Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-12-04

ty some were predestinated to be saved,
and that from all eternity others were
doomed. Now, it is the business OF
Young Mems Christian associations and
! tract societies and Sunday school unions
and pronounced undenominational jour-
nails to show the falsity of the charge
that we are fighting among ourselves by
gathering all Christian denominations
on one platform or launching the unit
ed sentiment of all Christendom from
one style of religious printing press.
Unityl Complete unity Never was
any other army on earth SO thoroughly
united under one flag and inspired by
one sentiment and led by one command
er as is the church militant. Christ
commands all the troops of all denomi-
nations of Christians, and they are 60
ing to shout together in the final VIC
tory when the whole world is redeemed.
Butwe have in all our denominations
got tired of trying to make other people
think as we do on all points. The here
sy hunters in nil denominations are
nearly all dead, thank God and we are
learning that when men get wrong i'll
( 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 III the jawbone with which
Samson slew the Philistines, or agree
as to what was the exact color OF the
! foxes which he set OH fire to burn up
the corn Shocks but on the yitals Of re-
ligion We all agree.
If VIC could call into ono great con-
vention the G45, 5GG Episcopalians, the
1, 42O, 905 Lutherans, the /, AGO, 346
Presbyterians, the Abb, S57 Baptists,
the 1858, $50 Mcthodists, putting unto
them the following questions, we would
get unanimous answer III the afflrma-
tive: Do you believe in God, good,
holy, just, omnipotent? Do you believe
in Jesus Christ as Saviour? Do you
believe in the convicting, converting
and sanctifying power of the 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 OH millions, while there
would not be a solitary negative, there
would be an aye, aye, ayel loud enough
f, 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 Christcn-
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 u religious
journal that stands for liberty as
against all oppression No authority,
political OF ecclesiastic, must be per-
nlittcd to make us believe this or that.
Liberty Of the Armenian to worship
God independent of the Turkish gov
ernmel Liberty of Cuba as against
Spanish domination. Liberty of Hawaii
us against all monarchical authority
which it has thrown off. Civil liberty.
Political liberty. Religious liberty.
The religious journal on whose sew
enth anniversary 1 preach has had for
its 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 confscated, 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 world rescue
Again OH this seventh anniversary I
say there is room for a 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 IN
qualified, unauthorized, unmixed, un-
mistakable evangelism. Itwas astound-
ing that the Lord Almighty should
have gone into great bereavements, sub
hitting 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 faith
ON, 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 absorbing
question. The human voice can travel
only q few feet away, and the world
wants something further and wider
reaching, and that is the newspaper
press, and rs the secular press must
necessarily give itself chiefly to secular
| affairs lel the religious ueWspdPel E1No
itself to the present and everlasting sal
walton Of ali who can read, or, if not
able to read, have ears to hear others
read. If there be all opportunity higher,
deeper, grander, than that offered to
newspaper evangelism, name it and
guide Us to it, that we may see its al
tars, its pillars, its donies, its in1initude.
The Tender Christian Hort.
Again, Gil this seventh annive- sary Of
The Christian Herald l notice there Is
room fcr religious paper thoroughly
humanitarian. The simple fact is the
ma criry of the human race have not
enough 10 eat CT wear. Inc ma
jority Of the human race are in trou.
bic. Tow to multiply leaves Of bread
al. increase the fuel and heal the