The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-25

/ prepared only by G. l. Hood 4 Co, Lowell Mess,
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/ world and denounce other sects and other
4 denominations Ii is very often the case
/ that that kind of education acts just OPP
1 pos,tc to what was expected. and the chill
4 dreu grow up. and. after awhile 90 and
| see for themselves; and looking In those
churches, and finding that the people are
/ good there and they love God and keep
/ has commandments. by natural reaction
/ they go and join those very churches. I
1 could mention the names Of prominent
ministers of the Gospel who spent their
/ whole lives hOmbardng other denOmna-
tons and who lived to see their children
/ preach the Gospel in those very denomi-
nations. But IL is often the case that big
| otry starts in a household and that the
subject of il never RECEIVERS. There are
tens Of thousands of bigots ten years old.
1 mink sectarianism and bigotry also
rise from too great prominence Of any
one denomination in a community. All
the other denominations are wrong, and
his determination 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 religious
ORGANIZATION, and our" choir and our
| minister, and the man losses his head.
and wants ther denominations 10 know
! their places. II is "A great deal better in
any community when the great denomina-
or, marching side by side for the world
conquest. Mere outside prosperity. mere
worldly power Is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God Better a
barn with Christ i'm the mauger than
cathedral with magnificent harmonies roll
ing through the long-drawn aisle, and an
angel from heaven in the pulpit, if there
be no Christ ia the chancel and no Christ
in the robes.
Bigotry Is often the child of ignorance.
You seldom fnd man with large in
tellect who is a bigot II 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 civil
izatOn IS to bring a man out of that kind
Of state of mind and heart. There was in
the far east a great 0belisk, and one side
of the obelisS was white. another side of
the obelisk was green. another side of the
obelisk was blue, and travellers went and
looked at that 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 happened to meet, the
story says, and they got into a rank quar-
rel about the color of that obelisk one
man said 1t 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, a more iutelH-
gent traveller came, and said, Gentlemen.
/ n
right, and you are all wrong Why didn't
you all walk around the obeisk?"
Look out for the man who 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 che dead. He will be a bigot inevlta-
bly-the man who only sees one side
There is no man more TO be pitied than
he who has in his head just one idea
no more, no less. More light, less secta-
rianism. There is nothing that will SO
soon kill bigotry as suushne-Gods sun
shine.
So I have set before you what I con-
sider to be the causes of bgotry. 7 have
set before you the origin OF this great
evil What are some of the baleful eff
fects? First of all, it cripples investiga-
ton You are wrong, and l am right and
that ends II. No taste for exploration. no
spirit OF investigation. From the glorious
realm OF Gods truth, over which an arch
angel might fly from eternity to eternity
ana not reach the limit the man sbuts
himseit out and dies, a blind mole under
corn-shock. It stops all Investigation.
Nhue each denomination of Christians
IS to present all the truths Of the Bible II
seems to me that God has given to each
denomination an especial mission 10 yiva
particular emphasis 10 some one doctrine.
and so the Calvinisric churches must Dro
sent the sovereignty of God and the Ar
mlplan churches must present mans free
agency, and the Episcopal churches must
present the importance of order and SOL
emn ceremony, and the Baptist churches
must present the necessity of ordinances
and the Congregational Church must nre-
sent the responsibility of the individual
member, and the Methodist Church must
show what holy enthusiasm hearty con-
EDUCATIONAL singing can accomplish
while each denomination of Christians
f4esf -at sl.,tI.
bic, feel IL is especially incumbent upon
each denomination to put particular en-
phasis on some one doctrine
Another great damage done by the sec
tariansm and bigctry of the church is
thai it disgusts people with the Christian
religion. Now. my friends, the Church
of God was never intended for a war bar-
| rack People are afraid of a riot You
so 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.
so through thar street Oh. no. YOU viii
say, 'Tn go around the block" Now. men
come and look upon this narrow path to
heaven, and sometimes see the occlesias-
teal bnckbats. flying every whittier. and
they say well l guess III take the
| broad road; there is so much sharp-s shoot
! ing on the narrow road l guess Tn try
! the broad road
| FRANCS 4 SO hateu the LuthcranS thai
! he said that il he thought there was one
drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he
would puucture them and let that drop
out. Just as long as there is so much hos
! tiity between denomination and dcnomi-
/ nation or between one protessed Christian
! and another, or between one church and
I another, SO long men win be disguised
with the Christian religion, and say, "If
/ that is religion, 1 want none of it,"
! Again, bgotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they hinder
! 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 to something practi-
! cal, they might have been vastly useful
/ Suppose, while / speak, there were 2 COM
! mon enemy coming up the bay. and all
| The forts around the harbor began 10 fire
! INTO each other-you would cry ont, ma
| uonal suicide Why don't those forts
! blaze away in one direction and that
| against the common enemy?" And vet /