The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-09-14

that no jew should hold official posi-
ton. What came of it9 Were the jew,
destroyed Was their religion ovor
thrown? mol Who became prime min
istor Of Englandi Who was next to the
throne9 Who was higher than thu
throne because he was counselor and
adviserY Disraeli, Jew. What were
we celebrating in all our churches AZ
well as synogogues only few years
ago? The one hundredth birthday ami.
versary of Montefore. the great Jewish
philanthropist Intolerance never yet
put down anything,
But now, my friends. having shown
you the origin Of bigotry or seotariaii.
ism, and having shown you the damage
IL does, 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
imperfections. 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 the collar because he can
not see religious truths just as we do?
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 pulled up as to have an idea
that we cannot make any mistake in re-
gard to religious theories. And then,
think, we will do great deal to over
throw the sectarianism from our heart
and the seotarianism from the world BY
chiefly enlarging in those things in
which we agree rather than those on
which we differ
Brothers Forever.
Perhaps l might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention to
an incident which took place about 30
years ago. One Monday morning at
about . 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 scene! 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 clapping 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 shipwreoked and tax
ing them into the cabins and wrapping
them in the fiannels snug and warm, and
Bee 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 compan-
lonship in peril companionship in strug-
gle, companionship in awful catastrophe
and rescue? Neverl Neverl 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. Well, my friends, our
world has gone into worse shipwreck.
Sin drove it on the rocks The old ship
has lurched and tossed in the tempest
If 5000 years. Out with the lifeline! l
10 not care what denomination carries
t. Out with the lifeboatl I do not care
What denomination rows 1t. Side by
ide, in the memory of common hard
hips, and common trials, and common
'rayers, and common tears, let Us be
forever. We must be.
And l expect to see the day when all |
of Christians shall Join /
lands around the cross of Christ and
ecite the creed: II believe in God, the
'ather Almighty, Maker Of heaven and
afth, and Jesus Christ, and in the
communion of saints. and in life ever
asting Amen''