Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

John Calvin and Armln1us, if they
 were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us
 Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have heard brethren use the phrases of beautiful liturgy, and we know where they came from; and in the same pray CT meetings I have heard brethren make audible ejaculation, "Amen!" Praise ye the Lordl" and we did not have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our church door, if he comes from a sect
 where they will not give him certifi- cate, we say, Come in by confession of faith" While Adoniram Judson tho Baptist, and John Wesley the Methodist, and John Knox the glo- rious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shak- ing hands in heaven, all churches on earth can afford to come into close communication, "One Lord, one faith,
 one baptism. D
 Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big Bethel tights-the Four teenth New York regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment. Now let all those who are for Christ and stand on the same side get shoul- der to shoulder, and this church, in stead of having sprinkling of the divine blessing, go 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 it's dying hour put one arm around it's fathers neck and the other arm around its mothers neck, and bring them close down to it's dying lips and give last kiss. Oh, said, those two persons will stand very near to each other always after such an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one arm around this denomination 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 leave with you. My peace give unto you" ., ] How swift the heavenly course they run Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one. ALL ARE ONE IN CHRIST
 heard 6 Baptist minister once say
 that he thought in the millennium it would be all one great Baptist church ,; | and heard a Methodist minister say
 that he thought in the great millennial l day it would be all one great Methodist church; and have known a Presby- terian minister who thought that in the 1 millennial day it would be all one great
 Presbyterian church. Now I think they are all mistaken. I.think the
 millennial church will be a composite church; and just as you may take the best parts of five or six tunes, and un- der the skillful hands of Handel, Mo zart or Beethoven entwine them into
 one grand and overpowering symphony,
 so, suppose, in the latter days of the world, God will take the best parts of
 all denominations of Christians and l weave them into one great ecclesiastical
 harmony, broad as the earth and
 high as the heavens, and that will be the l church of the future. Or as mosaic is
 made up of jasper and agate and many precious stones cemented together 1 mosaic thousand feet square in St.
 Marks, or mosaic hoisted in colossal l seraphim in St. Sophia-so I suppose God will make lfter awhile, one great blending of all crceds and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the anne
 thyst, and the jasper, and the chal
 cedony of all different experiences and
 belief, cemented side by side in the great mosaic of the agcs; and while | the nations loe.l uEol the columns
 and architraves of that stu pendous
 church of the future, and cry out
 What mean ye by these stonesY' 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
 reforms, or for an educational institu- tion, or as 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 a joyful eternity
 than five thousand souls prepared for
 mere worldly success. All churches
 are in two classes, all communities in
 two classes, all the race in two classes believers and unbeievers.
 To augment the number of the one and substract from the number of the
 other we built this church; and toward that supr,xne and eternal idea we dedi- nof fn o11 oil ol
 our prayers, all our Sabbath hand
 shakings. We want to throw defection into the enemy's ranks. We want to
 make them either surrender uncon-
 ditonally to Christ or else fly in rout,
 scattering the way with canteens, blan-
 kets and knapsacks. We want to popularle 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 pathy 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 Waterloo;
 greater than was expressed for Ma poleon 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 open ing of blind eyes, and unstopping of
 deaf ears, and casting out of unclean
 spirits-such silencing bestormed Gen
 nesarets as shall make this house mem
 orable five hundred years after you and
 | are dead and forgotten. Oh, my feiorAs hl1f roxn;1,al ir,