Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-25

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reach the limit, the man shuts himself oul
| and dies, q blind mole under q corn-shock
While each denomination of Christiani
Is to present all the truths Of the Bible, II
seem to me that God has given to each de.
nomination an especial mission to give
particular emphasis to some one doctrine,
and SO the Calvinistic churches must pre-.
sent the sovereignty OF God, and 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 Congregational churches must present
the responsibility of the individual mem.
Der, and the Methodist churches must show
what holy enthusiasm, hearty .congrega.
ttonal singing can accomplish. While
| each denomination OF Christians must set
forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel
1t is especially incumbent upon each de-
nomination to put particular emphasis on
some one doctrine.
Another great damage done by the Sec
tarianism and bigotry OF the church is that
| 1t disgusts people With the Christian relig-
| ion. 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 I speak, there were a common
enemy coming up the bay, and all 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
enemy2"
Besides that, If you want to build up any
denomination, you will never build It up
by trying to pull some other down. Intol.
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
SO many Of them preached in the feldsi
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, IL
irony, called them "Methodists.''
|, I am told that in Astor Library, New
York, kept as curiosities there are seven
| hundred and seven books and pamphlets
against Methodism. Did intolerance stop
that church? No; 1t is either first or second
amid the denominations of Christendom,
her missionary stations In oil 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 it the faster it marched.
What did intolerance accomplish against
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TRADE could have destroyed the church II
would not have to-day disciple left. The
Baptists were hurled out of Boston in Older
times. Those who sympathized with them
| were imprisoned, and when u petition was
offered asking leniency in their behalf, all
the men who signed 1t were indicted. Has
intolerance stopped the Baptist Churchi
| The last statistics in regard to 1t showed
| forty-four thousand churches and four
million communicates. Intolerance never
| put down anything.
In England a law was made against the
Jew. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jew. and declared that nc
| Jew should hold official position. What
came of it9 Were the Jews destroyedl
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 oil our churches as well
as synagogues only few years ago? The
one hundredth birthday OF Monteiore, the
great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance
never yet put down anything.
I 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.
this thought. One denomination yielded
Robert Hall and an Adoniram
Judson; another yielded a Latimer and
Melville; another yielded John Wesley
and the blessed Summerfeld, while ouI
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
and such denominations, although they
may be different from our own, we ought
| to admire them, and we ought to love and
| - VIC MI od,vo
such men, and such large hearted charity.
and such magnificent martyrdom, ought to
| win our affection-at any rate, our respect,
So come on, ye six hundred thousand
Episcopalians In this country and ye four.
teen hundred thousand Presbyterians, and
We four million Baptists, and ye FIVE mil.
lion Methodists-come on; shoulder to
| shoulder we will march for.the worlds con.
| quest; for all nations are to be saved, and
God demands that you and I help. For.
ward, the whole linel 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 l 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.
and clutching for the rigging, and the
plunge Of the helpless steamer, and the
slapping of the hands Of the merciless sea
over the drowning tand the dead, threw
two continents into terror. But see this
brave quarrermaster 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 a
life-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 that night9 And can they forget their
companionship in peril. companionship in
struggle, companionship in awful catas.
trophe and rescue2 Neverl Never! In
whatever part of the earth they meet, they
will be friends when they mention the
story of that night when the Atlantic
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