Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-10

sent the sovereignty OF Goa. anu the Ar
minian churches must present mans free
agency, and the Episcopal churches must
present the Importance OF order and solemn
ceremony, and the Baptist churches must
present the necessity Of ordinances, and
the responsibility Of the individual mem
Der, and the Methodist churches must show
what holy enthusiasm, hearty congrega-
donal singing can accomplish. While
each denomination OF Christians must set
forth all the doctrines OF the Bible, 1 feel
1t is especially incumbent upon each de-
nomination to put particular emphasis on
| some one doctrine.
Another great damage done by the seo-
tarianism and bigotry OF the church Is that
Il disgusts people with the Christian relig-
lon. Again bigotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they hinder
| the triumph OF the Gospel. Oh, how much
wasted ammunition! How many men of
splendid Intellect have given their whole
life to controversial disputes when, II they
had given their life to something practical,
they might have been vastly useful! Sup
pose. while speak. there were a common
enemy coming up the bay, and ali the forts
around the harbor began to fire into each
other-you would cry out National suicidei
Why don't those forts blaze away In one
direction, and that against the common
snemy?"
Besides that, II you want to build up any
denomination. you will never build 1t up
BY trying to pull some other down. Intoi-
erance never put anything down. How
much has intolerance accomplished, for In
stance, against the Methodist Church? For
long years her ministry were forbidden the
pulpits Of Great Britain. Why was It that
80 many Of them preached In the fields?
Simply because they could not get in the
churches. And the name of the church
was given In derision and as a 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."
I am told that in Astor Library, New
York, kept as curlosities there are seven
hundred and seven books and pamphlets
against Methodism. Did intolerance stop
that church, No; It is either first or second
amid the denominations OF Christendom,
her missionary stations In all parts OF the
world, her men not only important In re-
ligious trusts, but important also In secular
trusts. Church marching on and the more
Intolerance against 1t the faster 1t marched.
What did Intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist Church? II laughing scorn and
TRADE could have destroyed the church 1t
would not have to- day disciple left. The
Baptists were hurled out Of Boston In olden
times. Those who sympathized with them
were imprisoned, and when a petition was
offered asking leniency In their behalf, all
the men who signed 1t were indicted. Has
Intolerance stopped the Baptist church,
The last statistics in regard to 1t showed
forty-four thousand churches and four
million 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 position. What
came Of it2 We're the Jews destroyed
Was their religion overthrown2 No. Who
became Prime Minister OF England? Who
awk 60 tha no ht<vha
than the throne because he was counsellor
and adviserf Disraeli, Jew. What were
we celebrating In all our churches as well
as synagogues only few years ago2 The
one hundredth birthday of Montehore, the
great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance
hever yet 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
There is nothing that so stirs my soul as
this thought. One denomination yielded
. Robert Hall and an Adoniram
Judson: another yielded AS8fe and
q Melville; another yielded Jen1 Wesley
and the blessed summerfe;d, while our
own denomination yielded John Knox
| and the Alexanders-men of whom the
world was not worthy. Now, say. II We
are honest and fair-minded men, when We
come up In the presence OF such churches
may be different from our own. we ought
to admire them, and we ought to love and
honor them. Churches which can produce
such men, and such large hearted charity,
and such magnificent martyrdom, ought to
win our afection-at any rate. our respect.
Episcopalians In this country, and ye four
teen hundred thousand Presbyterians. and
ye four million Baptists, and ye five mill
lion Methodists-come on; shoulder to
| l. - g. A.
quest; for all nations are to be saved, and
God demands that you and I help. For
ward, the whole ltnei In the Young Mems
Christian Associations, In the Bible So
ciety, in the Tract Society, in the Foreign
Missionary Society, shoulder to shoulder
ell denominations.
Perhaps I might forcibly illustrate this
truth by calling your attention to an Incl
dent which took place twenty-five years
ago. One Monday morning at about two
O'Clock, while her nine hundred passen-
gers were sound asleep in her berths
dreaming OF home, the steamer Atlantic
crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred
souls In ten minutes landed In eternityi
Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and wo-
men running Up and down the gangways.
plunge OF the helpless steamer. and the
alapping of the hands OF the merciless sea
over the drowning and the dead, threw
two continents into terror. But see this
brave quartermaster pushing out with the
lifeline until he gets to the rock; and see
these fishermen gathering up the ship
wrecked and taking them into the cabins
and wrapping them in lannels snug and
warm; and see that minister OF the Gospel
with three other men getting into a
life-bost and pushing out for the
wreck, pulling away across the
surf, and pulling away until they had saved
one more man and then getting back with
him to the shore. Can those men ever for
get that night? And can they forget their
companionship In peril, cOmpanionship in
struggle, companionship In awful catas-
trophe and rescue? Neverl Neverl 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 ship
| wreck. Sin drove 1t on the rocks. The
old ship has lurched and tossed In the
tempests of six thousand years. Out with
| the lifeline! do not care what denomina-
tion rows 1t. Side by side, in the memory
OF common hnrdships, and common trials,
| AMI common prayers and common tears,
| lot US be brothers forever.
Dead brothers in Arms.
Two brothers, Mortimer and Emmett
Huffman, sons of d. e. Huffman, o; ln-