The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-06

On, SalO, those TWO persons Will StdnQ
very near to each other always after such
one arm around this denomination of
Christians and the other around that de-
nomination of Christians, and he brings
them down to his dying lips, while he
gives them this parting kiss: "My peace L
leave with you. My peace / give unto
you"
How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts aud faith and hopes one.
heard a baptist minister once say that
he thought in the millennium 1t would be
all one great baptist church and l heard
methodist minister say that he thought
in the great millennial day it would be all
one great methodist church and | have
known a presbyterian minister who
thought that in the millennial day it
would be all one great presbyterian
church. Now 1 think they are all mis-
taken. / think the millennial church will
be composite church; and just as YOU
may take the best parts of five or Six
tunes, and under the skillful hands of
Handel, Mozart or Beethoven entwine
them into one grand and overpowering
symphony, so, l suppose, in the latter
days OF the world, God will take the best
parts of all denominations of Christians
and weave them into one great ecclesiasti-
cal harmony, broad as the earth, and
high as the heavens, and that will be the
| church of the future. Or, as mosaic is
made up of jasper and agate and many
precious stones cemented together-mo-
sale 600 feet square in ST. Marks, or mo-
sale hoisted in colossal seraphim in st.
Sophia-so l suppose God will make, after
awhile, one great blending OF all creeds,
and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments,
the amethyst, and the jasper, and the
chalcedony of all different experiences
and belief, cemented side by side in the
great mosaic of the ages; and while the
nations look upon the columns and archi-
traves of that stupendous church of the
future, and cry out: "What mean We by
these stones?'' there shall be innumerable
voices to respond-"We mean the Lord
God omnipOtent reigneth."
Still further you mean by these stones
the salvation OF the people. We did not
build this church for mere worldly re-
| forms, or for an educational institution, or
as a platform on which to read essays and
philosophical disquisitions; but place
| for the tremendous work of soul-saving.
| Oh [ had rather be the means in this
church OF having one soul prepared for
| joyful eternity than 5000 souls prepared Tor
mere worldly success. All churches are
two classes, all communities in two
classes, all the race in two classes-be-
| levers and unbelieveis. To augment
| the number of the one and subtract from
the number of the other. We built this
church, and toward that supreme and
eternalid we dedicate all our sermons, all
our songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath
, hand-shakings. We want to throw de-
lection into the enemy's ranks. We want
| to make them either surrender uncon-
! ditionally to Christ, or else fly in rout,
scattering the way with canteens, blankets
and knapsacks. We want to popularize
| Christ. We would like to tell the story of
! his love here until men would feel that
they had rather die than live another hour
without his sympathy and love and mercy.
We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for
him greater than was felt for Nathaniel
| Lyon when ne rode along the ranks
! greater than was exhibited for yelling
| ton when he came back from Waterloo
| greater than was expressed for Napolean
he stepped ashore from Elba. We really
believe in this place Christ will enact the
same scenes that were enacted by him
when he landed in the ORIENT and there
| will be such an opening OF blind eyes, and
unstopping of deaf ears, and casting out
of unclean spirits-such silencing be-
| stormed Gennesarets as shall make this
house memorable 500 years after you and
| / are dead and forgotten. Oh, my friends.
| we want but one revival in this church,
that beginning now and running On to the
day when the chisel of time. that brings
down even st. Pauls and the pyramids,
shall bring this house into the dust.
Oh that this day of dedication might be
the day of emancipation of all imprisoned
souls My friends, do not make the blum
| a ~ thea oh ffrS in Mo- e
who helped to build the ark, but did not
get into it. God forbid that you who have
been so generous in building this church
should not get under its saving influence.
| "Come thou and all thy house into the
ark" Do you think man is safe out of
Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not
one minute, not one second. Three or
tour years ago, you remember, a rail train
broke down bridge on the way to AL
bany, and after the catastrophe, they were
looking around among the timberS OF the
crushed bridge and the fallen train, ard
found the conductor. He was dying,
end had only strength to say one thingsnd
that was: "Hoist the flag for the next
train" So there comes to us from the
eternal world voices of God, voices of an
gels, voices of departed spirits, crying:
Lift the warning. Blow the trumpet,
give the alarm. Hoist the flag for the
next train"
Oh that tonight my Lord Jesus would
sweep his arm around this great audience
and take you all to his holy l. art. You
will never see SO good time for personal
conservation as now. What mean you
BY these stones?" We mean our redemp-
ton from sin and death and hell, by the
power of an omnipotent gospel"
Well, the Brook YIN tabernacle is erected
again. We came here tonight not to dedi-
cate it. That was done this morning. To-
night We dedicate ourselves. In the epis-
copal and methodist churches they
have railing around the altar, and
the people come and kneel down at
that railing and get the sacramental
blessing Well, my friends, it would
take more than a night to gather you in
circles Ground this altar. Then just bow
where you are for the blessing. Aged men,
this is the last church that you will ever
dedicate. May the God who comforted
Jacob the Patriarch, and Paul the aged.
make this house to you the gate of heaven
and when, in your old days, you put on
your spectacles to read the hymn or the
scripture lesson, may you get preparation
for that land where you shall no more sec
through glass darkly. May the warm
sunshine of heaven thaw the snow of
your ioreheadsl Men in mid-ife, do you
know that this is the place where you are
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