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Show The theologians are busy inquiring into each other's orthodoxy, aud the controversies in various quarters have become so warm that the public is more or less interested in theiu. The particular partic-ular ministers of the gospel concerned seem to be more interested in finding heretics than iu makiiigcoiivcrU. Their idea appears to be that hinuau salvation depends upon creed rather than upon the spirit of the Saviour's teachings. They are .ealous, but their zeal runs iu the wrong direction. One such controversy contro-versy as that between Nkwtom and Li.vvnrs does more harm than a hundred hun-dred heretics, each preaching hundred heresies, could do in a hundred years. It is not recorded that Cuius r and his apostles had any creed, aud the world is becoming more and more convinced that there should be noue now sullicient to divide the Christian army iuto warring war-ring camps. There are so many essential essen-tial points upon which ull can agree tnat all others should be consigned to oblivion; and tho religious teachers will never get on the right truck until they come together on a platform upon which tine doctrinal poiuts shall not lind a place. |