Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-20

pOureu luLO my ears Tor families IN Amtfi-
ca. Oh, sons Of Scotchmen. Englishmen.
Welshmen and Irishmen, there are hearts
on the other side OF the sea beating IN affec-
tion for you and praying for your present
and eternal welfare. They wanted me To
give you their love. and here it is by the
wholesale, for cannot give it by retail Dis
appoint not the old folks on the other side
the 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 pray
ing 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 Eng
lish fireside, 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 an
cestral blood in your veins. 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 dissenters. Now
each is doing great work that the other
cannot do. God speed them all-they of
the episcopacy and they Of the dissentersl
Some need the ritual of the national
church and others the spontaneity of the
Wesleyan. In the kingdom Of God there
is room for all to work and each in his own
way. Some people are born Episcopalians
and others Methodists and others Baptists
and others Presbyterians, and do not let
us force our notions on others.
As for myself, ! was born so near the
line that feel as much at home in one de-
nomination as another, and when in the
Episcopal church the liturgy stirs my soul
so that | cannot keep back the tears, and
it overwhelms me with its solemnity and
its power. When in an old fashioned
Methodist church the responses of "Amenp'
and "Halleluiahp' lift me until, like Paul,
l am in blessed bewilderment AS to ''wheth-
er in the body or out Of the body, God
knoweth. And as for the Baptists, though
l have never been anything but sprinkled, |
have immersed hundreds and expect to inn
merse hundreds more in the baptistry un
der this pulpit where | now stand
NO DOUBTFUL DESIGNATIONS.
What is the use OF controversy about
except how we shall keep close to
the cross and do the most for helping peo-
pie for this world and the next, May there
come in England more cordiality between
the national church and the dissenters.
| would be called dissenter
there, almost my first step in England was
into banqueting hall-the lord mayors |
banquet, given TO the bishops and high Of |
ticials OF the national church, the great and |
good and genial archbishop of Canterbury |
At their head. and more magnificent group |
Df folks, intellectually and spiritually, |
never got among, and l found that |
though we had never met before the arch /
bishop and myself were old friends. But |
all up and down Great Britain found a |
multitude that no man can number en-
listed for God and eternity, and tell you
he kingdom is coming
IL the pessimists would get out Of the
gay-the people who SWIVEL and groan and
hink everything has gone to the dogs or
S about to COL say if these pessimists
would only get out Of the way, the world
would soon see the salvation of God.
christianity is only another name for ele-
iated optimism. Was Isaiah an optimists
See his deserts incarnadined with red roses
md showed under with white lilies and
lis lamb asleep between the paws of
ion. Was St. John an optimistg Read
he uplifting splendors in the Apocalypse
md the halleluiah chorus with which the
Id book, which they cannot kill, closes
The greatest thing can think of would
Ne to have triple alliance of America,
England and Russia in complete harmoni-
alton, and then TO have upon all of them
ONE a deluge of the Holy Ghost Let the
efamation of other nations cease Peace
nd good win to menl For that glorious
which may be nearer than
re think, let us pray. remembering that
iod can do more in five minutes than man [
an do in five centuries If the consum- :
nation is not effected in our day shall
SIX the privilege of coming out from
eaven little while to look at this old !
-orld when it shall have put on its mil
,nnial beauty. ] think God will let us
Dme out to see it at least once in its per
.cted state before il is burned up.
/ should not wonder if all heaven would 2
iiOurn for an excursion to this world to 1
e how a shipwrecked planet was got off I
le breakers aud set afloat again amid the S
-ernal harmonies. Meanwhile let us {
D all we can to make it better, and it
i'll somehow tell in the final result.
Rough it be only child's sob hushed or
trickling tear wiped from a pale face, or
thorn extracted from tired foot. or a !
nful soul washed white as the wool. i
ay God helpus to help others. And so
lese lessons of gratitude and sympathy
nd helpfulness and vindication | have &
Fought you ON the wings of this morning. r
Precautions That Should BE Taken.