Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-30

all DQC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI SuIlSGlduo ud'
yielded noble institutions and noble
men. There is nothing that SO stirs my
soul as this thought. One denomination
yielded Robert Hall and an Adoniran
Judson; another yielded a Latimer and
Melville; another yielded John Yves
Icy and the blessed Summerfeld, 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 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, ye 900, 900 Episco.
palians in this country and ye 1, 400,
900 Presbyterians and ye 1000, 0OC
Baptists and We 8, 900, 900 Methodists-
come on; shoulder to shoulder we will
march for the worlds conquest, for al
nations are to be saved, and God de.
mands that you and I help. Forward,
the whole line In the Young Mems
Christian associations, in the Bible So
ciety, In the Tract society, in the For.
eign Missionary society, shoulder tc
shoulder, all denominations.
Brothers Forever.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention tc
an incident which took place 20 years
ago. One Monday morning at about
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
minutes landed in eternity. Oh, what
scenel Agonized men and women run
ming 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 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 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
companionship in peril, companionsniI
in struggle, companionship in awful
catastrophe and rescue? Neverl Never
In whatever part of the earth they meet
they will be friends when they mention
the story of that night when the At
lantic struck Mars head. Well, my
friends, our world has gone into worse
shipwreck. Sin drove 1t on the rocks.
The old ship has lurched and tossed In
the tempests of 1000 years. Out with
the life linel do not care what denom-
nation carries it. Out with the life
boatl do not care what denomination
rows it. Side by side, In the memory
of common hardships, and common
trials, and common prayers, and COM
mon 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 food,
And part are crossing now.
And expect to see the day when all
denominations Of Christians shall join
hands around the cross Of Christ and
recite the creed: II believe in God the
Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the
communion of saints, and in life ever
lasting Amen. !"