The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-25

where you get the most honey" That is
the best church which gets the most
honey of Christian grace for the heart
and the most honey of Christian useful
ness for The life.
Besides that. if you want to build up
any denomination, you will never build it
up by trying 10 pun some other down.
Intolerance never put anything down.
How much has intolerance accomplished.
for instance, against the Methodist
Church? For long years her ministry
We're forbidden The pulpits OF Great Brit
ain. Why was il that SO many Of them
preached an the helds2 Simply because
they could not get in the churches. And
the name Of The church was given in de
rision ard as a sarcasm. The critics of
tho church sasd They have no order;
they have no method in their wors hip,
and the critics. therefore, in irony, called
them 'Mothodists"
! am told that in Astor Library, New
York, kept as curiosiues, there are seven
hundred and seven books and pamphlets
against Metnodism. Did Intolerance stop
That chutch2 No; il IS either first or
second amid the denominations OF Christ
tendon, her missionary stations in al
parts of the world, her men not only i'm
portant in religious trusts, but important
also in secular trusts. Church marching
on and the more intolerance against at
the faster it marched
What did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist church, If laughing scorn
ana TRADE could have destroyed The church
ii would not have to-day a disciple left
The Baptists We're hurried out of Boston in
olden times Those who sympathized with
them were imprisoned and when petit
ton was offered asking leniency in their
behalf, al the men who signed It we've
indicted. Has Intolerance stopped the Bap-
ust Church? The last statistics in regard
30 &c showed 1900 churches and 100000
communicates Intolerance never out
down anything.
In ENGLAND a law was made against the
jew England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jow. and declared that
no jew should hold Official position. What
came Of Il? Were the Jews DESTROYED ?VVas
their religion overthrown? No Who be-
came Prime Minister of England? Who
was next 10 the throne? VINO was higher
than the throne because he was counsellor
ana adviser? Disraen a Jew. What were
we celebrating in all our churches as well
as synagogues only a few years ago? The
one hundredth birthday Of Mont ehore. the
great Jewish philanthroplst. Intolerance
never yet put down anything
But now. my friends. having shown YOU
the origin of bieotry or sectarfanisn. and
having shown you the damage il does. I
want briefly to show Won how we are IA
war against this terrible evil and I think
we ought to begin our war bv realizing
our own weakness and orr ironerfections
If we make so many mistakes in the com
mon affairs of life, is it not possible that
we may make mistakes in regard TO orr
religious affairs? Shall we take q man nv
the throat or by the collar because he can
not see religious truths Just as we do? In
the light of eternity it viii be found out I
think there was something wrong in all
our creeds and something RIGHT in All ON.
IL I,7rt
in regard to things of the world. do not lei
us be so egotistic aud so puffed IN as to
have an idea that we cannot make any
mistake in regard 10 religious theories Ana
then 1 think we viii do a great deal 10
overthrow the sectarianism from our heart
and the scctarianism from the world bv
chiefly enlareing I'm those things i'm which
we agree, rather than those on which we
differ.
Now. here is a great Gospel platform
A man comes IN on this side of the Dlat-
form and says: Il don't believe in baby
sprinkling." Shall I shove him off? Here
IS a man coming up on This side Of the
platform and he SAYS: Il don't believe in
the perseverance of the saints" Shall I
shove him off? No. | will say: do Won
believe in the Lord Jesus as your Saw
Jour? Do YOU trust him for time ana for
eterniiy?'' He says: Yes" Do YOU take
Christ for time and for eternity?" Yes
say, come on, brother, one in time
and one in eternity; brother now. brother
forever" Blessed he God for a GOSPEL
platform so large that an who receive
Christ may stand on It!
l think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bieotry in our hearts.and
in the church also. bv realizing that 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 Welded a
Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson: an
other yielded a Latimer and Melville: an
other yielded John Wesley and the blessed
Summarized, while our own denomination
yielded John Knox and the Alexanders-
men Of whom the world was not worthy.
Now, l say VI we are honest and fair
minded men when we come up in the pres
ence of such churches and such denomlna-
tons, although they may be different from
our own, we ought TO admire them. and
we ought to love and honor them. Church.
es which can produce such men, and such
large-hearted charity and such magnih-
cent martyTdom. ought to win our affec-