ks are off "golfing" or
"hiking," and the gray-beards, lonely and terror-stricken as they see
church extinction approaching, favor "a union of forces with some other
church." In the church magazines of the next month appear sundry
articles on "the broad and liberal spirit of the nineteenth century
church." "A large catholicity is taking the place of the old fogyism of
former days," scribbles the hack-writer.

THE "MILKSOP'S" THEORY.

In a few cases large congregations have united. When we behold it our
hopes rise, but they are doomed to early blight by a careful study of
the situation. The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging
to faith and doctrines. Whether or no we ought to all believe precisely
alike about non-essentials, one thing is sure, the man who does not
cleave to some faith, heart and head and brain and blood, is worthless
in Christ's army. Milksops may be ornamental, they are certainly not
militant, and God wants soldiers. The man who does not know what he
believes, and the man who says "it does not matter what one believes if
one is only sincere," are more despicable than the Yankees who burned
witches in Salem. Better that a man be "narrow" than that he be so
"broad" as to take in "the devil and all his angels." Out upon our
folly when we barter away the truth of God for a flimsy, tissue-paper
bond of so-called "fellowship"!

CHRISTIAN ONENESS.

There is a unity, however, and to it Christ referred, which does not
consist in uniformity of creed but in oneness of heart. When we are
truly sanctified the non-baptizing Quaker, and the trine immersionist,
and the High Church Episcopalian, and the foot-washing Tunker, and the
Methodist, and the Baptist, and the Congregationalist all unite in one
far-reaching melodious chorus,

"HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD!"

DISTINCTIONS OBLITERATED.

Sanctification destroys sticklerism for non-essentials and the lust for
fine distinctions in dogmatics. It slays the doctrinaire and makes a
red-hot revivalist out of him. The purified soul takes the Bible for
his "credo" and loves God's children of whatever name with a generosity
that overtops every inadequate consideration. The sanctified are united
by a common cause and a common experience. Opinions may differ as to
ecclesiastical polity or the mode of baptism, but the white cord of
sanctification is "the bond of perfectness" which makes them one
bundle. Yale and Cornell are rivals with their "eights" and "