Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-13
BREACHES
FAREWELLSERMON
DR.. WILLETT URGES UNION OF
CHURCHES
Points to Mohammedans as Example
of United Faith and Says Dlsrup-
tlons Come From Small
Things

"Tor the Unity of Christian Churche!
and the Greater Glory Of God" was tht
theme of an eloquent discourse by DR.
Willett of the University of Chicago
last evening at the First Congrega'
tional church. 1t was the last service
at which Rev. William Horace Day, the
pastor, was present before his de.
parture for a trip to the orient.
Or. j. M. Campbell of Sierra Madre, d
longtime friend and co-author of sew.
eral books with DR.. Willett, was present
and made brief address, speaking OF
the unity of the churches and the OPP
porhnity in Southern California of the
Congregational, Baptist and Christian
churches In the proposed union In Po-
mora college.
DR., Willett took for his text the Scrip
ture lesson of the evening, Paufs First
Epistle to the Corinthians, first chapter
to the twenty-fifth verse, in which the
union Of the Christian body was pointed
to as the one way. DR.. Wtllett said:
Moharhmedans Point Moral
Il fancy we must feel chained to-
sether and denominational walls dis
appear In the presence of the king. IL
l were to go into Damascus and before
every mosque ask to whose glory 1t was
erected l would find that 1t stands for
the faith of the people 1t may be that
it was erected by such and such q
sultan, but 1t stands for the worship of
God and they call themselves the same
name. Such is not the case in Christen-
dom.
Christ realized that the world would
never take him seriously until his
church was one here on earth. Paul,
in Corinth beseeched the people to be
of the same body
when the bishop of Rome was made
above all the other bishops he gathered
into his hands the church universally.
That saved Europe from chaos and
even brought monarchs to their feet,
Who can look at that church but feel
that the oneness of the church kept
Rome? Later they forgot the hills, and
in the days when the stars of the refor-
nation began to shine there were a
great many preaching. Savanarola, the
princeliest soul that ever walked the
streets of Florence, and all the rest
We're good Catholics and believed in the
Holy Father They did not mean to
leave the church. They brought men
from their old lethargy. The time was
rich for reform. And presently there
was new church formed by a sect of
Protestants against the power of Rome,
and thus Professionalism came into ex-
istence, which insisted on the SOW
ereignty of God, and which separated
them from the pope. They appealed to
God intimately, rather than through
man.
Divide on Atoms
Our pilgrim fathers brought it to
this land. The different denominations
stood for neglected principles. They
have become divided over small things
In western Pennsylvania they had the
lifts and the anti-lifts. and there was
division. Then they disagreed whether
the minister should read one or two
lines of the hymn before hymn books
were published, and they were divided
over that Then there was a division
when top buggies came out whether a
Christian should ride in one to church,
and over buttons or hooks and eyes
there was a division.
I'VE should not allow the past to
separate us. In Japan they had six
brands of the Presbyterian church, and
they have united and have even for
gotten their name and call themselves
the United Church of Japan"
DR.. Willett greatly favored the unit
ing of the Baptist and Christian de-
in Claremont college and
urged for union of the churches under
the one banner of Jesus Christ