The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

is by the wholesale, for cannot give it
by retail, Disappoint not the old folks
on the other side tho Atlantic You will
probably never see them again in this
world. Their hair is whitening and
their step is not as firm as when you saw
them last So live that you may meet
them in heaven. Write home often, and
while you know they are praying for
You do not forget to remember in your
prayers those who were your first
friends, and friends than whom You
will never have better-I mean your old
father and mother. By the memories of
the old Scotch kirk where you were
baptized, and of the English Preside by
which you played, and of the Welsh
hills and valleys among which you
roamed, and the old homes ON the banks
of the Tweed and the Shannon and the
Clyde, | charge you be honorable and
true and Christian. You have good
ancestral blood in your MINIS. Prove
yourself worthy. 1t seems to me that
the Gospel is making mighty strides
over there. Only one thing saw in the
chapels and churches | did not like.
That is lack of appreciation of each
other as between the national church
and the disscnters. Now each is doing
great work that the other cannot do.
God speed them all, they of the episco-
racy and they of the disscntersl Some
need the ritral of the national church
ard others the spontaneity of the Wes-
leyan. In the kingdom of God there is
room for all TO work and each in his
own way, Some people are born Epis-
copalians and others Methodists and
others Baptists and others Presbyte-
rians, and do not let us force our notions
on others.
CHRISTIAN UNION INDEED.
AS for myself, was born so near the
line that feel at home as much in one
denomination as in another, and when
in the Episcopal church the liturgy stirs
my soul SO that cannot keep back the
tears, and it oyerNhelms me with its
solemnity and its power. When in an
old fashioned Methodist church the re-
sponses of "Amen!" and "Halleluiahr'
lift me until, like Paul, am in blessed
bewilderment as to whether in the
body or out of the body, God knoweth."
And as for the Baptists, though | have
never been anything but sprinkled,
have immersed hundreds and expect to
immense hundreds more in the baptistry
under this pulpit where now stand.
What is the use of controversy about
anything except how we shall keep close
70 tho 4 tlo l. 1
people for this world and the next? May
! there come in England more cordiality
between the national church and the
dissenters. Although would be called
dissenter there, almost my first step
in England was into banqueting hall
he lord mayors banquet, given to the
bishops and high officials of the national
church, the great and good and genial
archbishop of Canterbury at their head,
and more magnificent group of folks,
intellectually and spiritually, | never
got among, and l found that, though
we had never met before, the archbishop
and myself were old friends. But all up
and down Great Britain found multi
tude that no man can number enlisted
for God and eternity, and tell you the
kingdom is coming.
If the pessimists would get out of the
way-the people who SWIVEL and groal
and think everything has gone to ths
logs or is about to go-I say if these
pessimists would only get out of the
way the world would soon see the sal
yation of God. Christianity is only an
other name for elevated optimism. Was
Isaiah an optimist2 See his deserts in
carnadined with red roses and showed
under with white lilies, and his lamb
asleep between the paws of lion. Was
st. John an optimist? Read the uplift-
ing splendors in the Apocalypse and the
halleluiah chorus with which the old
book, which they cannot kill, closes.
The greatest thing can think of would
be to have a triple alliance of America,
England and Russia in complete har-
nomination, and then to have upon all of
them come a deluge Of the Holy Ghost.
Let the defamation of other nations
cease. Peace and good will to men. For
that glorious contamination, which may
| Dc u6dTeT IQdu We uulLk, leu us pray, re-
membering that God can do more in five
minutes than man can do in five centu-
ries. If the contamination is not effected
in our day, shall ask the privilege of
coming out from heaven little while to
look at this old world when 1t shall have
put on its millennial beauty. think
God will let us come out to see 1t at least
once in its perfect state before it is
burned up. should not wonder if all
heaven would adjourn for an excursion
to this world to see how shipwrecked
planet was got off the breakers and set
afoat again amid the eternal harmonies.
Meanwhile let us do all we can to make
it better, and it will somehow tell in the
final result, though it be only a child's
sob hushed, or trickling tear wiped
from pale face, or thorn extracted
from tired foot, or sinful soul washed
white as the wool. May God help US to
help others! And SO these lessons of
gratitude and sympathy and helpfulness
and vindication have brought you on
the wings of this morning.