The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-19

is tbs best church which gets the most
honey Of Christian grace for the heart,
and the most honey of Christian useful
ness for tho life.
3 esides that, if you want 10 build up
any denomination, you will never build
it up by trying to pull some other down.
Ictolerance never put anything down.
How much has intolerance accomplished,
| for instance, against the Methodist
| church? For long years her ministry
| were forbidden the pulpits of Great Brit
ain. Why was It that so many OF them
| preached in the fslds? Simply because
they could not getin thu churches. And
the name OF the church was given in
6erlsion and as sarcasm. Toe critics
of the church said, They have no order;
they have no method n their worship"
and the critics therefore in irony called
them "Methodists.
am told that in Astor library, New
York, kept as curicsities, there are 707
books and pamphlets against Methodism.
DID intolerance stop that church? No.
It is either first or second amid the de.
nominations of Christendom, her mis-
siouary stations IN all pats of the world,
her men not only importantin in religious
trust, but important also ia secular
trusts. Church marching on, and the
more intolerance against it the faster it
marched.
What cid intolerance accomplish
| against the Baptist church, II laugh.
ing scorn and TRADE could have destroyed
the church, it would not hava today a
disciple left. The Baptists were hurled
Gu! Of Boston in older times. Those
| who sympathiz,d with them were impri.
soned, and when a petition 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 20 it showed
5000 churches and 5000, 900 com mum.
cants. Intolerance never put doHn any
thing.
In England lag was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the Jew
and thrust down the Jew and declared
that no Jew should hold cfficial position.
What came OF il? Were the Jews de-
stroyed? 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 counselor and adviser? Dlsraeil,
Jew. What were we celebrating in
all our churches as we'll as synagogues
only a few years ago? The one hun.
dredth birthday anniversary of Monte.
fore, the great Jewish pAilanthropist.
Intolerance never yet pat down any
thing.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin of ofbigotrY or sectariauism,
and having shown you the damage it
does, want briefly to show you how
We are to war against this tsrrible evil,
and I think ne ought to bsgln our war
by realizing our own weakness and cur
imperfectlons. IF We make so many
mistakes in the common affairs Of life, is
it not possible tnst we make mistakes
in regard to our religious affairs? Shall
we take man by the throat or by the
collar because he cannot see religious
truths just as do? In the light Of eterni.
ty it will be found out, think, there was
something wrong in all cur creeds, aud
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 egotistic and so pulled up as to have
an idea that we cannot make any mis-.
take in regard to religious theories. Aud
then I TANK we will do q grea! deal to
overthrow the sectarianlsm from our
heart and the sectarianism from the world
by chiefly enlarging in those things in
which we agree rather than those on
which we differ.
Now, here Is great gospel platform.
A man comes up on his side OF the plat
forEi and Gays, 81 don't believe 10 baby
springling." Shall I shove him of?
Here is a mau coming up on this side Of
the platform, and he says, 81 don't bs-
lieve in the perseverance Of the saints"
Shall I shove him of? No. I will say:
''Do you bslievs in the LORD Jesus as
your Savior? Do you trust him for TINS
and for eternity?" He says, "Yes."
"Do you take Christ for time and for
eternitY9" "Yes," l say. "Come on
brother. One in tlme, and one in eternl.
tY. Brother now, brother forever"
Blessed be God for gospel platform so
large that all who receive Christ may
stand on il!
Moreover, we may also overflow the
feeliag of severe sectarianism by joining
other denominations in Christian work.
I like when the springtime comes and
the anniversary occasions begin and Gil
denominations come upon the same plat
form, That overthrows sectarianism.
In the Young Mems Christian assccia.
tions, iu the Bible society, in the Tract
society, in the Foreign Missionary socle'
ty, shoulder to shoulder all denomins-
tons.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention
to an incident which took place about 20
years age. 9le Monday morning a!
about 2 O'Clock, while hsr 900 passen'
gers were sound asleep in her bsr!hs
dreaming OF home, the steamer Atlantic
crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred
souls in 10 minutes landsdin eternity!
On, what scene? Agonizsd men and
women running up and down the gang
ways and clutching for the rigging, and
the plunge Of the helpless steamer and
olapping OF the hands of the merciless
sea over the drowning AND the dead
threw two continent into terror.
Butsee this brave quartermaster push
ing out with the life line until be gets to
the rock, and see these fishermen gath
ering up the shipwrecked snd taking
them into the cabins and wrapping them
in the fannels 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 tie surf and pulling away uatil
they saved one more man and then get.
ting back with him to the shore. Can
those men every forget that night, and
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