News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-13

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a minister in plain citizens apparel
Some are most impressed when little
child is presented at the altar and
sprinkled of the waters Of holy bene-
diction lin the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
and others are more impre sSed when the
penitent comes up out Of the river, his
garments dripping with the waters Of Il
baptism which signifies the washing
away Of sin. Let either have hi own
way. One man likes no noise in prayer,
not word, not a whisper Another
man, 10 as good, prefers by gesticula
ton and exclamation to express his de-
votional aspirations. One is just as good
as the othcE. Every man fully per-
suaded in his own mind.
George Whitefeld was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some Of his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: George, l am as thou art am
for bringing all men to the hope Of the
gospel. Therefore, if thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad bIim,
will not quarrel with thee about thy
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4 Cause of Bigotry.
In tracing out the religion of seCtari-
anism or bigotry l 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 caricature
and jeer the peculiar forms of religion
in the world and denOunce other sects
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ten the case that that kind of education
acts just opposite to what was expected,
and the children grow up, and after
awhile go and see for themselves, and
! looking in those churches and find
! ing that the people are good there,
and they love God and keep his COM
mandmonts. by natural reaction they 90
and join those very churches. l could
mention the names of prominent minis
tiers Of the gospel who spent their whole
| life bOmbarding other denominations,
and who lived to see their children
! preach the gospel in those very denOmi.
nations. But it is often the case that
bigotry starts in a household, and that
the subject of it 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 a community. All
the other denominations are wrong, and
his denomination is right because his
denomination is the most wealthy, or
the most popular, or the most infuen-
tial and it is 'our" church, and "our"
religious organization, and "our"
choir and "our' minister, and tho man
losses his head ard wants other denCmi-
nations to know their places.
1t is great deal better in any COM
munity when the great denominations
Of Christians are about equal in power,
marching 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 manager than a
cathedral with magnificent harmonies
rolling through the long drawn aisle
and an angel from heaven in the pulpit
if thcre be no Christ in the chancel and
no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry the Child of Ignorance.
Bigotry is often the child of ignorance
You seldom find man with large in
tellect who is a bigOt. 1t is the man
who thinks he knows a great deal, but
does not That man is almost always
bigOt The whole tendency of educGtiOn
and civilization is to bring man out
Of that kind of state Of mind and heart
There was in the far east great Obelisi
and one side of the obelisk was waite,
another side of the obclisk 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, an
other 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 rank quarrel
about the color of that obelisk. One
man said il was white, another man
said it was green, another man said it
was blue, and when they were in the
very heat of the controversy more in
telligent traveller came and said: Gen
tlClhCIlJ L iGtNO oCSIl tllItu OOOlloNb oAAN'
you are all right, and you are all wrong
Why didn't you walk all around the
obelisk?"
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 and the dead. He will be a
bigot inevitably-the man who only sees
one side. There is no man more to be
pitied than he who has in his head just
one idea-no more, no less. More light,
less sectarianism. There is nothing that
will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine
Gods sunshine.
So l have set before you what con-
slider to be the causes of bigotry. Ihave
set before 0u the origin Of this great
evil What are some of the baleful eff
fects? First of all, it cripples investiga-
ton. You are wrong, and am right,
and that ends it. No taste for explora-
ton, no spirit of investigation From
the glorious realm of Gods truth, over
which an archangel might fly from eter-
nifty to eternity and not reach the limit,
the man shuts himself out and dies, a
blind mole under cornshock. 1t stops
all investigation.
Wasted Ammunition.