The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-05-03

and definite and in which good doctrine
has recognized place, There is not time
for men to preach or for men to heal
much more than the simple gospel OF
| Jesus Christ, Interpreted and applied tc
4 life If we are preaching and hearing
this common message in its simplicity
the great texts of Gods Word used the
great fundamental truths of our reli-
gion emphasized, we shall be getting to-
gether
LET US JOIN HANDS IN EVERY
GOOD WORK.
And then every opportunity for COM
mon work in the name of religion ought
to be welcomed and used in an unset
| fish way. We ought to make common
cause against such an evil as intemper-
ance, restraining what we cannot de-
stroy; against municipal and legisla-
tive corruption which disgraces Con-
necticut and most states. If only we
could work together, there would be less
trading and scheming against the pub
lie good in our city halls and state cap
| itols. We ought with a well-detined
policy to make an end of shameless di-
| voree laws and the light regard of mar
| riage, which are destroying our family
! life and undermining our social order.
A great cause is needed to draw men
our and to make them act together, and
such causes wait for us and suffer while
they wait. In every town and city
| there are forms of work in which we
can all heartily unite, and if underta-
ken they viii make for mutual respect,
| friendship, good viii, public service.
unity.
Disregard of church law and Of the
customs and feelings Of our people is
! not to be commended as means of
bringing Christian people together.
There must be no desire on the part of
one denomination to take advantage of
the misfortune of another or to do what
is unfair or uncharitable. Better the
present condition than the breach of
charity or justice. There is an honest
pride in the history of each great body
of Christians to be respected. The
hope for unity lies in a church large
and comprehensive enough to include
all who accept and serve the Lord Je
sus Christ as He is revealed in Holy
Scripture The denomination which
cannot fill out that conception Of the
church will not last. The church which
is trying to fill it out is working to-
wards unity.
We ought then to be drawing together
in the faith and service of Jesus Christ.
Separation is reproach to all and TO
our Master. We have much to contrt-
butte to the life and service of one great
comprehensive church, and you have
also. We need association to save us
from becoming narrow and one-sided,
in order that we may realize the
thought of one family in Christ, of one
body with many members. No one
knows how unity is to come, but every
one may do something to prepare the
way for it, 1T is surely the duty Of eve
~ one who bears the name of Christ to
keep place In his prayers and in the
ordering Of his work for the cause FOR
which the Master on the night of his
betrayal prayed-the great cause of
Christian unity.
PATIENCE AND HOPE ESSENTIAL.
The time for the arrangement of the
terms of union among Christian people
of different names has not come. We
are living in time of reaction from a
premature attem9t to do that. Ours
seems to be the time OF preparation
rather than Of accomplishment. But
the time of preparation may be one of
good work. The performance of work
is not necessary for it's blessing. Sure
ly, they We're as truly blessed who went
early to the sepulchre on the morning of
the day of the resurrection as If they
had fulfilled their purpose. And they
who, ON the evening of that same day
walked out towards Emmaus were
blessed as their hearts burned within
them. whether they reached Emmaus
or not. The greater unity of Christian
people, like the kingdom of God, COM
eth not with observation, but it is COM
ing. Toward it we are being led and
we are being driven. Religion and civ
ilization require that the moral and re-
ligious forces of the country act togeth-
or. Influences are at work. silent by
many not observed, but effective. And
the cause is the cause of the one Mas
ter and oud common Saviour.
Say not, the struggle nought availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they re- |
main
For while the tired waves, vainly |
breaking,
Seem here uo painful inch to sain,
making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main. |
And not by eastern windows only
When daylight comes comes in the /
light,
N front the sun climbs slow, how slow
~,
But westward, look, the land is