The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-08

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Jesus, the worn out voyager. o, Jesusi is
it not time that Thou hadst a house? We
give Thee this. Thou didst give it to u,
first. but we give it back to Thee. 1t is toe
good for us, but not half good enough fol
Thee. OH come in and take the best seat
here. Walk up and down all these aisles.
Speak through these organ pipes. Throw
thine arm over MS in these arches. In the
flaming of these brackets OF fire speak to us,
saying, 81 am the light of the world" q
King make this thine audience chamber.
Here proclaim Righteousness and make
treaties. We clap our haEds, we uncover
our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with
multitudinous reclamation until the place
rings and the heavens listen, 20 King live
foreverr'
Is it not time that He who was born in a
strangers house and buried In a strangers
grave should have an earthly house2 Come
In, o Jesus not the corpse of a buried Christ,
but aradiant and triumphant Jesus, o
queror Of earth and heaven and hell
He lives. all CORY to His name.
He lives, my Jesus. sthi the same.
know that my Redeemer lives.
Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Again, il any one asks the question of the
text, what mean We by these stonesT' the
reply Is we mean the communion Of saints.
Do you know that there is not a single de-
nomination of Christians In Brooklyn that
has not contributed something toward the
building Of this house7 And If ever, stand
ing in this place, there shall be a man who
shall try by anything he says to stir up bit
terness between different denominations Of
Christians, may his tongue falter. and his
cheek blanch, and his heart stopi My
friends, If there is any church on earth
where there Is a mingling of all denomina-
tions it is our church. / just wish that John
~ irtn aud Arsf,,, 10 tIn,, 80 -
busy, would come out on the battlernents
and see us.
Sometimes In our prayer meetings l nave
heard brethren use the phrases of a beautiful
liturgy. and we know where they come from;
and in the same prayer meetings | AVE
heard brethren made audible ejaculation,
"Amen" praise We the LordF' and we did
not have to guess twice where they came
from. When a man knocks at our church
door, IL he comes from a sect where they
will not give him q certificate, we say:
''Come in by confession OF faith" While
Adonircm Judson, the Baptist, and John
Wesley, the Methodist, and John Knox, the
glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shak-
ing hands in heaven, all churches on earth
can afford to come into close communica-
ton: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism"
Oh. my brethren, we have had enough of Big
Bethel fights-the Fourteenth New YORK
regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachu-
sets regiment. Now, let all those who are
for Christ and stand on the same side go
shoulder to shoulder, and this church, instead
of having a sprinkling Of the divine blessing,
go clear under the wave in n glorious i'm
merton In the name Of the Father and of the
Son and Of the Holy Ghost.
l saw a little child once, in its dying hour,
put one arm around its fathers neck and the
other arm around its mothers neck and
bring them close down to its dying lips and
give a last kiss. Oh, l said, those two per-
sons will stand very near to each other al
ways after such an interlockiDg. The dying
Christ puts one arm around this denomina.
ton of Christians, and the other arm around
that denomination of Christians, and He
brings them down to His dying lips while He
gives them this parting kiss: "My peace l
with You. My peace give unto you.
How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one.
l heard a Baptist minister once say that
he thought in the millennium it would b.
all one great Baptist church; and l heard
a Methodist minister say that he thought
In the great millennial day it would be all
great Methodist church; and 1 nave
known a Presbyterian minister who
that in the mitlennial day it would
be all one great Presbyterian church. Now
| think they are all mistaken. l think the
Inillennial church will be a. composite
and just as you may take the best
parts of five or six tunes, and under the skill
ful hands Of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven
them into one grand and o%verpower-
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 ecclesiastical
harmony, broad as the earth and high as the
and that will be the church of the
future. Or, as mosaic is made of jasper and
-~A -rl rna-xr ,raa,n,,, otA.a, nt.,a-fol
together-mosaic a thousand feet square in
st. Marks, or mosaic hoisted in colossal
seraphim in st. S~ophia's-so l suppose God
make, after a while, one great blending
Of all creeds, and all faiths, and ali Christian
the amythest n the jasper, and
the c~halcedony of all different experiences
ind belief, cemeted side by side In the great
mosaic of the ages: and while the nations
ook upon the columns and architraves of
The stupandous church Of the future, and
out, "What mean ye by these stonesv'
there shall be innumerable voices to re-
'pond, ave mean the Lord God o%mnipoLent
reigneth."
Still further, yon mean by these stones the
of the people. We did not build
his church for mere worldly reforms, or for
IN educational institution, or as a platform
IN which to read essays and philosophical
but a place for the tremendous
work of soul saving. On, / had rather be
the means in this church of having one soul
prepared for a joyful eternity than five
souls prepared for mere worldly
All churches are in two classes, all
communities in two classes, all the race in
TWO elasSes-believers II un~believers. To
augment the number of the one and subtract
the number of the other we built this
church, and toward that supreme and eter-
lal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all our
all our prayers, all our Sabbath hand
We amt to throw detection into
he enemy's ranks. We want to make them
sither surrender Internationally to Christ or
fly in front, scattering the way with
blanket and knapsacks. We
want to popularize Christ. We would
ike to tell the story of His love here until
men would feel that they had rather die than
i've another hour without His sympathy and
owe and mercy. We want to rouse up an
enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt
or Nathaniel Lyon when he rode along the
'anks; greater b was exhibited for Well
ngton when he came back from Waterloo;
than was expressed for Napoleon
Fheu he stepped ashore from Elba. Wereally
,elieve in this place Christ will enact the |
anne scenes that were enacted by Him when
He landed in the orient, and there will be
uch an opening of blind eyes and unstop-
ring OF deaf ears and casting out of unclean
pirits-such silencing bestormed Gennesa-
as shall maSe thish Gus memorable five
years after you and | are dead and
.iorgotten. Oh, my friends, we want but one
'evival in this church, that beginning now
nd running on to the day when the chifel OF
line, tina brings down even st. PGpfs and
he Pyramids, shall bring this house. into til
Oh, that this day Of dedication -n4.t be
he day of emancipation of all imprisoned
ouls. My friends, do not make the blunder
4 the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who
to build the ark, but did not get into
|. God forbid hat you who have been so
generous in building this church should not
.et under its influences. "Come thou and
u thy house into the ark" Do You think a
nan is safe out of Christi Not one day, not
ns hour, not one minute, not one second
'hree or four years ago. you remember, q
all train broke down a bridge on the way to
sthanv. and after the catastrophe they were
ooking around among the timbers OF the
rushed bridge aud the fallen train and found
he conductor. He was dying, and had only
to say one thing, and that cas-,
Hoist the flag for the next train" So there
ONE to us tonight, from the eternal word,
'oices Of God, voices OF angels, voices of de-
,arted spirits, crying: Lift the warning.
Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hoist
he nag for the next train"
Oh, that tonight my Lord Jesus would
weep His arm around the great audience and
axe you all to His holy heart. You will
lever see no good a time for personal conse-
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