Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-02-02
A sign of the mes-Showing whittier
we are bound.

terest was witnessed on Sabbath af
{ ternoon in the Clinton avenue Con.
gregational church, Brooklyn, whel
Christians Of all evangelical denomi
nations in that part of the city sa
down together in brotherly concord
at the communion table OF their com
mon Lord and Saviour 1t was ;
rare and touching spectacle, an en-
bodiment of true and unaffected
Christian union, visable answer tc
the Saviour's prayer that they may
all be one.'
Rev. DR. Burlington, the pastor Of
the church presided, and stat I'd that
the Committee of the church had in
vited the members of the neighbor-
ing churches to unite with them In
celebrating the communion season OF
the opening year, and that all were
welcome to that table which belong
ed to all, as it was the table of their
common Master, whom they all low
ed and served. A bout twenty of the
clergymen Of all denominations in
that part Of the city surrounded the
table, and the ground floor Of the
spacious edifice was crowded with
Christian believers met thus to testi,
fly their love to Christ and each 9TH
er, while many spectators were in
the galleries overlooking this strange
and affecting sight
After the reception of three mem
bers into the church by profession,
and several by letter, the exercises
were opened by The reading of the
Saviour's prayer in the seventeenth
OF John, by Rev. Mr.. Brewer, OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church Rev.
Mr.. Enyard, of the Reformed Church,
gave out the hymn: Il love Thy
kingdom, Lord. The elements were
then consecrated and distributed ];
Rev Mr.. Brewer, Of the Episcopal
Church, and Rev Charles Howard
Mascolm, Of the Baptist Church, ser
wing the bread, and Rev. Crammond
Kennedy, OF the Baptist Church, and
Rev Geo. Lansing Taylor, Of the
Methodist Church, the wine.
Dr. Burlington then gave an OPP
portunity for remarks inspired by
the occasion Rev. George Thrall,
OF the Episcopal Church, pronounced
the occasion one unexam pied in the
history Of the Church for the last
three hundred years, and as an event
that would be dated from as the be-
ginning of Christian communiOns
that henceforth would rejoice the
heart and strengthen the faith and
love Of believers. Rev. Crammond
Kennedy of the Baptist Church, gave
briefly the steps by which he had
been led to recognize the truth that
Christ's liable belongs to Christ's
children. Rev. Charles Howard Nal
colin, of the same Church, testified
his interest in the occasion that had
led him at much Inconvenience to
leave his church in Rhode Island,
that he might unite with his breth>
rcn Of every name in this act Of COM
mon worship, kept apart BY no diff
ferences of scholastic Interpretation.
Rev. DIR. j. L. Duryea, of the Pres
byterian Church, spoke of the onset
now made on the precious doctrine
of the person of Christ. Rev. ]. NJ.
Buckley, Of the Methodist Church,
related an interesting incident Of his
personal experience. He was called
to administer the sacrament to a dy-
ing man in Minnesota, when the dy~
iug believer, Presby Quak.
or, Methodist, Roman Catholic
Church united IN concentrating the
dying love OF Christ. Father Gleas
on, the venerable missionary TO the
Indians, closed the exercises with a
few words of gratitude from his heart
glowing with emotion in the enjoy
ment of the occasion, and the antioi-
patton of that more blessed colnmun-
ion when all of every name should
sit down together in the upper king
dom, and Christ himself should pre-
side at the feast.
After the touching hymn: "BIest
be the tie that binds" Rev, DR. Ba>
con, Of New Haven, made the c.osing
prayer and pronounced the Apostol>
ic benediction, aud the vast audience
slowly dispersed, feeling that they
bad been drawn nearer TO Christ and
each other, as they had thus sat TO,
gether in that heavenly place, the
earnest of that more perfect com
munion when all shall be one, and
Christ the common Lord, shall be all
10 all.--N Y. Observer.