The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-08-06

hppdrel. some are most impressed
when little child is presented at the
altar and sprinkled of the waters of a
holy benediction sin the name of the
Father, and of the Son and of the Holy
| Ghost" and others are more impressed
when the penitent comes up out OF the
river, his garments dripping with the
waters OF baptism which signifies
the washing away Of sin. Let either
have his own way. One man likes no
noise in prayer, not word, not
whisper. Another man, just as good,
prefers by gesticulation and exclama-
ton to express his devotional aspira-
tions. One man is just as good as the
other. Every man fully persuaded in
his own mind"
George Whitefield was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: George, am as thou art; am
for bringing all men to the hope of the
Gospel; therefore, il thou wilt not
quarrel with me about my broad bri IN,
will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
hand"
In tracing out the religion of sec
tarianism, or bigotry, 1 find that
! great deal of it comes from wrong edu-
cation 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 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 awhile, go and see for
themselves; and, looking in those
churches, and finding that the people
are good there, and they love God and
| keep His commandments, by natural
reaction they go and join those very
| churches. l could mention the names
| of prominent ministers of the Gospel
who spent their whole lives lombard
ing other denominations and who lived
to see their children preach the Gospel
in those very denominations. But it is
often the case that bigotry starts in a
household, and that the subject of it
never RECEIVERS. There are tens of thou
sands of bigots ten 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 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-
l. II. a
is a great deal better in any communi-
| ty 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 barn with Christ in the man
ger 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 igno-
rance. You seldom find a man with
large intellect who is a bigot. tits the
man who thinks he knows a great deal,
but does not. That man is always a
bigot. The whole tendency of educa-
ton and civilization is to bring man
out of that kind of state of mind and
heart. There was in the far east a
obelisk, and one side of the obelisk was
white, another side of the obelislx
was green, another side of the
obelisk was blues and travellers went
and looked at that obelisk, but they
did not walk around it. One man
looked at one side, another ut another
side and they came home each 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 it 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 intelligent travel
err came, and said: Gentlemen, have
seen that obelisk and you are all right,
and you are all wrong. Why didn't
you all walk around the obelisk?"
| Look out for the man who sees only
one side of 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 incvitably--the man who only
sees one side. There is no man more
to be pitied than he who has in head
| just one idea-no more, no less. More
light, less sectarianism. There is
nothing that will SO soon kill bigotry
| as sunshi ne-God's sunshine.
30 have set before you what l con-
slider to be the cause of bigotry. 1
have set before you the origin of this
great evil. What are some of the bale
full effects? First of all, it crippies in
vestigation. You are wrong and 1 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 himself out and
dies, blind mole under u corn shock.
1t stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Chris
tians 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 Cal