Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-09-04

time of a freshet. He wants 10 ge,
across. He has to swim. What
does he do? The first thing is to
put off his heavy apparel and drop
everything he has in his hands.
He must so tlnpty-handed if he is
going to the other bank And tell
you when we have come down to the
river of death and find it swift and
raging, We will have to put Off oil
our sectarianism and lay down all our
cumbersome creeds aud, empty
banded. put out for the other shore.
What" say you, would you re-
solve all the Christian Church into
one kind of Church? Would you
make all Christendom worship in the
same way, by the same formsF' Oh,
no; you might as we'll decide that
all the people shall eat the same
food without reference to appetite,
or wear the same kind of apparel
without reference to the shape OF
their body. Your ancestry, your
temperament, your surroundings,
will decide whether you go to this
or that church and adopt this or
that church policy. One church will
best get one man to heaven and an-
other church another man. | am
not opposed to fences being built
around denominations of Christians.
l am not opposed to yery high
fence being built around each Of the
denominations OF Christians; but |
do say that in every fence tho.o
ought to be bars that you can let
down and gate that you can swing
open. Go home, therefore, and
take your Bible and get down on
your knees before God and make
your own creed. I am not opposed
to creeds; l believe in them; but n
creed that does not reach down to
the depth OF a mans immortal nature
is not worth the paper that it is
printed on.
1 do not care which one Of the
gates you go through if you only go
through one of the twelve gates that
Jesus lifted. Well, now l sec oil
the redeemed Of Earth coming up
toward heaven. Do you think they
will get in? Yes. Gate the first
the Moravians come up. They be-
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ; they
pass through. Gate the second, the
Quakers come up. They have trust
ed in the Lord; they pass through.
Gate the third, the Lutherans come
up. They had great admiration
for the reformer, and they pass
through. Gate the fourth, the
Roman Catholics come up. Believ.
ing in salvation by Jesus Christ,
they pass through. Gate the fifth
the German Reformed Church passes
through. Gate the sixth, the Con-
gregationalists pass through. Gate
the seventh, the Baptists pass
through. Gate the eighth, the Epis.
copalians pass through. Gate the
ninth, the Sabbatarians pass through. |
Gate the tenth, the Methodists pass |
through. Gate the eleventh, tho Re-
formed Dutch Church passes through.
Gate the twelfth, the Presby terians
pass through. But there are great
hosts of other denominations who
must come in, and great multitudes
who connected themselves with no |
visible church, but felt the power OF
godliness in their heart and showed
it in their life; where is their gate ?
Will you shut all this. remaining |
host out of the city? No. They |
may come in at our gate. Hosts OF
God, if you cannot get admission
through any other entrance, como in
at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle |
before the throne looking out on the
one hundred and forty and four thou
sand and you cannot tell at what
gate they came in. One Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one CLASSY sea,
one doxology, one triumph. Glory
be to God, one heaven, but twelve
gates.