped the Baptist Church
The last statistics In regard to II showed
5000 churches AMI 5000, 900 communicants.
Intolerance never put down anything.
In England u Law was made against the
Jew. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the jew and declared that no
jew should hold official position. What
came OF III We're the Jews destroyed? Was
their religion overthrownY No. Who be
came prime minister OF England2 Who wa
next , the throne? Who was higher thar
the throne because he was counselor anC
adviser? Disraeli. a jew. What were We
celebrating in all our churches as well as
synagoGues only a few years agoG The on'
hundredth birthday anniversary OF Monte
flore, the great Jewish philanthropist. In
tolerance never yet put down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown yot
tho origin OF Digotry or sectarianism, anC
having shown you the damage II does,
want briefly 10 show you how we are 10 wa
against this terrible evil, and | think W
ought to began our war by realizing our Owl
weakness and our imperfections. IL W
make so many mistakes in the common NJ
fairs OF life, - II not possible tnat We ma
make mistakes in regard TO our religion
afIairs2 Shall wo take a man by the throa
or by the collar because no cannot see re
ligious truths just as We do2 In the light o
eternity It will be found out, | think, ther
was something wrong in all our creeds an
something right IN all our creeds. But sine
we may make mistakes In regard 10 thing
OF tho world do not lot US be so esottstic an
go pulled up as to have an idea that we car
not make any mistake In regard 10 religion
theories. And then, think, We will do
great deal to overthrow the sectarian iroi
our heart and tho sectarianism from th
world by chiefly enlargtng In those things
which we agree rather than those In whiel
we differ.
Perhaps might torcetully illustrate thi
truth by calling your attention TO an inc.
dent which took place about twenty year
ago. One Monday morning at abolt
O'Clock while her 900 passengers were sounC
asleep In her herths dreaming OF home, th'
Al. a