T H E K I N G /

Who is the king in this beautiful land, In this beautiful land of the palm and pine?

With its valleys green and its mountains grand,

With its oil and corn and wine? With its mines of silver and gold, its gems, Fit for the kmgliest diadems;

• With its oities fair and its prairies free, Stretching from sea to sea, Who wears the sign, on his brow and hand, Of king in this beautiful land?

Is it he who holds in h:s hands the key* Of the vaults where the gold and silver

hide? Whose great white ships on the mighty seas

Laden with treasures ride? It is he- who looks to the east and west, And sees, wherover his glances rest, His own green vines, his fertile fields, With their ever-bountiful yields f Does he wear the seal and stgn Of king by a right divine?

Is it he whose meed of a noble fame Is won on the terrible fields of war?

Whom the nations hail with a loud acclaim As hero and conqueror?

Or is it he who in patience delves For the wi*lom stored on the centuries'

shelves? Who seeks with a master^ eya to scan The secrets hidden in nature's plan ? Shall we crown the scholar with one accord, Or him of the conquering s»vorJ? Is it that one who sings wonderful songs,

Whose, lips are touched with the altar fire? Who sways the heart of the listening throng

As the'wJhithe chordel lyre? Is it he who carve* from ths marble white His owu great thought for the world's de­

light? Is it he who paints in colors rare As tbose'that his own dream-pictures wear? Shall artist or poet for thair renown Wear the scepter and the crown?

Though the poet his truest song shall sing, Though the drums of fame for'the soldier

beat, WWi Though the scholar his truest lore shall bring

And lay a t a glad world's feet, Though the picture glow and the marble

g leam, ;

With the beaaty born of the" artist's dream Though the landed lord in his hand shall hold Treasures of silver and finest gold, Tho-tgh crowned with heifers tarr and fit, None of these on the throne shall sit. Is thove t i en no one in this beautiful land

ThK fairest land on the great round globe, To wear ihe ring on his royal hand?

To wetfrl»e p$Sg§fror$i '*"' Froai tirtr&wt 1md-'*the"*we3!ra voice comes"

fvU-th, From tli» smiling south, from tho icy north. From the soundingssoa, Jfcpm the heights

wr$£t 'Z> v, From toe valleys that lie between, We hear it echo and surge and sing, Aye, the MAN is tbe king. The leaf ofiaorel tl«rt genius wears,

The aoMtefs fame or the learned degrees That the scholar wins, lo, the voice declares,

That the MAN is more than these. He stands in a realm as high and broad A s tho heart of nature, the truth of God, The realm of manhood, and who can reign As a ruler wis3 ia that vast domain? i£e neads no purple, no robe, no ring, For he is_a twice-crowned king In this beautiful fand of the free. A king is he.

—Carlotta Perry, in Good Cheer.

A THUNDER SHOWER,

" W c h a d best start for home at o n c e . " Jack Linton w a k e d t o where Meg w a s

s i t t ing in the shadows , w i t h Percy be­side her; but the stalwart yoMng farmer took no notice oi the e legant N e w Yorker, as he addre.-sed Meg.

< 4 W s are g< -lg to iave a heavy s h o w e r , ' ' h e said. "Wi l l you not como to the farm wi th me? I t is near, and the others are g o i n g there. My mother wi l l be de l ighted to receive y o u . "

H i s tones were coldy his manner severe, M e g thought .

Some impulse of contradict ion made her turn from him.

"Mr. Vigucs has k indly offered to take me home in his.buggy,*1 she said.

Then Jack l ocked first at Percy. " Y o u have Dalton'fc b l a c k horse ," ho

said. "Are you aware that the animal a lways takes fr ight at thunder?"

Mr. Percy Vigues began to look un­easy.

" N o , " he replied. "Miss Christian, w o u l d it not be best t o — "

"Hurry? Y e s , " cut in Meg, crisply. "I'll be ready in a m o m e n t ! There! you take the lunch-basket and w e can g o at once ."

"But ," Jack began, impat ient ly , "1 tell you it isn't safe to drive that animal when it thunders, a n d — "

A long, loud reverberation broke his speech.

Meg looked at Percy. "Come, ' ' she said, gaily, "let us try to

race the shower. N ot a drop has fallen y e t . "

There was noth ing for Yigues to do but accompany her through the gather­i n g dusk of the n o w darkened d a y ; and w h e n they reached the edge of the grove, there s tood Dalton's black horse, quiver­ing in every l imb, w i t h d i lated nostril? and rol l ing eyes.

"Perhaps ," muttered Vigues , uneasi ly, shr inking back and turning pale—"per­haps you had best accept Mr. Jack's oiler, after all. I wouldn' t care to be the cause of a fright to you, you k n o w , and this—this creatur > looks dec ided ly v ic ious ." -r * • - : }

p "Nonsense !" Meg laughed. <^You wi l l be able to coutrol h im very easily. I'll got in whi l e you unt ie Titm."

Mutter ing a few unpleasant words, he m o v e d toward the b u g g y to assist.her.

Pray hurry 1' she cried, when he had put herein, ^ f a t e « t e e i t is" g o j n g to. rain hard soon. 'Do t m t i e t h e hftrsc, Mr. V i g u e s . "

Percy went to the animal's head, an ev ident shr inking upon h im, and began t o fumble w i t h the halter.

The otpattfra^tiirted biick^&harply, atfd so d i d Mr. Vigues .

J feg 's l ip curled. *4£believe you are afraid," she said,

w i t h a low l i t t le laugh. A n d he tried to echo the laugh, as he

again advanced, bift $ | r t t y , .toward the .restive horse. '

A t last he succeeded in unfastening the halter from the tree, and at that very moment a v iv id sheet of l ight went danc­ing over the wor ld about t h e m ; a loud, sharp, angry 'goa l , of thunder crashed above their hlaWS. E v e n Meg cowered an instant, dazed and s t u n n e d ; but Percy Vigues , l oos ing h i s nervous grasp of the bit, performed a series of rapid backwaft i steps.

The horse crouched an instant, trem­bl ing violently, then, w i t h a snort of ter­ror, p i u n g d : madly, through the bushes , both reins flying loosely on h i s back.

M e g gave utterance to a shriek of fear, and then sat, s i lent and whi te faced, c l ing ing to the back of the seat.

Mr. Perey Vigues h a d no thought save for his own safety, and made no a t tempt to capture the runaway.

But a tall figure darted out in the very path of the Hying b lack animal, and a pair of s troag k ia fds^osex i ikmly 'OB t h e reins. ^ I A '/ vr * - :' - i | . -

The h o r s s ^ r ^ t d ^ T e a i f e d w i h t l y . t>\k those firm hands d id not lose their ho ld . At last, in the sudden fall of great plash-

drops, the horse s tood, pant ing but

REV. M . TALMAGE.

T H E B R O O K L . Y N D I V I N E ' S S U N ­D A Y S E R M O N .

S u b j e c t : " C o n c e r n i n g t h e B i g o t s . " ,

BY MAKV C. FRBSTON.

It was such a hot d a y — n o cool breeze at any place, and the whole wor ld palpi­ta t ing under a broi l ing sun.

But the sun had at last sunk s lowly ,, , * in to a mass of fleecy, feathery clouds, ! subdued, aud Jack Linton, gather ing u p w h i c h p l e d h jah in the heavens , a n d 4 ^ reius, sprang i n beside Meg. gradual ly g W l l a r k l i - J I j h e y t f o e & h e a L 1 "I'AI take you to the farm,'; he said, d o w n to t h e w e & e r n hor izon; and" slant- [breath ing hard after the struggle . "Al l ing shadows fell softly on the p i cn i ck ing ! the others are there b y this t ime. Y o u party in Rowland's Gro \c . I are not hurt at al l?" w i t h a keen look at

"I t seems to me that we wi l l all be j her pretty, wh i t e face, perfectly cooked before the day is over ," said Meg Chi istiau, in a voice as s w e e t and clear a s a bird's carol. "I am sure, were there an jr. cannibals, naar at, this momcntjjgedP: wouldn' t be necessary Xar them to n g h t a fire before they made a meal oil' us ."

" S o m e t h i n g else w o u l d be necessary

N o ; but— Oh, Jack, if y o u hadn't come !'*

"Vigues would- have let you g o — t o d^ajh," said Jack, calmly. ' 'And ye t be-&H3& he can quote poetry prett i ly a n d looks l i k e a tailor's block, you have g i v e n him your heart!" very scornfully, a l though he was having ail he could do to keep the

before they should make a meal oft" , black horse in the roadway. you ," said the gent leman who was i n g on the grass at her feet.

" Y e s , " she answered, l a u g h i n g l y — 4*for them t o catch me, I t h i n k . "

" Y o u would # y ? " " I woul<frun." And again she l aughed a little, and

put the damp tresses from her f->i cheat!, looking d o w n on h im w i t h her pretty gray eyes a l ight w i t h merriment.

H e was a rather pale-faced youth, at-

I h a v e n e r " cried Meg, i n d i g n a n t l y ; "and if yon are g o i n g to say s u c h dis ­agreeable things , I w i sh you had let the horse run as far as he wanted to . Percy Vigues is only a dandified fool, and I hate h i m ! "

" Y o u hate me, too, I suppose?" said Jack, curtly, as he drew the animal up and turned in at the farm, w h i c h belonged to himself and his mother.

I t was just pouring. Tbe great drops tired in a fashion w h i c h left no doubt of I h » d become a sheet of rain by this t ime, h i s be ing no native of the l i t t le t o w n be- and Meg's musl in was soaking wet. She low, b u t one of the many atoms w h i c h ' was a l itt le pale, too, but her l ips began drifted in to i t each summer—a c i ty boarder, as they were termed by the peo­ple of Seavil le, who , by-the-way, gener­ally treated them wel l whi l e they re­mained, but were never sorry to sec them go­

to quiver as she stole a l o o k at her com­panion's face.

"L don't hate you ," she said, sof t ly; ;t you have acted lately as t h o u g h you

hate me. W h y is it, Jack?" ' B e c a u s e that idiot was always hang-

But i t was whispered that Meg Chris- ' i u g around you, and I k n e w I wasn't t ian would be sorry—nav, more than sorry j wanted . A h ! there they all are, gathered — w h e n this stranger drifted back to his ; on the veranda." c i ty h o m e ; and some said that w h e n he j A n d t h e p i cn iakmg party were grouped d id g o he w o u l d leave h i s heart behind o n t n e w i d e veranda of the farm house, him, wi th the gray-eyed girl who was ! i a S a y s P i r i t a seemingly , w a t c h i n g M e g treating Jack Linton so shameful ly— , and her cavalier drive up t h r o u g h the honest farmer Jack. » J rain.

M e g k n e w that Jack was near, leaning | " B u t » J t i c k ' I d l d n t w a n t h l m > id ly against a tree, and f rowning a l itt le, j whispered Meg, desperately. "I have when she laughed d o w n ,at Percy V i g u e s ; J »een very miserable for the last f ew but Jack had not spoken a dozen words j weeks . t o h e r through the afternoon, and Percy | "Because . . , , . , . V i g i l s had been very d e v o t e d ; so, when ! J * c k looked at her w i t h klndlm, a bunch of roses w h i c h she had thrust in her bolt fell on the grass, and Percy, gather ing them for her, kept one in his Hand, she did not claim i t ; and when he

a eyes. She colored hot ly .

" Y e s , " she said, very low. He reined in the black horse and sprang

out. Li f t ing his hands to help her from brought her lunch-basket, she sat cozi ly ! t h o buggy , he asked a question which beside him.and shared all the g o o d th ings , e v e i T m a n a s k s a t l e a s t o n c e l n h i s l l f e :

i t contained w i t h h im. I " \ o u l o v e m e a 1 h im. " Y o u wil l a l low me to drive you back,

wi l l you not?" asked Percy, as they ate and chatted. "I t is quite a mile, you k n o w , and I have a horse and b u g g y in the . edge of the" grove ."

Mfeg looked about her a moment in si­lence. She may have been t h i n k i n g of other picnics, from which sh" and Jack Linton had walked hand in hand, before the c loud had arisen between them, which she had not understood.

A h , there Jack was, l tmchiny comfort­ably wi th Bella Bay, the prettiest girl in the town, and he teemed to be having a merry t ime of i t

By this t ime the sun was whol ly ob­scured, the whi te c louds had become

a l ittle, Megi "I love you very much, Jack!' ' she an­

swered, as his strong' hands closed on hers.

Then she ran up to the house a sadly-drenched little figure, and Jack took the horse to the stable.

It was not long before Percy V igues appeared, look ing rather white- faced, w i t h his whi te flannel suit c l i n g i n g to h im more tenderly than he could wish. But Meg greeted *him wi th a scornful glance and turned to her lover.

" Y o u thought I cared for him?'' Oh, J a c k ! ' ' s h e whispered, reproachfully, as the. brief shower began to abate and the sun shone out through the rain-drops.

A n d Jack smiled happily as his moth-

dun,"and a quiver of l i g h t n i n g shot'ovcr \ *r ^ Tu s t } e d £ u t 1° ^l^^I/J™™™.*'

the sky. " Y o u will g o wi th m e ? " Percy said

aga in; and she answered him with un­smi l ing l ips:

" Y e s ; you are k i n d . " Another flickering thread of l iglr,

across the whiteness of the ilceee- and the darkness of the dusky clouds, a sud­den, loud peal of thunder, and all save Meg sprang to their feet.

"A thuniler-^sh'jwcr!" some oue d i e d .

I ouijht to know l>etter," he an­swered; "but I wouldn't have come to my senses to-day but for this blessed shower. I'm awful ly g l a d it didn't for­get to j a i n on this particular day.

But Percy Vigues was n o t — S a t u r d a y Ni'jht.

The largest graduating class in the world is that of t l v Chauta-iqua Univer­sity, hi HHii 4 ,024 graduated.

T E X T : ilThen said they unto him, say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it. riyht. Then they took him and slew him at the pas­sages of Jordan. "—Judges xii, 6. 1

Do you notice the difference of pronuneia" ' tion between shibboleth and sibboleth? A very small and unimportant difference, you , say. And yet that duTerence was the differ- i ence between life and death for a great many I people. The Lord's puople, Gilead and I Ephraim, got into a great fight, and Ephraira i was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the river, Jordan to . cross. Order was given that all Euphraim- ' ites coming there should be slain. B a t bow ' could it be found but who were

i Ephraimites? They were detected by their ' 1 pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that '

stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to

1 say shibboleth always left out the sound of the "h." When it wag asked that they say Bhibbolefeh they said siblioleth, and were slain, i

I "Then said they unto him. Say now Shibbo- ^ 1 leth ; and he said Sibboleth, for he could not

frame to pronounce it right. Then they took bhh and slew him at the passage of Jordan." •

! A very small difference, you, say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much in- i tolerance about that small difference. The Lord's tribe in our time—by which I mean the different denominations of Christians—: •' sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of. de­nominations to-day is the difference between shibboleth and sibboJetb; j

I The church of God is divided into a great number of denominations. Time woula fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Armin-

I lans, and the Sabbatarians, and the Baxter-ians, and the Dunlcers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Congregaticnalists, and the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denominations of religionists,

I some of them founded by very good men, . some of them founded by very egotistic men,

and some of them founded by very bad men. But as I demand for myself liberty of con­science, I must give that same liberty to •very other man, remembsring that he no more differs from me than I differ from him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art. in politics, in morals, and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecution, no intolerance.

You know that the air and the water keep , pure by constant circulation, and I think ] there is a tendency in religious discussion to ' purification and moral health. Between the Fourth and the Sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by pro­hibiting discussion and by strong censorship of the press, and by rack, and gibbet, and hot lead down the throat, tried to make peo­ple ortho iox; but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting off his head, and that you cannot make a man see things differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's [conscience which will hurl off the mountain that you throw upon it, and, un-singed of the fire, out of the name will, make red wings on which the martyr will mou&t to glory.

In that tame of which I sneak, between ths Fourth and Sixteenth centuries, people went from the house of God into the most appal­ling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such as the world never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose and flooded the church. After a while the printing press was freed, and it broke the shackles of the human mind. Then there came a large number of bad books, but where there was one man hostile to the Christian religion there were twenty men ready to ad­vocate it; so I have not ,any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between truth and o n or.

The truth will eonquer just as certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let error run if you only let truth run along with. it. Urged on by skeptic's shout and trans^endentalist's spur, let it run. God's angels of wrath arj in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle's beak catches out a hawk's heart God's vengeance will tear it to f>:ec?F. ' I propose this morning to speak to you of sec­

tarianism—its origin, its evils and its, curses. There are those who would, make us think that this monster, ; with horns and hoofs, is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding place, and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip off his hide. But I want to mako a distinction between bigotry and the lawful fondness for peculiar religious bahefs and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian.

In a worM of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a soul that must after a while stand before a throne of insuf­ferable brightness, in a day when the rock­ing of the mount ins and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the sea shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference and dislike—that man is mad who has ho religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, our mental constitution will very much decide our form of worship.

A style of psalmody that may please me may displease you. Some-w*«lii-l£k§ to have a minister in gown, and Dands^^aad |garplice.

nde, another at another side, and they came home, each one looking at only one side. And they happened to meet, the story says, and they got into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was green, another man aiid it was bine, and when they were in the very heat of the controversy a more intelli­gent traveler came and said: "Gentlemen. I Have seen that obelisk, and you are all right and you are all wrong. Why didn't you walk all around the obelisk?"

• Look out for the man who see3 only one lideof a religious truth. Look out for tbe man who never walks around about these Sreat theories of God and eternity and the *~* A g 0 w j ] j {JQ a bigot inevitably—the

and ethers prefer to nave*% m ^ g ^ ^ p l a i n citizen's apparel. 6 " ' when a little chiM . and sprinkled with the wafers.* diction "in the natne o i ^ l & t h e r T a u a of the Son, and of the HolytttwSfc^aad others are more impressed when the penitent eomea up out of the river, h.s garments dripping with the waters of a baptism which 4&nifiesq the washing away of sin. Let eithf? have his own way. One man likes no noise hi prayer, not a word, not a whisper. Another man just as good prefers by gesticulationaad exclamation to express his devotional aspira­tions. One is *just as good as the. other. "Every man fully persuaded • in ^ hit 'own mind."

George Whitefield was going over a Quaker rather roughly for some of his religious senti­ments, and the Quaker said: "George, I am as thou art: I am for bringing all men to the hope of the Gospel; therefore, if thou wilt not quarrel with me about my broad brinij I will not quarrel with thea about thy black gown. George, give me thy hand."

I. In tracing out the religion of sectarian­ism, or bigotry, I find that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the hocae circle. There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of leligion in the world and. denounce other sects and other denominations. It is very often the case that that kind of educa­tion acts justs opposite to what Was expected, and the children grow up and, after a while go and see for themselves; and looking in those churches, and finding that the people are good there, and they love God and keep his commandments, by natural reaction the,,' go and join those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of the gospel who spent their whole lives bom­barding other denominations, and who lived to see their children preach the Gospel in tho^e very denominations. But it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household and tiiat the subject of it never recovers. There are tens of thousands of bigots 10 years old.

I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too tfroat prominence of any one de­nomination in a community. All the other denominations are wro:ig, and his denomina­tion is right because his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most influential, and it is "our" church, and "our1' religious organization,and "our" choir, and "our" minister, and the man tosses his head an 1 wants other denominations to know their places. It is a great deal better in any community when the g~eat denominations of Christians tire about eq«-i'. in power, mxreh-in>5 side by side for the world's conque-st. Mere outside prosp Jrity.mere worldly power, is no evidence that the church is acceptable to God. Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies'rolling through the lone drawn dsl' s and an angel from heaven in the pulpit if there is no Christ in the chancel and no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance.

You seldom find a man with large ii»fcellect who is a bigot. It is tho man who thinks he knows a groat deal but does not. That man is almost a lwaysa bigot. The wholo tendency af education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obe-isk, and one side of the obelisk was white, mother side of the obelisk was green, another jide of the obelisk was blue, and travelers

went and looked at that obelisk, but they did lot walk around it. One man looked at ona

dead. mart who only sees one side. There' is no man more to be pitied than he who has in his head just one idea-^-no more, no less. More light, less sectarianism. There is noth­ing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine —God's sunshine.

II. So I have set before you what I con­sider to be the causes of bigotry. I have set before yon the origin of this "great ev i l What are some of the baleful effects? First of all it cripples investigation. You are-wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no spirit of investiga­tion. From tho glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel might fly from eternity to eternity and not reach the timit, the man shuts himself out and dies, a blind mole under a corn shock. It stops all investigation.

While each denomination \>t Christians is to present all the truths of the Bible, it seems t o m e that God has given to each denomina­tion an especial mission to, give particular emphasis to some one doctrine: and so. the Calvmiftic churehes must present the sover­eignty of God, and the Arminian churches must present man's free akency, and the Episcopal churches must present, the import­ance of order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordinances, and the Congregational church must present the responsibility of the indi­vidual member, and the Methodist church must show what holy enthusiasm and hearty congregational singing cfui accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrin.s of the Bible, I feel it is especially incumbent upon each denomi­nation to put particular emphasis upon soma one doctrine.

Another great damage done by the secta­rianism and bigotry of the church is that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the Chuitch of God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You goldown the street | and you see an excitement, ajnd missiles fly-, ing through the air, and you hear the shock of firearms. Do you, the peaceful and in­dustrious citizen, go through that street) "Oh, no!" you will say, "I'll go around the block." Mow, men come and look upon this narrow path to heaven, and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brifkbats flying every whither, and they say: " Well, I guess Til take the broad road: if it is so rough, and there is so much sharp shooting on the narrow road, I guess I'll try the broad road."

Francis I. so bated the Lutherans that he said if he thought there was One drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would punc­ture them and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so much hostility between denomi­nation and denomination, or between one professed Christian and another, or between oue church and another, just so long men will be disgusted with the Christian religion and say: " i f that is religion, I want none of

Again, bigotry and. sectarianism do great damage in the .'.act that they hinder the tri­umph of the GospeL Oh, how much wasted ammunition, how many men of splendid in­tellect have given their whole life to contro­versial disputes, when, if they had given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly usetul! Suppose this morn­ing, while I speak, there were a common en­emy coming up the bay through the Narrows, and all the forts arouud New York began to fire into each Other—you would cry out, "National suicide! Why don't those forts blaze away in one direction, and that against the common enemy ?' And yet I sometimes see in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on—church against church, minister against minister, denomina­tion against denomination, firing away into their own fort, or the fort which ought to be on the same side, instead of concentrat­ing their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of dark­ness riding up through the bay!

I go out sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be stung, but I come just near enough to hear the controversy, and one beehive says : "That field of clover is the sweetest," and an­other behive says: "That field of clover is the sweetest." I come in be­tween them, and I say: "Stop this quarrel: if you like that field of clover best, go there; if you like that field of clover best, go there; but let me tell you that that luve which gets the most honey is the best hive." So I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of Christians says .. "That field .of Christian doctrine is best," and another says ; " This field of Chris­tian doctrine is best." Well, I say : " G o where you get the most honey." That is the best church which gets the most honey of Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life.

Besides that, if you want to build up any denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down. Intolerance never put anything down. How much has intolerance accomplished, for instance, agaiust the Methodist Church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pul­pits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the fields ? Sitn-p'y because they could not get into the churches. And the name of the church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The crit-ies of the church said: "They have no order, th^' h?.v« no met' od in] their worship;" and the" critics, therefore, in irony called them "iVfethodists."

1 am told that in AstOr library. New York, kept as curiosities, there are 7i)7 bcoki and pamphlets against Methodism. Did intoler­ance stop that church? No; it is either first or second amid the denominations of Chris­tendom, her missionary stations in all parts of the world, her men not only important in religious trusts, but important also in secular trusts. Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it. the faster it marches.

What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist Church? If laughing scorn and tira le could have destroyed the church it would not to-day have a dis-iple left.

The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in the olden times. Those who sympathized with them were confined.and when a petition was offered asking leniency in their behalf all men who signed it were indicted. Has in­tolerance stopped tbe Baptise Church* The last stafstics in regard to it showed about 30,000 churches and about 2,500,000 communi­cants. Intolerance never put down any thing.

In England a law was made against the Jew England thrust back the Jew and thrast down the Jew, and declared that no Jew should hold an official position. W h i t came of it ? Were the Jews destroyed * Was their religion overthrown ? No. Who be­came prime minister of Englani y.»ars ago? Who was tbe next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne b e a u s j he was counselor and adviser? The descendant of a Jew. What were we celebrating in all our churches as well as synagogues a few years ago? The one hundredth birthday anniver­sary of Montefiore, the great Jewish philan­thropist. Intolerance never yet put down anything.

III. But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or s >ctarianis:n, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you how we are to war against this terrible evil, and I think we ought to begin our war by realizing our weakness and our imperfections. If we make so many mistakes fci the common affairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes in-regard to our religious afairs? Shall we take a man by the throat, or by the collar, because ha cannot see religious truths just a s we do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I think, there was something wrong in a!l our creels, a n l something right in all ovr creels. But since we may make mistakes iu regard to things of t i e world, do not let us b„» egotistic, and so puffel up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mis­take in regard to religious theories. And then I think we will do a gre it deal to over­throw the sectarianism from our hearts, and the sectarianism from the world, by chiefly enlarging upon those things in whicn we ' agree rather than Jabse on which we differ. J

Now, here is a great Gospel platform. A man comes up on this side the platform and j says: "I don't believe in baby sprinkling." ! Shall I shove him off* Here is a man coming I up on this side the platform, and he says: "I 1 don't believe in the perseverance of the 1 saints." Shall I show him oif? No. I will | say; "Do you believe in the Lord Jesus as j your Savior? Do you trust Him for time and | for eternity?" He says: "Yes." lcDo you ; take Christ for t'me aad for eternity?" "Yes ." I say: "Cbnie oc. brothers; one in 1 time and one ir. eternit ; brother now, brother forever." Blessed be God for a Gos- I

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pel platform so large that all who receive Christ may stand on it!

I think we may overthrow the severe sec­tarianism and Bigotry in our hearts, and in the church al*o, by realizing that all the do nominations of Christians have yie'ded noble institutions and noble men. There is nothing that so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; another yielded a Lati­mer and a Melville; another yielded John Wesley and the blessed Summerfield, while our own denomination yielded John Knox and the Alexanders—men of whom the World wa> not worthy. Now, I say, if we are hon­est and fair-minded men, when we come up in the presenco of such churchy and such de­nominations, although they mayb> different from our own, we ouryht to admire them and we ought to love and h mor them. Churches

! which can produce such men, and such large-hearted charity, and such magnificent mar­tyrdom, ought to win our affection—at any rate, our respect- So come on, ye 400,000 Episcopalians in this country, and ye 803,000 Presbyterians, and ye 2,830,600 Baptists, and ye nearly 3,750,00.') Methodists—come on,

1 shoulder to shoulder we will march for the 1 world's conquest- for all nations are to be

sived, and God demands that vou and I help do it. Forward, the whole line.

Moreover, we may also overthrow th» feel­ing of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniver­sary occasions begin and all denominations come up on the same platform. That over­throws sectarianism. In the Young Men's Christian sssociation, in the Bible society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary

society, shoulder to shoulder all denomina­tions.

Perhaps I might more forcibly illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an in­cident which took place fourteen or fifteen years ago. One Monday inorninat at about 2 o'clock, while her *M) passengers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and women running up and down the gang­ways and clutching for the rigging, ana the plunge of the helpless steamer, and the clap­ping of the hands of the merciles sea over the drowning and the dead, threw two conti­nents into terror. But see this brave quar­termaster pushing out with the life-line until he gets to the rock; and see these fishermen gathering up the shipwrecked and tak­ing them into tha cabins and wrapping them in the flannels snug and warm; and see that minister of the Gospel with three othsr men getting into a lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf and palling away until they save one more man, and then getting back with him to the shore. Can those men ever forget that night ? And can they ever forget their companion­ship in peril, companionship in struggle, com­panionship in awful catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never; In whatever part of the earth they meet they will be friends when they mention'the story rff that awful night when the Atlantic struck Mars Head.

Well, my friend, our world has gone into a worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on tho rocks. The old ship has lurche I and tossed in the tempests of six thousand years. Out with the lifeline! I do not care what denomination caiTies i t Out with the lifeboat! I do not care what denomination rows it. Side by side in the memory of common hardships,and common trials, and common prayers, and common tears, let us be brothers forever. We must be. We must be.

One army of tho living God To whose commana we bow :

Part of the host have cro Bftd th8 flood And part are c:o-sing now

And I expect to see the day when all de­nominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of t hrist and re?ite the creed: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and ia Jesua. Christ'and in the communion of s -ints, and in the life everlasting." May 6-od i ispire us all with the largest hearted Christian charityl

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