The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-23

and keeps 1t up until he has built six
hardware stores where one would have
been sufficient for town of that size
Now the people begin to say that Mr.
Jones is crazy. No business man
would think of doiny such a thing. if
he did We wou he unwilling to trust
his business judgment on any propo
sition. Yet. We all belong to the Jones
family when 1t comes 20 church work
There are hundreds Of towns and vii
lagos where one church is quite suffi-
cicnt when We have six. If we only
had one We could send the other five
preachers elsewhere to preach. We
would only need one building, one
Caretaker and would have To keep up
one bu.lding. whereas we are keeping
up SIX. From business standpoint it
does not pay to be diyi. ed as We arc.
Christ prayed that We might be
one in order that the world might
believe that he is the Christ the Son
of God. We are greatly handicapped
in heather countries because we are
divided among ourselves
"A Japanese said to miss onary.
You believe in ten Gods. we only be
lieve in one He thought that each
church had different God We can
never convert the world to Christ un-
Ill we unite our forces. Paul con.
demne' the church at Corinth because
some called themselves Paulites. some
Cephasite. and some Apollositcs lie
said. You are carnal and walk as
= men They were divided over human
names as we are today
Christian Unity is coming largely
by the way OF China and Japan. In
' these two heataen countries all The
churches at work there use the same
song books They never speak of
" their denominations In speaking of
; the church they always use a word
L which means Church of Christ" when
> We sing from the same song books
Il and call the church by the same nam"
= we are citing closer together. The
: different churches are uniting their
schools. the Pres,Gterians and our
Z people at Nankin. China have united
their school work. One OF our mis-
d sionaries. Bro. Beigs Is president OF
u the united school. The Methodists
" are soon to come into the union. In
II Pekin the Presbyterians, Me,hodists,
y and Congregationalists have united
and built "a university. Unless We
unite and build Christian schools they
will build heather institutions. II is
n imperative that we unite in our school
p. work for 10 one denomination is able
to take care of the situation. If We
ID can unite in school work why not
Ie unite in our church work? We can
and We will"
10 The various bra.''. OF The diff.
Is f. 'ent churches are trying to get to
y gether The NJ. Il. church and the NJ
is f.. Church South are discussing union
4 The Presbyterians in Canada and this
country are trying to unite the two
10 branches in each country. In Austria
, liza three churches, two branches ci
the Methodists and another churcn
II air. What means the great lnter-ie
II nominational gatherings? Il means
that we are getting better acquainted
- The other fellow is not so bad after
oil % pnnI 70 uat anDnafntph KNit n
one another"
,r "A young man was in love but could
not pop the question. He told an old
=, slave who had been twice married
II about his difficulty Remus said, II,
Is as easy as fallin' off a log. Gist
%. sit down close to Miss Liza, don't git
too close To her, if yo does she will
ir move; git little closer and den take
a pop itself" What we need to 20 is
to sit down together and talk the mat
p. ter over"
IF Unity is desirable and scriptural
Is is there any practical basis. Yes
there is We have an idea that one
s church will have to go TO the other
and We are not willing to give up our
ic name for some other unscriptural
. name and we are right about it, but
We do not have to unite in this way.
Here is my pan See what you think
of il. Here are five hundred sheep
and there are two walls between them
Al We want to get them together, but
there is no room for any more on this
u side. How can We get the sheep to-
l. gether? Just take out the two parti-
a tion walls which keep them apart.