Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05

each dennmiuAti - % Cnfi-tiau, must .-t
forth all the doctrines Of the EiUI-. feel
u j. especially ineumbelt upon each de-
uUmiuatiuntO put particular emphasis on
some one doctrine.
Another great damage done by the sec
tarauism and bigolry % the church j. that
II li-gusts people with the Christian r-lig-
ion. Again bicotry and sertarilsisn 10
great damage Ia the fact that they hinder
the triumph Of the Gospel. Oh. how much
wasted ammunition How many men OF
splendid intslleet have given their whole
life 20 controversial disputes when. il 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, aud all the forts
around the har5Or began to mr.. into each
Othrr-you would cry out National suicide!
Why don't those forts blaze away In one
direction, and that against the common
enemy"
Besides that, IL you want to build ~ any
denomination, you will never build IL up
by trying TO pull some other down. lntol-
erauce never put anything down. How
much has intolerance accomplished for In
stance, against the Methodist Church? For
long wears her ministry were forbidden the
pulpits Of Great Britain. Why was Il thai
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 hay.
No order, they have no method in their
Worship" and the critics. therefore, in
irony called them "Methodists."
| am told that in Aston Library New
York. Kept a. curiOsities there are seven
hundred and seven books and pamphlets
against Methodism. Did Intolerance stop
that church; No; it is either flrst 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 alsoi ia secular
trusts. Church marching on and the more
Intolerance against IL the faster il marched
What did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist Church! II laughing scuru and
TRADE could have destroyed the church it
would not have to-day disciple left. The
Baptists were hurled out OF Boston In Olden
times. Those who sympathlZed with them
We're imprisoned, and when Il petition was
offered asking lenieucy in their behalf. all
the men who signed it were indicted. Has
Intolerance stopped the Baptist Church,
The last statistics in regard to 1t showed
tOrty-iOur 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 it? We're the Jews DESTROYED!
Was their religion Overthrown? No Who
became Prime Minister OF England? Who
was next to the throue2 Who was higher
than the throne because he was counsellor
and adviser? Disraeli a Jew. What were
We celebrating in all our churches as well
as synagoGues only few years ago? The
one hundredth birthday of Montetore. the
great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance
never yet put down anything.
| think we may overthrow the severe
sectarlanism 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 so stirs my soul as
this thought. One denomination yielded
Robert Hall and an Adonram
Judson another yielded Latimer and
II Melville; another yielded John Wesley
and the blessed Summcrfeld, while our
own denomination yielded John Knox
and the AleNauders-men Of whom the
world was not worthy. Now. | say, If We
nre 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 produce
such men, and such large hearted charity
and such magnificent maTtyriOm. ought to
win our utIectiOn-at any rate, our respect
SO come on. We six hundred thousand
EpisrOpalians in this country and We four
teen hundred thousand Presbyterians, aud
We four million Baptists. and Y" five mill
lion MethOdists ZONE on: shoulder to
shoulder we will march forthe worlds con-
quest; for all nations are to be saved and
God demands that YOU and | help. For
ward, the whole line. In the Young Mems
Christian Associations, in the Bible So
ciety, in the Tract Society, in the Foreign
Missionary Society, shoulder to shoulder
all denominations.
Perhaps | might forcibIy 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 eternity!
Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and w0-
men running up and down the gangways,
and clutchinS for the rigging and the
plunge Of the helpless steamer, and the
slappinS Of the hands OF the merciess sea
over the drowning and the dead, threw
two continents into terror. But see this
| brave quarIermaster 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 flannels snug and
warm; and see that minister of the Gospel
| with three other men getting into
| liie-boat 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 TINT night; And can they forget their
companionship in peril, panionship in
! struggle, companionship in awful catas-
! trophe and rescue? Never! Never In
| whatever part of the earth they meet, they
will be friends when they mention the
| story OF thar night when the Atlantic
| struck Mars Head. Well my friends,
our world has gone into "a worse ship
| wreck. Sin drove it 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-
| ton rows ii. Side by side, in the memory
| of common hardships, and common trials,
and common prayers and common tears,
! let Us be brother, forever.
Third Time Meant Business.
Lynn, Mass, Aug. 1.-Patrick Joyce
was shot by Reserve Police Officer Barry