Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-23
FORMS OF WORSHIP.
EVILS or SECTARIANlSM DR.. TALL
MAGE'S THEME.

r'eo ASeu&iOue Discussion Has n Tendencv
TO Break Down UNCONVENTIONAL Barriers,
The Man Who Can See Only One Side
viii Always BE q Bigot.
Copyright. 1885, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, July 24.-In his ser.
mon today Dr. Talmage shows what
sectarianism really is, its origin, evils
and cure. The text was Judges xii 6:
Then said they unto him, Say now
shlbboleth, and he said sibboleth. for
he could not frame to pronounce it right.
Then they took him and slew him at the
passages of Jordan
do you notice the difference of pro.
nunciation between shibboleth and sib.
boleth? A very small and unimportant
dlrerenoe, you say. And yet that diff
ference was the difference between life
ana death for great many people. The
Lords people, Gilead and Ephraim,
got into great fight, and Ephraim was
worsted, and on the retreat came to the
fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order
was given that all Ephraimites coming
there be slain. But how could it be
found out who were Opportunities? They
were detected by their pronunciation.
Shlbboleth was word that stood for
river. The Ephraimites had a brokue of
their own, and when they tried to say
"shibboleth" always left out the sound
OF the "h." When it was asked that
they say shibboleth, they said sibboleth,
and were slain. "Then said they unto
him, say now shibboleth, and he said
sibboleth, for he could not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him
and slew him at the passages of Jor-
dam" A very small difference, you say,
between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet
how much intolerance about that small
difference! The Lords tribes in our
time-by which I mean the different
denominations of Christians - some.
times magnify very small difference,
and the only difference between scores
of denominations today is the difference
between shibboleth and sibboleth.
The church Of God is divided into a
great number Of denominations. Time
would fail me to tell of the Cslvinists,
and the Arminians and the Sabbath.
rians, and the Baxterians, and the Dun
kers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers,
and the Methodists, and the Baptists,
and the Episcopalians, and the Luther
ans, and the Congregationalists, and
the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists,
and score of other denominations of
religionists, some of them founded by
very good men, some Of them founded
by very egotistic men, some of them
founded by very bad men. But as de-
mand for myself liberty of conscience I
must give that same liberty to every
other man, remembering that he no
more differs from me than differ from
him. l advocate the largest liberty in
all religious belief and form of wor-
ship. In art, in politics, in morals and
in religion let there be no gag law, no
moving Of the previous question, no
persecution, no intolerance.
Mans Conscience.
You know that the air and the wa
ter keep pure by constant circulation,
and l think there is tendency in re-
ligious discussion to publication and
moral health. Between the fourth and
sixteenth centuries the church proposed
to make people think Alright by pfohib-
iting discussion, and by strong censor
ship of the press and rack and gibbet
and hot lead down the throat tried to
make people orthodox, hut 1t was dis
covered that you cannot change man
belief by twisting off his head, nor
mike man SEQ differently ty putting
an awl through his eyes. There is some
thing in mans conscience which WILL
hurl off the mountain that you threw
upon it, and unsinged of the fire out OF
the fame will make led wings on
which the martyr will mount to glory.
In that time Of which l speak, be-
tween the fourth and sixteenth centu-
ries. people went from the house of God
into the most appalling iniquity, and
right along by conset rated affairs there
were tides Of drunkenness and l1cen-
tiousness such as the world never heard
of, and tho very sewers OF perditlon
broke loose and flooded the church.
After awhile the printing press was
freed. and it broke the shackles OF the
human mind. Then there came a large
number of bad books, and v here there
WIZ one man hostile to the Christian
religion there were 20 men ready to adj
vocate it. SO have not any nervousness
in regard to this battle going on pc,
tween truth and error. The truth Will
CONQUER lust as certainly as that Goo is
stronger than the devil. Let error run
if YOU only let truth run along with IT,
Urged on by skeptic's shout and trans
cendentalist's spur, let it run. Goa
angels of wrath are i'll hot pursuit ano
quicker than eagles beak clutches ou!
a hawks heart Gods vengeance VIII
tear it to pieces
Cure For Sectarianisin.
propose to speak to you of sectarlan'
ism-its origin, its evils and Its cures
There are those who would mako us
think that this monster, with horns ana
hoofs. is religion. shall chase 1t 20 itS
hiding place and drag it out Oh the
Governs of darkness and rip off Its hlde'
Knit want to make distinction De-
tween bigotry and tho lawful fonaness
for neculiar religious beliefs and forms
of worship. l have no admiration Tor
nothingarian
In world of such tremendous vlcls
situde and temptation and with a SOU
that must after awhile stand before
throne of insufferable brightness III d
day when the rocking of the mountains