Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-07-27

great damage in the fact that they hin.
dor the triumph Of the Gospel oh.
how much wasted ammunition How
many men OF splendid intclice. have
yivcn their whole life TO controversial
disputes when. II they had given their
nie To something practical. they might
nave been vastly useful suppose.
while speak. there were a common
enemy coming up the bay. and ali tho
iorts around the harbor began firing
INTO each othcr--you would cry out:
National suicide, Why don't ,ho,c
iorts blaze away in one direction and
tnat against the common cncmVs"
And yet l sometimes scc ia tho
. church OF the Lord Jesus Christ a
strange thing going on; church against
church. minister against minister. de-
nomination against denomination.
firing away into their own fort. or the
Tort which ought 20 DC on the Same
side. instead OF concentrating their
energy and giving ono mighty and
cverlasting vollcy against the navlcs
oi darkness riding mp through the
bay.
l go out sometimes in the summer.
and l find two bcchivcS. and these
two hives are In quarrel. como
near enough not To bc stunr, but I
come Just near enough TO hear the
controversy, and one beehive savs.
That hcld OF clover Is the svcetes, :,
aud another beehive says. THAT field
OF clover Is the sweetest" I come In
between them aud say, "Stop this
qnarrcl II you like that field OF clover
best 20 there; II YOU like this Held
OF clover best go there; but let me
tell you that that hive which
gets the most honey Is the best hivci"
80 come out between the churches Of
the Lord Jesus Christ orc dcnomina.
ton OF Christians say, THAT field OF
Christian doctrine Is best. aud another
says. This field OF Christian doctrine
Is the best Wen. ! say. ''go whcro
you get the most honey That Is the
best church which gets the most honey
of Christian grace for The heart. aud
the most honey OF Christian useful.
ness FOR the life.
Besides that, II you want 10 build
up any denomination. you will never
build IL up by trying 10 pull anything
down. How much has intolerance ac.
complished. for instance against the
Methodist church? For long years her
ministry were forbidden the pulpits of
Great Britain. Why was IL that SO
many OF them preached In the tieldsg
simply because they could not get i'm
the churches Asd the name OF the
church was given In derision and as
n sarcasm. The critics OF the church
said; They have no order, they have
no method in their Worship" and the
critics. therefore. In irony called them
"Methodists."
j attn told that In Astor library, New
| York. kept as curiosities. there arc 7OT
books and pamphlets against Method.
ism Did intolerance stop that church,
No; IL Is either first or second amid the
denominations OF Christcndom. her
missionary stations ia all parts OF tho
world, her men not only important in
religious trusts, but important also In
secular trusts. Church marching on
and the more intolerance agninst 4,
the faster IL marched.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the BAPTIST church? n laugh
ing scorn and TRADE could have de.
stroyed the church IL would not hnvt
/ to-day q disciple left. The baptist.
were hurled out OF Boston In olden
/ times Those who sympathi2ed with
them were imprisoned and when pc
4 tition was offered asking lenicncy In
/ their behalf, all the men who signed Il
were indicted. Has intolerance stop
I ped the Bapti 50 church? The last stn.
tisticS in regard 10 II showed - ,OO1
churches. and 1000, 900 communicates
I lntolcrnnce never puts down anything
/ Ia England "A law was made against
I the dew. England thrust back the
jew and thrust down the Jew and dc
clared that no Jew should hold official
/ position. What came OF IL? We're the
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
overthrown2 No Who became prime
minister OF Englnnd? Who was next
% the throne2 Who was higher than
the throne. because he was counselor
and adviser? Disraeli. a jew Wha,
were we celebrating i'm all our
churches as well as synagogues only n
/ few years ago2 The one hundreth
J birthday OF Montaforc, the great Jew.
/ ISL philanthropist Intolerance never
/ yet put down anything.
/ But now. my friends, having shown
I YOU tee origin of bigotry or seetarian-
ism, and having shown you the dam.
I age 10 does, / want briefly TO show you
/ how we are 20 war against this terri.
BILE evil, and / think we ought TO be.
gin our war by realizing our own
weakness and our imperfections II
7 He make SO many mistakes in the com.
mon affairs ia life Is 80 not possible
that we may make mistakes ia regard
+ 10 our religious affairs? snail We
I take man by the throat or by the
collar because be can not see religious
I truths just ~ we do2 IN the ight
I Of eternity 10 viii be found out ]
/ ihink, there was something wrong ia
/ ail our creeds. and something right Ga
I all our crecds. but since we may make
mistakes in regard TO things Of the
/ world. do not let rs be so egotistic aud
50 pulled up as 20 have an idea that We
! can not make any mistake in regard
! 10 religious theories And then !
I think we will do "a great deal ~ over.
/ thrown the sectarianism from our
heart. and the sectarianism from the
world, by chiefly enlarging iu those
things IN which we agree. rather than
those on which we differ.
a GOOD Mexican cook relieves the
mistress Of the house Of worry and re-.
spOnsibihty in manner that Us nI-
most unknosen in the United st4tes
The cook is given so much a day. and
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