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

Rev. G. F. Pentecost, the well known
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 $50, 600
las 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, bat some
features Of the Congregational more.
Speaking of his visws OF Christian doc.
trines, he Eaid he believed the Scriptures
were the inspired Word OF God. He be.
lieyed the Bible was written by men moved
by the Holy Ghost as TO God, he be
lieved he 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 physically 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 fall, 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.
CSilic CoiIuPo liOlHilys lhuu DcSOilllS COA.
scious OF his guilt, he was under the dom
ination 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 8; communication of the
divine nature. Regeneration, he believed,
meant 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 dea 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 as the elect. He
believed that anything that might be said
of the Godhe&d might be said of the Holy
Spirit, for He WIS great agent IN sarcti-
ication and dwell in all believers As to
the future, he believed OF death the spirits
Of Christians departed and were immedi-
ately with ChYist, and vigorously rejected
and repudiased the theory of soul-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.
81 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.
Il has been atrikingly 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 or
| 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. It 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 a 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
| az in the olden time, for the water has been
| brought into our houses, so 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 ia very largely because that which makes
| the reading of it serviceable and edifying
| has gone into all other books and Is uncon,
sciously absorbed by ali who read any.
thing. New York Star.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is but 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. 1t 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, l do not mention any
of these things as the great specific for
| alleviating the sorrows of. human life and
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