The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-09-15

times. Those who sympathiZed with
them were imprisoned, and when a pc
tition was offered asking leniency in
their behalf all the men who signed it
were indicted. Has intolerance stopped
the Baptist church? The last statistics
in regard to it showed $4,000 churches
and 1900, 600 communicates. Intoler-
ance never put down anything.
In England a law was mad against
the Jew. England thrust back h
Jew n thrust down the Jew, and de-
clared that nc Jew should hold official
position. What came of it? Were the
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
overthrown? No. Who became prime
minister of England? Who was next
to the throne? Who was higher than
the throne because he was counselor
and adviser? Disraeli, a jew. What
were we celebrating in all our churches
as well rs our ~synagogues only a few
years ago? The Tooth birthday ami
versary of Montefiore, the great jew
ish phlanthropist. Intolerance never
yet put down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin Of bigotry or sectarian-
ism, and having shown you the damage
1t does, l want briefly to show you how
we are to war against this terrible evil,
and 1 think we ought to begin our war
by realizing our own weakness and our
imperfections. If we make SC many
mistakes in the common affairs of life,
Is it not possible that we may make
mistakes in regard to our religious af-
fairs?
Now, here is a great gospel platform.
A nan came up on this side of the plat
form and says: 81 don't believe in baby
| sprinkling." Shall l shove him off?
Here is a man coming up this side of
the platform, and he says: II don't be-
lieve in the preservation of the saints"
Shall l shove him off? No, 1 will say:
our Saviour? DO you trust Him for time
and eternity?" He says: Yes do
you take Christ for time and for eterni-
typ yes" Isay: Come on, brother;
one in time and one in eternity; BROTH
err now, brother forever" Blessed be
God for a gospel platform 81 large
that all who receive Christ nay stan
on it'll
l think we may overthrow the evere
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts,
and in the church also, by realizing
that all the denominations of Chris
tians have yielded noble institutions
and noble men.
Moreover, we may also over throw
the feeling of severe sectarianism by
joining other denominations in Chris
tian work. I like when the spring
time comes and the anniversary oc-
casious begin and all denominations
come upon the same platform. That
overthrows sectarianism. In the
Young Mems Christian associations, in
the Bible society, in the Tract society,
in the Foreign Missionary society,
shoulder to shoulder all denomina-
tons.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention to
an incident which took place about
twenty years ago. One Monday morn
ing ut tabout 2 o'clock, while her 900
passengers were sound asleep in her
berths dreaming of home, the steamer
Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five
souls in ten minutes landed in eternityl
Oh, what q scene! Agonized men and
women running up and down the
gangways, and clutching for rig
gings, and the plunge of the
helpless steamer, and the clasping
Of the hands of the merciless sea
owe the drowning and the dead, threw
two continents into terror. But sec
this brave quartermaster pushing out
with the life line until he gets to the
rock; and see these fishermen gather
ing up the shipwrecked, and taking
them into the cabins, and wrapping
them in the fiannels snug and warm;
and see that minister of theegospel,
with three other men, getting into the
lifeboat, and pushing for the wreck,
pulling away until they saved one
more man, and then getting back with
him to the shore. Can these men ever
forget that night? And can they
ever forget their companionship in
peril, companionship in struggle, com
partnership in awful catastrophe and
rescue? Never! 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 a worse ship
wreck. Sin drove it on the rocks. The
old ship has lurched and tossed in the
tempests of 5000 years. Out with the
lifeline! do not car what denomi
nation carries it. Out with the life
boat! l do not care what denomination
rows 1t. Side by side, in the memory
of common hardships, and common
trials, and common prayers, and com
mon tears, let us be brothers forever.
And l expect to see the day when al
denominations of christians shall join
hands around h cross of Christ and
recite the creed: ~ believe in God the
Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, and In the
!. communion of saints, and in life ever
) lasting. Amen!"
! Railroad traffic and mail delivery
on Sunday are forbidden by n recent
5 act of parliament in Finland.
E 1t is stated that ninety out of every
, hundred converts to Christianity in
I China are from the country, sixty OF
them being farmers.
There are AZ, ST. Lutheran churches
, in the world, with a membership OF
SO, OsO. 600, o BAG ministers, 94,Ol7 pa
rochial schools, and 1858 deaconesses.
: 1t is claimed that a college gradu,
ate's chances of obtaining a fair de-
gree of eminence are as $50 to rs com
. pared with the men who nave not been
y to college.
1t requires a sum of upward OF
' ElO, 900 a year, voluntarily provided, To
: less children of the Sturgeon orphans
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