The Sioux County Journal,
HAHKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1894.
NUMBER 3.
VOLUME VII.
THE
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ESTABLISHED 1888.1
Harrison, Nebraska.
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TIAN TOLERATION.
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President,
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Transacts a uenerai jttanxing Duamca.
lis Advoritm the GrralMt Liberty In All
Kellgiuu. Hellef and form of Womhlp
and 6rom Intolerance and Bigotry A
Broad tiwpl rial form.
COERISPONDENTSi
va !faiWAL Bam, New York,
tfr.ra 9tAvm Natuhai. Ban.
If atmstal
He Bee. Kvery Hide.
Rev. Dr. Talmaire, who s now ia
Australia, whence he will shortly rail
for Ce. km and India, selected as the
suh'ect for ast Sunday's
through the press 'Communion
SainU," the text chosen being Judge
xii, 6: "Then said they unto bira, Say
now Bhihtxlelh, and be said sibboleth,
for he could not frame to pronounce it
right. Then tbey took him and slew
him at the passages of Jordan."
Do you not ce the difference of pro
nounciation between shibboleth and
sibboleth.' A very small and unim
portant difference, you say. And yet
that difference was the difference be
tween life and death for a great many
people. The Lord's people, Gilesd
and Ephraim, got into a great tight,
and Epbriam was worsted, and on the
' retreat i ame to the fords of the river
I .Tni-Hun tifm Order wu ffiven that
all Ephrsimites coming there be slain.
Hut bow coma it re louna out woo
were Ephraimites? They were de
tected by their p;onouneiation. Shlb-
boletn was a word trial stood ior river.
The E, bra miles bad a brogue of
hen they tried to
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CTUftAfTi SOLD ON ALL PARTS OW KUB0M
THE PIONEER
P
harmacy,
phys;cal temperament, our mental con-
ht'tuuon, will very luucii ueciue. our
form ol worship.
A style of jwalmody that mav please
me may displease jun. Some would
like to have a minister in gown and :
ban? and surplice, and others prefer to i
ha e a minister in plain citizen's ap- (
parel. Home are most impressed when j
a little child is presented at the aitar :
and s rinkled of the waters of a holy I
benediction "in the na ue of the!
Father, and of the Son, and of tne Holy :
Ghost," and others are more impressed
when the penitent comes out of the
river, his garments dripping with the
waters of a baptis -i which signifies the
washing away of sin. Leteither have ,
sermon 1 h'H own wttv- Una man "ke8 nono He I
0 i in prayer, not a woru. uui a u.r'. ,
Anotner man, ;uhs as koou. proion ,
gesticulation and exclamation to ex
press his devotional aspirations. One
is just as good as the other. "Every (
man lully persuaded in bis own mind."
George Whitotield wan going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious seatiroents, and the Quaker
said. "George, I am as thou art. I
am for bringing all u en 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. '
Parent, of Bigotry. )
hi tracing out the religion of sect- '
rianisra or bigotry I find that a great
deal of it comes from a wrong educa- ,
tion in the home circle. There are ,
parents who do not think it wrong to ;
caricature and eer the peculiar forms
of religion in the world and denounce
other secta and other denominations.
Ikntamai, awA U V, T, th.V tplMI tl MV
shibboleth" always left out the sound It Is very otten tne case mat torn, iuu
of the "h." When It was asked tnai , oi eaucuuon acta jusv vlVKmivv
thev sav shibboleth, they said sibbo-
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leth and were slain. "Ihen said they
unto him, Bay now shibboleth, and he
said sibboleth. or he could not frame
to pronounce it right Then they took
him and slew him at the passages of
Jordon." A very small dil.erence, you
say, between Glfead and Ephraim, and
yet how mu. b into erance about that
small difference! The Lord's tribes
in our time -by which I mean the dif
ferent denominations of Christians
sometimes magnify a small difference,
and the only difference between soores
ol denominations to-day is the differ
ence between shibboleth and sibbo
rM of Religion. Ulnrn.Klon.
The church of God is divided into a
great number of denomlnat'ons. Time j
would fall me to tell of the Calvinists, j
and the Arminians, and the t-abbe-.
tarians, and the Baxterians, and the
Hunkers, and the Hhakers, and the :
Quakers, and the Methodists, and the !
Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and
the Lutherans, and the V ongregjtn u-;
alinU, and the Presbyterians, ana the
rpirituiilists. and a score of other de- f
nominations of religionists, some of
them founded by very good men, some
o' them founded by verv egotistic men,
some of them founded" by very bad
wen. Hut as I demand for myself lib- j
erty of conscience 1 must give that j
same-liberty to every other man, re- !
membcring that he no more di ,ers i
from me than i diller from him. I ad-
vocate the largest liberty in all re
ligious belief and form of worship. In
art in politics, in morals, and in re
ligion let there be no gag law, no mov
ing of the previous question, no perse
cution, no intolerance.
Yo j know that the air and the water
keep pure by constant circulation, and
I think there isatendendy In religious
discussion to purification and moral
health, lie t we en the fourth and the
si teenth contur es the church pro
posed to make people think aright by
prohibiting discussion, and by strong
censorship of the press and rack and
gibbet and hot lead down the throat
tried to make iteole orthodox, but It
was discovered that you cannot change
a man's belief by twisting oil his head
nor make a man see differently by put
ting an awl through his eyes. There
is something In a man s conscience
which will hurl off the mountain that
you threw upon it, and, unsinged of
the fire, out of the flame will make red
winirs on which the martvr will mount : I'll take the broad
to glory. I much gharps'nooting
In that time of which I speak, be-1
twoon the. fourth and sixteenth cent- i
uries, people went from the house of
God into the most appalling Iniquity, I
And right along by consecrated altars
there were tides of drunkenness una
licentiousness such as the worl.l never j
heard of, and the very sewers of perdl- j
tion bioke loose and flooded the
church. After awhile the printing
press was freed, and it broke the !
shackles of the human mind. Then
there came a large number of bad
books, and where there was one man
hostile to tho Christian religion there
were twen'.y men ready to advocate it.
Ho 1 have not any nervousness in re
gard to this battle ?oing on between
truth and error. The truth will con
ouerjustas certainly as that God Is
stronger than the devil. Let error .
run II you only let truth run along with j
It. Urged on by skeptic's shout and
transcendentalUt's spur, let it run. j
God's angels of wrath are in hot pur
suit, and quicker than eagle's beak
cli tches out a hawk's heart Cod's
vengeance will tear it to pieces.
Oils of Neetarlanlani.
I propose to speak to you of sectarianism-it's
origin, iu evils, and its
cures. There are those who would
mi.ke us think that thU mounter with
bonis and boots. Is religion. I shall
chase it to it. hiding place and drag it
.it of the cavern, of darkness and rip
elf it hide But I want to make a dis
tinction, between bigotry and the law
ful foadaess of l ecullar religiou. belief
fend forms of worship. I have no ad
Kir tion foe a nothingarian.
In a world of sucb tremendous vicissi
tude and temptation, and with a soul
that must after awhile .tend before a
throne of lnauffsrable brightness, In a
day when the rocking of tbs mount
ain., and the flaming of the heavens,
ana the upheaval of the seat shall be
viionf the least Of the eieltemeats, to
to what
was expected, and the children grow
up and alter 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, bv natural
reaction they go and join these very
churches. 1 1 oul 1 mention the names
mlniHtara of the troePel
! who spent their whole life bonilierd-
Ing other denominations and wbo
lived to see their children preach the
?ospcl in those very denominations,
lut it is often the case that bigotry
starts in a household, and that the
Subject of It never recovers. There
are tens o mousanuo oi uium iu jmu
our. , ,
I I think sectarianism and bigotry also
I rise from too great prominence of any
one denomination .n a ommunity. AH
the other denom nations are wrong,
and his denomination is. right because
bis denomination is tho most wealthy,
or the most i opular, or the most influ
ential, and it is "our" church, and
our" religious organ izatiou, and "our"
e olr. and "onr" minister, - and the
man tosses his head and wants other
denominations to k.now their plaee
It is a g'reut cteal better" in any com
munity when the great denominations
of Christians are about eaual in power,
marching side by siae for the world's
con uet. Mere outside prosperity, j
mere worldly power, is no eviden e i
that the church is acceptable to God. j
Better a barn with Christ In the I
manger than a Cathe lral with mag-
niticent harmonies rolling through the 1
long drawn aisle and an angel from '
heaven in the pulpit if there is no 1
Christ in the chancel and no Christ in
the robes. Bigotry is often tho chili j
of Ignorance. i
Kc le.la.tlra! Hrlrknata.
Another great damage done by the '
sectarianism and bigotry of the church 1
is that it disgusts people with the 1
Christian religion. Now, my friends,
the Church of Cod was never intended ,
for a war barrack. People are afra d i
of a riot. You go down the street, and ;
you see an excitement and missiles
flying through the a r, and you hear
the shock of firearms. Do you, the
peaceful and industrious citizen, gd
through that street.' -h, no, you will
say; "I'll go around the block." Now,
men come and look upon this narrow
best, go there, but let me tell you that
that liive which gets tne most honey
is the best hive ' So I come out be
tween the churches of the Lord Jesus
Chnst. One denominat'on of Christian
save, "That field of Christian doctrine
it lu-hf .." nrid the other savs.
nt Christian doctrine is the best."
Well. I say, "Co where you get the
most honey." That is the best church
which gets the most honey of Christian
grace for the heart, and the most
honey of Christian usefulness for the
Besides that, if you want to build up
any denomination, you will never build
it up by trying to pjll some other
down. Intolerance never put anything
down.
Intolerance.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the 1'aptist Church? If laugh
ing, scorn ana tirade could destoy the
church, it would not have to-day a dis
ciple lert The Baptists were nuriea
out of Boston in olden times Those
who svmpathi.ed with them were Im
prisoned, and when a petition was of
lored asking leniency in their behalf
all the men who signed it were in
dicted, lias intolerance stopped the
' Baptist church? The last statistics in
' regard to it showed &j,()0 churches
and 3,00O,0Oo communicants, lntoler
i ance never put down anything.
In England a law was made against
the Jew. England thrust bacK tne
Jew and thrust down the Jew and de
clared that no Jew should hold o:5'clal
position. What came of it? Were the
Jews destroyed.' Was their religion
overthrown? No. Who became
Prime Minister of England? Who was
higher than tho throne because he was
counselor and adviser? Disraeli, a
Jew. What were we celebratingin all
our churches as well as synagogues
only a few years ago.' The one
hundreth birthday anniversary of
Montobore, the great Jewish philan
throp st. Intolerance ne .er put down
anything.
But now. my friends, having shown
1 art at the h-.t U e eroMfcl ta floa.
Aud pun ai. ending a .
And 1 exj ect to see the day when
all denominations of Christiana shall
;oin hands around the cioasot Chriat
and rec ite the creed "1 beliere in
ThHt. field God. the rather Almighty, Maker OI
heaven and eartn. and in jesus Christ,
and in the communion of saints, and in
life everlasting. Amen."
KfTect. of Deep Hea lre.re.
It is not unusual for bottles of
champagne tu be dipped and trolled
in salt water when there is no ice on
shipboard, in order to get tbe wine
to a pa at .ble temperature, but never
long enough t cause contact be
tween the salt water and tbe wine.
We can bardlv tell what the effe t
upon the wine would be if the bot
tle were immersed iu at a great
depth for any conside able time. It
Is a fact, however, that if an ordi
nary glass bottle, tightly corked and
sealed. t sunk in say, fifty falbouis
of i-alt water and left the. e for about
ten minutes, it mar,, w en brought
to the surface, tie jfouud partly full
of water. We say - 'may." because
tbe pressure of tbe superincumbent
mass of water will either force tbe
water through tbe porous glass force
the cork into the bottle or break tbe
bottle. By a law of hydrostatics tbe
pressure of water is in proportion to
its vertical bight and it area at tbe
base. It is reckoned that the pres
sure of water on any bodr plunged
into it Is about one pound to tbe
square inch for every two feet of
tbe depth. Bottles filled with fresh
water, tightly corked and sealed,
have been sunk to a great depths in
the ocean, and where tbe enormous
pressure has not burst the bottles It
has driven in the cork and displaced
tbe fresh with salt water. Pie es ot
wood have been weighed ana sunk
you tne origin of bigotry or sectarian the sea, with the res .It that the
ism, and having shown you the damage ligsucg have become so ondensed
it does, I want brie.iy to snow you now , that th(J wf)()d has lot tg bugy,,,,,
and will never float again. It could
not even be burned when apparently
dry. Brooklyn Eagle.
--- y
m p ar to war airainsi. wu ternuio
evil, and I think we ought to begin our
war by realizing our own weakness and i
' our imperfections. If we make so many
i mistakes in the commoij affairs of lUfi j
Is it not possible tht we may malce ,
i mistakes In legard to our religious af
! fairs? Shall we take a man by tho
i throat or by the collar because he can
i not See religious truths just as we .o?
In the light of eternity it will be found
. out, I think, thjfe was wmjiyitng
wrong in all o'lr" creeds and something 1
right in all our creeds. But since we (
' may make mistakes in regard to things
of the worl . do not let us be so ego- ,
tistic and so puffed up as to have an
1 idea that we cannot make any mistake
in regard to religious theories. And
then think we will do a great deal to cole(fe training,
overthrow thfi sectarianism from our ! , r
heart and the sectarianism lrotn tno i
world by ch.elly enlarging in those !
things in whl h we agree rather than j
those on which we differ.
Now, here Is a great gospel plat- j
form. A man comes up on his side of i
the platform and says, "I don't oelieve I
in baby sprinkling." Shall I shove !
him o i.' Here is a man co.i ing up on i
this side of the plat orm, and he says,
I don't oolievo in tho pers'evePancS of j
the saints." Shall I sho e him off?
No. I will say: "Do ycu Del.eve in J
the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? Do
vou trust Him for time and or etern
itv? ' He savs. "Yes " "Do you take
Christ for time and for eternity?"
"Yes," I tay. "Come on, brother, one
In time, and one in eternity. Brother
now, brother forever." Blessed be
God for a gospel platform so large that
all who receive Christ may stand on it!
Moreover, we may also overthrow
the feeling of severe sectarianism by
Joining other denominations in Chris
tian work. I like when the spring
time comes and the anniversary oc
casions begin and all denominations
come upon the same platform. That
overthrows sectarianism. In the Young
E3VCU ! Wl AUCIU III,
-V-
John Hawlev, author, 'ouruailst,
wilitHan, and traveler, after d scuas- .
Ing the inarvelous diction of Abra
ham 1 Incoln and the F resident's
great lack of education, said:
"I never knew a really good writer
or speaker who lacked a college edu
cation wbo did not regret and lament
it a a serious loss. Neverth Jess we
have had many remarkable 6ith
pies of what Americans may accom
plish in literature without having a
ot long ago i d-
ruuiul Clarence S ted man was walk
ing down lifth Avenue, New ork,
with Tb mas B. Aldrich and Wil
liam D. Howells. As tbey caught
sight of the I Diversity Club Mr.
Steduian began to expatiate upon tbe
pleasures of belonging to tbe club
and urged that he be allowed to put
up the names ot Mr. Aldrich and
Mr. Bowels as candidates for uiem,
bersh p. Final y one of them Mr.
I Ilowels, I think responded with tbe
' confession that, as he was not a
graduate of any college, be was not
eligible to membership The other
1 followed with a siniljaj confession.'
Mr. Sterlman was aston shed that
: two of the most polished and dls
I tinguished writers in America bad
! not received a college education.
But Mr. ,S ted man did not let the
, matter rest there. He was deter
! mined to have them in the Untvers
j ity Club, As a result Harvard and
Yale shortly afterward conferred de
grees upon Aldrich and Howells, and
this removed tbe bar to their mem
bership in the club." Chicago Post
path to Heaven and sometimes see tne i Men-S christian Associations, In the
onnlnuliuit ical brlckhut Hvin? everv i.ii : ... a. 'r., t ..!.,
.- - , , QlUie SUUievV. ll CUD 1IC1 ouvjiolv, iu
whl her, and they say: Well I guess MiBHionary society, shoul-
roa' An 19 8 I dor to shoulder all denominations.
ing on the narrow t,Mi. if. union 6? Satnta
he broad road:" I Perhaps I might forcibly illustrate
e Lutherans that ' this trut h bv calling your attention to
. a I , u . U1L . 1. ..1 1... I O'l
5?" .n? iLn!rS "E .lTam w? "M.. by way of pendant to another long
uniu ui ijututiinii i.mw i uio vnr, ..v , yara ku. "S'"V ii?vt"w7 mw, ,.ji.r j w
would puncture them and let that drop i about 2 o'clock, while her you passcn
out. Just as long as there is so much ! irers were sound asloep in her berths
breaming of home, the steamer Atlan-
road I guoss I'll try the broad
Franc's I. so hated th
Something Like a Word. j
Probably the maximum in long
German vvords is reached in one
wliicb a correspondent of tbe Youth's
Companion, himself a Ge man, sends
five account for erery thought, word,
action, prefereaoe, aad dislike, thai
auM la mad who has a religious pref-
ma Mr eon eaueauoa.ioar
hostility between denomination and
denomination, or between one professed
Christian and another, or between one
church and another, so long men will
be disgusted witn the Christian re
ligion and sav, "If that is religion, I
want none of It."
Again, b.gotry and sectarianism do
great damuge in the fact that they
hinder the triumphs of the gospel.
Oh. how much wasted ammunition,
how many men of splendid intellect
have given their whole life to contro
versial disputes when, if they had
given their life to something practical,
they might have been vastly useful!
Suppose, while 1 speak, there was a
common enemy coming up the bay, and
all the forts around the harbor began
to fire Into each other you would erv
out: "national suicide! Wny don't
thoso forte bla.e away in one direc
tion, and that agaiust the common
enemy.'" And yet 1 sometluies see in
the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a
strange thing going on church
against church, minister against min
ister, denomination against denomina
tion, firing away into their own lort.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 navies
of darkness riding up through the
bay,
Carl.tlaa Urate.
I go out sometimes in the summer,
and I find two beehives, and those two
hives are in a quarrel. I come near
enough, not to be stung but 1 come
just near enough to hear the contro
versy, and one beehive sayn, "That
field of clover Is the sweetest," and
another beehive says, "That field of
clover is the sweetest. ' I come la be
tween them, aad I say: "Stop this
quarrel. If you like that field of clover
tic crashed into Mars Head. Eive hun
dred souls in ten minutes landed into
eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agon-
i ed ii en and women running up ana
down the gangways and clutching for
the rigiing, and 'the plunge of the
helpless steamer and the clapping of
the hands of the merclloss sea over
the drowning and tho dead threw two
continents into terror.
But see this bravo quartermaster
pushing out with the lite line until be
gets to the rock, and sea these fisher
men gathering up the shipwreckea
, and taking them into the cabins and
! wrapping them in the flannels snug
i and warm, and see that minister of
j the gospel, with three other men, get
ting into a lifeboat and pushing out for
the wreck, pulling away across the
1 surf and pulling away until they saved
one more man and then getting back
I with him to theshore. Can those men
ever forget that n'ght, and can they
I ever lorget their companionship In
peril, companionship in btrugxle, com
l panionship in awful catastrophe and
j rescue? Never! Nevor! In what
! ever part of the earth they meet,
, thev will be friends when they men
tion the story of that night when the
Atlantlo struck Mars Bead. Well, my
friends, bur world has gone into a
worse shipwrecK. Sin drove t on the
rooks. The old ship has lurched and
toseed in the tempests ol 6,000 years.
Out with the life line! I do not care
.What denomination carries it. Out
with the lifeboat: I do not care what
denomination rows It. Side by side', In
the memory of common hardships and
common trials and common prayers and
common tears, let ns be brothers for
ever. . . We must be.
word recently printed. The corres-
' pondent vouches for It as a genuine
and properly formed word, in which
the material has not been strained
at all in the making. It Is;
I "E.vclusivitatsherrenscbnefdermei
stirmusterlieferungsanstaltsoberauf sichtskasse."
i This word, which contains seventy
seven letters, means In English:
; "The treasury of the directlum of the
establishment for furnishing patterns
to master tailors making clothes for
exclusively living gentlemen only."
There Is one advantage about tbe
use of words like ibis: Cue could
never have occasion to regret having
hastily spoken them.
A Perilous Walk.
People residing on Washington
street, near Carlton street were hor
rified a day or twe ago at the dan
gerous position of two little boys not
above 0 years old, who had climbed
out of an attic window and were
slowly making their war across the
front of tbe building, standing on a
narrow projection even with the
eavei. There was nothing for them
to cling to, and they plaoed their
hands ilat against the building. Peo
ple who witnessed the perilous feat
of the youngsters dared not call t
tbem'for fear the little fellows would
be startled and lose their balaaoa.
One woman, who taw them Id their
haizardoui walk, was so owd thai
she trembled violently after tbey had
reached a place of safs. CaBaio
Courier. . ' . ' ... ,.
Om army af tballrtsl 04,
T Bl. mmbmKI ws baw.
lr a wlfa fans bar basbaad
hot nlgbu, to that ha eaa sleep, It I)
a ttyn that sat M a gooa
it-'