Milford chronicle., 1889-10-25
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to the praise Of love divine
Bid every string awake.
cHRrsrrAN sYMPArHY.

We are also reinforced by the cathOnch%y
that have already referred to. We are in
the Academy today not because we have no
other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at
Q o'clock we had but one church; now we
have about thirty, all at our disposal Their
pastors and their trustees say; "YOu may
take our main audience rooms, you may
take our lecture rooms, you may take
our church parlors, you may baptizs in
our baptisteries, and sit on our anxious seats.
Obi If there be any larger hearted ministers
Or larger hearted churches anywhere than in
Brooklyn, tell me where they are, that may
go and see them before l die. The millen-
MUM 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 SchermeT-
horn street last Sabbath. ! am suro the
swords would have melted, and they who
welded them would have learned war no
more. / can never say a word against any
other denomination of Christians. l thank
God 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 q
structure. Every time Iget 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 win toward men," lido
not know but l sec ON the horizon the first
CLEAN OF the morning which shall unite all
denominations In one organization, distin-
Ruished only by the locality as In apostolic
times. 1t was then the Church Of Thyatira,
and the Church Of Thessalonica, and the
Church Of Antioch, and the Church Of LaOdi-
cea. So do not know but that in the future
history, and not far of 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 Charleston, the Church Of
Madras, the Church Of Constantinople, the
Church of America.
Ny 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 triumph
The trumpet gives q martial strain
o Israeli gird thee for the fight;
Arise the combat TO maintain,
Arise, and put thy foes to flight
HEAVEN CANNOT BURN DOWN
We also feel reinforced by the thought
that we are ON the way to 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 viii be no temples consumed in that
city Coming to the doors Of that church,
we win find them open, resonant with songs,
and not cries Of fire. Oh, my dear brother
and sisterl if this short lane of life comes up
50 soon to that blessed place, what's the use Of
our worryingi have felt a good many times
this last week like Father Taylor, the sailor
preacher. He got in long sentence while he
was preaching one day, and lost himself, and
could not find his way out Of the sentence
He stopped and said; Brethren, have losi
the nominative Of this sentence, and thing
are generally mixed up, but am bound foi
the kingdom anyhow"
And during this last week, when / saw th'
rushing TO and fro and the excitement, sait
to myself, ~ do not know just where w
shall start again, but ] am bound for tn
4 kingdom anyhow do not want to 60 jus
vet. want to be pastor Of this people unit
] am about eighty-nine years Of age, but
have sometimes thought that there are sucl
aloiies ahead that may be persuaded to g
a little earlier-for instance, at eighty-two o
eighty-three. but really think that, II "
4 could have an appreciation Of what God ha
in reserve for US, we would want to 60, steI
ping right out Of the Academy Of Music int
the gloriea Of the skies.
Ali that IS a good land. Why. they te
me that in that land they never have hear
ache. They tell me that man might wal
five hundred years in that land and never Sc
a tear or hear sigh They tell me that ou
friends who have left rs and gone there, thei
; feet are radiant as the sun, aiad that they tai
hold Of the hand Of Jesus familiarity, and ths
! they ouen that hand and see IN the palm ot