The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-12-02


your religion. agree. gentlemen. as ts
what the Christian religion really is
This denomination says a few drops OF
water dripping from the end of the IN
gers IL baptism. and another demand,
the submergence OF the entire body
This one prays with book. and that one
makes extemporaneous utterance. Tn,
rector OF one delivers his sermon In o
gown. while the backwoods preacher o
another sect addresses his people In hi,
shirt sleeves. Some OF your denomina
tions have the majestic dominant IL
the service and other spontaneity
Some Of you think that from all eter.
nifty some were predestinated to b.,
saved and that from all eternit,
others were doomed" Now. IL II
the business Of Young Mems Christian
associations and tract societies arc
Sunday school unions and pronounced
undenominational journals to show
the falsity OF the charge that we ar,
lighting among ourselves by gathering
all Christian denominations on one
platform or launching the united senti.
ment Of all Christendom from one style
OF religious printing press.
DO you believe In a God. good. holy
Just, omnipotent? DO you believe In
Jesus Christ as Saviour? Do you be
lieve In the convictIng, converting
and sanctifying power OF the Holy
Ghost? DO you believe hat the gos.
pei Is going to conquer all nations? II
you should put these questions to those
assembled 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 plat.
forms, let there be great occasions. lei
there be undenominatIonal printing
presses to thunder forth the unity OF
all Chrlstendom. One Lord. One faith
One baptism. One God and Father.
One Jesus Christ. One cross. One
heaven.
So also there Ia room for a religious
Journal that stands for liberty as
against all oppression. No authority
political or ecclesiastlc. 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 az against
Spanish domination. Liberty OF Ha.
wall as against all monarchlal author.
ity which IL has thrown on. Civil lib
erty. Political liberty. Religious lib
erty.
The religious journal on whose sew
enth anniversary preach has had for
Its owner and publisher one who in
his ancestry experienced just the oppo-
site. His father, an exile from his ma
tive land because of his opinions. his
property coniscated, his life imperiled.
landed on American soil bereft 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
natural and religious rights. Let the
type and the printing presses and the
editoria! chairs be overthrown which
dare to surrender to any attempt again
to put on the shackles. The move
ment has started for the demolition OF
all the tyrannies of church and state.
Religious newspapers must stand
shoulder to shoulder in this mighty
march for God and the worlds rescue,
Again, on this seventh anniversary
of a religious publication I notice that
there Is an especial mission for a re-
igious journal truthfully optimistic. .
The most optimistic book know OF is
he Bible, and its most impressive au-
.hors were all optimists. David an
optimist. Paul an opumist. st. John
IN optimist. Our blessed Lord an op-
imist. I cannot look upon a desert
'ut | am by the old book reminded
hat 1t will blossom like as the rose"
cannot in menagerie look upon a
ion and a leopard but I am reminded
1880 - AAeNAc NAlAu sudIl ltdu them.
cannot see collection OF gems in a
eweler's window without thinking OF
leaven aiash and ablaze and incarna-
lined and empurpled with all manner
II precious stones. I cannot hear a
rumpet but think Of that one which
hall wake the dead. All the ages of
ime. bounded en- one side by the par
disc in which Adam and Eve walked
nd on the other side by the paradise
which st. John saw in apocalyptic Wis.,
on.
Pray for the religious newspapers OF
america that they may resist the temp
alton to become acerb. harsh and
amnatory of those who think differ
ntly from themselves. In all denomi-
ations there are disappointed people
rho put mean things in religious news
apers about ministers and other
rominent Christian workers. Unsuc-
essful men and women never like sue
essful men and women. There are
ditors and reporters who. instead OF
'riting with ink. dip their pens In oil
vitriol or lampblack. When relig-
'us newspaper does lie. 1t beats all