St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-28
MINNEAPOLIS.
CHURCH UNITY.
The Minnesota Congregations
Club Meet at Plymouth Church.

Inc minnesota Congregations
Club Meet at Plymouth Church.
One of the most sociable church en-
tertainments which has take place in
this city was the meeting of the Mime
sofa Congregational club, which was
held at Plymouth church last evening.
According to the programme, the club
came to order at O'clock and in
dulged in social converse until
$3.50, when sumptuOus banquet
was served by the ladies of the
Fifth Avenue Congregational church.
Ere long, sad havoc had been made
among the viandS, and this part of the
programme being satisfactorily carried
out, the club adjourned to the main au-
dience room of the church, where Rev.
Or. Wallace Nuttlng, pastor of the Park
Congregational church, of st. Paul, de-
livered most forcible, interesting and
entertaining discourse upon "The Unity
of the Chureh.'' He thought that de-
nominations were a good thing
in many ways. AS country
whose population for the most
part are opposed to slavery, needs an
abolition party to bring the principle to
head, or as a nation whose citizens
are greatly opposed to drinking, needs a
prohibition party to clearly define the
main wishes of the people, so are vari-
Gus denominations needed to stir up a
people, who, in the main, are DESTROYS
of being saved, but who lack that cen
ter around which they can cluster.
Each denomination has system.
Each is good for some states of mind.
AS a man is different from his fellow. so
will one denomination differ with 9th
erS. Never. until all men think exactly
alike, shall denominations cease. Each
church is compact, entire, is one. There
can be no division. AS soon as a man
becomes separated from his church he
IS no longer a part of that church.
Church means belonging to God, and
necessarily there can be no division. In
forming church in small community
care should be taken to discover what
all agree upon. Let there
be unity upon some few points.
Then let the name of the church be
governed by the nature of these agreed
beliefs. Let there be denominations
enough, so that every man may find
one to which he can belong. Denom-
nations are desirable in city. Each
one has its peculiaritieS. L might COM
pare the old-school Presbyterans to the
heavy artillery, which thunders against
the enemy, evil, The Methodists might
OO Su11Cu bliO llSlU WHO, III Il
moment, can timber up their guns
and pour rapid and destructive
fire upon the enemy. The Congre-
gationallsts are the guerillas, each man
behind his own stump. The Baptists
might well be called the navy, while the
balloon corps could perhaps be best rep
resented by the Adventist. But let us
leave such discourse for times of peace.
At present there is need of all our
strength. The enemy is organized as
never before, and God speed the day
when he will be overcome and we will
be invited to reception in the ante
chambers of eternity.
Rev. IL. III. French, of the Centenary
M. E. church. followed with brief dis
cussion of the various points brought
out by Mr.. Nutting. He illustrated his
belief in the unity of churches by the
sun being a unit in itself. The moon
differed from it, but it's glory was still
beautiful, so with the myriads of
stars. All possess a glory, and EACH is
connected with the other in revolving
around a common center. Some, it is
true. are further from the center than
others. Some are large and bright.
while others are small. Yet the unity
remains unbroken. since around q COM
mon center they ceaselessly revOlve and
make, by their common action, the
great single universe. The church
should be unit in casting scientific in
fidelity out of the world. and in making
common cause against evil
DR.. Tiffany declared that he did not
believe i'll church unity, but he was
thorough believer in the unity of
Christians. He had been asked upon
entering the church that evening if he
felt at home in a different denomina-
ton. For fear some idea of this kind
was general, the doctor proceeded to
give short account of the variety of
religions which were to be found grated
into his family tree, and when he had
finished he asked: do feel at home,'
and from his manner one would think
that if he did not feel exactly at home
he acted very much like it. Two short
addresses from Bishop j. N. Fitz-
gerald and Rev. DR.. Wayland Hoyt
closed the exercises, and after which
an informal social was held.