The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-08-04

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Gospel; therefore IL thou wilt not
quarrel with me about my broad brim,
viii not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George give me thy
hand
Ia tracing out the religion Of sec
tariauism or biRotfY ] find that a
great deal Of it comes from wrong edu-
cation ia the home circle There arc
parents who do not think It wrong to
carieaEure aud Ieer the peculiar forms
Of religion 10 The world and denounea
other seets and other denominations
II is very often the case that that kind
Of education acts just opposite 10 what
was expected and the children gro@
up aud, alter awhile 20 and see for
themselves and, Looking ia those
churches aud 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 / could mention the names
Of prominent ministers Of the Gospel
who spent their whole lives bombard-
ing other denominations and who lived
10 see their children preach the Gospel
10 those very denominations But II Is
often the case That biRotry starts in a
household, and that the subject Of it
never RECEIVERS. There Bre tens Of thou
sands Of bipots ten years old.
think seetariHajsn and biFotry also
rise from too great prominence Of any
one denomination Ia a community an
the other denominations are wrong,
and his denomination les right, because
his denomination Is the most wealthy,
or the most popular, or the most intiu-
entail; and il is our church, and
"0ur' religious organization and our
choir, and our minister; aud the mau
tosses his head, and wants other de-
nominations TO know their places II
is "a grent deal better in any commupi-
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 tAe church is acceptable 10 God.
Better y bHru with Christ in the man
ger than a cathedral with magnificent
harm0uies 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 ia the robes.
Bigotry is often the child OF igno-
rance. You seldom 6nd q man with
large intellect who Is a bigot Itisthe
man who thinks lac knows great deal,
but does not. That man Is always a
bigot, The whole tendency Of educa-
tioH aud civilization is TO bring a man
out Of that kind OF state OF mind and
heart. There was in the far east a
obelislk, and one side Of the obelisk wns
white, another side of the obelisk
was green, another side OF the
obelisk was blue, and travellers went
sind looked at that obelisk, but they
did not walk around it. One man
looked ct one side, another at another
side aud they came home each looking
at only one sidei and they happened
to meet, the story says, and they got
into a rank quarrel about the color of
that obelisk One man said it was
Whlte, another man sala IL WINS green
another man said IL was blue, and
when they were in She very heat Of the
controversy, a more intelligent travel
EN- came, and sNia' "Gentlemen, ! have
seen 1Nat onellsN ala you are az rlght,
uh" you aEe o1l wrong. why aIdh T.
you aIl "ollS arouhu the ooeliSA3
Looh oul lor IOe man VINO sees only
ohe slae ~ arellElouS truth, Look ont
t9F 1le man VINO never Walks around
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az sunshine NeoaS sunshine
30 have set before you what con-
slider 70 he the eause OF blgutry /
have set before you the origin Of this
great evas What are some Of the bale
fni etfeets3 First OF all it crippies in
vesttgation. You are wrong and | am
right, and that ends IT. No taste for
exploration, no spirit Of investigation
ron the glorious realm Of Gods truth,
over which an nrchangel might fly from
eternity to eternity ana not reach the
unit, the man SHUTS himself out and
dies, O blind mole under a corn shock.
~ stops all investigation.