The Miracle at Markham

Excerpt from The Miracle at Markham: How Twelve Churches Became One
The Miracle at Markham was written during the summer of 1898, and read the following fall and winter by the author to his Sunday evening congregation in the Central Church, Topeka, Kansas. It was then published as a serial in The Hams Horn, Chicago.
The facts as to church crowding, at least in small towns in the middle west of this country, are too evident to require any argument. The need of some kind of union in order to save the waste of effort in church work is also plain to all thoughtful church members.
What shall this union be? This story emphasizes only one point, and that is the practical possibility of a church union, not on lines of doctrine, custom or creed, but on lines of common effort for the uplift of humanity. Where churches of different denominations and methods of outward worship are not ready nor willing to unite on a basis of creed, they are ready and willing to unit on a basis of Christian service.
This is all that the story attempts to teach. Any town like Markham (and it is only a type of hundreds) can do what Markham did. And if the denominations once begin to unite on this basis of common effort for a common humanity, sectarianism in its most unchristian and offensive exhibition of narrow and selfish church life will be a thing of the past, and the Kingdom of God will begin to come in great power on the earth. To this end this story is sent out. May its message bless the Church of Jesus, and hasten the answer to His longing prayer that His disciples might be one.
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