Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-10

NJ such churches and denominations,
although they may be different from
our own. we ought to admire them, ana
we ought to love and honor them-
Churches which can produce sucn men,
and such large-hearted charity, ana
such umagRifcent martyrdom, ought 10
win our affection-at any rate, our re-
spect. So come on, ye hundred tnou'
sand Episcopalians In this country, ana
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 10
be saved, and God demands that you
and l help to do it. Forward, the
whole line!
Moreover, we may also overthrow the
feeling Of severe sectarlanism oy Join-
ing other denominations In Christian
work. 1 like when the spring time
comes and the anniversary occasions
begin and all denominations come upon
the same platform. That overthrows
sectarianism. In the Young Mems
Christian Associations, in the Bible So
ciety, ia the Tract Society, in the For
eign Missionary Society, shoulder TO
shoulder all denominations
Perhaps I might forcefullV illustrate
this truth by calling your attention TO
an incident which took place about
twenty wears ago. On Monday morn
ing az 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 min
utes
ENDED IN ETERNITY!
Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and
women running up and down the gang
ways. and clutching for the rigging
and the plunge of the helpless steamer
aud the clapping of the hands OF the
merclless sea over the drowning and the
dead. threw two continents into terror.
But see this brave Quartermaster push
ing out with the life line until he gets
10 the rock; and see these fishermen
gathering up the shipwrecked and TAX
ing them into the cabins, and wrapping
them ia the flannels snug and warm;
and see the minister OF the Gospel, with
three other men, getting into Iifeooat
and pushing out for the wreck, pulling
away across the surf, and pulling away
until they saved one more man. aud
then getting back with him to the
shore. Can those men ever forget that
night? And can they ever forget their
companionship in peril, companion
ship in struggle, companionship ia awful
castastrophe and rescue? Never!
Never! In whatever part OF the earth
thew meet, they will be friends when
they mention the story OF that night
when the Atlantic" struck Mars Head.
Well. nv friends, our world has gone
into worse shipwreck. Sin drove 1t
on the rocks. The old ship has lurched
and tossed in the tempests OF six thou
sand years. Out with the life line!
do not care what denomination carries
10. Out with the life-boat! l do not
care what denomination rows 1t. Side
bv side, in the memory Of the common
hardshtps, and common trials, aud COM
mon PRAYERS, and common tears, let US
be brothers forever. We must be.
One army of the living God,
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the Hood,
And part are crossing now.
And expect to see the day when all
denominations OF Christians shall join
hands around the cross of Christ and re-
cite the creed: II 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"