Show CHURCH DANGER L WITHIN I Dissension of Religious Bodies More Perilous Than Outside Outside Out Out- side Assault CHRISTIANS HURT CAUSE I Church Was Strongest When I Mobs Made Martyrs of Leaders Following Is In part the tho sermon preached d yesterday In the tho First Methodist Methodist Meth- Meth odist church by the tho Rev Francis Burgette Bur Bur- gette Short Flung to lO the heedless winds or on the waters cast enst Time The martyrs martyrs' ashes watched shrill shull gathered be nt at last And from that scattered dust around us and abroad Shall spring a 0 plenteous seed or of witnesses wit wit- nesses for God The Father bath received their latest living breath And vain aln Is Satans Satan's boast ot of victory victor In their death Still still though dead the speak and trumpet ton trumpet tongued proclaim To many a land the ono one n availing name Tho sentiment or of the tho poet has hns been verified during the history or of the church Persecutors have havo not retard retard- cd tho onward march ot of the tho kIngdom ot of righteousness neither have the tho blandishments ot of the world without RS as much ns as have tho and disagreements dlA- dlA a agreements or of the tho forces and Some one wrote t. t at the tho professed all ally or of the cau cause o. o and not Nero hero or orL L' L d te Ille dark ages The church huoI been bean loss Imperiled when Its minis tent and have been beaten b by the UH mob thrown inta Int foul roul prisons and C even Cn n burned nt at the than lall when there has sprung within her borders personal strivings The Tho church has always alwa's shown Its greatest activity antI and multiplied in st under persecution Mans Man's worth must be made mado to red own to G ds d's glor glory Men are nrc operating within the realm ot of Jehovah's Jo- Jo hovah's laws The They may break breal the tho law but they cannot break brenk away awny from His authority The Tho most deFiant may rage pour out his wrath against the church as did Nero and curse curso oven God Goel but away from the law of responsibility ro- ro none nono can n over ever escare ien en mt amy not see the tho hand of God In ruling over but Its It's there God Behind the curtain God keeping watch over His own ilen len often orten become OWn executioners and build the tho scaffolds apon which they are aro hung llama Haman Tower Jr Jf Babel silently done but none Done the less done Thus It has been and thus It will over continue to ho bc that political parties or churches that forget theIr high and ho holy mission will alwa's al- al was trays be slain b by the tho hand of gration but every ery combination of men and for the good ot of the race raco that has Jut Just principles and stands by them breathes the breath ot of Tale Take for example the slavery anti movement Ilo the temperance ref rm These not hindered so much by forces without as b by dissensions within On the tho other othor hand look nt at the church In the days clas or of St Stephen phen lie was murdered and the Christians wel were e driven the city only to go everywhere preaching preach preach- Ing the tho gospel This interested and excited Simon Ho He desired this vcr power not fr Christs Christ's sake but for tor Simons Simon's sake Everything E to 10 h him m was figured out on a dommer- dommer basis POOl Pooi nan that ho he was What a lon some ome men have hav of the church and Christianity The Tho Christian religion cannot ie bo Placed upon n a commercial basis Wealth cannot make a spiritual church etc and the further away from the dollar mark that tie church keeps the better f r the church The Thc first valuable asset the thc church has Is pure hearts heart and right motive Men Ien thus go to toll toil with nohl nobl purposes and high ideals rebuking that unholy and avaricious spirit which som sometimes shows Itself among Christian Chris Chris- tian people |