The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-08-04

books and pamphls1s asainst Asth.'-
dism. Did intolerance stop that church!
No. II y either hrst or second among
the dsnomin6tlo6s Of Christsndom. bet
misslohary ssAasons ia ail psrss OF the
Vorld. her Snen nos oaiy imOostant II
religious trust2 boa Important also In
secular trusts. Church marching "a.
aud the more intolerance against Il the
faster II marched.
What. did intolerancs accomplish
against the Baptist church! II laugh
Ing scorn and TRADE could have de-
stroyed the church. II would not have
to-day q disciple left. The Baptists
were hurled out Of Boston. In olden
times. Those who sympathised with
them were Imprisoned. and when q pc
titlon was offered asking leniency In
their behalf all the men who signed II
were indicted. Has Intolerance stop
ped the Baptist church? The last sta
tistics In regard to Il showtd A.o0o
churches and 100000 communicates.
Intolerance never put down anything.
In England law was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the Jew
and thrust down the Jew and declared
that no Jew should hold official posi-
ton. What came OF Il? Were the
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
overthrown? No. Who became prime
minister Of England? Who was next
to the throne? Who was higher than
the throne, because he was counsellor
and adviser? Disraeli, Jew. What
were we celebrating in all our churches
as well as synagogues only a few years
ago? The one hundredth birthday Of
Montefore. the great Jewish philan-
thropist. Intolerance never put down
anything.
think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts
and In the church also by realizing that
all the denominations Of Christians have
yielded noble institutions and noble
men. There Is nothing that 30 stirs
my soul as this thought. One denomin-
alton yielded a Robert Hall. and an
Adonlram Judson: another yielded a
Lattimer and Melville; another yield
ed John Wesley and the blessed Sum-
merfield, while our own denomination
yielded John Knox and the Alexanders
--men OF whom the world was not wor-
thy. Now say II we were honest. and
fair minded men, when We come up In
the presence Of such churches and such
! denominations, although they may be
different from our own, we ought to
admire them and we ought to love and
honor them. Churches which can pro-
duce such men. and such large hearted
charity, and sucn magnificent martyr
dom ought to win our affection--at any
Episcopalians in this country, and ye
/ 1,4OO, 900 Presbyterians, and we 100000
Baptists. and ye 100000 Methodists.
4 come on. Shoulder to shoulder. We will
march for the wcrlts conquest, for all
nations are to be saved, and God de-
mands that you and l help. Forward
the whole line! In the Young Mems
Christian Associations, in the Bible So
lciety, in the tract society, in the For
eign Missionary Society, shoulder TO
shoulder all denominations.
Perhaps l might forcioly illustrate
this truth by calling your attention 20
an incident which toox place rs years
ago. One Monday morning at about 2
o'clock, while her nine hundred passen-
gers were sound asleep in her berths,
dreaming Of home, the steamer Allan
tic crashed into Mars Head. Five hun
dred souls in ten minutes landed IN
eternity! oh what a scene! Agonzed
men and women running 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 in
10 terror. But see this brave quarter
master pushing out with the life line
until he gets to the rock. and see these
fishermen gathering up the shipwrecked
and taking them into the cabins and
warm, and see that minister of the
gospel. with three other men, getting
into life boat and pushing out to 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,
companionship in struggle. companion
ship in awful catastrophe and rescue? ?
Never! Never! In whatever part Of
the earth they meet, they will be
friends when they mention the story OF
that night when the Atlantic struck
Mars Head. Well, my friends. our
world has gone into a worse shipwreck.
Sin drove 1t on the rocks The old ship
has lurched and tossed in the tempests
of six thousand years. Out with the
life line. do not care what denomina-
tion carries 1t. Out with the life boat.
do not care what denomination rows
II. Side by side in the memory OF COM
mon hardships, and common trials. and
common prayers and common tears. let
hs be brothers forever. We must be