Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-25

not see religious truths just as we do?
La the light of eternity it will be found
out, l think, there was something
wrong in all our creeds, 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 so egotis-
tic and SO pulled up as to have an idea
that we cannot make any mistake in re-
gard to religious theories And then
think we will do a great deal to over
throw the sectarianiGm from our heart,
and the sectarianism from the world,
by chiefly charging in those things in
which we agree rather than those on
which we differ.
Move Into Line.
Now, here is a greater gospel plat
form. A man comes up on this side Of
the platform and says, 81 don't believe
in baby sprinkling. Shall shove him
off? Here is a man coming up on this
side of the platform, and he says, 81
don t believe in the perseverance of the
saints. Shall I shove him off? No. I
will say: "Do you believe in the Lord
Jesus as your Saviour? Do. you trust
him for time and for eternity?" He
says, eyes ''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
forever" Blessed be God for gospel
platform SO large that all who receive
Christ may stand OH it
L think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts
IL, 4. l.
all the denominations of Christians have
yielded noble institutions and noble
men. There is nothing that so stirs my
soul as this thought. One denomination
yielded Robert Hall and an Adoniram
Judson; another yielded Latimer and
a Melville; another yielded John Wes-
ley and the blessed Summerfield, while
our own denomination yielded John
Knox and the Acknowledgement of
whom the world was not worthy Now,
I say, if we are honest and fair minded
men, when we come up in the presence
of such churches and such denomina-
tions, although they may be different
from our own, we ought to admire
them, and we ought to love and honor
them. Churches which can produce such
men and such large hearted charity and
such magnificent martyrdom ought to
win our atfection-at any rate, our re-
spect. So come on, We 600, 900 Episco-
palians in this country and We l, AGO.
600 Presbyterians and We 1000, 900
Baptists and yea, 5000, 900 Methodist
come on; shoulder to shoulder we will
march for the worlds conquest, for all
nations are to be saved, and God de-
mands that you and L help. Forward,
the whole line! l. In the Young Mems
Christian associations, in the Bible So
ciety, in the Tract society, in the For
eign Missionary society, shoulder to
all denominations.
Brothers Forever.
Perhaps might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention to
an incident which took place % years
ago. One Monday morning at about 2
o'clock, while her 900 passengers were
sound asleep in her berths dreaming of
home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into
Mars head. Five hundred souls in ten
landed in eternity. Oh, what
a scene! Agonized men and women run
ming up and down the gangways and
plunge of the helpless steamer and the
of the hands of the merciless
sea over the drowning and the dead
threw two continents into terror. But
see this brave quartermaster pushing
out with the life line until he gets to
the rock, and see these fishermen gath
ering up 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 men getting into a lifeboat
and pushing out for the wreck, pulling
away across the surf and pulling away
until they saved one more man and
then getting back with him to the
shore. Can those men ever forget that
night? And can they ever forget their
in peril, ompanionship
in struggle, companionship in awful
and rescue? Never! Never!
In whatever part of the earth they meet
they will be friends when they mention
the story Of that night when the At
antic struck Mars head. Well, my
friends, our world has gone into worse
Sin drove it on the rocks.
The old ship has lurched and tossed in
The tempests of 5000 years. Out with
,he life line! do not care what denom-
nation carries it. Out with the life
BOAT! do not care what denomination
lows it. Side by side, in the memory
If common hardships, and common
;rials, and common prayers, and COM
non tears, let us be brothers forever.
We must be
One army Of The living God.
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
And expect to see the day when all
of Christians shall join
lands around the cross of Christ and
oo;to tho croad. SGT believe in God the