Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-28

| children grow mn, and, after while,
go and see for themselves; and, look
ing into these churches, and finding
the people are good there, and they
love God and keep His command
ments, 10y natural reaction hey 20 and
! Join those very churches. could men
| ton the names of prominent ministers
of the Gospel who spent their whole
! lives bomharding other denominations
and who lived to see their chill irrn
| preach the Gospel in those very de-
nominations. hut il is often the case
that bigotry starts in a household. aud
that the subject OF it never RECEIVERS.
There are tens of thousands of bigot~
! ten wears old.
| ! think scctarianiSm and bigntry 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 inilu-
/ entail, and il i "our' church. and
our" religious organization, and
Our" choir, and Our" minister: and
wants other denominations To know
their places 1t is a great deal
better in any community when the
I great denominations of Christians are
/ about equal in power, marching side
| 10y side for the worlds conquest More
/ outside prosperity. more worldly pow
or, is not evidence that the church is
acceptable To tod. Better "A barn with
| Christ in the mangcr than a cathedral
| with magnificent harmnnies rolling
| through the long-drawn aisle, and an
angel from Heaven in the pulpit, II
| there be no Christ in the chanccl and
no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often the child of ignor-
ancc. You seldom find a man with
! large intellect who is a higut. Ii i the
man who thinks hc knows a great deal
| but does not. That man is almost al
ways bigot The whole tendency of
education and civilization is to bring
man out of that kind of state of
mimi and heart. There was in the far
east a great obclisk and one side of
| the obcliSh was white. another side of
the obelisk was green. another side of
the obelisk was blue, and travellers
went and looked at that ob,lisk. but
| they did not walk around il.
| One man looked at one side, another
at another side, and they cam home
each one locking 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 il was
blue, and when they were in the very
| heat of the controversy a more intclli-
gent traveller came and said, 'Gentle-
men, | have seen that obelisk and Won
are all right and you are all wrong.
| Why didn't you all walk around
obeli>k:"
Look out for the man who ...s
one side of = religious r. ..r.
out fay the man who anv-r -,a a.
around about these gr.,t .Aca 49, ..
God and eternity and IT," astt 20"
will be bigot inevitably .c UH,"
who only sees one side. Their, q.
man more TO be pitied than he nno
! has in his head just one idea-no more.
no less. More light, less sectarian-
ism. There is nothing that will SO
soon kill bigotry as sunshine-God's
sunshine.
So have set before you what | con-
slider to be the cause of bigotry.
have set before you the origin of this
great evil What are some of the bale
full effects? First of all, it criprlcs in
vestigaiion. You are wrong, and am
right, and that ends it. No taste for
exploration, no spirit of investiga.
ton. 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
ont and dies. a blind mole under the
cornshock. 1t stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Chris
tians is to present all the truths OF
the Bible, il seems to me that God
has given to each denomination an
especial Mission to give particular
emphasis TO some one doctrine; ana
SO the Calviuistic churches must pre-
sent the sovereignty of God, and the
Armenian churches must present
mans free agency. and the Episcopal
churches must present the Importance
of order ana solemn ceremony.
and the baptist churches must pre-
sent the necessity OF ordinances, and
the Congregational church must pre-
sent the responsibility of the indi-
vidual member. and the Methodis 4
church must show what holy enthu-
siasm, hearty congregational singing
can accomplish. While each demon
ination of Christians must set forth all
the doctrines of the Bible, | feel il is
especially incumbent upon each de-
nomination to put particular emphasis
on some one doctrine.
Another great damage done by the
sectarianism and bigotry of the church
is that it disgusts people with the
Chris tian religion. Now, my friends,
the Church of God was never intended
for 4 war barrack. People are afraid
of a riot. You go down the street and
You see an excitement 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
will say, iii go around the block. "
NOW, men come ana look upon the mar
row path to Heaven, and sometimes
see the ecclesiastical brick bats flying
every whittier, and they say, well,
guess I'll take the broad road; there
is SO much sharpshooting on the
narrow road, guess I'll try the broad
roadr'
Francis l. so hated the Lutherans
that he said that if he thought there
was one drop of Lutheran blood in his
veins he would runcture them and let
that drop out just as long as there
is SO much hostility between denomi-
nation and denomination, or between
one professed Christian and another,
or between one church and another, so
long men will be Disguised with the
Christian religion, aud say. IF that is
religion ] want none of it"
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they him
der the triumph of the Gospel. Oh,
how much wasted ammunitioni How
many men of splendid intellect have
given their whole life to controversial
disputes when, if they had given their
life to something practical, they might