St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-08-27

that hive which gets tho most honey =
the best hivel' So come out be-
tween the churches Of the Lord Jesus
Christ. One denomination OF Chris
tinns says: ''That field of Christian
doctrine is the best, and another says:
sThis field Of Christian doctrine Is the
best" Well, / say: ''Go where you
get the most honey" That is the bcst
church which gets the most honey OF
Christian grace for the heart. and Ahe
most honey of Christian usefulness for
the life.
Besides that, il you want to build up
any denomination, you will never build
it up by trying to pull some other
down. How much has interference &C
complished, for instance, against the
Methodist church? For long years her
ministry were forbidden the pulpits OF
Great Britain. Why was it that SO
many of them preached in. the fields?
Simply because they could not get in
the churches. And the name of the
church was given in derision and as .
sarcasm. The critics of the church
said: They have no order. they have
no method in their Worship" and tho
critics. therefore, in irony, called them
"Methodists"
In England law was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the Jew
and thrust down the Jew, and declared
that no Jew should hold official posi-
ton. What came OF it? We're the Jews
destroyed? Was their religion over
thrown? No. Who became prime min-
lister of England? Who was next to
the throne? Who was higher than the
throne because he was counselor and
adviser? Disraeli, Jew. What were
we celebrating in all our churches as
we'll as synagogues only few years
ago? The one hundredth birthday of
Montefiore, the great Jewish phi
lanthropist. Intolerance never yet put
down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin OF bigotry and Sec
tarianism, and having shown you the
damage it does, want briefly to show
you how we are to war against this
terrible evil, and think we ought to
begin our war by realizing our own
weakness and our imperfections. If
we make so many Mistakes in the conn
mon affairs of life, is it not possible
that we may make mistakes in regard
to our religious affairs? Shall we take
man by the throat or by the collar
because he can not see religious
truths just rs we do? In the light
OF eternity 1T will be found out,
think, there was something wrong in
all our crecds, and something right in
all our creeds, but since we may make
mistakes in regard to things of the
world, do not let Us be 50 cgotistio and
so pulled up rs to have an idea that
we can not make any mistake in re-
gard to religious theories. And then l
think we will do great deal to over
throw the sectarianism from our heart,
and the sectarianism from the world,
by chiefly enlarging in those things in
which we agree, rather those on which
we differ.
Now. here is great Gospel platform.
A man comes up on this side of the
platform and says: Il don't believe in
baby sprin k ling" Shall I shove him
off2 Here Is man coming up on this
side Of the platform, and he says: II
don't believe in the perseverance Of the
saints" Shall shove him off No. /
will say: do you believed in the Lord
Jesus as your Saviour? Do you trust
Him for time ami for eternity?- YES"
do you take Christ for time and for
eternity?" Yes" 1 say: Come ON,
brother; one in time and one in
eternity; brother now. brother for
ever" Blessed be God for a Gospel
platform SO large that all who receive
Christ may stand ON it!
think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts,
and in the church also, by realizing
that all the denominations of Chris
tians have yielded noble institutions
and noble men. There is nothing that
so stirs my soul as this thought. One
denomination yielded q Robert Hall
and an Adoniram Judson; another
yielded a Latiuer and Melville;
another yielded John Wesley and
the blessed Summerield, while our
own denomination yielded John
Knox and the Acknowledgement of
whom the world was not worthy.
Now, say, If we are honest and fair
minded men, when we come up in the
presence of such churches and such de-
nominations, although they may be
different from our own, we ought to
admire them, and we ought to love and
honor them. Churches which can pro-
duce such men, and sach large-hcarted
charity, and such magnificent martyr
dom, ought to win our afections-at
any rate, our respect. So come on,
We six hundred thousand Episcopalians
in this country. and ye fourteen hundred
thousand Presbyterians and We four mill
ion Baptists, and We Eve million Method
ists-come on; shoulder to shoulder we
will march to the worlds conquest; for
all nations to be saved, and God de-
mands that you and help. Forward,
the whole line. In the Young Mems
Christian associations, in the Bible So
ciety, in the Tract society, in the mis-
sionary society, shoulder to shoulder,
all denominations.
Perhaps might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention to
an incident which took place Is years
ago. One Monday morning ut about
two o'clock, while her 9OV passengers
were sound asleep in her berths dream
ing of home, the steamer Atlantic
crashed into Mars head. Five hum
bred souls in ten minutes landed
in eternity! Oh! what = scene!
Agonlzed men and women running up
and down the gangways and clutching
for the rigging, and the plunge OF the
helpless steamer, and the clapping of
the hands of the merciless sea over the
drowning and the dead, threw two con-
tinents into terror. But see this brave
quartermaster pushing out with the
lifeline until he gets to the rock; and
see these fishermen gathering mp
the shipwrecked and taking them
into the cabins and wrapping
them in the fannels snug and
warm; and see. that minister of
the Gospel. with three other mcn. get
ting into n lifeboat and pushing ont