The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-07-29

children preach the Gospel in these
very denominations. But II is often the
case that bigotry starts in a household,
and that the subject OF 1t never recov-
ers. There are tens OF thousands of
bigots ten years old.
l think sectarianism and bigotry also
rise from too great prominence Of any
one denomination in a community. All
the other denominations are wrong,
and his denomination is right because
his denomination is the most wealthy,
or the most popular, or the most iniu-
entail, and it is "our" church, and |
"our" religious organization, and "our"
choir, and "our" minister; and the |
man losses his head, and wants other |
| denominations to know their places. 1t |
| is great deal better in any community
when the great denominations of Chris
tians are about equal in power, march
ing side by side for the worlds con-
quest. Mere outside prosperity, mere
worldly power is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God. Better a
barn with Christ in the manger than a
cathedral with magnificent harmonies
| lHIOusn luG lOIS NASNS'
and an angel from heaven in the pulpt.
II there be no Christ in the chancel, and
no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often the child OF ignor-
ance. You seldom find man with
large intellect who is a bigot. 1t Is
the man who thinks he knows great
deal, but does not. That man is almost
always a bigot. The whole tendency
of education and civilization Is TO
bring a man out of that kind OF state OF
mind and heart. There was In the far
East great obelisk, and one side OF
the obeisk was white another side OF
The obelisk was green, another size
of the obelisk was blue, and travellers
went and looked at that obelisk, but
they did not walk around It, One mar
looked at one side, another at announcer
side, and they came home each one
looking at only one side; and they hap
, pened to meet. the story says. and they
2 got into a rank quarrel about the color
, of that obelisk. One man said 1t was
= white, another man said it was green,
2 another man said il was blue, and when
g they were in the very heat OF the con-
e troversy. a more intelligent traveller
4 came. and said, Gentlemen, l have
= seen that obelisk and you are all right,
@ and you are all wrong. Why didn't
= you all walk around the obelisk?'
i Look out for the man who sees only
@ one eide of religious truth. LOOK
l. out for the man who never walks
q around about these great theories oil
) God and eternity and the dead. He
It will be a bigot inevitably-the man
: who only sees one side. There Is NJ
$ man more to be pitied than he who has
l. in his head just one idea-no more
! no less. More light, less sectarianism
n There is nothing that will so soon Kill
= bigotry as sunshine-God's sunshine.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin of bigotry or sectarian
=. ism, and having shown you the damage
Re 1t does, want briefly to show you
ID how we are to war against this terribl
N evil, and think we ought to begin on
n war by realizing our own weakness
u and our imperfections. II we make s.
"A many mistakes in the common affair
n of life. Is it not possible that we ma,
,e make mistakes in regard to our re
ne ligious affairs? Shall We take a ma
70 by the throat or by the collar becaus
he cannot see religious truths just a
~ we do? In the light OF eternity 1t Wi
n be found out, think, there was some
70 thing wrong in all our creeds, an
~ something right in all our creeds, bu
he since we may make mistakes in regar
he to things OF the world, do not let u
as be so egotistic and so pulled up as
10 have an idea that we cannot make an
nv mistake in regard to religious theorie
nd And then | think we will do a great dei
M to overthrow the sectarianlsm from OF
-ly heart, and the sectarianism from tn
nj world. by chiefly enlarging in thos
oh things in which we agree, rather tina
those on which we differ.
,se Now. here Is a great Gospel pla
nd form. A man comes up on this side
nd the platform and says: II don't b.
fer leve in baby sprinkling." Shall
ms shove him off? Here is man ccmir
,ed up on this side Of the platform, and
the SAYS: 'T don't believe in the perseve
I a ance of the saints" Shall l shove hi
the off? No. l will say: do you belize
the in the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? 1
m you trust him for time and for etern
IN tyr" He says: YES" do you tai
ing Christ for time and for eternity
ich yes" / say, Come on. brother; oil
Let in time and one in eternity; broth
ian now, brother forever" Blessed be G.
,rd for a Gospel platform so large that
ne who receive Christ may stand on 1t!
ex- think we may overthrow the 6
nal we're sectarianism and bigotry In
"a hearts, and in the church also, by
od- alizing that all the denominations
Christians have yielded noble instit
= q tions and noble men. There Is nothi
bis that so stirs my soul as this though
ker One denomination yielded a Robe
an, Hall and an Adoniram Judson; anot
Of er yielded Latimer and a MelVill