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will be sublime ; send them out to be sacri- 

 ficed to sectarianism, and the spectacle will 

 be a shame. 



I am not so foolish as to think that de- 

 nominations serve no good purpose. When 

 I find one class of people so narrow that 

 they have no place for men whose minds 

 are open to receive the fullest light on all 

 the problems of religion, I rejoice that they 

 can be in a little coterie by themselves, and 

 hope they enjoy their company ; when I hear 

 others say that they are not willing to work 

 with this evangelist or that, because, even 

 though the Lord approves him, they cannot, 

 I do not waste tears over the fact that we 

 are not compelled to keep step to their 

 music ; when I find people who do not be- 

 lieve in social settlements, in institutional 

 churches, in saving men except according 

 to prescribed methods, — who, apparently, 

 would rather the masses were lost than 

 reached in unofficial ways, — I am thankful 

 that they can have a nice and proper fold 

 all to themselves, and I do not care much 

 how high they build their fences. Such 

 societies are good places in which to keep 

 and discipline those small souls who do not 

 appreciate our Saviour's intercessory prayer. 



