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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON The Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. * “Sectarianism” It the Subject - The Church of God Divided Into a Great Number of Denomination*—The Cause* Bis® try—Kells of Intolerance. Tl ” : "Then said they unto him, 8ay, now Shibboleth, and he said Slbboleth; m? u d * rame to pronounce It right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Joadan.”—Judges xil.,6. Do you notice the difference of pronun ciation between shibboleth and slbboleth? A very small and unimportant difference, you say. And yet, that difference was the difference between life and death for a great many people. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got Into a great light, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the re treat came te the fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order was given that all Eph- ralmites coming there be slain. But how ?puUi found out who were Ephraim- Itos? They wero detected by thoir pronun ciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue ftnd wheu they tried to say •shibboleth” always left out the sound of »it was asked that they say shibboleth they said slbboleth, and were 8 i ."Then 8 ^ d th 0 y unto him, say now shibboleth; and he said slbboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce It right. Then they took him and slew him nt the passages of Jordan.” A very small differ- ance, you say, between Gilead an<f Eph raim, and yet how much Intolerance about that small difference? The Lord’s tribes in our time—by which I mean the different denominations of Ohristinns—sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of denomin ations to-day is the difference between shibboleth and slbboleth The Church of God is divided Into % great number of denominations. Time would fall me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Ar- minlans, and the Sabbatarians, and the Baxteriaus, and the Dunkers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Metho dists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopal ians, and the Lutherans, and the Congre- gationalists, aud the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denomi nations of religionists, some of them found ed by very good men, some of them found ed bv very egotistic men, some of them founded by very bad men. But as I de mand for myself liberty of conscience, I must give that same liberty to ovory other man, remembering that he no more differs from me than I differ from him. I advo cate the largest liberty In all religious be lief and form of worship. In art, In poli tics, lu 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 dis cussion to purification and moral health. Between the fourth and the sixteenth oen- turies the church proposed te make people think aright by prohibiting discussion, and bv strong censorship of the press, and ruck, and gibbet, and hot lead down the throat, tried to make people orthodox; but it was discovered that you cannot change a man’s belief by twisting off his head, nor make a ihnn see differently by putting an awl through hfs eyes. There is something In a raan’d conscience which will hurl off the mountain that you threw upon it, and unsinged of the fire, out of the llame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. In that time of which I speak, botween the fourth and sixteenth centuries, peo ple went from the house of Qod into the most appalling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness nnd licentiousness suoh as the world never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose and flood ed the churoh. After awhile the printing press was freed, and it broke the shackles of the human mind. Thoq there came a large number of bad books, and where there wus one manjhostlle to the Christian rcljgipo* there were twenty men ready to advocate it; so 1 have not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between Truth and Error. The Truth will con quer 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 ana transcen dentalism spur, let it run. God’s angels of wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle’s beak clutches out a nawk’s heart, God’s vengeance will tear it to pieces. I propose to speak to you of sectarian ism—its origin, its evils, and its cures. 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 its hide. But I want to make a distlnoMon between bigotry and the lawful fondness for poouliar religious beliefs and forms of worship. I have no admiration for n nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vicissi tude and temptation, and with a soul that must after awhile stand before a throne of insufferable brightness, in n day when tho rocking of the mountains and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the seas shall bo among the least of the excite ments, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference, and dislike—that man is mad who has no religious prefer ence. But our early education, our physi cal temperament, our mental constitution, will very much decide our form of wor ship. A style of psalmody that may please me muy displease you. Somo would liko to have a minister in gown and bands and surplice, nnd others prefer to have a min ister in plain citizen’s apparel. Some are most impressed when a little ohild is pre sented at the altar aud sprinkled of tho waters of u holy benediction “in the name of the Father, aud of tho Son, and of the Holy Ghost,” aud others aro more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the river, his garments drlppiug with tho waters of a baptism which signiHee the washing away of sin. Lot either have his own way. One man likes no noise in prayer, not a word, not a whisper. An other inan, just us good, prefers by gestic ulation and exclamation to express his de votional aspirations. One is just as good us tho other. “Every man fully persuuded in his own mind.” George, Whltofleld was going over a Quaker rather roughly for somo of his re ligious sentiments, aud tho Quaker said: “George, I am as thou art: I am for bring ing all men to tho hope of the Gospel; therefore, if thou wilt not quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give me thy hand.” In tracing out tho religion of sectarian ism or bigotry I And that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the home circle. There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of religion in the world, and de nounce other sects and other denomina tions. I could mention the names of prom inent ministers of the Gospel who spent their whole lives' bombarding other de nominations and who Jived to tee their children preach the Gospel in those very denominations. But it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household, and that the subject of it never recovers. There are tens of thousands of bigots ten years old. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. You seldom llnd a man with large intellect who is a bigot, It is the man who thinks he knows a great deal, but does not. That man is almost alwuys a bigot. The whole tendency of education aid civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of stute of mind aud heart. So I have set before ysu what I oonsider to be the causes of bigotry. I have sot be fore you the origin of this great evil tint of all, It cripples Investigation. Ton an wrong, and I am right, and that end* It. No taste tor exploration, no eplrlt of investigation. From the glorious nslm of Clod's truth, over which an archangel might By from eternity to eternity and not naoh the limit, the man shnta himself ont and dies, a blind mole under a corn-shook. While eaoh denomination of Christians Is to present all the truths of the Bible, It seem to me that Ood has given to eaoh de nomination an especial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine; nnd so the Calvinlstlo churches must pre sent the soverelguty of Ood, and the Ar- mlnlan churohes must present man's tree agenoy, and the Episcopal ohurohes must present the Importance of order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordlannoes, and the Congregational ohurohes must present tho responsibility of the Indlvldgnl mem ber, ana the Methodist ohurohes mum show what holy enthusiasm, hearty congrega tional singing can accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel It Is especially Incumbent upon eaoh de nomination to put particular emphasis on some one doctrine. Another great damage done by (be sec tarianism and bigotry of theohuroh Is that It disgusts people with the Christina relig ion. Again bigotry and sectarianism do great damage In tbe fact that they hinder the triumph of the Oospel. Oh, how muoti’ wasted ammunition! How many men of splendid Intslleot have given their whole life to controversial disputes when, If they had given their life to somethtng practical, they might have been vastly useful! Sup pose, while I speak, there were n common enemy coming up the bay, and all the forts around the harbor began to Ore Into eaoh other—you would ory out "National suloldol Why don't those forts blase away In one direction, and that against the common enemy?" Besides that, It you want to build up any denomination, you will never build It up by trying to pull somo other down. Intol erance never put anything down. How muoh has Intolerance accomplished, for In stance, ngulnst the Methodist Church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great Britain. Why was It that so many of thorn preached In tho fields? Simply beoauso they oould not get In the ohurches. And the name of the churoh was given In derision and as a sarcasm. The critics of the ohuroh said, "They havo no order, they have no method In their worship;" and the crltlos. therefore, In Irony, called them "Methodists.” I am told that In Astor Library, Now York, kept as curiosities there are seven hundred and seven books and pamphlets against Methodism. Did Intolerance stop that churoh? 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 re* Uglous trusts, but Important also In secular trusts. Church marohlng on and the mors Intolerance against It the faster It mnrohod. What did Intolerance accomplish against the Baptist Churoh? If laughing scorn and tirade oould have destroyed the nburoh It would cot have to-day a disciple left. Tbe Baptists were burled out of Boston In oldea times. Those who sympathized with them were Imprisoned, and when u petition was offered asking lenlenoy In their behalf, all the men who signed it were Indloted. Has Intolerance stopped the Baptist Churoh? The last statistics In regard to It showed forty-four thousand ohurohes and four million communloants. Intolerance never put down anything. In England a law was made qgalnst the Jew. England thrust back tbe Jew and thrust down tho Jew. and declared that no Jew should hold official position. Whut come of It? Were the Jews destroyed? Was tltolr religion overthrown? No. Who became Prime Minister of England? Who was next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne because he Was counsellor and adviser? Disraoll, a Jew. What were we celebrating In all our churohes as well ns synagogues only a few years ago? The one hundredth birthday of Montollore, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance never yet [ml down anything. " I think we may overthrew the severe sectarianism and bigotry lu our hearts, and In the churoh also, by realizing that all the denominations of Christians have yielded noble Institutions and noble men. There Is nothing that so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adonlram Judson; another yielded a Latimer and a Melville; another yielded John Wesley nnd the blessed Summerfleld, while our own denomination yleldw' John Knox and the Alexanders—meo( whom the world was not worthy. No> say, If we are honest and fair-minded t' a, when we come up In the presened of I .eh churohes and suoli denominations, • although they may be different from our own, we ougbt to admire them, and we ought to love and honor them. Churches whloh can produce suoh men, and auoh large hearted oharity, and such magnlBaent martyrdom, ought to win oar nffeotlon—at any rate, our respeot. So come on, ye six hundred thousand Episcopalians In this country, and ye four teen hundred thousand Presbyterians, and ye four million Baptists, and ye Bve mil lion Methodists—come on; shoulder to shoulder we will march loathe world’s con- 3 uest; for all nations are to be 'saved, and od demands that you and I help. For ward, the whole lino! In tho Young Men’s Christian Assooiatlons, In the Bible So ciety, In theTraotSoolety, lu the Foreign Missionary 8ooloty, shoulder to shoulder all denominations. Ferhaps I might foroibly illustrate this truth by calling your attontiou to un inci dent which took place twenty-live years ago. One Monday mofnlng at about two o’clock, while her nine hundred passen gers wero Bound asleep in hor berths dronmlng of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars’ Head. Five hundred souls in ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a sconel Agonized men and wo men running up and down the gangwnys and clutching for tho rigging, nnd tho plungo of tho helpless steamer, and the clapping of the hands or the merciless sea over the drowning und the dead, threw two contlnoats into terror. Hut see this brave quartermaster pushing out with tho life-line until lie gets to the rock; nnd see these Ilshermen gathering up the ship wrecked and tnklng them Into tho onbius and wrapping them in flannels snug nnd warm; aud see that minister of tho Gospel with three other men getting Into a life-boat and pushing ont for the ' wreck, pulling awnv across the ; surf, and pulling away until they hud saved I ono more man and then gutting back with I him to the shore. Can those men ever for got that night? And can they forget their companionship in peril, compunlonshlp In struggle, oompanloushlp In awful catas trophe and rescue? Noveri Neverl In whatever part of the earth they meet, they will bo friends when they montlon the story of that night when tho Atlantic struck Mars’ Head. Well, my friends, our world has goao Into a worse ship, wreck. Sin drove It on the rooks. Tho old ship has lurched and tossod lu the tempests of six thousand years. Out with the llfe-llnel I do not care what denomina tion rows it. Side by side, In the memory of common hnrdshlps, and common trials, nnd common prayers and common tears lot us be brothers forever. Dead Brothers In Anna. Two brothers, Mortimer and Emmett Huffman, sons of D. C. Huffman, of In dianapolis, Ind., wero killed at Santiago. The family moved from Luwrencoburg' Ind., to Indianapolis several years ago and at that city a few months since Edna tho only daughter, committed suicide because her lover hud killed himself after a misun derstanding with his sweetheart. 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