Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-25


a minister in plain citizens apparel
Some are most impressed when a little
child is presented at the altar. and
sprinkled of the waters of holy bene-
liction Gin the name of the Father and
Of the Son and of the Holy Ghost "
and others are more impressed when the
lenitent comes Up out of the river, his
garments dripping with the waters Of a
baptism which signifies the washing
away of sim Let either have his own
way One man likes 10 noise in prayer,
not q word, not whisper. Another
man. just as good, prefers by gesticula-
ton and exclamation to express his de-
votionaI aspirations. One is just as good
as the other. Every man fully persaad-
ed in his own mind. .
George Whitefeld was going over q
Quaker rather roughly for some OF his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said George, I am as thou art am
for bringing all men to the hope Of the
gospel Therefore, if thou will not quar-
rel with me about my broad brin,
will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy hand. "
IN tracing out the religion Of secta
riacism or bigotry [ find that q great
deal Of it comes from wrong education
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 educa-
ton acts just opposite to what was ex-
pected, and the children grow up and
after awhile so and see for themselves,
and, looking i'll those churches and find
ing that the people are good there and
they love God and keep his command
ments, by natural reaction they go and
join those very churches. | could men,
ton the names Of prominent ministers
Of the gospel who spent their whole
lives bonn harding other determinations
and who lived to see their children
preach the gospel in those very denomi-
nations. But it is often the case that
bigotry starts in household, and that
the subject of it never RECEIVERS. There
are tens Of thousands Of bigots 10 years
old.
Causes of Bigotry.
[ think sectarianism and bigotry 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 induen-
tial and it is cur church, and four'
choir, ana cur minister, and the man
losses his head and wants other denom-
nations to know their places It is
great deal better in any community
when the great denominations Of Chris
tians are about equal in power, march
ing side by side for the worlds con-
quest Mere outside prosperity, mere
worldly power, is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God. Better
barn with Christ in the manager 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 chancel and
no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often the child of igno-
rance. You seldom find man with large
intellect who is bigot. It is the man
who thinks he knows a great DEAL but
does not. That man is almost always q
bigot. The whole tendency of education
and civilization is to bring man out of
that kind Of state of mind and heart
There was in the far east a great obelisk,
and one side Of the obelisk 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 quarrel about
the color of that obellsk. One man said
it 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 more Intelligent trav-
eler came and said: "Gentlemen, I
have seen that obelisk, and you are all
right, and you are all wrong. Why
didn It 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
bigot inevitably-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 sectarianism. There is moth
ing that will SO soon kill bigotry as
sunshine-God S sunshine.
Truths of the Bible.
So I have set before you what con-
slider to be the causes of bigotry. have
set before you the origin of this great
evil. What are some of the baleful eff
fscts? First of all, it cripples investiga-
ton You are wrong, and I am right,
and that ends it. No taste for explora-
ton. no spirit Of investigation. From
the glorious realm of Gods truth, over
u hich an archangeI might fly from