The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-06-17

LEEANoALN ~ AtAANAA-< 49, -
snees before such an opportunity of
salvation and heavenly reunion? II
YOU. a Christian wife, are an attend
ant upon any church and your unoon-
verted husband does not 60 there be
cause be dos not Ike its preacher, or
its music, or its architecture. or its IN
comfortable c~rowding, and goes not 10
any house Of worship, but would goi II
you would accompany him somewhere
eise. change your church relations
Take your hymn book home with you
to-day. say good-by TO your friends IN
the ~neighb0ung Psws and go with him
70 ary one OF a hundred churches TILL
his soul is saved and he joins you in the
march to Heaven. More important
than that ring on the third finger Of
your left hand il is that your Heaven
IL Father command the angel Of mercy
concerning your husband at his con
version, as in the parable of old: Put
ring on bis hand"
No letter OF more importance ever
came TO the great city Of COrinih. atu-
ated on what was called the Bridge of
the Sea, and glistening with sculpture,
and gated with a style Of brass the mag
nihcence Of which the following ages
have not been able TO successfully imi-
tate. and oyershadowed by the Aero
Connthns, q fortress Of rock 1000 feet
high-I say no letter ever came 70 that
great city Of more importance than that
letter in which Paul puts the two
startling questions: What knowest
tbou. o wife, whether thou shalt save
| thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
o man, whether thou shalt save thy
wife," The dearest sacrifice on the
part Of the one is cheap If IL rescue the
other. Better go to the smallest, weak
est, most Insignificant church on earth
and be -copartners in eternal hii=s Kan
pass your earthly membership in most
p~orgeously attractive church while
your companion stays outside Of evan
geHcal privilege. Better have the
drowning saved by a seow or a sloop
than let him OF her 60 down while you
sail by in the gilded cabins Of a Majestic
or Campania.
Second remark: II both Of the mar
ried couple be Christians, but one is so
naturally constructed that it is impos-
sfble TO enjoy the services Of a particu-
lar denomination and the other is not
so sectarian or punctiious, let the n
less particular 90 with the other, who
is very particular. As for myself, l feel
as much at home in one denomination
Of evangelical Christians as another,
and / think / must have been born very
near the line. ] like the solemn roll Of
the Episcopal liturgy, and l like the
spontaneity of the Methodists, and l
like the Importance given 10 the ordi-
nance Of baptism by the Baptists, and
I like the freedom Of the Congrega-
tionalists, and / like the government
and the sublime doctrine Of the Presby.
t~erians, and ! like many of the Others
just as much as any / have mentioned
and / could happily live and preach and
die and be buried from any Of them
But others are born with a liking 10
stout, so unbending, so memorable fol
some denomination that IT is q positive
necessity they have the advantage o.
that one. What they were intended tC
, be IN ecelesiasticism was written in thu
sides Of their cradle, IL The father ant
mother had eyes keen enough 20 see II
They would not stop crying until the!
had put in their hands as a playthinl
q o Westminster catechism Of the Thirty
{ nine Articles. The whole current o
. their temperament and thought ant
character runs into one sect Of reli
= gioBists az naturally as the James rive
: into the Chesapeake. II would be
3 torture TO such persons to be anywber
. outside Of that one church.
. Now, let the wife or husband who 4
Z not 70 constructed sacrifice the milde
, preference for the one more inhexibl
y and rigorous. Let the grapevine folio
e the rugositieE and sinuosities Of the GA
y or hickory. Abram, the richer in focl
! Of Christian grace, should say TO 10
, who Is built on a smaller scale; IA
q there be no strife, 1 pray thee, betwee
- me and thee. and between my heroine
II and Thy herdmen. Is not the whole Ian
u before thee? As you can be edife
u sndhappy anywhere, go with your con
n panion TO the church 20 which he or 81
is must go or be miserable.
Remark the third: II both the ma
r ried couple are very strong in their sc
N tarianism. let them attend the differei
Of churches preferred. 1t is not necessai
II that you attend the came church. X
ligion is between your conscience al
your God. Like Abram and Lot, ayr
" 10 suffer. When on Sabbath morniI
e YOU come out of your home togeth
81 and n goes one way and the othert Il
rs other. heartily wish each other q go'
sermon and a time Of profitable dey
ton, and when you meet again at q
RS MONDAY repast let It be evident, each
ne each and TO your children and 10 q
10 hired help, that you have both been
the Mount of TRANSPORTATION, althoui
n YOU went up by different paths, a
an that you have both been fed by I
OF bread Of life, though kneaded by d
ferent hands in different trays Al
'eo baked in different ovens. But ht
gu about the children?" ] am often ask
by scores Of parents. Let them a
leI make their own choice. They "
grow up with reverence for both the
nominations represented by father a
mother II you by holy lives CONNIE
those denominations. II the father liz
the better life, they will have the me
he favorable opinion Of his denominati'
And some day both the parents "