Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
Mr.. PEETEcosr, TIE EVANGELIST,
ACCEPTS A PasToRATE.
Statement to the Council Of HIS Belief
The Bible Taught Through all Liter
erature Notes

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evangelist, and formerly identified with
the Baptists, has recently been examined,
accepted and installed by Congregational
Council, as pastor of Tompkins Avenue
Congregational Church, of Brooklyn, N.
Y. He went to the Church in 1880 as an
evangelist, and has continued there since
as acting pastor of the church, and with
great success. The additions since he took
charge have raised the membership from
253 to 900 church debt of about 500, 600
has been paid, and money raised for an
organ to cost $4,000. Besides this direct
work in the church. successful missions
have been carried on in Brooklyn, and
Others are being instituted by his congre-
cation.
In his statement before the Council as to
his belief, he said he spent his first years
In the Baptist denomination and has allied
himself to the Congregational bslief not
| because he loved the Baptist less, but some
features of the Congregational more.
/ Speaking of his views o. Christian doc
| trines, he said he believed the Scriptures
were the inspired Word OF God. lie be.
lieved the B.nie was written by men moved
by the Holy Ghost. as to God, he be
lieved de could be known in creation by
the heavens that declare His glory and re-
veal 20 US invisible things OF Him. He
| thought God might be physicslly known,
but neither by nature or reason sufficiently
to give knowledge Of His being and pur-
poses. The Christian knowledge Of Him
was based upon the Word OF God and re.
ceived by faith, and there was also a per-
sonal knowledge of Him, known to Chris
| tiaus through experience. He believed
| that God was eternal, self.existing, and
perfect in all His attributes, and that He
created sill worlds and universes. He did
net believe in the doctrine of the eternity
| of matter, but in the eternity OF God. Man,
| he believed to be the last ard highest Gre
| alton of God, standing in the very apex of
creation, and created in the image of God,
with three-fold nature Of body, soul and
spirit. Mans fab, he believed, came about
by his doub. of the goodness of God and
through the agency of spirit belonging to
this or some other world. His nature be.
came corrupt morally, aud becoming con.
acious OF his guilt, he was under the dom.
nation of Satan and communicated sin to
all posterity. Mans whole nature, he
thought, by reason of sin, had become
polluted, and he believed him guilty of
original sin. As to salvation, he believed
that to be in God entirely, and for
giveness to be universal and not
conditional. Forgiveness and justifca.
ton, however, were not sufficient,
but must be followed by regeneration,
which was communication of the
divine nature. Regeneration, he believed,
meant q new man, As to the Lord Jesus
Christ, he believed in the commonly. &C.
cepted doctrine of the incarnation, and
that his nature was perfect in every partic-
ular. The incarnation was necessary, and
brought God near us. Every word that
Jesus Christ spoke and every act that He
did he believed were the word and act of
Father. He believed that after deat h Jesus
Christ was raised, that the body was ident-
ical with the one in which He suffered
death, and that He assembled on high to
appear IN the presence of God for US. He
believed He would come again and fulfill
the office of prophet, priest and king As
to the Asonement, he believed it was for
the whole world, and not limited to any
number of people known rs the elect. He
DSttSNtA ti.GS C4llnS SiiGS SesiG
of the Godhead might be said of the Holy
Spirit, for He WAS great agent in sancti-
fication and dwell in all believers AS to
the future, he believed at death the spirits
of Christians departed and were immedi-
ately with Chlist, and vigorously rejected
and repudiated the theory of seul-sleeping,
believing in the resurrection Of the just
and the unjust, and that the unjust would
be raised in everlasting shame. He did not
believe in the efficacy and lasting quality
of infant baptism, but did in the public
conservation of children, and did in the
voluntary baptism of believers.
A delegate asked if he had ever baptized
infants.
ST never use the word baptize for in
fants-I call it conservation. I have only
consecrated three infants since have been
here"
THE BIBLE PERvADING ALL LITERATURE.
L has been strikingly said that were
| Shakespeare's works destroyed, every line
| that he ever wrote could be recovered from
the pages of other authors and the speech
Of the people. So, every text in the Bible
has been quoted by somebody as proof OF
illustration, to point moral or adorn a
| tale. Even our secular literature is sweet
ened and elsvated by thoughts and express
sions from the Scriptures. 1t would be as
! impossible to subtract the Bible from our
modern English literature, which is read
| by everybody, as to upbraid the sunbeams
and extract the yellow or violet rays from
the tides of light that fill the solar system
with warmth and cheer. And people do
not now read the Bible as book as they
did IN former days, because they do read
what constitutes its spirit and its life, the
very substance and essence of it, and every
book and pamphlet, in every story and
newspaper they take up. We no longer go
to the well with our pitchers to get water
as in the olden time, for the water has been
brought into our houses, go that we have
only to touch knob in any room to have
our wants supplied. If the Bible today is
| less as book, and is read less everywhere,
| it is very largely because that which makes
the reading of it serviceable and edifying
has gone into all other books and is uucon.
| sciously absorbed by all who read any,
thing. i New York Star.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is bat one crack in the lantern,
and the wind has found it out and blown
out the candle. How great a mischief one
unguarded point Of character may cause
us ! One spark blew up the magazine and
shook the v hole country for miles around.
One leak sank the vessel and drowned all
on board. One wound may kill the body.
One sin destroys the soul. It little matters
how carefully the rest of the lantern is
protected, the one point which is damaged
Is quite sufficient to admit the wind, and
so it little matters how jealous man may
be in thousand things, if he tolerates one
darling sin. Satan will find out the flaw
and destroy all of his hopes. The strength
of chain is to be measured, not by the
strongest, but by its weakest links, for il
tho weakest snaps, what is the use of the
rest ?-[Spurgeon.
Whatever may think of the pursuits OF
industry and science, and of the triumphs
and glories of art, / do not mention aoy
of these things as the great specific for
alternating the sorrows Of. human life and
encountering the evils which deface the
| world. II / am asked what is the remedy