Sharp County record., 1886-12-09

miUhtier consideration " .o,+a for
gr9tifcation of your eccleslastlcal U''''0 "
forty or fifty years. o,,rd stop
hoIf a minute to weigh preferences "s 9o "
whether he or she had better 60 WIN .Lnt S,
"nnonverted companion to this or In"t
al,,rob or denomination has no rellS Sloii az
al ~" and never has had, and l tear hekot
,,.ii, bovn Won are loaded up WIN "l"O
W., mlL' l.T sunnoso TO be religion, but you are
like CAPTAIN Frobisher, VINO oroGS ~ iood Of
from his VOYAGE of discovery shiP-,o" ot
what he supposed valuable minerals, th' ~
i,stood of being silver and gold, were aoTu,
inr 49, common stones of the helu' " U9
n,t,,od in6 ont finally as useless. Mighty uou
~ all Thv realm is there one man VI
Iroman nrofessiug religion, yet so sVo,'u,
90 untitled. so far gone unto ueaVn, si-a' I.
tSora would be any hesitancy IN surrellu5L'
~. al ,,rpferpnces before such an oppor-
.-9,itI- .n9 If salvation and heavenly reunloh'
If YOU, a Christian wife, are %n -. az
tendant upon this Brooklyn 5 49,
nacle. and your unconVerueu nuoD nt
doos not come here because he does ho'
Iii,o its preacher, Or its music, or ltS arch-
;tnc+nra or its uncomfortable croWulhS'
and COOS not TO any house Of Worship' DuV
would 90 if you would accompany nm
somewhere else. change your church rela-
+ione Take YOU hymn-bOok home WIN
YOU to-day. Say goodbye to your IIlGi,,9 ,,;,,,
in the neghboring peWS, ana 60 WIN I, nm ,i-
to anv one of a hundred churche5, Illl ms
soul is saved and he joins you III Iiie niat ~
to Heaven More important than lnaI
rirg on the third finger of your left mana II
is that vour Heavenly Father command
the anoe! of mercy concerning your nus,
hand at his conversion as III the paraolo u
old: PUT ring on his hand"
No letter of more importance ever came
70 the great city of Corinth, situated on
what was called the "Brldge OF tne 0ea'
and glistening with sculpture, ana 8aIeu
with a style of brass the magnlhcenCe VI
which the following ages have not oeen
able successfully to initiate, and oVerShau,
owed by the Acro-Corinthus, a fortress VI
rocl, two thousand feet high say, no leu-
ter ever came to that great city OF more I'LL,
portance than that letter IN Whlch Iaul
puts the two startling questions: " w haI
l,novest thou. oh wife, whether thou shalt
save tbv husbandl Or how knoWeSt thou,
oh man. whether thou shalt save tiny Wlle'
The dearest sacrifice on the part OF the one
is cheap if it rescue the other. Better 60 10
the smallest, weakest, most lnslgnlllcdhI
church on earth, and be cO-partncrs III eter-
nal bliss, than pass your earthly MEMBER
shin in amost gorgeously attractive church
while your companion stays outside Oh
evangelical privilege. Better have the
drowning saved by a scOw or sloop than let
him or her 90 down while you sail by in the
gided cabins Of Britannia or UreaI
Eastern.
Second: If both Of the married couple be
Christians, but one is 50 naturally con
structed that it is impossible to enjoy the
services of a particular denomination, ana
the other is not so sectarian or puncuhou5,
let the one less particular 60 with the other
who is very particular, As for myself, l
feel as much at home in one denomination
of evangelical Christians as another and l
think must have been born very near the
line. | like the solemn roll Of the Epsco-
kpal liturgy, and | like the spontanelty OF
the Methodlsts, and like the Importance
6yen to the ordinance Of baptism by the
pay .Stists, and like the freedom of the Con
80 ga IN &onalists and like the government
IONS aNsublme doctrine of the Presbyte-
Good as I'D | like many of the others just as
55onnilv my have mentioned, and | could
hrrioi .,Ti FRI. y. p5Lu ie, and preach, and be
But otLN them.
/ bending and in6X0Fab1c Z IN stonf and unl
denomination that It is positive necessity
| they have the advantage Of that one. What
| they were intended to be in ecclesiasticism
was writtenin the sides of their cradle, if the
father and mother had eyes keen enough to
see it. They would not stop crying until
they had put into their hands as playthings
a Westminster Catechism or the Thirty
nine Articles. The whole current of their
temperament and thought and character
runs into one sect Of religiOnistS as nat
urally as the James river into the Chesa-
peake. 1t would be a torture to such per-
sons to be any thing outside of that one
church Now, let the wife or husband WHO'S
not so constructed sacrifice the mildcr pref
crence for the one more infeXible and rigor,
/ Gus. Let the grapevine follow the rugOsities
and sinuOsities of the oak or hickory. Abram
the richer in focks Of Christian grace
should say to Lot, who is built on smalle
scale: "Let there be no strife, l pra
thee, between me and thee, and betWee
nv herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not tn
whole land before thee" AS you can b
edited and happy any where, go with you
companion to the church to which he
she must 90 or be miserable.
Third: If both the married couple are yer
strong in their sectarianisms, let them al
tend the different churches preferred.
is not necessary that you attend the sam
church. Religion is between your COZ
science and your God. Like Abram an
Lot, agree to differ. When on Sabbat
morning you come out of the door of you
home together, and one goes one way an
the other the other, heartily wish eac
other a good sermon and a time of profita
BILE devotion and when you meet again a
the MONDAY repast let it be evident each t
each. and to your children and to the hire
help, that you have both been on the Mour
of TRANSPORTATION, although you went b
different paths, and that you have bot
been fed by the Bread of Life, thoug
kneaded by different hands, in differel
travs. and baked in different ovens.
4" But how about the childrenW / a
often asked by hundreds of parents. Ii
them also make their choice. They wi
grow up with reverence for both of the d
nominations represented by father ar
mother, if you, by holy lives, CONNER
those denominations. If the father liv'
+be hotter life thew will have the more (