The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-12-03

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gers is baptism, and another demands
the submergence of the entire body
This one prays with book, and that one
makes eXtemporaneous utterance. Ih'
J rector of one delivers his sermon in {
gown, while the backwoods preacher
of another sect addresses the people IL
his shirt sleeves. Some of your denoml
nations have the majestic dominant IL
the service and others spontanelty
Some Of you think that from all eternl
ty some were predestinated to be saved
and that from all eternity others were
doomed Now, it is the business OF
Young Men S 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.
Unity! Complete unity! Never was
any other army Oh earth so thoroughly
united under one flag and inspired by
/
er as is the church militant. Christ
commands all the troops Of all denomi-
nations Of Christians, and they are go.
ing to shout together i'll the final vic
tory when the whole world is redeemed.
But we have in all our denominations
got tired of trying to make other people
think as we do Oh all points. The here
w hT1ntpTc in oil tInnC
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 Oh.
We may not all agree as to the number
Of teeth in the jawbone with which
Samson slew the Philistines, or agItu
as to what was the exact color OF the
foxes which he set on fire to bum Up
the corn shocks, but Oh the vitals Of re-
ligion we all agree.
If we could call into one great con-
vention the 645, 566 Episcopalians, the
!, APO, 800 Lutherans, the l, AGO. BAG
Presbyterians, the 4, 1913, S57 Baptists,
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them the following questions, we would
get unanimous answer in the affirma-
tive: Do you believe in a 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 on millions, while there
would not be a 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 ia
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
eminent 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 sew
enth anniversary preach has had fo1
its owner and publisher one who i'll 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 berett of ev-
erything that foreign oppression could
rob him of. Naturally his son knows
right well how to appreciate liberty.
The most of us are descended from
those who imperiled all to gain their
and religious rights. Let the
type and the printing presses and the
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 on this seventh anniversary l
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, I'M
evangelism. 1t was 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 darkness and an abysm that no
plummet has ever yet been able to faith
Om, and through that funeral of the
heavens life is offered to our world, but
now to get the tidings to all people,
and in snch an ATTRACTIVE way that they
will take hold of them is the absorbing
question. The human voice can travel i
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