The New York herald., 1875-11-01

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CONVICTION after mature and prayeru study that our Uni
versast faith truly scptura and contains the only pract
cal solution Of the otherwise nseruabe mysteries OF human
Eiher consciously or enoranty you false wit
ness against US In either ease as prominent puohe
Your Misrepresentation may deceive and lead astray
many earnest ard inquring minds for while 6ut you VIII
mind hanEerng for practical mantle station Of the spirit
and ne o Christ that theological lies have short legs and
You describe teaching that God is mercIfnl that
re Will save Az men and they have no need TO repent
after which proceed to ule and caricature on Chris
these men who are all the time crying ont
az men would be among the first TO declare
position hours You tbee add that God Is lust
wel rs mercifu A. Il the universa did not believe in
the conviction that ~ this you consciously
soatea @ lae nln our past Sn9wleugs g -
conviction upon bound therefore IN All love and
said was true and that uniyersast faith teaches tho
orabe penalties Of well the irreyocable
certainty 2, retri6ution for inquy and sin Our
" to aeeae that neither repentance nor faith in Christ
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joins in hand the wicked shall uupunhedn that
another Scripture win by no mean clear the
guilty " sti according 10 third unequyocal state
justaeth the wicked and condemneth the just even
AR. Moody, by three Scriptures each definitely
expressing
dcate our glorious faith and shaer 20 fragments your
prominent but the less superstition and favorte
dogma substitution 1t is true the men who
would find fault with who permitted the guilty
~ escape. Why Because not only believe in just
punishment eternal principle, but also because
It's correcting and reforming influence the criminal
In the Of the divine administration this Justice is
always tempered with because the justice which Is
without the unjust, and hence
useless any endless much
less IL be Of that sannary and brutal character
claimed bX Puritan fAthera proclamation the details
OF which wisely either don't believe conceal On the
other hand who but knaye TOOL would tolerate
who only acquits tho criminal but incs the
innocent the penalties due TO the guilty and then has the
bra2en mpudence 10 proclaim this justice Yet what You
and all would call folly and crime in human
Judge is exactly what you teach God does by
doctrine of substitution You ignorant OF the multi
Of Scripture which emphaticaly and
quivOcaly teach the final salvation Of all Andfo have
been there-l alas from sad experience, too familiar
with the miserable shifts aud suberfuges which commen
aud religious teachers driven in mnngng and
manipulating the English and Greek texts OF the Bible and
sraagems aud verbal fencing in eyadng the natural and
obvious meaning Of the Gospel which, in the Ian
guage the angelic ambassador good tdings of
joy which shall be to all people, IL may be that IN the
thousands, 81 this letter will be cast aside with
contempt Yet il Is written by who has been
preacher Of the Gospel for twenty-five aud whose
life has been devoted the study of the Bblewho now IS
be he Is willing die, and who concludes by asking
your pardon II he has written one word herein whch the SIM
pie truth does
need inform SO successful a revvalst and Christian
teacher that numbers necessarily test OF truth or or
in Us propagation and therefore, eueat yon IN
Divine Masters name, lest IN your isrepre
hapy fighting against those rdicule may be Of
that OF whom Paul wroteFor therefore, both
labor suffer reproach because trust in the living God
wao he saviour u all men, specially of those that be-