Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-13
CHURCH DENOMINATIONS.
Rev. G. w. Cue breaches on Secta
rian Creeds.
lie Opposes the Idea OF a" anon
the first VI. H. Church

interesting discourse on sectarlan creed'
His text was from Psalms 1855:
III forget thee, 0, Jerusalem, let my rigl
hand forget her cunning, II | do not remembt
thee let my tongue cleaye TO the roof of IN
mouth, if prefer not Jerusale to my chief jol
The text, Mr.. Cue said, very naturall
assumes that to sing the songs of.Zio
for the amusement of the heather woul
be to abandon and forget Jerusalem. Blu
there is gospel Jerusalem, which is tn
church of the living God, and to thi
should our affections be drawn. Hi
theme was attachment, and he held that
by the church, all christians are meant
Of every land and age, name and demon
nation. Any number of christians asso
ciated together for the purpose of main
tanning the worship Of God and practi
cally carrying out the principles of chris
tianitY, is church. 1t is in this form
only that We can support the church ant
enjoy Its advantages. Mutual fellowship
assistance, watchful care and discipline
can be enjoyed only by union with q
| local visible association of christians
called church. To such church we
should adhere with the Psalmist's attach.
ment to Jerusalem
The church is of divine appointment
and our adherence to it is commanded.
The church received its first visible
organization in the family of Abra>
ham. Until the dvent of Jesus it was
confined to the Jewish nation. In the
halmy days of that people, it must have
been wonderful sight to see the twelve
tribes gathering from their different los
calities to attend the annual feast. Be.
cause they rejected Jesus the glory de-
parted from their house, and it was left
unto them desolate. The time had come
when all spiritual worshippers would be
accepted of God regardless Of the place
where they worshippel. Christ said
'where two or three are gathered in my
name. there am in the midst of them"
1t was this church that was with him on
the Sea of Galilee that night in the
storm. 1t was his church that surround.
ed him that sad night when they ate with
him the last supper. Wherever there is
a house erected to the worship of God
there is his temple and there his church
assemble. 1t matters not whether it be
I cathedral. log cabin or dugout, if con-
ecrated to the worship of God, it is his
pmple and the worshippers are his church.
! The text expresses in the strongest lano
7lage possible, attachment to Gods
}1use. IF | forget thee, oh Jerusalem. "
BOW dear thou art, dearer than the right
band with which the harp was played,
llearer than the tongue with which the
,ong is sung. Iprefer not thee he said,
Dove my chief joy. The grandeur of
lis language is heightened by the fact that
Eusalem at that very hour lay in ruins.
o,me adhere to the church when she
4Aspers, and forsake her in the hour of
5xcalamity, but the captive Jew loved
) kclung to the very ashes of her ruins.
taAhow | love loyalty to the church
TMe are so many who are members of
T. church, and yet you can hardly tell
w. II to find them. They like the cap
tiH Jew, have hung their harps upon
thtwillows that grow along the rivers of
BABYLON:
lFr harps that once with joy were strung
l'err won't, their tureful parts to bear;
w silent strings neglected hung,
~ willow trees that withered there.
7 often the church is compromised by |
her lembers. | can't see why any one
in q church would want to engage in |
any ling contrary to the spirit of chris
tau or the rules of the church. There |
are 9ngs that are lawful for me to do,
but II are not extedient. God helping |
me, Twill never compromise my church.
vii yield my privilege and give up my
opnih for the sake of Zion. That dis
cipe tho will talk against the church to
which pc belongs and its members. is
only d Ialled in meanness by the man or
womal who will 60 through neighbour
hood fixing against their own family
Therei a cry in some localities against
the ch kch of the day, because they say
it lackAn liberality. But what is liberal
chrisliNity, it is only another name for
Use. Infidelity has utterly failed
IN her dacks upon the christian church
and in is way seeks to undermine her
spirituaI power.
did lou ever" said the speaker,
'hear 1 a liberal arithmetic or liberal
grammar No, they are governed by laws
and iusts far as you vary from the law
you are st of the way, and it is just so
with Christianity, We must live up to
its spri4.l laws or we are out of the
way Llralists are the most liberal
people he world" Stephen Girard
was a Ii 'alist, tnd yet his will provid
ing for fgreat institution of learning,
also provk I'd that no minister of the gos-
pei shoul4ver be permitted to enter its
halls. Tf is liberaity with ven
geance. here are those who cry out
against OF christianity because there
are so mai denominations of christians
But tharlGod for denominationalsm.
1t has pr9rved the truth. From the
earliest dtl of the church there have
been dend inations. The Samaritans
and Jews, le Pharisees and Sadducees.
1t has deIoped controversy, but con-
troversy ha Pften been helpful. 1t has
given 10 hiVorld the best of thought.
Il have bsympathy," said Mr.. Cue.
with thost who want to throw the