Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-02-03
MAKES APPEAL
CHURCH UNION
DR.. Custer Delivers Ad'
dress to People of
kOOSkia

A most enthusiastic meeting was
held in Kooskia on Thursday night.
Rev. custer Of the NJ. e. church OF
Lewiston had been invited to address
the people Of that place and his theme
was How to unity all the elements
Of Christianity in order to have the
best results for the kingdom Of Christ
and build up the local work most sue
cessfully"
The people Of Kooskia are anxious
to erect a union church, and DR.. Eus-
ter feels very confident that the move
on the part OF the people OF that city
will meet with success.
DR.. custer said In part:
1.-The world is changing; the man
who will not change and Is fossll1zeo
must fall to the rear We are march
ing onward to better things. The king
dom Of God will not be the only thing
in modern life to lag behind and suffer
defeat. Unification is the law of mo-
dern life; the church must wake up to
| this. No matter what your fathers did
the sons must do better.
Waste in Church Economy.
Now there Is fearful waste In the
| church. and by that mean all who ac-
| cept Christ as their redeemer under
whatever name they may sail. for when
Philip the evangelist baptised the royal
| treasurer of Queen Candace In the
times of the Apostles. the only require
| ment necessary was that he accept
Christ as the son Of God. Now the time
will come very soon when there Will pc
a church of Lewiston, a church OF
Spokane. church of Spokane, a
church of Portland, and the church OF
Fox, Of Calvin, of Campbell. OF Luther
will be done away with and we shall
then be right back where the early
church was and where the Acts OF the
Apostles now are.
"They had a church Of Jerusalem,
church of Antioch. a church Of Rome
a church Of Ephesus, and church OF
Corinth and Paul wrote some OF his
letters to these churches. They were
under one general governing board
and they erected just the church buiid !,
ing necessary and no more. They had
Just the number Of preachers neces-
sary and no more. they were united In
the most brotherly fashion. The con.
tinual declaration of the pagan wOrlc
all about them was Behold. now THESE
Christians love each other" and tht:
declaration won from the enemy VII
do infinitely more to win men to Goo
than all the useless and pointless ant
narrow and childish differences which
have been exalted in the past to tn
eternal shame Of the Christian religion
erotherly Love in Lodges.
20, to be broad, to love your brother
to measure up to where we should be
The fact is that the lodges sometime
show more Of Christian spirit thai
the churches do. The prayer OF Chris
should be needed. What are your DIFF
ferences? They are absolutely moth
ing but prejudice, selflshness and
narrow bigotry utterly unworthy Q
any true son Of God. Why keep thes
differences above ground? Why no
i, bury them forever?
II am glad that a Catholic dignitar
said recently in mass meeting In 5
: Paul: I am glad that the wheat grow
I ing so tall in our UNCONVENTIONAL field
we cannot see the fences any more
hope the day will come when the Thea
e will forever obliterate the fen ces al
I together. Canada Is coming to thu
and there are great indications that W
shall follow.
How beautiful 1t would be for Koos
kia to lead in this matter and Lewisto
y follow and then other places just sho'
3 to the world that the golden rule
n more than a form and the prayer {
r Christ for unity Is more than mel
dream and that the religion of jest
!! Christ Is a fact, and II we did this tn
q world would be won to Christ In
= day"