The Progress., 1894-09-15

say, 'Ill 90 around the block Now.
men come and look upon this narrow
path to heaven, and sometimes see
the ecc'csiastira bricIlbAt~ living
every whittier, and they say, "Wcll, ! /.
guces I'll take The broad road: there !
is so much Sharp-shooting ON the mar.
row ro&d ! cues, I'll try the broad .
road
Francis 80 hated the i.uthrranS !.
that he SAID that if he tH"u%ht ,h>H} i
was one drop Of Lutheran hl"Oi III
his veins he would punrture them AND
let THAT drop out Just as long rs
there is so much hostility between dc
nomination and denomination, or be
tween one proirsNed Christian and
another or between one church and
another, SO long men will oe dis
puStcd with the Christian religion,
and say, III that is religion | want
none Of it.
Again, bisotrv and scctarianism Il"
great damage in Che 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 common
enemy coming up the bay, and all the
forts around the harbor began TO fire
into each other-you would cry out,
National suicide. why don't those
forts blaze away in one direction, and
that against the common enemy"
And vet sometimes see in the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ strange
thing going on: church against church,
minister against minister, denomlna'
ton against denomination, firing
away into their own fort, or the fort
which ought to be on the same side,
instead Of concentrating their energy
AMI giving one mighty and evcrlast-
ing voley against the 'lavies of dark
ness riding up through the bay!
= Perhaps Knight forceiuly illustrate
this truth by calling your attention
to an incident winch took place abou
, twenty years ago One Monday morn
ing at about . clock, while her 9o'
passeng gers were sound asleep in he
berths dreaming of home, the steame
"Atlantic' crashed into Mars Head
Five hundred souls in ten minute
landed in eternity. Oh what scene
Agonizcd men and women running III
and down the gangways and clutch
ing for the rigging, and the plunge o
:" the helpless steamer and the clappin
. of the hands of the mercless sea owe
: the drowning and the dead threw tw
- continents into terror. But see TN
;, brave quartermaster pushing out wit
~ the life line until he gets to the rocl
e and see these fishermen gathern
% up the shipwrccked, and takln
- them into the cabins. and wrappln
-, them in the flannels snug and warn
and see that minister of the gospe
with three other men. getting into
-, life boat. and pushing out for II
n wreck, pulling away across the sur
" and pulling away until they saved OF
y, - more man, and then getting back wi
~ him to the shore. Can those men ev
~ forget that night? And can they ev
- forget their corrpanionship in per
-, companionshp in struggle, companlo
~ ship in awful catastrophe and rescu
~ Never Never! In whatever part
NJ the earth they meet, they will
ov friends when they mention the sto
nd of that night when the "Atlant'
49, struck Mars Head Well, my frlent
~ our world has gone into
!, worse shipwreck. Sin drove 1t
no the rocks, The old ship has lurch
W. and tossed in the tempests OF
al. thousand years Ont with the II
y. line, I do not care what denomil
nd ton carries it. Out with the life %
nj dono care what denomination TO
al it. Side by side, in the memory
common hardships and common tri
Nv and common prayers, and comm
,nL tears, let us be brothers forever.
ll,s must be.
Of One army of the living God,
He TO his command we bow;
ION Part of the host have crossed the hood
no And part are crossing now.
tho And ] expect to see the dav WI
re. all denominations of Christians s
an. ioin hands around the cross OF CHI
xill and recite the creed: II believe IN
ne. the Father Almighty, Maker OF hea
on. and earth, and in Jesus Christ, ant
4ho communion of saints. and IN