The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-06-19
THEoLoGIAss DIFFER
On Great Questions as Well as Other
Doctors.


HAGANs, June 1.-THE article from
your revered Randall reporter was
read with pleasure and weighed with
care and while we do not exactly endorse
all his views vet we have infinite re-
spect for his frankness and sincerity.
We believe he spoke his sentiments
| without pausing to consider whether or
not they were upheld by his fayorite
sect For this he deserves the highest
possible praise as his imitators are few
and far between. As Pope says
"Some meier advance Judgment OF
| their own, but catch the spreading no.
| ton OF the town" Most people read
only the literature that defends their
own belief on religious as well as politi-
cal matters and the natural and newt
able result is that they conclude that all
of the arguments and facts are on their
side. This is simply reaping what has
been sown.
If q person reads and hears only Bap-
| fist argument the chances are that he
will be Baptist and of course the same
rule holds good with respect to all sects
and parties. Now the question arises,
why is it that so many always examine
the declaration Of principles OF only one
organization? Why do they oppose
that which they know nothing Of? Does
it not indicate lack of confidence for
any one to advise others not to in
| vestigate the theories OF another sect?
Is the truth afraid to be placed against
a world OF falsehoods Does reason fear
a combat with stupidity? Many seem
to think that numbers determine the
ty right when Noaii's food drenched the
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that the world Edo move" As Henry
1 Ward Beecher said, "a man ought not
to fear being in minorities as that mi
norities are based upon principles.
Your correspondent like many more
OF us has contracted the habit OF stating
mere opinions and beliefs as bed rock
facts. For instance he says that the
honest and moral man cannot be saved.
That he will admit that this is only his
opinion we have no doubt and we are
also certain that he is aware that many
Of the greatest thinkers of the world in
GLIDING ministers differ from him on that
point. Listen here at what Henry NJ.
Field of the New York Evangelist says !:
/ believe that in the future world every
man win be judged according to the
deeds done in the body" And Talmage
a few months since said: "a man may
be orthodox and go to hell or heterodox
and go to heaven" How does your cor
respondent harmonize his idea that mo-
rality and honesty will not take per-
son to heaven, with the words of Christ
which he quoted TO the effect that just
persons need no repentance. Your re-
porter has been on this bank and shoal
OF time long enough to know that the
tongue is not always the true represent
tative OF the mind. Did not Christ say,
'fBy their fruits we shall know them. y
And may we inquire, by what other sign
shall we know them. Is there anything
else upon which to base our conclusions?
Surely not. Now then is your correspond
ent ready to say that the good that peo-
pie have done in this world has been in
proportion to the strength of their faith
and opportunities Let him look with
unprecedented eyes at the benefactors
the human race and then give a candid
answer to the above question.
Your correspondent draws rather a
gloomy picture of the future abiding
place OF vast majority of the human
race, but by his opinion let us place the
belief of Rev. CHI. Eaton, of New York
city and John Wesley. In 1892 the
former minister said: The who attacks
the doctrine of endless punishment as
cruel and absurd. in my opinion is more
essentially christian than he who de-
tends it," Wesley said: "Nor do /
conceive that any man has right to
sentence all the heather world to dam
nation"
Does your Randall pen pusher believe
that when person passes to bliss or
woe he remembers his acts while upon
this terrestrial ball? Does the man that
repents on his death bed think of the
vile deeds he performed after he reaches
the sunny banks of sweet deliverance
II the heartless burners of Bruno and
Servetus are in heaven do they ever
think Of the cruel flames they kindled
around these brave and tender martyrs?
Does Queen Elizabeth ever regret her
negligence OF mercy. Does she ever think
of the signs and tears, laments and fears
of the beautiful Mary Stuart? II
Thomas Paine is in perdition does he re-
member his brave and thrilling, o,
how thrilling words that pierced the
gloom at Valley Forge and lighted the
way to Yorktown? Ana Charles OAR
wia, that man who dazzled the intellec-
tual world by the brilliancy OF his genius,
has he forgotten the light he shed that
defies the hands of time? These are
dark questions on which many OF us de-
sire more light. These that travel in
the lighted ways should teach others
1.-THE airy way and let them try their
envied power" Let us all be lovers of
justice and friends of truth Let US
cling to no idea without reason.
Let us remember these beautiful words
from the sweet and stainless heart of
Alice Cary:
"When man can live apart
From works, on theologic trust
know the blood about his heart
Is dry as dust"
AMHERST.