The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-04-29


Heaven, all churches on earth can afford
TO come into close communication: "One
Lord, one faith, one baptism" o my
brethren-we have had enough of Big
Bethel fghts-the Fourteenth New
York regiment fighting the Fiji
teenth Massachusetts, 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 sprinlsling of the Divine bless
ing, so clear under the wave in one
glorious immersion in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and Of the Holy
Ghost. saw 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 last
kiss. o, said, those two persons will
stand very near to each other always
after such an interloclSing. The dying
Christ puts one arm around this denom-
ination Of Christians, and brings them
down to His dying lips, while He gives
them this parting kiss: my peace I
leave with you. My peace l give unto
you"
How swift the heavenly course they run
Whose hearts, and faith, and hopes are one.
heard Baptist minister once say
that he thought in the Millennium 1t
. would be all one great Baptist church;
and heard Methodist minister say
that he thought in the great Millennial
day II would be all one great Methodist
church; and / have known Presby-
terian minister who thought that in the
Millennial day II would be all one great
Presbyterian church. Now 1, think
they are all mistaken 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 slfilful hands of a 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 ecclesiastical
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
mosaic thousand feet square in st.
Marks, or mosaic hoisted in colossal
seraphim in st. Sophia-so suppose
God will make, after awhile, one great
blending of all creeds, and all faiths,
and all Christian sentiments, the anne
thyst, and the jasper, and the chalce-
dony 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
architraves Of that stupendous church
of the future and cry out, "What mean
ye by these stones?" there shall be in
Vulnerable voices to respond-"We
mean the Lord God omnipotent reign
eth"
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 platform on which to read essays
and philosophical disquisitions, but a
place for the tremendous work Of
soul-saving. o, had rather be the
means in this church of having one
soul prepared for joyful eternity,
than five thousand souls prepared for
mere worldly success. All churches
are in two classes, all communities In
two classes-believers and unbelievers
To augment the number OF the one and
subtract from the humber Of the other,
we build this church; and toward that
supreme and eternal idea we dedicate
all our sermons, all our songs, all
our prayers, all our Sabbath hand
shakings We want to throw detection
into the enemy's ranks We want TO
make them either surrender uncondi-
tionally TO Christ, or else fly in rout,
scattering the way with canteens,
blankets and lnapsacks. 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 SYM
phathy and love and mercy. We want
TO rouse up an enthusiasm for Him
greater than was felt for Nathaniel
Lyon when he rode along the ranks -
greater than was exhibited for Yelling
ton when he came back from Water
loo greater than was expressed for
Napoleon when 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 bestormed Cen
nesarets as shall make this house
memorable five hundred years after you
and are dead and forgotten. o, my
friends, we want but one revival in this
church, that beginning now and run
ming 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.
o, that this day OF dedication might
be the day Of emancipation of all i'm
prisoned souls. My friends, do not
make the blunder Of the ship carpenters
In Noah's time, 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 ,in-
der It's saving influence. ''Come thou
and all thy house into the ark" Do you
think man Is safe out of Christi Not
one day, not one hour, not one minute,
MT ono aacond Threa M. four vaara
ago, you remember, rail train broke
down q bridge on the way TO Albany and
after the catastrophe they were looking