The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-08


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aspect OF the Comfortsr's work Is not 50 muc
where it touches she inner experience Of the dis
| the world, bringing an influence to bear upon tn
| world and so afecting Il that instead OF Deini
able to KIN them and exterminate this rising caus
OF Christ It shall be constrained to tolerate then
and TO bear with this cause until tho cause itsel
has been 2, est established In the vorldn That
tiop OF It in the history Of the Church Everything
looked DARK TO the disciples before the day OF Pen
and all Jerusalem was against them; but the spirit
Of God came down; the Comforter spake yhrougf
Peter and wrought IN the hearts OF multitude Q
hearers = conviction OF stn and Of righteousness
and OF Judgment until tho thousands that had IN
the morning been hostile 70 Christ and His truth
before nightfall were HIS pledged and earnest fol-
lowers and disciples standing by the twelve ready
TO protect and defend those whom otherwise they
Ior the projection and defence OF His rev and lee.
tbai controls the world outside and changes ita
hostility into friendship and good will And you
SEQ tho same thing on smaller scale at Philippl,
where the jailor, who seems TO have heartily en-
the stocks and treating them IS any com.
mon prisoners, was convicted BY the Comforter OF
sin and OF righteousness and Of lndgmen. and ne
became fast friend OF the disciples and an earn
est follower Of Christ This Important sense We
attach to the words :-"He will convict the world
he win make sentiment In your favor; he win
uproot hostility; he will le0ven the world itself
VIII me principles 50 rca yon are
but the world itself VIII come under the sway OF
that Gospel Of which you are the chosen preach
ers.n You can easily see how this would encour-
age and sustain the disciples In the early days OF
the Church
CONVICTION OF SIN
And now let us look 1t the particular form of
that convicting work that Ia here predicted. This
whole work Of conviction is in three acts-con.
ment. you were asked to explain the
connection between tho positive statements
or the text. you woulo probably md it little dim
cult TO 40 it, Conviction OF sin Is not a work Of
Imagination only; me Imagination OF wicked
that the Holy Ghost has at times used this power
OF the Imagination. But this conviction Is not
Judgment apprehend that many transgressors
know sin to be sinful and have very clear notion
OF the bad consequences. but they make calcula.
ton that the pleasure Is near and available and
the penalty II it comes az all, Is remote; 80 they
snatch the pleasure and take their chances as to
men me- would would only stop ana think they Would see
that that very knowledge and Judgment and con.
viction IL dreadful element In their guilt Yet
work OF the Spirit. Naturally, conscience operates
upon mems minds in this same direction,
e' the aas whole % the bs com
vlctlng work. In its earlier and less vitated
stages conscience denounceS the SIN TO the sin
ner but by and by 1t ceases to speak, Is drugged,
and IN many Instances holds its peace altogether
for time. But in It's earlier stages 1t condemns a
sinner to his lace and the Spirit Of Coo uses THIS
But when man Is genuinely convicted OF sin by
the Holy Ghost he knows Sin as sin as hateful be-
fore God; that ne ought to hate it because it is
hateful TO God; ne hates himself because he does
not hate sin. surgeon may know and describe
with accuracy the sensations OF panent but II ls
se o pan the
impressions or the imagination and the actual ex-
perience OF what sin is. Are there any Of you,
dear brethren who have had incipient FEELINGS OF
this KIND Let me give you two counsels touch.
ing them First Of all, do not take them Tor saving
religion. You may have these and never be saved.
Convictions, sense OF sin, do not save any more
than keen feeling of agony curesthe disease. In
the second place. Il you nave these convictions do
have done so many have been advised to do so
the feelings have been spoken OF as morDid; they
have been told tnat they were h1ghtened without
cause; that they needed something cheerful to en-
piOy them and turn their minds In another direc-
non. Men have rushed into business fastened TO
pleasures, changed their employment their So
very land In which they dwet. In order 10 get rid
OF these convictions and secure what they sup.
get true peace; they get that feeling that is de.
sfr6ed a. peace peace, when there Y no peace :"
you not ~, 70 S to get rid Of these
trust the savior, put yourself in the Redeemer'a
hands, apd h2Teysr II Tortities and humDi E.
eSusness, take sts' this lis salvation that is IN
Jesus and then, and then only, will you have
soes the ane ps snns cenvcs q SIM has
great instrumenrs-the law is one. The law Is 2
copy OF she Divine mind, as It concerns MEN, and
II cannot tolerate the least deviation from its
quirements. man might as well talk OF q mathe-
NAUTICAL straight line with little detection IL it
Accommodation Is out Of the question. Until q
man sees Gods law he thinks that God is hike HIM.
SELL and he Is not very hard upon the peccadilloes
Of BIS ,Ds ssheeTs 81 that e
trouble with rwo-thrds of our superficial religious
literature is that II knows nothing OF Gods law
himself. In It's estimation God Is simply an exag
gerated, an enlarged, magnrfied man, and there
1e hardy m sa Rn fsre
agency IN the Spirits hand in producing this con
vicrlon, and shat IL the Gospel When man sees
the cause OF Jesus Christ he thinks more Of tnt
law; he does not think better OF himself, bu
worse; when the law has stripped MIN and
wounded him and lett him for dead, the Gospel q
It IL unfolded to MIN, pOurs the oil and she win,
into his wounds, and lifts him up and carries min
on the way to the new Jerusalem. Then che VII
cause | 90 TO my Father and ye sec me no more.
Righteousness Is composed OF two thiDgs-freedon
nom inherent sins and perfect obedience 70 COD
requirements The angels have both. Man hat
one OF these at first, but lacked the other becaus
he broke Gods law. Jesus Christ had and Away
viii have both; but He identified Himself with q
and God treated Him as sinful IN order
THAT JUSTICE MIGHT BE SATISFIED.
Now, for the third act IN this work OF conviction
he says, "of Judgment because the prince OF thi
world is Judged" the prince OF this world 1
Satan, the wisest and strongest foe that has eve
risen against the kingdom OF God. Jesus Chris
came TO this world TO grapple with this prince; n
meets him on the field Of the law, the law rs salts
fed, and Satan Is judged as having no right owe
us TO control us, no claim upon US. II You hav
not received these truths, receive them, no
biiAdly, but examine carefully, and when you RI
cefve them then will be fulfilled that which wa
| written In the Episte to the Romans, 'For wit
] the hearJ man beheveth unto righteousness, all
with the mouth confession Is made unto salvation
! for the Scripture SAITH Whosoever Selleveth
| HIM shall not be ashamed.n May God bless to U
HIS truth, and to His name will be praise (oreve
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.
| Power-Sermon by the Rev. George Il
HePw0rth.
MIR. Hepworth spoke yesterday morning on II
| power of God and Of men. His text was |. O