The Portland daily press., 1874-02-09
SUNDAY SERVICES.


AAHSo ONChAiiS, ehC actOA, AAcNs oCO w DIN
nell, gave the fourth lecture in the Doctrinal
Course IN his church, taking for his subject,
''the Doctrines of Salvation and Damnation."
His text was in Mark 16. Is. "He that believeth
and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned"
The lecture was about an hour in delivery,
and we present only the principal points. The
text the lecturer said, set before us the two OPP
pOsite conditions in which men are found The
words, understood, express an every day eX-
perience He briefly reviewed the customs re-
garding baptism, believing that any sincere
person could object to receiving the rite when
to the consideration of the first clause of the
text "He that believeth, shall be saved"
Believeth what? Though there are several
answers given in the religious world, the true
one is, the Gospel. Christ commanded his dis
ciples to go and preach the Gospel, and he that
believeth etc. What is it to believe. Not SIM
ply profess it-but liUe it-be governed by its
principles. 1t is an every day life. 1t roots out
enmity to God and man, and substitutes love in
the heart. With this belief, we shall be saved
Saved from what? Many think salvation
means escape from the penalty of transgres-
sion. The preacher believed that Christ never
so taught, and that such was not his mission.
A sin must receive its full penalty. Salvation
was not an escape from punishment-only as
we should avoid the wrong. Do wrong and
you suffer. Do right. and you are saved from
sin and its consequences. He rather intmated
his belief in future discipline, but believing all
punishment administered for the welfare of
man, and that ultimately it would gain its OBJ
ject, and the soul finally become restored to ho-
Illness.
Salvation consisted in being saved from sin,
inquity, transgresson, and their kindred.
Saved from these, we are saved from woe. Be-
lieving the Gospel, taking Christ for our guide,
living as He has commanded, we shall indeed
be saved By it we are also saved from darkness
Light through Christ, has come. AS we press
forward toward it, we become rescued. We are
saved from many trials which otherwise would
come upon us. From ignorance, both of the
nature of the mission of earth and the truth of
Immortality From degradation, because iv-
ing the Gospel. following Christ, we are aud
life of Jesus, The spirit of the Gospel are stand
ing rebukes against selfshness. We require
more love, charity, benevolence; we need more
of the SaviOurs spirit; we want to be lifted
ABOVE ourselves, uOt Always upon the lookout
for number ONE; proud because we are advance
ed, and Indifferent regarding the rest of the
world.
Salvation consists too not only in escapes
but in victories. We are not only to escape the
bonds of sin. but we are to fight 1t, subdue it,
that others. now bound, may escape. We are
not only to get afely through life, but we are
to gain and grow in love and in truth 1t is
not enough that we simply die we'll, we ought,
by grand labors, to do vastly more than that.
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'but he that believeth not shall be damned"
He referred to the many different rende7ipgs
the original word receives in English. The
true doctrine of damnation found its expires
siou in Christ's teaching that "this is condem-
nation (damnation) that light is come into the
world, and men love darkness rather than
light" "He that believeth not is condemned
(damned) already" John III. 1t was present
as well as future. 1t continued as long as men
sinned 1t did not refer to time 50 much as to
spirit of the Gospel was this: Man sns he
suffers; he is not living the Gospel; he is tor
mented; He is in ignorance, darkness. mis-.
cry. He. is condemned-damned in the
shall be thus damned. Only as he repenls
lives the Gospel-leans on Christ-can
he be elevated. The Gospel damnation
signified the condition Of unbelievers. Talk as
much as one may, the idea Of pleasure in SIM
is false. Human experience does not justify
the assertion. No man can be, or is happy in
sin. He is damned and he always will be until
he fOrsakes its ways. He believed that the
Scriptural doctrine of damnation, that the way
of the transgressol is hard-that there is no es-
cape from the penalty of wickedness-that man
is an alien, as it We're, just so long as he loves
darkness rather than light, should be earnestly
preached. The thought that we must wait uu-
til some great future day before we receive
either the rewards of well doing, or torments
for evil;acts did not find support either in rev.
elation or experience. The terrible plantations
incident to transgressons, should be avoided by
stunning the cause, and the Gospel salvation
earnestly sought.
PINE STREET CHURCA.
Yesterday forenoon Rev. MI. Johnston selected
for his text Philippians II, 18th verse "Work
out your own salvation with fear and tremb.
ling" He began by observing that if we are to
believe the platform, the 18th century is almost
complete: just few pet schemes more and
the last touches will be put upon the world, and
the great body of reformers will pronounce it
perfect The little black spots in the face of
humanity will soon be erased; little moral
paint; few strips of court plaster; one or two
more cosmetics, and the earth will be turned
out completely Lealed; and the pestle, and the
lancet, and the d rugs will be forever abandon
ed The moral growth of the world will be
Symmetrical, land civilization will be one harmo
NOUS whole. Though the garb which covers
the world has the latest pattern stamped by
science, and though the dress be whaleboned
with railroads, and stitched by telegraphs, yet
sne nsure underneath is the same mass of
Ill illus and bruises, and purifying sores which
CT 'h tne comparison and sympathies of
crater 90 ~ M wen throw loose covering over the
. ..a y. mount Etna and seek to keep down
mend the world by beginning on the outside
line heart OF humanity is afflicted; every beat
SCI senos san; now o. impure sentiment through all
formations must begin with indiv;duo1s .
we must work from the centre to the circnr,f.r
ance if we mean our efforts to be abiding. The
hardest lesson to teach the world of TO-DAY 10
that of its own accountability. The broad
shoulders of humanity shrink from hearinp
their own salvation Nothing, people are more
generous about than matters of religion and he