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by Faith.
york Of the Home Missionary
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Raisiou and Mysteries, or an En-
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SALVATION.
WHY IT MUST BE Br FAITH
~ tbs Editor ef The Tribune.
;, ..raoo, May 19.-n the salvation Of moral
,.;no could consist Of, or be tnade up VI, happ.
surroundiugs, adluncts, OF attendants, then
0u.s s,ration might be reached, or reach
@ sh,. irrespective Of the faith Of the
~. .s.;a,ent. 0mnipotencc, in that case, might
smpfr order the happy adjuncts, or transplant
-. ~, from whatever Of wretched inaptitudcs,
- nen;al clImes, displays, and attendants, aud
tht xprk would be done. But such Is not the
s,,sntiou ~ Of the Gospels not the possible c1-
r,d,nce Of moral being,
The human soul, all perverted and distorted
=, s;n-by the "fcshly, carnal mind, enmitr
es.;nst God y accused by the law written il,
49, bearts is no more within the reach OF
sslTst;on t by the direct agency Of Omnipotenee
.3lea III nesrl5-gated, glory-lghted city Of gold
s11ared Shining ones afford a single ingredient
een,;,s;te IN tie salvation Of 4 human spirit.
Wber therefore, ministers say in the pulpit
ss thsy often do-that il God had seen fit lie
n;rht hsye made salvation contlh, gent upon
soine other exercise than faith, or that 1aith
ssres The believer just because God says it shall
A. 81. "they multiply words without knowl-
eJec. knowing not what they say, neither
p6stof thcy affirm" Saying q thing is true
nerer made 1t true, no matter who says
t. The Bible don't claim to make any
thing tue. It don't clailu to be book OF en-
artments; It does claim to be book Of reyeEa-
tions, What it reveals is true and was just as
tyue before it was written in the Bible as after
xuds. The Bible don't make 1t true that - .sIhe m
xar Of the trausgressor is hard" that 'Ths
x1ges OF sin is DEATH" that "He that
hefsyeth not the Son shall not See life"
Int lie wrath Of God abideth on him Qn the
same sense as when man disrcgards the Kind
r. God-ordained lav of gravitatiou, steps of
oDe Of these Six-6tory roofs, that kindly law
would, in human language, deal With lin IN
seeming x7ath).
slsrms our fears, and VT may be so short-sight-
ID Is to wish to hush its alarms, as though thus
Fe should get rid Of an impending doom.
But ,the bell don't imake the lire, nor cause the
doom, hut merely gives us timely warning, that
Fe may aforesee the evil and hide ourselves,
While the simple pass on and are punished"
Just 50, the Bible don't make hell and damnation
true, but kindly gives notice that an experience
h shirt Is possible, which the poverty of human
language cannot better describe than By i
being CAST into s'Hell of fire, where there
shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing Of
teeth" Eot that literal fire can touch tho nus
man spirit, IN any world, OF that any local or
tangible agency can, more than tguthtiTc1y,
have to do With that Inevitable consciousness Of
suming fire."
This ETetched consciousness, mingled with 4
ense Of meanness, depravity, and ingratitudc,
sakes up the case described by Splomon,-"a
founded spirit who can bear, "a fate more In
aez2hle and resolutely to be avoided, i 1t
ERE possible, than any literal burning in un-
nenehahle fire, but one from which no powers
fOmnipotence or OF human viii, directly ex-
rted affords the slightest hope Of salvation
Although the opinion that the soul departing
bis life Ia eternity to God, and out OF harmony
nth I'll the elements which constitute heaven,
anst enter local "plass Of torment" !" whore
Material fire shall rage in vain to a1tnihilate It,
t., ) surely, mistaken Interpretation Ct tbs
rretchedness Of a fallen spirit tort1r-
ID and burning. with re1norse and the
loss Of its chosen carnal enjoyments.
let this opinion only mistakes in the attitude Of
eauses too subtle and spiritual for grosser minds
10 appreciate, and hence is seen the wisdom OF
Inspiration in confding these sublime mysteries
% repository Of figures.
But It must be manifest that salvation cannot
,onsist in escaping such = literal he'll Of fire on
Ehe one hand, nor In gaining seat inside Of
he heavenly city On the other. But meet
hess to be partaker of the inheri-
anoe of the Saints in light" on the
'ue hand, and an inherent cursedness
mpelling the workers Of iniquity to take ito
everlasting fire, suited to tue devn and his
hese awful cases. No direct effort Of Omndipo-
ence, no arbitrary Judgment Of Infinite Soy-
eleignty, will determine the balances here.
Hence, ne see the mistake Of supposing that the
arbltet, Il disposed, might have chosen to dis
9ense salvation On the condition Of folly instead
II faith. For unless there is something in the
condition which edectually reconciles shining
nor, for condition adequate to this result.
and harmony with God can only
'1ist in the exercise Of love; and in such e1eT-
use OF love there can be no failure Of the re-
lnt1ed I!u harmony and reconciliation: Hence the
pole places all virtue In love-" Without love
an nothing" s.Lorc God, and thy ncighbor
ha, III tie Law al and 'tb the prophets" OBI aHc that
ioyeh hath fulfilled the lawn "Whosoevcr
losetA is born Of God.'' ttWhcrefore, love is
NE telfliing Of the law' Now, as "faith
xnleh y xorketh By icye," like other faith, comes
"a appreciated proof competent, credible, that
gwen loea Is true; and, that idea is such that,
.@41s eAtSELalllcu IN Ia1t1 Is true, LnC pclle7CT
= prompted inyoluntarlly to love, because the
saoled o. the statement is loving and loveablec,
,Ssia, sIn IN Yea, In statement, becomes faith
' Snea #o5Eeth By love Not that every faith
Ia 4n or does SO work,-for instance, the very
Mmmon ~ .taith that "money is the passport to
thes soHo fSt, does not work by loye, unless it be
ae we'll stuck 10 is as good as
the ~ truth" works quite other than
" lore; the faith Of the Hlndoo mother in the
sa1ne Of drowning her own child in the Gauges
aont y; work By love, for love worketh no i'll to
The truth is that faith Affects the believer
aa9ecording to the idea believed o he true, even
laough it is not true in fact hike an instance
smong thousands: the confidingwife has serene
!oy IN the mistaken faith that he husband is
ine ! :, and faithful to her. Her faith In the
aaelty Of her husband affects her list the same
= y 1t were true, though it Is sally false in
The point an aiming to reach h1e is that
s0ea IS man, that no matter what his last life,
= present turbulence OF spirit, it is possible to
ttaW LEV his attention away from his ren,ore and
els1er fa enmity against God, and his rasl and
devotion to temporal and carnal delilhts,
!" ny me contemplation OF 9 set OF derelofng
fe fteanty In those facts, provided those facE hod
to1n God. In another person and attitude Of b.
aas Inan that in which he has had his co1nbative
aess excited during his life OF sin; thus "see-
ag ne shall See, not perceive, hearing be shall
lact IL the universe, "God in Chist
rec sesonciltng the world unto Himself
aot ~. ,, 1mput1ng their trespasseS 9nto
y 1eaa." shall 50 far have engrossed his nth