The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-30
"Your harps, We trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud TO the praise OF love divine
Bid every string awaken

W are also re-e0lOrced DIV the CatnOlCltY
that / have already referred to. We are
in the academy to-day, not because we
have no other place to go. Last Sabbath
morning at 9 o'clock we had but one
church; now we have about thirty. all at
our disposal. Their pastors and their
trustees say: "You NAV take our main
audience rooms, you may take our lecture
rooms, YOU may take our church parlors,
you may baptize in our baptisteries, and
sit on our anxious-seats Oh if there be
any larger-hearted ministers or larger
hearted churches anywhere than in Brook
lyn, tell me where they are, that may 60
and see them before l die. The millennium
has come. People keep wondering when
it is coming. 1t has come. The lion
and the lamb lie down together, and
the tiger eats straw like an OK. | should
like to have seen two OF the old-time bigots,
with their swords, fighting through that
great fire on SchermerhOrn-st. last Sab
bath. | am sure the swords would have
melted and they who welded them would
have learned war no more. L can never
say word against any other denomina-
ton of Christians. ] thank God l never
have been tempted to do it. / cannot be
a sectarian. have been told ] ought to
be and have tried 10 be, but | have not
enough material in me to make such
structure. Every time / get the
thing most done there comes a fire,
or something else, and all is gone. The
angels OF God shake out on this air,
"Glory TO God in the highest, and on
earth peace. good will toward men," i do
not know but / see on the horizon the
first CLEAN OF the morning which shall
unite all denominations in one organiza-
ton, distinguished only by the locality as
in apostolic times. 1t was then the church
OF Thyatira, and the church of Thessa-
lonica, and the church of Antioch and the
church of LaOdicea. So | do not know
but that in the future history. and not far
off either, it may be simply a distinction
of locality and not of creed, as the church
OF New York, the church of Brooklyn, the
church OF Boston, the church OF Charles
ton, the church of Madras, the church of
Constantinople, the church of America.
My dear brethren, we cannot afford to
be severely divided. Standing in front of
the great foes OF our common Christianity
we want to put on the whole armor of God
and march down in solid column. shoulder
to shoulder One commander One tri-
umph.
The trumpet gives a martial strain
o Israeli grid the for the fight;
Arise, the combat to maintains
Arise and put thy foes TO flight.
We also feel re-enforced by the thought
that we are on the way 10 heaven that
can never burn down. Fires may sweep
through other cities, but / am glad to
know that the New Jerusalem is fire-proof.
There will be no engines rushing
through those streets there will be
no temples consumed in that city.
Coming to the doors of that church
we will find them open, resonant with
songs, and not cries of fire. Oh, my dear
brother and sister, il this short lane of
life comes up so soon to that blessed place
what is the use OF our worrying? 1 have
felt good many times this week like
Father Taylor, the sailor preacher He
got in long sentence while he was preach
ing one day and lost himself. and could
not find his way out of the sentence. He
] stepped and said: Brethren, have lost