The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-08-04

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life to something practical they might
have been vastly usefull suppose,
while Z speak there were 8 common
enemy coming up the bay. aud ali tie
forts around the harbor began 70 ire
into each other You would cry out;
National snicidel Why don't those
forts blaze away ~ ~ direction and
that against the common enemy
Au8 vet I sometimes see 10 the church
Of the Lord Jesus Christ q strange
thing going on. Church against
church minister against minister,
denomination against denomination
firing away into their own fort or the
fort which ought to be on the same
side, instead Of concentrating their
energy and giving n mighty and
everlasting Y0iiey against the nayies
Of darkness riding up through the bayl
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin Of bigotry and sec
tariaHism, and having shown sou thu
damage It does, / want briefly 10 show
you how we are to war against this
terrible evil, and 1 thiuh we ought to
begin war by realizing a own
weakness and our imperfecti0us II
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don't believe In the perseverance Of the
saints. Shall shove him off? No. j
win say; do you believed in the Lord
Jesus as your SAVIOUR DO you trust
Him for time and for eterutty2' Yes.
do you take Christ for Time and for
cternity2' Yes" ! say Come on,
brother; one In time and n in
eternity; brother now brother for
ever Blessed be God for a Gospel
platform 50 large chat all who receive
Christ may stand on it!
/ think we may overthrow the severe
s"eetariauism and btgotry 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 a Robert Hall
and au Ad0niram Judson; another
yielded q Latimer and a Melville;
another yielded John Wesley and
the blessed ~Summerdeld, while oar
own denomination yielded John
Knox and the AleXanders-men Of
whom the world was not worthy
Now, l say, II 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 MI own, we ought to
admire them and we ought to love and
honor them Churches which an pro,
duce such men and sach large hearted
charity, and such magnificent martyr.
dom, ought to win II afGections-at
any rate, our respect. So eome on,
ye six hundred thousand Episcopalians
In thiseountry and We fourteen hundred
thousand Presbyterians and We four mill
ion Baptists, and ye five million Method
ists-come on shoulder to shoulder we
viii march 10 the worlds conquest; for