The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-14

menlcal conference was the lesson of
 church unity. Bishops, missionaries, preachers and laymen of all Protestant denominations having missionary
 boards met on the same platform to arrange to work together on the same ground. The most significant address,
 es made and those receiving the most
 prolonged applause were the appeals
 for church cooperation and unity. The
 Outlook well says of this meeting: we
 doubt if any assembly of our time has
 done so much to ban the sectarian
 spirit, while conserving what we re-
 gard as wholesome In the denomina-
 tlonal variety of church life"
 The recent letter of Archbishop Ire
 land in which he declared Roman Catholics to win in evangelising the
 world must employ the English lan-
 guage, shows that the Ecumenical con-
 ference may have reached beyond
 Professionalism and that its influence
 may result in better methods and
 greater usefulness among our Catholic
 brethren. The greatest barrier church
 unity has to encounter Is that between
 Romanist and Protestant. But in our
 work for temperance reform, and the l evangeization of our cities, we leave
 out our most potent and helpful factor
 when we leave out the Roman Catho- | lie church. Without their hearty CO.,
 operation success will be impossible. We cannot advance the kingdom of Christ by persecution or ntolerant methods towards this great church. If we would win them from what we con- sder superstition, ignorance and error, if on1y 11a innn hv fNp love, by presenting them an example
 of united front among ourselves, by
 q charity which leads to larger self sacrifice and 0 sweeter and nobler suc- cess. Let us not forget that the noblest heroism in missionary enterprise has been given by the Roman church.
 The great steps towards unity have quietly progressed through great per sonalities, such as Beecher, Phillips Brooks, Henry Drummond, Dwight l.. Moody and Father Malone. When Bal | lington Booth desired ordination as a | minister, but did not wish to give a | denominational cast to his work, Bishop | Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal | church, assisted by elders of the Bap- | tist Congregational and Methodist ordained him minister of the church of God in general No per- sonality shows more distinctly the growth toward church unity than that of Maud Ballington Booth Recently she spoke by invitation of the rabbi in the Jewish Temple in New York city, and nothing could have been more eulo- gistlc than the rabbis introduction of this consecrated, Christian woman And the Jews gave her large offering for the prosecution of her Christian mis- sionary work. Last week she spoke in { Pueblo, Colorado. and was introduced by a Roman Catholic priest, who said here was not a citizen in the whole state who knew Mrs. Booth but that would consider 1t an honor to kiss the lem of her garment. AS a represen- ative of the great Catholic church." he 'aid, "I consider it an honor to intro- luce Mrs, Booth as one of the angels # humanity. It is time, as Protest I nts and Catholics, we stop throwing tones at one another and find that 'oint upon which we can stand and I york with each other as Christians, do- ng His work wherever we may find 1t = O do" Is this not significant? Can 'e not all unite around the personality ! I the Lord Jesus Christ? Let us pray - nat His prayer for us may be real sed, that We may be one in that high nd spiritual sense which the Father l heaven must desire for His children. I Ve may each do our part to hasten ! lis day by seeking the mind which was I Christ, and making our lives positive tolerance, charity and helpfulness.