The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-19
THAT RELIGIOUS DISPUrATIoN.
Common Sense Has n Few Closing
Words with Hope"

THAT REil6lOtS blSfl AAhiOS'
common Sense" Has a Few Closing
Words with slope"
Correspondence OF the Register.
In the REGISTER OF March l2sh, Hope
after writing and twisting himself into
all sorts OF moral and spiritual enorml-
ties, being cut OF breath, rs it were, gives
I'D the problem of what this nel1 btrth
is, because the Divine Teacher Himself
gave it up. His exact words are: Il
declined q task the Divine Teacher HIM
self would not undertake" What non.
sense, what supreme darkness does this
man Hope throw around his scheme OF
salvation. "Mystery" Mystery! "Baoyi-
on the greatw What was the mission OF
the son of man but to teach men how to
lead good lives, whereby they might
be saved. Saved! Saved from
WHAT? What is the condemn atom
"And this is the condemnation that
light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil. For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light lest MS deeds should
be reproved. But he that doeth truth
cometh to the light thai his deeds may
be made manifest that they are wrought
in God"
Is there any mystery about this?
Spiritual things must be spiritually dis
cussed" Yes; and 3 spiritual oIrtn IS
different operation from natural birth.
In one instance the subject has Gil to do
with it, in the other he has nothing to do
with 1t. The spiritual body Is formed oy
hearing the Word and doing II.
ale that heareth these sayings
of mine and doeth them" he is the one
who "walketh in newness OF lie" lin q
spiritual sense is born again and be-
comes more and more new creature.
"ue that hsta my commandments and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me-"
Is Hope" to be understood as affirm
| ing the proposition that man Is saved,
! if saved 1t all, miraculOusly2 That 3
Few heart is given HIM whereby De can
never sin AGAIN? Il must be so, because
! he atiirus that the "OOrn again IS an
entirely new creature, his sins all tor
given, ana as before he was OF the earth
earthly, so now he is = child Of God, q
! being with new attributes, new
4. s.res, new impulses, new aspifa-
! LiCIs, cannot SID, because he mas not
sinful heart. Or Is this new creature
! liable 10 sin with the rest of Us uncegen-
crate morta,s and can ae 60 on and accu-
mu!ate smother debt Of sin. and
take the bankrupt act and wipe it all out?
This Is the doctrine that permits the
| murderer, with the oCod of his victim
reeklng upon his hands, - ascend the
scafoit and there declare 10 the assem-
bled multitude that his Sins have al been
forgiven, and tnat be Is about to swing
of into eternal happiness. How can =
crime, which the good sense OF MANKIND
would suppose, should taHe ages OF re-
pentence and good religious lite TO blot
out from tn. memory, be torglvea TOR
few short hours o. prayer, and that, too,
uader the fear of death staring the subject
right in the face? probability Is that
we're he sgsIa to be turned loose upon
society ne would 90 and commit the
same crime.
a. can DO nothing betterjust here than
to ask Christians to pray tor this proud
boaster." |: what l have said has any
! thing q it of pride or Boosting, l would
gladly have It prayed away. But ac-
cortlng to Hope how am TO help It,
As have not experienced that mlrscu-
!ous, MYSTERIOUS, unexplsinsb!e change OF
heart which he declines TO tell us how 10
get2 How can man be said to be II
coaster when bis only odense IN that
direction is to call attention to the
/ Saviours own wCrdsf
II to SAY we must obey the Command
menLs in order to be saved from the con-
sequences of sn Is boosting, then l must
confess Judgment.
If to believe nan may go on SHINING
all his LIE and finally be saved
from its consequences by some sort OF
Babvlonic mystery, Is necessary 10 tree
one from the name OF boastsr, then can
not be freed. Why DO men want to
make mystery OF religion? Are not
our duties plainly laid down? II lie,
cheat, murder, steal, covet and bias
pheme. can | escape the consequences IN
any other way than 10 cease TO 90 these
things through the Word? "L0ve mer-
cv deal lastly, and walk humbly.'
What more is required? Proud boasLer
lr.deet.!. Talk about patience! Who
can have patience with 3 man "nu:ter-
! ing" mysteries? The laws Of our being
must be lived up to, and any departure
there!rom must be accounted for Shd
there Il DO shutting the responsibilities
OF onto slothers shoulders there
IS no escape. Humsn laws are fall
bic. and liable TO be drsoHeycd with
IMMUNITY, but Gods laws are immutsble,
unchan geable, AMI therefore we must
obey them in order to be saved from
the condemnation" And hew about
paying 81 cur spiritual debts. Is there
any otrer way than as | have often
quoted, "cesse to do evil and learn 10 10
good2' And how are We to earn how
to do coed, but "!o learn the tru.Es OF
tsith and DO them" "Ah, but says
Hope "how earn the truths OF faith
before there is faith?' Well, my dear
SIR. is not faith founded upon truth?
Ought you % believe lie? Mus; there
not be truth before you can believe
sriyht? Is /: not hUrttll 10 believe iIs'
Therefore truth Is OF faith and faith s a.
truth. and the man who obeys the cor
martments Will learn these truths, WI
have = conscience void OF ctaose and
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