ey Sev DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. Concerning Bigots. not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jor- dan." —Judgoes 12: 6. Do vou notice the difference of pro- nunciation between shibboleth and sib- boleth? A very small and unimportant difference you say. And yet, that dif- ference was the difference between life and death for a great many people. The Lord’s people, Gilead and Ephraim got into a great fight, and Ephraim was fords of the river Jordan to cross, Or- der was given that all Ephraimites com- ing there be slain, But how could Shey were DETECTED BY THEIR TION. PRONUNCIA- Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say shibboleth, always left sound of the **h.”’ When it was asked that they say shibboleth they said sib- boleth, 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 #ages of Jordan.” about that small difference! ¢ Lord’s tribes in our time 1 I mean the by very small and the scores of denomina- difference, difference between sthibboleth and sibboleth, «reat nuinber of denominations. Time would fail me to tell of the ‘Calvini and the Arminians and the Sabbatari- ans and the Baxterians and the Dunk- Qt IS and the Methodists and the Baptists and the Episcopalians and the Luther- ans and the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians and the Spiritualists and a score of other denominations of re- ligionists, some of them founded by ry good men, some of them tounded y very egotistic men, and some of them founded by very bad men. Bat as | DEMAND LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE or myself I must give that same liberty to every other man, remembering that he no more differs from me than I differ from him, 1 advocate the largest berty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in politics, als and in religion let aw, no moving of the tion, no persecution, no i You know that the air and th keep pure by constant circulation I think there is a tendency in rel 1ssion to purification and mors health. Between the fourth an sixteenth centuries the Chur posed Lo mak sople thin iti ] and press, an I lead id= in mor- } 1 no oat there be no gag previous ques- 1 volerance, hot US , tried to make people orthod 18 discovered that y an’s belief by by consecrated altars t drunkenness and hh as the world never hean very sewers of perditi and flooded the C hile the printing- id it broke the i f the mind. Then there came a large of bad books, but where there man hostile to the Christian were twenty men ready 80 I have n { it; not any nerv- regard to this battle i auman number was one religion there to advocate it; in between ONSHVSS going US OLA » RUTH AND ERROR, The truth will conquer just as cer- at God is stronger than the [.et Error run, if you only let Truth run along with it, Urged on by ptic’s shout and transcendentalist’s jet it run, God’s angels of wrath in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle's beak clutches out a hawk’s heart God's vengeance wlll tear it to piecess, I propose this morning to speak to ly as ti ot 1 and ils cures, There are those who would make us think that this monster, with horns and hoofs, is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding-place, and drag it out of the caverns of darkness, and rip off its hide, But I want to make a distinction between bigotry and the lawful fondness for peculiar reli- gious beliefs and forms of worship, I have no admaration for a nothingarian, In a world of such tremendows vicis- situde and temptation, and with a soul that must after awhile stand before a throne of insufferable brightness, ina day when the rocking of the mountains and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the sea shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, pre. ference and dislike—that man is mad who has no RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE, jut our early education, our physical temperament, our mental constitution, will very much decide our form of wor- ship. 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 pre. fer to have a minister in plain citizen's apparel. Some are most impressed when a little child is presented at the altar and sprinkled of the waters of a 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 garment dripping with the waters of a baptism which signifies the washing away of sin, Let either have his own way, One man likes no noise in prayer—mnot a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, prefers by exclamation to ex- One “Every man fully persuaded in his own mind.” George Whitefleld was going over a Quaker rather roughly for some of his religious sentiments, and the Quaker said: **George, I am as thou art; I am for bringing all men to the hope of the Gospel; therefore, if thou wilt not quar- rel with me about my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give me thy hand." I. In tracing out the religion of sectarianism, or bigotry, I find that a COMES FROM WRONG EDUCATION wrong to carica- ture and jeer the peculiar forms of re- ligion in the world, and denounce other sects and other denominations. It 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 | and looking in those | ymmandments, by natural re- | action go and join those very churches. I could mention the names | of prominent ministers of the Gespel who spent their whole lives bombard- ing other denominations, and who lived | they ‘8 in those very denominations, jut it is often the case that bigotry household, and that the There starts Hever recovers, thousands of BIGOTS TEN YI 1 think sectarianism any one denomination in a community. 1 1 his denomination is the most wealthy 3 innfita inua- and it is ‘our’ church, religious organization, and *‘our™ minister, and the and other — “aur” man tosses his head, denominations to know their places, It is a great deal better in munity when the great denominations ‘hristians are about equal in, power, for world’s outside prosperity, wants any com- side by side the Mere nere wordly power, ie church 18 acceptable to God, sr a barn with Christ than a cathedral wi s +} is no evidence that Det i v} nies rolling throug ] and an angel from hea ¥ i 1 Y if there be n aud no Christ in ti rotry is often + ¥ LAT east sgreal ISK Was s 3 ’ 0 #1 3 HOARE UL ent traveler came . I have all right, an Why didn’ h id: he obelisk?" SE around t Look he man who sees only one side of a re- gious truth, Look out for the ho never walks around about reat theories of God and eternity he dead, Ie will be a bigot man these and inevit- There is no man more to be pitied than jess, More There is O88 th # Liat no more, no light, sectarianism. nothin will so soon kill bigotry as God’ 8 sun- 1I. Sol have set before you what consider to be the causes of bigotry. have set before you the origin of Ol his What are some of evil THE BALEFUL EFFE( ? of all it erpples investigation, You are wrong, and I am right, and No taste for exploration, | From the | TS which an archangel might fly from | limit, the man shuts himself out and | dies, a blind mole under a cornshock.| It stops all investigation. While each denomination of Chris-|| tians is to present all the truths of the} Bible, it seems to me that God has giv-| en to each denomination an especial|| mission to give particular emphasis to) some one doctrine, and so the Calvin | istic churches must present the sover- | eignty of God, and the Armenian churches must present man’s free agency, and the Episcopal churches must present the importance of order, and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordinances, and the Congregational Church must present the responsibility of the individual member, and the Methodist Church must show what holy enthusiasm hearty congregational singing can accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel it especially incumbent upon each denomination te put particular empha- sis on some one doctrine, Another great damage done by the sectarianism and bigotry of the Church is that, IT DISGUSTS PEOPLE with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the Church of God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot, You go down the street and you see an excitement, and missiles flying through the air, and you hear the shock of firearms. Po you, the peaceful and industrious citizens. go through that street? Oh, no! Yon will say, *I’ll go around the block.” Now, men come and look upon this nar- row path to heaven, and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brickbats flying every whither, and they say, ‘Well, I guess I'll take the broad road, if it rough, and there is so much sharp shooting on the narrow road, I guess I'11 try the broad road.”’ Francis I. so hated is the drop of Lutheran blood in his veins, he out. Just as long as there i8 so much hostility between denomination and de- Christian and say, “‘If that religion, I want do Again, bigotry and sectarianism great damage, in the fact that they hin- the triumph of the Gospel, Oh, WASTES men IT AMMUNITION, how many of splendid intellect + ves to contro- their life to something practical, they might have been useful! 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