The Starkville news., 1911-04-28


aorttten In hedven'' Hebrews xii. 23)
AS last Sunday the question was
What Is the True Gospel" and we
round that true Gospel more or less
scattered in all the various creeds. and
none or them the pure and unaduIter
ated Gospel, so tonight we should he
| prepared to find that the one true Church
OF christ for the past eighteen centu,
rles has been scattered here and there
amongst various denominations. and
that not one Of these denominations is
the true Church. Not one of them can
claim to contain all the wheat and
none Of the tares
THAT They All May Be One"
remind you again of the simplicity
OF this Gospel which recognizes the
broad outlines of the Divine Plan and
allows each individual to see as many |
OF the finer lines of the same as his
spiritual development will permit. On
that broad basis of Christian union the
early Christians were one and repro
bated any division. ST. Paul rebuked
those who said, am OF Paul: / am OF
Apollos; am Of Peter. AS only Chris4I.
ro.orr;zo,a sSSu6 alone must be
~ ..-r-.a ar, our Savior. AS He is the h
Head of the Church and the only 2
Head, He only must be recognized. AS
all We are brethren, so the class distinc.
ion as between clergy and laity must
be abrogated that we all may be one ,
Church with one faith, one Lord and one
Baptism and one Goda and Father over all
Babylon the Great, the Mother Of r
Harots."
How the divided Church with clash
ng creeds appears to the Almighty. He l.
ellis us, calling us Babylon-which sig n
lifies confusion. And who can deny l6
he appropriaten of the name? In I'll
lines past Catholics have applied this [.
lame to the Protestant sects, and the Fl
orotestants in turn have applied it to +
he Church of Rome. But when we +,
'ome to examine the Scriptures on the D
subject they seem to include all-the
Church Of Rome being represented as
he Mother Church and the various
Protestant Churches as her Daughters
The charge of harlotry which the Lord
makes against Mother and Daughters q,
must be acknowledged, although with IT
'ome this harlotry has been more open
md pronounced than with others.
Spiritual harlotry represents the con- a.
lition in which the espoused Of the
ord becomes affiliated with and joined =
o the world. The Church of Rome be- "
.ame affiliated with or united to the
.ivil government of Rome and when the
Roman Empire went to pieces she en- 4
cred into covenant relationship with
'arious divisions of the civil govern ~
nent, and some of these paramoirs I'll
he still has, while others have left
ler France is gone, Portugal also, and
tally. Spain is moody; Austria Hun d
,ary Is her chief reliance at the pres
mt time. She is we'll treated in Amer
ca, but not joined to the American v
Government. She is we'll entertained :,
md given every liberty in Germany "
nd by many in Great Britain, but I'll
hese countries are not her paramours h
The Greek Church Is united to the
russian Government; the Church OF
england to the British Government.
The Lutheran Church is Joined to sew
raj European governments. Others OF v
ur Protestant Churches, having no op- n
,ortunity for afiliation with earthly
have become united to
worldly systems, worldly organizations e,
f their own. in which, as rule,
wealth, mammon, sits at the head OF
he table. Like mother, like daugh-
ers'' Is an old saying.
Union of the One True Church.
In word, our Lords prayer will be - -
ealized by the "overcomers." They -
r,ill ho nne with Himself and with 4