The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-12

and thrust down the Jew and declared
that no Jew should hold official position.
What came Of it? Were the Jews de-
stroyed? Was their religion over
thrown? No. Who became prime min
lister Of England? Who was next to the
throne? Who was higher than the
throne because ne was counselor and
adviser? Disraen a Jew. What were
we celebrating in all our churches as
well as synagogues only a few years
ago? The one hundFedth birthday ami
versary- Of Montefiore, the great Jewish
philanthropist. Intolerance never vet
put down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin Of bigotry or secratarian-
ism, and having shown you the damage
1t does. 1 want briefly TO show you how
we are 10 war against this terrible evil,
and | think we ought to begin our war
by realizing our own weakness and our
1mperfectfons. IF we make so many
mistakes in the common affairs Of life,
IS it not possible that we may make mis-
takes IN regard to our religious affairs
snail We stake "A man by the throat or
by the collar because he cannot see re-
ngious truths just as we do? In the
Hgnt or eternity il will be found out, 1
think, there was something wrong in all
| our creeds and 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
$50 pulled up as TO have an idea that we
religious theories And then / think we
will do a great deal To overthrow the
secratarianism from our heart and the
| secratarianism from the world by chiefly
charging in those things in which we
agree rather than those on which we
differ
Now. here is a great gospel Platform.
a man comes up on his side of the plat
form and says, Il don't believe in baby
sprinkling." Shall / shove him off2
= I'm sid Of
the platform, and he says, 81 don't be-
Heve in the perseverance of the saints"
| Shall I shove him off? No. I viii say:
DO you believe in the Lord Jesus as
your savior? Do you trust Him for
! DO you take Christ for time and for
| eternity?" Yes" I say say Come on.
| brother. One in time, and one in eter-
nifty. Brother now, brother forever"
| Blessed be God for gospel Platform 50
large that al who receive Christ may
] stand on 1t,
Moreover, we may also overthrow the
! feeling Of severe sectaranism by joining
| other denominations in Christian work.
| like when the springtime comes and the
| anniversary occasions begin and all de-
| nominations come upon the same plat
form. 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 denominations.
Communion of Saints
| Perhaps I might forcefuny illustrate
! this truth by calling your attention TO an
! incident which took place about twenty
years ago. One Monday morning at
about O'Clock, while her 600 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 a scene! Agonized men and women
! running uD and down the Eangways 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 quartermaster push
| ing out with the life line until he gets
/ TO the rock. and see these fishermen
! gathering up the shipwrecked and taking
! them into the cabins and wrapping them
! in the flannels snug and warm. and see
/ that minister of the gospel, with three
! other men, getting into a lifeboat and
/ pushing out for the wreck, pulling away
! across the surf and pulling away until
! they saved one more man and then
/ getting back with him 10 the shore. Can
! those men ever forget their compan-
! ionship in peril companionship
! In struggle, companions in aW-
/ full catastrophe and reScue2 Never
| Never 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
J into 4 worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on
! the rocks. The Old ship has lurrhed and
tossed in the tempests of 5000 years.
/ out with the life line! I do not care
| what denomination carries it. Out with
| the lifeboat / do not care what den0m-
| inatlon rows It. Side by side. I'm the mem
CRY Of common hardships and common
! trials and common 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 flood
| And part are crossing now.
And I expect TO see the day when all
| denominations Of Christians shall inin
| hands around the cross of Christ and re-
! cite the creed: Il believe i'm God, the
! Father Almighty. Maker Of heaven and
J earth, and in Jesus Christ and in The
communion of saints, and in life ever
] lasting Amen!"