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tant also In secular trusts. Church
marching on, and the more intolerance
against 1t the faster it marched.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the Baptist church? If laugh
ing scorn and trade could have de-
stroyed the church 1t would not have
to-day a disciple left, The Baptists
were hurled out Of Boston in olden
times. Those who sy~mpathized with
them were imprisoned. and when Il pc
titicn was offered asking leniency in
their behalf all the men who signed 1t
were indicted. Has intolerance stopped
the Baptist church? The last Stats
tics in regard to it showed $4,000
churches and 100000 com nunicants.
Intolerance eve put down anything.
In England q 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? Were the
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
I've thrown? No. Who became prime
minister Of England? Who was next
to the throne? Who was higher than
the throne because he was counselor
and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew. What
were we celebrating in all our churches
as well as u synagogues only q few
years ago? The Tooth birthday ami
versary of Montefore, the great Jew
ish philanthropist. Intolerance never
yet put down anything.
But now. my friends, having shown
you the origin Of bigotry or sectarian-
ism, and having shown you the dam
age it does, I want briefly to show you
how we are to war against this terri
hle evil, and / think we ought to begin
our war by realizing our own wenk-
ness and our imperfections. If we
make so many mistakes in the common
may make mistakes in regard to III
religious affairs? Shall we take Il man
by the throat OF by the collar, because
he cannot see religious truths just as
we co? In the light of eternity it will
be found out, I think, there was m
thing wrong in all our creeds. But
since we may make mistakes in regard
to things Of the world, do not let III
be SO egotistic and 80 puffed up as to
have an idea that we cannot make
any mistake in regard to religious
theories. And tlien I think we will
do a great deal to overthrow The sec
tarianism from Jul heart, and the sec
tarianism from the world, by chiefly
enlarging in those things in which we
agree rather than those on which we
differ.
Now, here is a great gospel platform.
A man came up on this side Of the
platform and says: II don't believe
in baby sprinkling." Shall l shove him
off? Here is q man coming up this
side of the platform, and he says: Il
don't believe in the perseverance Of the
saints. Shall l shove him off? No.
I will say: DO you believe in the
Lord Jesus as our Savior? Do you
trust him for time and eternity" He
says: YES" do you take Christ for
time and eternityw Yes" 1 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!
I think we may overthrow the Sc
we're sectarianism and bigotry in our
hearts. and in the church also, by real
izing that all the denominations of
Christians have yielded noble institu-
tons and noble men. There is moth
ing that S 70 stirs my soul as this
thought. One denomination yielded
Il Robert Hall and I'm Adoniram Jud-
son; another yielded a Latimer and a
Melville; another yielded John Wesley
and the blessed Summerfield, while II
own denomination yielded John Knox
and the Acknowledgement 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 denOmina-
tons, 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 char
ity, and such magnificent martyrdOm,
ought to win our affection-at any rate,
u respect. So come on, We hundred
thousand ~Episcopalians in this country,
and We five hundred thousand Presby-
t~erians, and We million Baptists, and
ye two million Methodists- come on;
shoulder to shoulder we will march for
the worlds conquest, for all nations are
to be saved, and God demands that you
and I help do 1t. Forward, the whole
line! .
Moreover, we may also overthrow the
feeling of evere s~ectarianism by join
ing other denominations in Christian
work. 1 like when the spring comes
and the anniversary occasions begin
and all denominations come upon the
same platform. That overthrows Sec
tar!anism. In the Young Mems Chris
tan Associations, in the Bible Society,
in. the Tract Society. in the Foreign
Missionary Society, shoulder to Shout
der all denominations.
Perhaps T 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 z o'clock, while her 900
passengers. were sound asleep In their
bertis 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 up and down
the gansways, and clutching for the
rigging, and the plunge Of the helpless
steamer, and the clapping Of the hands
OF the mprciless sea over the drowning
and the dead. threw two continents
into terror But see this brave quar-
termaster pushing out with the Life
line until he gets to the rock; M see
these fishermen gathering up the ship
wrecked, and taking them into the
cabins, and wrapping them in he tan
nels snug and warm; and see that min
lister Of the Gospel. with three other
men, getting into a EfcDoat. and push
ing out OF the wreck, pulling away
until they saved D more man, and
then getting back with him to the
shore. Can those men ever forget that
night? And can they ever forget their
companionship In struggle, compan-