Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-04

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our mental constitution, will very
much decide our form OF worship
A style of psalmody that may please
me may displease you. Sare wou.C
like to have m.uiSter in gown ans
bands and surplice, and others prefer
to have u minister in piaIn citizens
apparel. Some are most impressed
when little child is presented at the
altar aud spriukled OF the waters Of q
holy benediction "in 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 praver, not word, not
whisper. Another man, just as good,
prefers by gesticuiatiou and exclama-
ton to express his devotional asptra-
tious. One man is just as good as the
other. Every man fully persuaded in
his own mind
George Whitedeld was going over n
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: George, l am rs thou art; am
for bringing all men to the hope of the
Gospel; therefore, If thou wilt not
quarrel with me about my broad bri IN,
! l will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
, hand"
In tracing out the religion of SEQ
tarianism, or bigotry, l find that q
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, aud finding that the people
are good there, aud they love God and
keep His commandments, by natural
reaction they go and join those very
churches. 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
I 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
nominations to know their places. Ii
is Il 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 a 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 chnnccl, and no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often the child of igno-
rance You seldom find n man with
large intellect who is a bigot. 1t is the
! man who thinks he knows Il great deal,
but does not. That man is always a
bigot. The whole tendency of educa.
ton and civilization is TO bring a man
| out of that kind OF state of mind and
! heart. There was in he far east a
obelisl, and one side of the obelisli was
white, another side of the obelisls
was green, another side of the
obe IisS was blue, and travellers went
! and looked at that obctisk, but they
did not walk around it. One man
| looked at one side, another at another
side aud they came home each looking
at only one side; and they happened
to meet, the story says, and they got
into a rank quarrel about the color OF
that obrlisk. One man said it was
| Wnltt. lnOIHeT man Sdlu III was green,
another man said it was blue, and
when they were in the very heat Of the
controversy. a more intelligent travel
er came, and said: "Gentlemen, have
seen that obelish 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 a 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
J bigot inevitably the man who only
! sees one side. There is no man more
To Toe pitied than he who has in head
! just one ,dea-no more, no less. More
| light, less sectarianism. There is
nothing that will so soon kill bigotry
as sunshine-Gods 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
| FIJI etfectsp First Of all, it crppies in.
| vcetigation. You are wrong and ! am
right. and that ends it No taste for