Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-10-25

HOly dhost, and others are more i'm
pressed when the penitent comes VI
out of the water, his garments "trip
ping with the waters of a baptism
which signifies the washing away o.
sin. Let either have his own way
One man likes no noise in prayer. not
a word, not Whisper. Another man
just as good, prefers by gesticulation
and exclamation to express his devo-
tional aspirations. One man is just as
good as the other. Every man fully
persuaded in his own mind"
George Whitfield was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments. and the Quaker
said: sGeorge, | 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 brim
| will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
| hand.
In tracing out the religion of sectari-
anism, or bigotry, | find that a great
deal of it comes from wrong education
in the home circle. There are parents
who do not think 1t wrong to carica-
ture and jeer the peculiar forms of re-
ligion in the world, and denounce other
sects and other denominations 1t is
very often the case that that kind of
education acts just opposite to what
was expected, and the children grow
up and after a while 60 and see for
themselves; and looking in thoss
churches, and finding that the people
are good there and love God and keep
His commandments, by natural reaction
they go and join those very churches
| could mention the names of promi-
nent ministers of the gospel who spent
their whole life bombarding other de.
nominations, and who lived to see their
children preach the gospel in those
very denominations. But it is often
the ease that bigotry starts in house,
hold and that the subject of it never
RECEIVERS. There are tens of thousands
of bigots 10 years old.
! think sectariaaism 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 intlu-
entail, and it is ''our" church, and
our religious organization. and our"
choir, and our minister, and the man
losses his head and wants other de-
nominations to know their places. II
is a great deal better in any community
when the great denominations of Chris
al
ing side by side for the worlds con-
quest. 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 harmo-
MES 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 man with large in |
tellect who is bigot 1t is the man |
who think he Knows great |
deals, but does not. That man is al
most always bigot. The whole tend
ency of education and civilization is
to bring man out of that kind Of state
of mind and heart There was in the
far east greal obelisk and one side oi
the obelislx was white, another side of
the obelisk of green, another side Of
the obelisk was blue, and travellers
went and looked at the 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 hap
pened to meet, the story says: and they
got into a rank quarrel about the color
Of the obelisk. One man said it was
white, another man said it was green,
another man said twas blue, and when
they were in the very heat of the con-
.roversy a more intelligent traveller
zane, and said: Gentlemen, | have
seen the obelisl, and you are all right,
md you are all wrong. Why didn't you
walk all around the obelisk?'
Look out for the man who sees only
me side of religious truth. Look out
or the man who never walks around |
bout these great theories of God al.
eternity and the dead. He will be a
,igot inevitably-the man who only
ees one side. There is no man more to
Ne pitied than ne who has in his head
ust one idea-no more, no less. More
light. less sectarianism There is moth
ng that will so soon kill bigotry as
sunshine. So | have
ct before you what l consider to be
he cause of bigotry. | have set before
ou the origin of this,great evil. What
re some of the baleful effects? First
f all it cripples investigation. You
re wrong and ! am right, and that ends
t. No taste for exploration, no spirit
f investigation. From the glorious
calm of Gods truth, over which an
might fly from eternity to
ternity and not reach the limit, the
IAN shuts himself out and dies, a blind
lole under a corn-shock. IL stops all c
1yestigation
While each denomination of Chris /
ians is to present all the truths OF the t
.ible, it seems to me that God has t
iven to each denomination an especial a
lission to give particular emphasis to v