Connecticut western news., 1894-09-13

well as synoeogues only a few years ago? The one hundredth birthday anni- yersary of Montefiore, the great Jewish philanthropist Intolerance never yet put down anything.
 But now. my friends. having shown you the origin of bigotry or seotarian- ism, and having shown you the damage 1t does, I want briefly to show you how we are to war against this terrible evil. and think we ought to begin our war by realizing our own weakness and our imperfeotions. If we make so many mistakes in the common affairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes in regard to our religious af- fairs? Shall we take man by the throat or by tho collar because Inc can not see religious truths just as we doi In the light of eternity it will be found out l think, there was something wrong in all our creeds and something right in all our creeds. But since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world do not let us be so egotis- tic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mistake in re- gard to religious theories And then, think, we will do-a great deal to over throw the sectarianism from our heart and the sectarianism from the world by chiefly enlarging ill those things in which wo agree rather than those on which we diffeR
 Brothers Forever.
 Perhaps might forcefully illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an incident which took place about 90 years ago One Monday morning at about 3 o'clock, while her 900 passen- gers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in 10 minutes landed in eternity Oh, what a scenel Agonized men and women running up and down the gang way and clutching for the rigging, and the plunge of the helpless steamer and the olapping of the hands of the merci- less sea over the drowning and the dead threw two continents into terror.
 But see this brave Quartermaster pushing out with the lifeline until he gets to the rock, and see these fishermen gathering up the shipwrecked and talk ing them into the cabins and wrapping them in the fiannels snug and warm. and see that minister of the gospel, with three other men, getting into lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf and pulling away until they saved one more man, and then getting back with him to the shore Can those men ever forget that night and can they ever forget their oompan- ionship in peril, companionship in strug- gle, companionship in awful catastrophe and rescue? Neveri Neveri In whatever part of the earth they meet they will be friends when they mention the story of that night when the Atlantic struck Mars Head We'll. my friends, our world has gone into aworse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks The old ship has lurched and tossed in the tempest of 6, 900 years Out with the hfelinei l do not care what denomination carries it Out with the ifeboatl | do not care what denomination rows it Side by side, in the memory of common hard ships, and common trials, and common prayers, and common tears, let us be brothers forever We must be-
 And expect to see the day when all denominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of Christ and secite the creed: "I believe in God, the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and Arth, and Jesus Christ and in the communion of saints. and in life ever. asting. Amen"