The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-09-21

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down anything.
In England law was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the
Jew and thrust down the Jew, and de.
clared that no Jew should hold official
position. What came of it? We're the
Jews destroyed7 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 counsellor
and adviser2 Disraeli; Jew. What
were we celebrating in all our churches
as well as our synagogues only a few
years ago? The one hundredth birth.
day anniversary of Monteaore, the
great Jewish philanthropist. Intoler-
ance never yet put down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown
| you the origin of bigotrT or sectarian-
ism, and having shown you the damage
| it 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 iInperfections. If we make sd
many mistakes in the common affairs
of life, is 1t not possible that we
may make mistakes in regard to our
religious affairs? 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, think, there was some
thing wrong in all our creeds. But
since we may make mistHks in regard
to things of the world, do not let us
be so egotistic and so pulled up as to
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mistake in regard to religious theories.
And then ] think we will do a great
deal to overthrow the sectarianism
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 plat
form. A man came up on this side of
the platform and says: 81 don't be-
lieve in baby sprinkling." Shall l
shove him off? Here is man coming
up this side of the platform, and he
says; Il don't believe in the perse-
verance of the saints" Shall
shove him off? No, l will
say: "Do you believe in the
Lord Jesus as our Saviour? Do you
trust Him for time and eternity?" He
says: Yes do you take Christ for
time and for eternity?" Yes say.
"Come on brother; one in time and one
in eternity; brother now, brother for
ever Blessed be God for a Gospel
platform so large that all who receive
Christ may stand on It'll
/ think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts,
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that all the denominations of Chris
tians have yielded noble institutions
and noble men. There is nothing that
so stirs my soul as this thought. One
denomination yielded Robert Hall and
an Adoniram Judson; anOth er yielded
Latimer and Melville; another yielded
John Wesley and the blessed Sum-
merfield, while our own denomination
yielded John Knox and the Alexanders,
men of whom the world was not
worthy. Now, say, if we are honest
and fair-minded men, when we come
up in the presence of such churches
and such denominations, although they
may be different from our own, we
ought to admire them, and we ought
to love and honor them. Churches
which can produce such men,
and such, large-hearted charity,
and such v magnificent martyrdom,
ought to win our affection-at any
rate, our respect. So come on We hun
dred thousand Episcopalians in this
country, and We five hundred thousand
Presbyterians, and We million Baptists,
and We two million MethOdists-come
on; shoulder to shoulder we will
march for the worlds conquest; for all
nations are to be saved, and God de-
mands that you and l help do it. For
ward, the whole line!
Moreover, we may also, overthrow
the feeling of severe sectarianism by
joining other denominations in Chris
tian work. like when the spring
time comes and the anniversary occa-
sions begin and all denominations come
upon the same platform. That over
throws sectarianism. In the Young
Mems Christian associations, in the
Bible society and Tract society, in the
Foreign Missionary society, shoulder
to shoulder all denominations
Perhaps / might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention to
an incident which took place about
twenty years ago, One Monday morn
ing at about two o'clock, while her
nine hundred passengers were sound
asleep in her berths dreaming of home,
the steamer Atlantic crashed into
Mars Head. Five hundred souls in
ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh,
what scene! Agonized men and wonI-
en- running up and down the gang
ways, and clutching for the rigging,
and the plunge of the helpless steamer,
and the clapping of the hands of the
merciless sea over the drowning and
the dead, threw two continents into
terror But see this brave quarter
master pushing out with the life
line until he gets to the rock;
and see these fishermen gather
ing up the shipwrecked, and TAX
ing them into the cabins, and wrap
ping them in the fannels snug an.
warm; and see that minister of the
Gospel, with three other men getting
into lifeboat, and pushing out for the
wreck, pulling away until they saved
one more man, and then getting back
with him to the Yhore. Can those 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! Never IN whatever
part of the earth they meet, they VIII
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 ship