The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-07-29


stitution, will very much decide oar
form of worship.
A style of psalmody that may please
me may displease you. Some would
like to have a minister in gown and
bands and surplice, and others prefer
to have minister in plain citizens
apparel Some are most impressed
when little child is presented at the
altar and sprinkled of the waters of a
holy benediction "n the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost" and others are more i'm
pressed 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 prayer, not word,
not whisper. Another man, just as
good, prefers by gesticulation and ex-
clamaton TO express his devotional
aspirations. One is just as good as the
other. Every man persuaded fully in
his own mind"
George Whitefeld was going over n
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: George, ! am as thou art; am
for bringing all men to the hope of
the gospel; therefore, If thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad brim,
] will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
hand"
In tracing out the religion of sec
tarianism, or bigotry, find that q
great deal of it comes from wrong ed
ucation 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, and finding that the people
are good there, and they love God and
keep His commandments, by natural
reaction they go and join these very
churches. ! could mention the names
of prominent ministers of the gospel
who spent their whole lives bonn bard
ing other denominations and who
lived to see their children reach the
gospel in those very denominations.
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 ten years
old.
] think sectarianism and bigotrv al
so rise from too great prominence of
any one denomination in a community.
All the other denominations are wrong,
and his denomination is right, be-
cause his denomination 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 "onr' minister; and
the man losses his head, and wants
other denominations to know their
places. 1t is great deal better in
any community when the great de-
nominations of Christians are about
equal in power, marching side by side
for the worlds conquest. Mere out
side prosperity, mere worldly power
is no evidence that the church is ac-
ceptable to God. Better barn with
Christ in the manger 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 ignor-
ance. You seldom find man with
large intellect who is bigot. 1t is
. ha h, AL, he l.
deal, but does not That man is al
ways bigot The who'd tendency Of
education and civilization is to bring
a 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 look
ing at only one side; and they hap
pened to meet the story says, and they
got into rank quarrel about the color
of that obelisk. One man said IL 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 intelligent
traveller came, and said: Gentlemen,
| have seen that obelisk 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
ont 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 sectarian-
ism. There is nothing that will so
soon kill bigotry as sunshine-God'
sunshine.
SO have set before you what con-
slider TO be the cause of bigotry. l
have set before you the origin of this
great evil What are some of the hale.