Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-29


the sUbmergence of the entire body.
This one prays with book, and that one
makes extern oraneous utterance. The
rector of one delivers his sermon in
gown while the backwoods preacher
Of another sect addresses the people in
his shirt sleeves. Some of your denomi-
nations have the majestic dominant III
the service and others spontaneity.
Some Of you think that from all eterni
ty some were predestinated to be saved,
and that from all eternity others were
doomed. - Now, it is the business OF
Young Men IS 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 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-fnal 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
sy hunters in 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 ccrn shocks, but Oh the vitals of re-
Lgion we all agree.
IF we could call into one great con
vention the 60, $50 Episcopalians, the
1920, sos Lutherans the 1,460, 346
Presbyterians, the 4, 1913, 857 Baptists,
the 5,653, $50 Methodists, putting unto
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 a 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 az aye, aye, ayel loud enough
to make the foundations of the earth
Il e ho
resound Let there be platforms, let
there he 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
eminent. Liberty Of Cuba as against
Spanish domination. Liberty of Hawaii
as against all monarchical authority
Political liberty. Religious liberty.
The religious journal on whose sew
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 ccnfscated, 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
these 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 Oh 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 S rescue.
Again on 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 I'M
qualified, unadulterated, unmixed, IN
mistakable evangelism. 1t was astound
ing that the Lord Almighty should
have gone into great bereavements, sub
uniting to the loss of his only Son, that
Son stepping off the doorsill of heaven
1o7 al hot
plummet has ever yet been able to faith
ON, and through that funeral of the
I heavens life is offered to our world, but
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