Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-10-25

ful and industrious citizen, go through
that street? 20, no." you will say, III
| go around the block" Now, men CONS
AMI look upon this narrow path u
He 4ven and sometimes see the ecclesi
astical brickbats flying every whittier
AMI they say: well, guess I'll take
the broad road; there is so much sharp
shooting on the narrow road guess III
try the broad roadl'
Francis /. so hated the Lutherans
that he said that if he thought there
was one drop of Lutheran blood in his
veins he would pu neture them and lei
that drop out. just so long as there l.
so much hostility between denomina'
tions, or between one professed Chris
tian and another, or between one
church and another, SO long men will
be Disguised with the Christian religion
and say: IF that is religion, | want
none of it,"
Again. bigotry and seetarianism 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 whole life to controversial
disputes When. if they had given their
life to something practical, they might
have been vastly useful. suppose,
while | speak, there were a common
enemy coming up the bay, and all the
forts around the harbor began 10 H.
at each other-you would cry out.
National suicide. Why don't those
forts blaze away in one direction, and
that against the common enemY2n And
yet l sometimes see in the church Of
the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing
going on; church against church, min
lister against minister, denomination
against denomination, firing away into
their own fort. or the fort which ought
to be on the same side. instead of CON
centrating their energy and giving one
mighty and everlasting volley against
the navies of darkness riding up
through the bay.
/ go out sometimes in the summer,
and | find two beehives. and these two
hives are in quarrel | come near
enough not 10 be stung. but | come
just near enough to hear the contro-
versy, and one beehive says, THAT
field of clover is the sweetest, and
another beehive says, THAT field of
clover is the sweetest" | come in be-
tween them, and | say, stop this
quarrel; if You like that field Of clover
best, go 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 hive" So / come out
between the churches of the Lord
Jesus Christ. One denomination of
Christians saws, That field Of Chris
tian 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 usefulness for
.he life.
Besides that, If You want 10 build mp
my denomination, you will never build /
I up by trying TO pull some other
Town. Intolerance never put anything +
Town How much has intolerance ac-
for instance, against the /
church? For long years her /
were forbidden the pulpits of /
treat Britain. Why was it that 50
many of them preached in the fields?
simply because they could not get in
he churches. And the name of the
hurch was given in derision and as a
arcasm. The critics of the church
aid They have no order, they have
10 method in their worship" and the
rites, therefore, in irony called them
'Methodists,'
am told that in Astor library, New
FORK, kept as cnriosities. there are
even hundred and seven books and
against Methodism. Did in
Clearance stop that church? No; it is
ither first or second amid the denomi-
ations of Christendom, her missionary
tations in all parts of the world, her
len not only important in religious
rust, but important also in secular
rusts. Church marching on. and the
lore intolerance against it the faster
marched.
What did intolerance accomplish
gainst the Baptist church? If laugh
~ scorn and TRADE could have de-
5royed the church it would not have
l-day disciple left. The Baptists
ere hurled out of Boston in olden
mes. Those who sympathized with
lem were imprisoned, and when pc
ton was offered asking leniency in
leir behalf, all the men who signed it
ere indicted. Has intolerance stopped
lie Baptist church? The last statistics
regard to it showed twenty-five
lousand churches and three million
Intolerance never puts
OWN anything.
In England law was made against
lie jew England thrust back the jew
Id thrust down the jew, and declared
at no jew should hold official posi- ,
on. What came of it? Were the Jews
Was their religion over
rown? No. Who became prime min
ter of England? Who was next to
e throne? Who was higher than the
rome because he was councillor and