Connecticut western news., 1897-12-02

got tired of trying to make other people think as we do on all points. The here sy hunters ill all denominations are nearly all dead, thank God, and we are learning that when men get wrong in their faith instead of martyrizing them by arraignment we do better to wait for the natural roll of years to remove them. Men die, but the truth lives on. We may not all agree as to the number of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines, or agree as to what was the exact color of the foxes which he set on fire to burn up the corn shocks, but on the vitals of re- lgion we all agree.
 If we could call into one great con- vention the 645, 566 Episcopalians, the l,420, 905 Lutherans, the 1,46O, 346 Presby terians, the I, ,158, S57 Baptists, the 5,653, 2S9 Methodists, putting unto them the following questions, we would get unanimous answer in the affirlna- tive: Do you believe ill a God, good, holy, just, omnipotent? Do you believe ill Jesus Christ as Saviour? Do you believe i'll the convicting, converting and sanctifying power of tho Holy Ghost? Do you believe that the gospel is going to conquer all nations? If you should put these questions to those assem- bled millions on millions, while there would not be solitary negative, there would be an aye, aye, aye! loud enough to make the foundations of the earth tremble and the arches of the heavens resound. Let there be platforms, let there be great occasions, let there be undenominational printing presses to thunder forth the unity of all Christen- dom One Lord. One faith. One bap- tism. One God and Father. One Jesus Christ One cross. One heaven.
 Liberty Against All Oppression.
 So also there is room for religious journal that stands for liberty as against all oppression. No authority, political or ecclesiastic, must be per mitted to make us believe this or that. Liberty of the Armenian to worship God independent of the Turkish gov ernment. Liberty of Cuba as against Spanish domination. Liberty of Hawaii as against all monarchical authority which it has thrown off. Civil liberty. Political liberty. Religious liberty.
 The religious journal on whose sev enth anniversary preach has had for it's owner and publisher one who in his ancestry experienced just the opposite. His father, an exile from his native land because of his opinions, his prop erty confiscated, his life imperiled, landed on American soil bereft of ev- erything that foreign oppression could rob him of. Naturally his son knows right we'll how to appreciate liberty. The most of us are descended from those who imperiled all to gain their natural and religious rights. Let the type and the printing presses and the editorial chairs be overthrown which dare to surrender to any attempt again to put on the shackles. The movement has started for the demolition of all the tyrannies of church and state. Reli- gious newspapers must stand shoulder to shoulder in this mighty march for God and the worlds rescue.
 Again on this seventh anniversary say there is room for religious paper charged with old fashioned evangelism. Other styles of religious newspaper may do for advertising purposes, or for the presentation of able essays on elab- crate themes, but if this world is ever brought to God it will be through un- qualified, unadulterated, unmixed, un- mistakable evangelism. It was astound- ing that the Lord Almighty should have gone into great bereavements, sub mitting to the loss of his only Son, that Son stepping off the doorsill of heaven into a darkness and an abysm that no plummet has ever yet been able to fath- om, and through that funeral of the heavens life is offered to our world, but how to get the tidings to all people, and in such an attractive way that they will take hold of them is the absor bing question. The human voice can travel only few feet away, and the world wants something further and wider reaching, and that is the newspaper press, and as the secular press must necessarily give itself chiefly to secular affairs let the religious newspaper give itself to the present and everlasting sal vation of all who can read, or, if not able to read, have ears to hear others l read. If there be an opportunity higher, deeper. grander, than that offered to newspaper evangelism, name it and guide us to it, that we may see it's all tars, its pillars, it's domes, its infinitude. The Tender Christian Heart.
 Again, on this seventh anniversary of The Christian Herald I notice there is room for religious paper thoroughly humanitarian. The simple fact is the majority of the human race have not enough to eat or wear. The ma jority of the human race are in trou
 ble. How to multiply loaves of bread and increase the fuel and heal tn, wounds and shelter the homeless ar, | questions that Christ met equally a.
 soon as he did spiritual necessities. Tn, first heart to respond to the cry of sui | ferers from drought or flood or earth | quake or cruelty should be the Christian heart. Therefore let the pages of reli I gious journalism spread out the story O
 all such woes and collect relief and dis
 purse aims all around our suffering
 world Religious journalism ought t,
 become the aqueduct through which tn, | Christian charities of the world should pour until there is no more hunger t.
 be fed and no more ignorance to be edu 1 cated and no more nakedness to b.
 clothed and no more suffering to as
 suage. In trying to do that praotica
 thing the religious paper whose ami
 versary celebrate has during the pas
 seven years raised and distributed oye
 $400, ,000 for the relief of physical dis 1 tresses.
 | Again. on this seventh anniversary o
 religious publication I notice tha
 there is an especial mission for reli l gious journal truthfully optimistio Tn
 most optimistic book I know of is tn
 Bible, and its most impressive author
 were all optimists-David an optimist
 Paul an optimist, St. John an optimist
 our blessed Lord an optimist. canno 1 look upon desert but I am by the ol,