The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-12

prominent ministers or the gospel who
spent their whole lives bombarding other
denomina tons and who lived to see their
children preach the gospel in those very
denominations. But IL is often the case
that bigotry starts in y household, and
that the subject Of il never RECEIVERS.
There are tens of thousands Of bigots
ten years old.
I 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 de-
nomination is the most wealthy, or the
most popular, or the most influential,
and it is our church, and our" relig-
iOus organization, and our" choir, and
our minister, and the man losses his
head and wants other denominations 10
know their places.
munfty when the general denominations
of Christians are about equal in power,
marching side by side for the world 5
conquest. Mere outside prosperity, mere
worldly power, is no evidence that the
church is acceptable 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 II
there be no Christ in the chancei and
no Christ in the robes. Bigotry Is often
the child OF ignorance.
One sided Men.
You seldom find a man with a large
intellect who is a bigot. 1t is the man
who thinks he knows a great deal, but
does not. That man is almost always a
bigot The whole tendency of education
and civilization is to bring man out of
that kind Of state of mind and heart
There was in the far east a great ODE
lisl1, and one side of the obelisk was
white, another side Of the obelisk was
green, another side of the obelsk was
blue, and travellers went and looked at
that obelsk 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 SC,
and they got into a rank quarrel abb 40
the color of that obelisk. One man sale
it was white. another man said il was
green, another man said il was hue,
and when they were in the very heat Of
the controversy a more intelligent trav-
eler came and said: Gentlemen, L have
seen that obelsk, and you are all right,
and you are all wrong. Why didn't you
walk all around the obelsk?"
Look out for the man VINO 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 bigot inevlta-
blythe man who only sees one side.
There is no man more to be pitied than
lie WlAO ldH III Ills mean JAeN NAtN 49,
no more, no less More light, less sec
tarianism There is nothing that will so
soon Kill bigotry as sunshine-God' DIS sun
shine.
So I have set before you what 1 con-
slider to be the causes Of bigotry. 1 have
set before you the origin Of this great
evil What are some of the baleful effects
First of all, Il cripples Investigation. You
are wrong. and l am right and that ends
it. No taste for exploration, 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 him
| self out and dies. a blind mole under a
| cornshock 1t stops all investigation.
EccIcsiastIcaI BricISbnts.
Another great damage done by the sec
| tarlanlsm and blgotry OF the church is
that 1t disgusts people with the Christian
religion. Now, my friends. the church of
God was never intended for a war bar
rack. Peop.e are afraid Of a riot. You go
] down the street, and you see an excite
ment and missiles flying through the air,
and you hear the shock of firearms. Do
you, the peaceful and Industrious citizen,
| go through that street? Oh, no. you viii
say; I'll go around the block Now,
! men come and look upon this narrow path
to heaven and sometimes see the
| ecclesiastical brickbats flying every
whittier, and they say: well, 1 guess
I'll take the broad road. There Is so
much sharpshOoting on the narrow road
l guess I'll try the broad roadf'
Francis | 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 as long as there IS SO much
| hostility between denomination and de-
nomination, or between one protested
| Christian and another, or between one
| church and another. SO long men will be
| disguised with the Christian religion and
| say If that is religion, / want none OF
| It,"
Again, blgotry and sectarianism do
great damage i'm the fact that they hin
| der the triumph OF the gospel. Oh how
! much wasted ammunition. how many men
| OF splendid intellect have given their
| whole life to controversial disputes when,
| If they had given their life 10 something
| practical. they might have been vastly
| useful! Suppose, while 1 speak there
were a common enemy coming up the bay,
| and all the forts around the harbor began
| to fire into each other-you would cry out:
National suicide! Why don't those forts
! blaze away IN one direction. and that
| against the common enemy?" And yet
| 1 sometimes see in the church Of the Lord
| jesus Christ q strange thing going on
church against church, minister against
! minister. denomination against denomina-
| ton, NIlnE away llllp luelI OWA ioiL VI
! the fort which ought TO be on the same
! side, instead OF concentrating their energy
| and giving one mighty and everlasting
] volley against the navies Of darkness rid
ing up through the bay!
Christian Grace.
| go out sometimes In the summer. and
1 find two beehlves. and these two hives
| are in a quarrel. 1 come near enough
not to be stung but / come just neal
| enough 10 hear the controversy, and one
beehive says. THAT field Of clover is the
sweetest" and 2nother beehive says
THAT field Of clSer is the sweetest"
| come I'm between them and / say: "StoI
| this quarrel. If you like that he1i OF
| clover best. go there. but let me tell you
| that that hive which gets the most honey
| is the best hive" So 1 come out between
the churches OF the Lord Jesus Christ
| one denomination Of Christians says
| THAT field OF Christian doctrine Is best
| and another says, This field of Christian
/ doctrine Is best" Wen. / say. Go where
| you get the most honey" That Is tn,
| best church which gets the most honey
! OF Christian grace for the heart, and the
most honey Of Christian usefulness fol
| the life
| Besides that 81 you want to build III
amy denomination, you viii nevr build Il
up by trying 20 pull some other down
| Intolerance never put anything down
| How much has intolerance accomplished
for instance, against the methodist
church? For long years her ministry
| were forbidden the pulpits Of Grea
| Britain. Why was Il that so many OF
a. A.. al ct.