Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-27
A Mystic Discomfort Seethes in All
God-Fearing Hearts-Sectarian-
ism Analysed As a Product
Of Polemic Pride.
SUPREME CHRISTIAN UNITY.
The Lesson is Clear, the Duty Ap.
parent Christianity is Home
sick--The World Croaneth
and Knoweth Not Its
Ailment.
(By Eva Dorsey CARR

| enuom herSen Is Observation-Disclosures
at having broken Christ's command,
"eB We one, as My Father and / are
One" In all God-fearing hearts there
seethes mystic discomfort.
The recent action of the Methodist
General Council toward unification of
| American Methodism, the enthusiasm
and tears of joy with which it was re-
ceive,l, is one of the days significant
| signs that there is more readiness to
sacrifice sectarian opinions for world
wide church union than the average
! thinker, trained and besotted along de-
| nominational lines would suspect. But
this simple, natural longing for the
ultimate fulfillment of our dear Lords
| petition. THY Kingdom come, Thy will
be done on earth, as it is in heaven"
is stifiel, suppressed, averted by secta-
| rionism. that most mastery of Satan's
schemes for the possession of the earth
Sectarianism analysed stands re-
veales1 as a product of polemic pride,
| not of conscience. This sort of pride
is so subtle. so mystifying and withal
so pleasing that its errors are honest
| ly COMPOUNDED in the compliant mind
with truth. Pride is the root of all
| evil and polemic pride is the devils
most powerful weapon in the work of
deception. United Christianity is mans
novitiate for heaven; nurtured by a
| healthy church his soul develops pas
sion for heaven that only heaven can
satisfy. When the atmosphere of that
| novitiate is disturbed by polemic pride,
when that pride causes dissention-
when those discussions cause confus-
| on, when; that confusion cause secta-
| rianism, when that sectrianism pre-
vents Christian unity, the God-worh
plans of that novitiate are destroyed;
novices lose their pure possession for
| the heaven of Jesus Christ. and in its
place arises a passion for what the
world calls heaven. And yet they do
not knowing it, So cunning is he, so
| plausible, so fascinating, so flatering,
they do not know that Satan is their
Abbot. They declare they are Christ
ians, but what says the light in their
eyes? They declare sectarianism is
Christianity. but their hearts are
heavy. their souls are starving. And
l
shrek and shrink from cure, because
the treatment is strenuous ami secta-
rian torpor easy! Does the Lover of
Souls consent? Who shall say the war
now shaking the earth is not the sword
of the Most High? Thus were dissen-
sions expelled from heaven
Should Jesus come now, He would
not recognize modern Christianity as
the faith He taught. He would not rec
ognize modern Christendom, with it's
sects and schisms, as the church He
founded. The molern Christian relig-
ion is not Christianity but is antithe-
sis. The modern Christian is not a
Christian, but an idolator; he deifies
his senses and worships his opinions !;
in his religious adventures he runs the
gamut of sentimentality. fanaticism
and spiritual egotism and mistakes
such emotions for religious fervor and
alteration. No, the modern Christian
is not a Christian. but an ultra-civilz-
ed pagan-natural thesist at the best.
He is loathe to believe this, believing,
he will not acknowledging is afraid
to. All that sectraianism can give are
the husks of Christianity, to these he
clings,tenaciously ami pathetically,like
a lost child to its torn rag doll. The
husks of Christianity. That is all sec
tarianism can give poor wasting souls
of men as they go crying and stumb-
ling through the dark.
MY kingdom is not of this world
asid Jesus Christ, but sectarianism has
converted Christianity into kingdom
of this world; infused with sectaran-
ism Christianity has lost it's identity
as a religion distinct from and opposed
to all other systems of thought; It has
fallen into the ranks of Brahmanism,
Buddhism and the philosophy of Con-
fucious and Mahomet. But the Bra
| hannah can say to the Christian, I'VE
had Drama before you had Christ; we
had caste before you hail Christianity
and we have caste still"
Sectarianism has honey co m bed
Christendom with the sophistry of Sa-
| tan. Sectarianism has split up Christ
endom into Inultiple,antagonistic sects.
Sectarianism has discolored the plain
word of God with multiple, conflicting,
meanings. Sectarianism has given
| men dangerous license whereby they
accept of the teachings of Jesus only
those they are predisposed to accept,
| ami Satan. the founder and instigator
| of sectarianism. is careful that those
| predispositicns are controlled by his
| subtle logic
And this is not the work of hell!
| deludei world, have you no care for
the anathemas against doctrines op-
passed to those of Jesus Christ though
they were preached by an angel from
heaven" Why vainly pursue wander
ing fires when the great rays of CEN
trail sun illumines the path Strange
this condition should exist in Christ
endom; strange there is this leprosy,
disfiguring the beautiful form Of
Christianity; stranger still that Christ
| mas should endure it. All, but Christ
| ians cannot endure it! They are suf-
fering over it with the Man of Sorrow,
before the throne of Mercy they sigh
| for its cure; their hearts are poured
forth in tears and prayers-no, Christ
ians cannot endure it,
Because great nations are murder
ing each other with all the skill of