The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14
RECEIVERS. There are tens of thousands

itSC rum Ooo STcdt prominence VI al y
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 influential, and it is our
church, and our" religious orgaxiza-
ton, and our" choir, and "our" min
ister, and the man losses his head, and
wants other denominations to know
their places. 1t is great deal better
in any community when the great de-
nominations of Christians are about
equal in power, marching side by side
for the worlds conquest. Mere out
side prosperity. mere worldly power, is
no evidence that the church is accept
able to God. Better barn with Christ
in the manger than cathedral with
magnificent harmonies rolling through
the long-drawn aisle, and an angel
from Heaven in the pulpit, if there be
no Christ in the chancel, and no Christ
in the robes. Bigotry is often the child
of ignorance
You seldom find a man with large in
who thinks he knows great deal, but
does not. That man is almost always
bigot. The whole tendency of edu-
cation and civilization is to bring a
man out of that state of mind and heart.
There was in the far east great ODE
lisk, and one side of the obelisk was
white, another side of the obelisk was
Cil % hn hal ,cly
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 looking at only one
side, and they happened to meet, the
story says, and they got into a rank
quarrel about the color of that obelisl1.
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-
tlemen, have seen that obelisl, and
you are all right and you are all
wrong. Why didn't you walk all
around the obelisk?"
one side of religious truth. Look
out for the man who never walks
around about these great glories of
God and eternity and the dead He
will be a bigot inevitably-th 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
II,
There is nothing that will so soon kill
bigotry as sunshine-Gods sunshine.
So have set before you what con-
slider to be the causes of bigotry. l
have set before you the origin of this
great evil. What are some of the bale
full effects? First of all, it cripples in
vestigation. You are wrong, and am
right, and that ends it. No taste for
no spirit of investigation.
From the glorious realm of Gods truth,
over which an archangel might fly
from eternity to eternity and not reach
The limit, the man shuts himself out
and dies. a blind mole under a corn
shock. 1t stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Chris
5ians is to present all the truths of the
Bible, it seems to me that God has
given to each denomination an especial
mission to give particular emphasis to
some one doctrine: and SO the Calvanis- |
tic churches must present the sover- |
eighty of God, and the Armenian |
churches must present mans free |
agency, and the Episcopal churches |
must present the Importance of order |
ind solemn ceremony, and the Baptist |
churches must present the necessity of |
and the congregational |
church must show the responsibility of |
he individual member. and the Method |
st church must show what holy en-
husiasm hearty congregational sing
ng can accomplish. While each de-
of Christians must set |
orth all the doctrines of the Bible, l
eel it is especially incumbent on each
to put particular empha-
is on some one doctrine.
Another great damage done by the
and bigotry of the church
s that it disgusts people with the
christian religion. Now, my friends,
he church of God was never intended
or a war barrack. People are afraid
# riot You go down the street and
ee an excitement, and missiles flying
through the air, and you hear the
hook of firearms. Do you, the peace
ul and Industrious citizen, go through
hat street? Oh, no! you will say, III
o around the block" Now, men,
ONE and look at the narrow path
o Heaven, and sometimes see
he ecclesiastical brick bats fly
ng every whittier, and they say,
Well, l guess I'll take the broad road;
here is so much sharp-shooting on the
arrow road, guess I'll try the broad
oadI'
Francis L. so hated the Lutherans
hat he said that if he thought there
vas one drop of Lutheran blood in his
ems he would puncture them and let
hat drop out. just as long as there is
D much hostility between denomina-
ion and denomination, or between one
Christian and another, or be-
ween one church and another, SO long
len will be Disguised with the Chris
ian religion, and say: IF that is relig-
IN, l want none of it
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do
reat damage in the fact that they
inder the triumph of the gospel. Oh, I
ow much wasted ammunition, how ,
lany men of splendid intellect have
iven their whole lift to controversial
isputes, when, if they had given their ]
fe to something practical, they might
ave been vastly useful, Suppose,
lille l speak, there were common :
nemy coming up the bay, and all the 5
,rts around the harbor began to fire {
ito each other-you would cry out, '
National suicide. why don't those {