Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-10

sectarianism aud bigOtry or the Church
is that IL disguSts people with the Chris
tian religion. Now, my friends, the
| Church of God was never intended for a
WAT barrack. People are afraid OF
riot. You go down the street and you
| see An excitement, and missiles flying
! through the air. aud you hear the shock
| OF fire-srms. Do you, the peaceful and
I industrious citizen, 20 through that
street? Oh. no! you will say, "Tll 90
around that block" Now, men come
look upon this narrow path 70 heaven,
and sometimes see the ecclesiastical
orick-bats flying every whittier, and
/ they say, "Well, I guess I'll take the
broad road; there is so much sharp
shooting on the narrow road l guess III
try the broad rOad3'
Again, bigotry aud sectariaulsm DO
/ great damage in the fact that they
/ hinder the triumph Of the Gospel o.
/ how much wasted ammunition! how
many men Of splendid intellect have
given their Whele life 70 controversial
/ disputes when, II they had given their
| life TO something practical they might
have been vastly useful! Suppose, while
| l speak, there were a common enemy
comlhg up the Bay, and all the forts
around the harbOr began 20 IRE Into
/ each other-you would cry out, ma
/ tlohal Suicide. why don't those forts
/ laze away In one direction, and that
, against the common enemy And yet
| l sometimes see 10 the Church or the
I Lord Jesus Christ strange thing going
Oh: church agains. church, minister
against minister. denomination against
/ denomination, firing away into their
| own fort, or the fort which ought 10 Do
on the same side, instead OF concentrat-
/ ing their energy and giving one mighty
aud everlasting volleY against the
navles OF darkness riding up through
the bay!
I 90 out sometimes In the summer,
aud I find two pee hives, aud these two
/ lives are in a quarrel l come near
/ enough, not 10 be Stung, but l come
| Just near enough to hear the contro-
versy, and one bee hive says, That
/ field of clover Is the sweetest" aud an
other bee hive says, That Held OF
clover IS the sweetest" l come In be-
tween them, and say, "Stop this quar-
rel; II YOU like that field OF clover best,
20 there; If you like that field OF clover
best, 90 there; but let me tell you that
! that hive which gets the most honey Is
/ the best hiYer So l come out between
| the churches Of tha Lord Jesus Christ.
One denomination OF Christians says,
That feld OF Christian doctrine Is
best, and another says, This field OF
! Christian doctrine is best. Well, / say,
"go where you get the most honey"
! That is the best church which gets the
most honey Of
CHRISTIAN GRACE FOR THE HEART
and the most honey OF Christian use
fulness for the life.
Besides that, II you want 10 build up
any denomination, you will never build
it up by trying to pull some Other down.
Intolerance never put anything down.
How much has Intolerance accomp-
lished, for instance, against the Metho-
dist Church? For long years her min
istry were forbidden the puipits OF
Great Britain. Why was II that so
many OF them preached in the fields?
Simply because they could not get in
the churches. Aud the name OF the
Church was'given In derision and as a
sarcasm. The critics OF the church
said, They have no order, they have
no method in their worship;" and the
critics, therefore, in irony called them
"Methodists.
A am told that 10 Aston Library, New
York, kept as curloSitieS there are seven
hundred aud seven books and pampb-
lets against Methodism. Did Iutoler-
auce stop that church? No; IL is either
first or second amid the denominations
OF Christeudom, her missionary stations
in ell parts OF the world, her men not
ouly important In religious trusts, bus
important alsoiu secular trusts. Church
marching on, and the more intolerance
against It the faster II marched.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the Baptist Church? II laugh
ing scorn aud Tlrade could have de-
stroyed the church IL would not have
to-day a disciple left. The Baptists
were hurled out of Boston in the olden
times Those who sympathizsd with
them were imprisoned, and when pc
tition was offered asking leniency In
their behalf, all the men who sig0ed 1t
were indicted. Has intolerance stopped
the Baptist Church? The last statistics
In regard 10 IL showed twenty-five
thousand churches aud three million
commandments, Intolerance never put
down anything.
In England a law was made against
the Jew. q England thrust back the
Jew and thrust down the Jew, and de-
clared that no Jew could hold Official
position. What came Of t.? Were the
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
overthrow? No. Who became prime
minister Of England? Who was next
TO the throne? Who was higher than
the throne because be was counsellor
and adviser? DiSraeli, a Jew. What
were we celebrating 10 all our
CHURCHES As WELL AS sYNAGOGUEs
only few years ago? Tho one hun
dredth birthday anniversary Of Monte
fore, the great Jewish philauthropist
Intolerance never yet put down any
thing.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin Of bigOtrY or Sectarian-
ism, and having shewn you the damage
ii does, want briefly to tell you how
we are TO war against this terrible evil,
and think we ought TO begin our war
bv realizing our own weakness and our
impartectionS.
think we nav overcome the severe
sectarianiSm aud bigotrY IN our hearts,
and In the church also, by realizing thai
all the denominations Of Christians have
yielded noble institutions and NOBLE
men. There is nothing that so stirs my
blood ss this thought. One den0mina-
ton yielded a Robert Hall and an ADJ
oniram Judso0; another yielded John