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and‘vscoros lntoleranco Ind Bigotry—A
Broad Gospel Platform.
BROOKLYN Sept. 9.-Bov. Dr. Talmage,
who is now in Australia, whence he will
shortly sail gar Ceylon and India, has so
looted the? subject for . today's:sersnon
throu the pram “Cominliillon' of
'” the fat chosen being Judges
xii, 0: “Then said they unto him, Say
now shibboleth, and he said sibbolsth, for
he could not frameta pronounce it right.
Then they took him and slew him at the
01 JO '1: .
; Do. you notice the didersnce or pro-
nounciatlon betvr'een shibboleth‘and sib-
bolothi A very small and unimportant
difference, you say. And yet that differ-
ence was the diflerenco between life and
death for a great many people. The Lord's
people, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a
great fight, and Ephriam was worsted, and
on the retreat came to the lords of the riv-
er Jordan to cross. Order was given that
allEphraimitescomingtbere be slain. But
how could it be found out who were
Ephralmitresi They were detected by their
pronounciation. Shibboleth was a word
that stood for river.
The Ephraimites had a brogue of their
own, and when they tried to so “shibbo-
leth" always left out the sound 0 the “h. "
When it was asked that they say shib-
boioth, they said sibbolcth and were slain.
“Then said they unto him, Say now shib-
boioth, and he said sibboleth, for he could
not frame to pronounce it right. Then
they took him and slow him at the pas-
sages of Jordan." A very small difler—
once, you say, between Gilead and Ephra‘
im, and yet how much intolerance about
that small difference! The Lord's tribes
in our time-by which I mean the diner-
ent denominations of Christians~some-
times magnify a very small difference, and
the only difference between scores of do.
nominations today is the difference be.
tween shibboleth and sibboleth.
Uses of Religious Discussion.
The church of God is divided into a
great number of denominations. Time
would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and
the Amiinians, and the Sabbatarians, and
tho Baxterians, and the Dunkcrs, and the
Shakers, and the Quakers, and tho Meth-
odists, and the Baptists, and tho Episco-
palians, and tho Lutherans, and the Con-
gregationalists, and the Pmsbywrinns. and
the Spiritualists. and a score of other do.
nominations of rcligionists, some of them
founded by very good men, some of them
foundcd by very cgotistlc men, some of
them founded by very bad men. But as
I demand for myself liberty of conscience
I must give that same liberty to every oth-
er man, remembering that he no more dif-
fers from me than I differ from him. I ad-
vocate the largest libcrfy in all religious
belief and form of worship. In art, in
politics, in morals and in religion let
there be no gag law, no moving of thc
previous question. no persecution, no in-
tolerance.
You know that the air and the water
keep pure by constant circulation, and I
think thcro is a tcridcncy in religious dis-
cussion to purification and moral health.
Bclwecn the fourth and the sixteenth con-
turics the church propcscd to make people
think aright by prohibiting discussion,
and by strong censorship of the. press and
rack and gihbot and hot lcud down thc
throat tried to make people orthodox, but
it was discovered that you cannot change
a man’s belief by twisting off his head
nor make a man we differently by putting
an owl through his cycs. There is sourc-
thlng in a man's conscicncc which will
hurl oil the mountain that you threw upon
it, and, unsingcd of thc ilrc, out of the
flame will make red wings on which the
martyr will mount to glory.
In that timc of which I spcak, bctwccn
the fourth and sixteenth ccnturics. pcoplc
went from tho housc of God into the most
appalling iniquity. and right along by
correccrntcd altars thorn \vcrc iidcs of
drunkcrmcss turd liccutlousncss such as
the world ncvcr hcard of. and thc very
ecu‘crs of pcrdirlon broko blow and llrmdcd
lhc church. Alta-r ruvhilc the printing
prcss was frcml. and it brokc the shru'klcs
of llrc human mind. 'l‘bcn thcnrcurncrr
largo numbcr of bad books, and Where
thorn was om» mun hostile to tho (‘hristlnu
religion thcrc were 20 men rcady to advo-
cate it. So I have not any nervousness in
rcgrrrd to this hrrttio going on bctwccn
truth and crror. The truth will corrrulr‘r
just as ccrtuinly as thuttiod is strongcr
than the dull. Isi‘b crmr run if you only
ict truth run along with it. l'rgcd on by
skcptlc's about and lrnrrsccndcntulist‘s
spur, lct it run. God’s angels of wrath arc
in hot pursuit, and quickcrtlran eagle's
bcak clutches out n hnwk‘s heart God's
vcugcnnco will tear it to pieces.
Evils of Hectariuulsm.
lpropcso to speak to you of sectarian»
lsrumits origin, its cvils and its euros.
'l'hcro arc those who Would make us think
that this monster, with horns and hoofpr,
is religion. Islutll chase it to its hiding
place and drag it out of tho caverns of
darkness nud rip off its lrido. lint I want
to make It distinction between bigotry and
the lawful fondness for peculiar religious
belief and forms of worship. I have no
admiration for a nothingnrian.
In a world of smrh tn-rucndous vicissi-
tudc and tcmptation. and with a soul that.
nurst altcr awhile stand before a throne of
insufferable brightness, in a day when the
rocking of the mountains, and the flaming
of the heavens, and tho upheaval of the
sons shall be among the lcastof the excito-
mcnts, to givouccount for cvmy thought,
word, action, preference and dislike, that
man is mad who has no religious profor-
onco, But our early criuoatlon, our physi~
chi trunporarnent, our mental constitution,
will very much decide our form of wor-
ship.
A style of psaimody that may please me
may displcnso you. Home would like to
d have a minister in gown and bone and
surpilce, and others prefer tohave amlnls-
icr in plain oitisen's apparel. Some are
most impressed when a little child is pro-
scntcd at the altar and sprinkled of the
waters of a holy benmlictlon “in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost, ” and others are more Im-
pressed when the pcnltent comes up out of
the river, his garments dripping with the
waters of a baptism which signifies the
washing away of sin. bet either have his
mum way. One man likes no noise in
prayer, not a Word, not a whisper. Anoth-
sr man, just as good, prefer! by gesdcuie
tibia and exclamation to express his dove»
tlonal aspirations. One is fast as good as
the other. ”livery man fully persuaded
in his own mind."
(leer-gs Whitefield was going over a
irer rather roughly for some of his re-
ismasthonsrt. luster
bringing all men to diagnose «use»
new Belief and route: a: Worship-«1
i. one ssntimeatsnMmeWnidr
, Parents of Bigotry.
lam" " g ttbereuglopof swarm
ism or bigot: I find that a .. t y
of it comes fro *yrrong educati _ in the
home gnircle. . era are parsn ,who‘do
not think it smug to .cnrlcsturorand leer
the peculiar forms of religion in the wet-la
and denounce other sects and otherdem-
inations. 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
thorn-elves, and looking in these churches
and finding 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. I could mention
the names of prominent ministers of the
gospel who spent their whole life bum;
herding other denominations and who liv—
ed to see their children preach the gospel
in thoseyvery denominations. But it is
often the case that bigotry starts in a
household, and that the subject of it never
recovers. There are tens of thousands of
bigots 10 years old.
I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise
from too great prominence of any one do-
nomination in acornmunity. All the other
denominations are wrong, and his donomr
ination is right because 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 “our” minister, and
the man tosses his head and wants other
denominations to know their places.
It is a great deal better in any communi-
ty when the great denominations of Chris
tians are about equal in power, marching
side by side for the world’s conquest. More
outside prosperity, more worldly power, is
no evidence that the church is acceptable‘
to God. Better a barn with Christ in the
manger than a cathedral with magnificent
harmonies rolling through the longdrawn
aisle and an angel from heaven in tho pul—
pit if there be no Christ in the chancel
and no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is
often the child of ignorance.
One Sided Men.
You seldom find a man with a large in-
tellect who is a bigot. It is the man who
thinks he knows a great deal, but does not.
That man is almost always a bigot. The
whole tendency of education and civiliza-
tion is to bring a man out of that kind of
state of mind and heart. There was in
the far cast a great obelisk, and one side of
tho obelisk was while, another side of the
obelisk was green, another side of thc
obelisk was blue, and travelers went and
looked at that obclisk, but thcy did not
walk around it. ()nc mun looked at one
side, another at another side, and they
came home. each one looking at only one
side, and they happened to moot, the story
says, and thcy got into a rank quarrel
about the color of that obcllsk. Ono man
said it was while, another man said it
was green, another man said it was blue.
and when they wore in the very bout of
the controversy a more inlclllgcnt trnvclcr
came and said: “Gcntlcmcn. I lilin‘ econ
that obi-link, and you are all right, and
you are all wrong. Why didn’t. you \vnik
all around the obelisk?"
Look out for the man who sees only one
side of a roliuious truth. Look out for the
man who ncvcr walks around about those
great. thcorics of God and eternity and the
(lcnd. lie will bc a bigot iucvilubly~thc
nran who only sws one sidc. There is no
man more to bc piticd than hc who has in
his head just. onc idea—no more, no icss.
More light, loss swtnrinnisrn. Thcrc is
nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as
sturshiuo——(lod's sunshinc.
So I have not bcforc you what l consider
to be the causes of bigotry. I have set be-
fore you the origin of this great cvil. What
are some of the bulcful cll‘ccts? First. of
all, it. cripplcs invr-stigation. You are
wrong, and lam right, and that ends it.
No taste for exploration. no spirit of in-
vestigation. From the glorious realm of
Iiml's truth, ovcr which an archangel
might fly from cicrnlty to ctcrnity and
not roach the limit. the man shuts lrirrrscll
out» and dice, a blind mole under a t‘ul‘ll-
shock. It. stops all investigation.
Ecclesiastical llrickimts.
Alrulhcr grout. durungc donc by ihc scu-
tnrirrrrisrn and bigotry of thc church is
that it. disgusts pcoplo with the Christian
n-ligion. Now, my friends. tlrc church of
find was nr-vcr intcndcd for a war bur~
ruck, l’ooplc are afraid of a riot. You go
down the strcct, and you em on cxciirn
merit and trrlssilcs flying lhmugh thc air,
and you hcar the shock of firearms. llo
you, tho pcnccl‘ul and industrious citizen,
go through that. etnrct? Oh. no, you will
say; “I‘ll go around the. block " Now, mcn
come and look upon this narrow path to
llcrtvcn and somctimcs sch tho cccicslnstic
ul brickbnts llyingcvcry whither, and thcy
say: “Well, I gucss I‘ll take the broad
road. There is so much sharpshooting on
the narrow road I guess I'll try the broad
road!"
Francis I so hated the Lutherans that
he said that if ho thought there was one
drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he
would puncture thctn and lot that drop
out. Just as long as them is so much hos-
tility between denomination and denomi-
nation, or bctwwn one profcsscd Chris-
tian and another, or lwtwcorr onc church
aml another, so long men will be disgust-
ed with the (lhrietlun rcllgion and say,
“If that is rr-ligion, I want norm of it.”
Again, bigotry and scclnrirmlsm do
great damage in the fact that they hinder
the triumph of tho gospcl. Oh, how much
wasted ammunition, how runny men of
splendid intellect haw given their wholo
life to controvcrslnl disputes when, if they
had given their life to srnncthing practi-
cal, they mlght have how vastly usefuli
Suppose, while I ilpf‘ilk, there were a corn-
uron cur-my coming up tho bay, and all
the forts around tho harbor began to fire
into reach othrrrwyou Would cry out: ”Na-
tional suicidal Why don't thcso forts blow
away in one direction, and that against
the common onomyi" And yet I some-
times soc in the church of the Lord Jesus
Christa strange thing going on~churoh
against church, minister against minister,
denomination against denomination,flring
away into their own fort or the fort which
ought to be on the same side, instead of
concentrating their energy and giving one
mighty and everlasting volley against the
novice of darkness riding up through the
bay!
Christian time.
I go out sometime in the summer, and
I find two beehivcs, and those two hives
are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not
to be stung, but I spine just near enough
to bear the controversy, and one beehive
says. "That. field of clever is the sweet-
est," and another beehive says, ”That
field of clever is the modest. " I come in
between them, and I :“Btop this quar-
rel. If youiike that‘ old or cloverbsst,
arm" talents r' as“
s . s . rm. . ,0“, “-
thathhonwhi h , tbemost Eeylsth‘s
host hivei' Sc‘ 'ccmoouI‘Mn the
shurohsscf thehorddssns Christ. One
«nomination of WWW “flat
soars
It!!!»
gstthc Insatboney'L’“ hatisthsbsst
church which sets the most honey of
Christian grace for the heart, and the most
honey of Christian usefulness for the life.
Besides that, if you want to buildup
any denomination, you will never build it
up by trying to pull some other down. .In-
tolerance never put anything down. How
much has intolerance accomplished, for
instance. against the Methodist church!
For long years her ministry were forbidden
thepulpits of Great Britain. Why was it
that so many of them preached in the
fields? Simply because they could not get
in the churches. And the name of the
church was given in derision and as near-
casm. The critics of the church said,
“They have no order; they have no meth.
ed in their worship, " andvthe critics there-
fore in irony called them “Methodists.”
I. am told that in Astor library, New
York, kept as curiosities, there are 707
books and pamphlets against Methodlsm.
Did intolerance stop that church? No. It
is either first or second amid the denomi-
nations of Christendom, her missionary
stations in all parts of the world, her men
not only important in religious trusts, but
Important also in secular trusts. Church
marching on, and the more intolerance
against it the faster it marched.
Intolerance. ’
What did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist church? If laughing, scorn
and tirade could have destroyed the church,
it would not have tcrlay a disciple left.
The Baptists were buried out of Boston in
olden times. Those who sympathized with
them were imprisoned, and when a poti-
tion was oflcrud asking leniency in their
behalf all the men who signed it were in-
dicted. llns intolerance stopped the Bap-
tist church? The last statistics in regard
to it showed 25. 000 churches and ii, 000. 000
communicunts. Intolerance never put
down anything.
In England a law was made against the
Jew. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jew and declared that
no Jew should hold oflicial position. What
came of it? Were the Jowsdcstroyedl Was
their religion overthrown? No. Who be
came prime minister of England? Who
was next to the throne? Who was higher
than the throne because he was counselor
and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew. What were
we colcbrating in all our churches as Well
as synrrpogucs only a few years ago? The
one hundredth birthday anniversary of
Monteifon-, the great Jewish philanthro~
plst. Inluieranconcver yet. put down any-
thing.
But now, my friends, having. shown
you the origin of bigotry or sectarianisrn,
and having shown you the damage it does,
I want briefly to show you how we are to
war against this torrihlc evil, and I think
we ought tobcgin our war by realizing
our own vvcukucss and our imperfect-ions.
If Wt! mnkc so many mistakes in the com»
mon atlalrs of lifc, is it not possible that
wcnruy make mistakes in regard to our
religious affairs? Shall we takc umnn by
thc throat or by the collar because he
cannot. M‘c religious truths just as we do?
In the light of ctcrnity it will be found
out, I think. thcrc was something wrong
in all our crccds and smoothing right in
ullourcrccds. lint slncuwo may make
mlstukcs in n'uurd to things of the world
do Not lct. us bc so cgotislic and so puficd
up as to hnvc on idcrrthrrt We cannot make
any mlstokc in rcgnrd to rcligious theories.
And lhcn I think we will do n grcat deal
to ovcrihrmv the seclrtriruristn from our
heart and the sectarionism from fhoworld
by chiclly enlarging in those things in
which we agrcc rather than those on which
We (1i lcr.
Now, hum is n grcm gospcl platform. A
man mrrrcs up on his sidc of thc platform
and says, "I don't bclicvc in baby sprin-
kling." Shall I shove him oil? Here is a
tnancomiruz upon this side of the plat-
form, and hc says, “I don’t bclicvc in thc
Iwrscvcrunm' of the saints. " Shall I shovc
hlrn off? No. Twill say: "Do you bcllcvc
in the Lord .Icsus as your Saviour? Do
you trust blur for tinuI and for ctcrnity.“
llo says, “ch. " *' Do you takc Christ for
time and for ctcrnity‘r" “ch.” 1 say.
“(‘ornc on. brothcr. One in tlmc. and
our- in rtcruity. lirothcr nmv, brolhcr
forcvcr." lilcsscd be God for n gospcl
platform N) largo that all who rcccivc
('hr'ist may stand on it!
Mormvcr. \Vc may also overthrow the
fccliruzof scvr'ro sccturirmlsm by joining
othcr dcnomlnntiorrs in Christian Work. I
like whcri tbc springtime comes and thc
anniversary occasions begin and all dc-
nonrinntlnns come upon thc some plat
form. 'i‘bnt over-throws sccthrinnism. In
the Young Men's Christian asswimions,
in tho ll‘rblc er defy, in the Tract hoclcly.
inthc Porch. Missionary socicly, r-boul
dcr tn shouldcr all denominations.
Communion of Saints.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrutc
this truth by calling your attention to an
incidcut which took place about :10 ycars
ago. lino Monday morning at about :5
o‘clock, while hcr 900 passengers wcrc
sound asleep in her berths dreamingof
home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into
Mars lload. Five hundred souls in 10
minutes landed in eternity! 0h, whata
sccncl Agonized men and women run-
ning up and down the gangways and
clutching for the rigging, and the plunge
of tholrciplcss steamer and the clapping
of the hands of the merciless sea over the
drowning and the dead threw two con-
tinents into terror.
But see this bravo quartcrmastcr push-
ing out with the life lino until he gets to
the rock, and see those fishermen gather-
ing up the shipwrecked and taking them
into the cabins and wrapping them in the
ilannols snug and warm, and see that
minister of the gospel, with three other
men, getting into a lifeboat and pushing
out for the wreck, pulling away across the
surf and pulling away until they saved
one more nran and then getting back with
him totho shore. Can those men ever
forget that night, and can they ever for-
get their companionship in peril, com-
panionship in struggle, companionship in
awful catastrophe and rescue? Never!
Never! In whatever part of the earth they
meet, they will be friends when they soon.
tion the story of that night when the At-
lantic struck Mars ill-ad. Well, my
friends, our world has gone into a worse
shipwreck. Bin drove iton the rocks. The
old ship has lurchcd and tossed in the
torn is of 0,000 years. Out with the
life fuel I do not care what denomina-
tion carries it. Out with the lifeboati I
do not care what denomination rows it.
Side by side, in the memory of eornmon
hardships and common trials and common
prayers and common tears, let us be broth-
srs fourvcl‘. We must be.
One new of the livinw'od.
lie o an d we
I’r'lrl’tl nil Illl'nhtisfimi'fi crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
And I expect to we the day when all do-
nominations of Christians shall join hands
around the cross of Christ and recite the
creed: “I believe in God, the Father Ai-
mi hty, Mailer of heaven and earth, and
in sans Christ, and in the commcnlcnol
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over 1,000 graduates we have placed in business.
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