The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

The greatest mission of Christian churches is to go after men and women to go after them in saloons. In haunts Of sin, In gambling dens. everywhere and anywhere-to 20 after them In the morn ing, at noon anL at midnight.
 The Church's Mission.
 But, lastly, l learn from the work of tlese evangelists lesson which ought to mcke us one and all ashamed of our selves. If the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ would join together their forces to make a conquest for Christ they could win the same triumps for the Master year in and year out. The mightlest mission of J. Wilbur Chapman and his associates is to unite Chrst's forces They have given ,is an object lesson of the victory that may be won by the united effort of all the denominations.
 Supposing every fall the Congregational ministers and the Baptist ministers, and the Methodist ministers, and the Camp bellte ministers. and the Presbyterian ministers. and the Lutheran minister's and the Reformed ministers would all get together. Then supposlng they should say: Let us jcin in sections We will exchange puplts. We will preach for souls. no matter in what church we preach. We wl, have our cottage prayer meetings and our monday prayer meet HES. W VIII NtHu OhI DtSl itii donH Into the slums" What would happen? Not only wouls they breal, down sec tarian lines. but they would teach oongre- gations that the mightiest business on earth Is not to build mp n denomination. but to save immortal souls. They would do just what pr. Chapman and his asso- ciates have done. They woul,i shake the cities and the states from center to cir conference
 nf tI,a ,S.ut fnp Ina gf Chapman ever did for the advancement of a gospel movement was to combine evangeists of different ecclesiastical de- nominations into unit for the spreading of the gospel. Tr. Chapman is a lresby- terian and is laboring under the orders of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Henry Ostrum. his associate. Is 2 Methodist Tllman Hobson is a Quaker. Rev k. w. Slough s q Congre- getionalist. R. A. Walton belongs to the southern Presbyterian church-here there were no northern and southern churches John K. Elliott Is a Dutch Reformed min ister, All sectarlan fences have been burned in these evangeIstlc meetings Why cannot we do the sam every year as rospel ministers? Let us have a for ward movement. Yes. but also n united movement for Christ.
 One in Essentials.
 Every sectarian ministers wants to hoe in his own ecclesiastisal row. whereas, In fact and In truth. there is but little dif- ference in these rows. They all end in having their sheayes of wheat deposited at the foot of tle cross. Why cannot we work hand in hand with other Christian denominations? Are we not all servants of Christ? The Presbyterian differs in doctrine from the Methodist. the Congre- gatIonalist differs in church government from the Episcopallan. but all give the same answer Q the question. What must 1 do to be sayed? Every evangelical de- nomination points the sinner to Christ as the one and only source of salvation. Love, gospel love, ought to make us all enc. Oh, for gospel forces united and welded together! Oh that the church of all the Protestant denominations might enter into n concerted and single purposed @'nent for Christ as was done in this great gospel campaign on the Pacific coast which haf won thousands of souls for the Master!
 cannot close without an expression os gratitude to the evangelists who have aided us. I honor all evangelIsts. Do we realize how much these evangellstls give up for their work? All the joys of home life. all the sweet fellowship with their