The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22

Lord, give us all more of the temporary
emotion that lasted Matthew Simpson and
Bishop James half century keeping them
on FIRE for God till their bodies burned out
in His service
i All the denominations are misrepresented
and belied as to their belief. The leading
, doctrines of the Evangelic churches are mis-
represented as dry and dull and impossible
The infidels and unconverted ministers in
| pulpits have set up laugh at the Trinity,
one God but three persons. They say If He
T is one God He can not be three, and il three
they can not be one. Bat We have trinity
all around Us. Trinity in ourselves body,
mind and soul. Body by which we walk,
mind by which we calculate, soul py which
, We love, bat all three one man. Trinity ID
the air heat, light and moisture, but one
atmosphere Trinity In the courtroom,
three judges on the bench making but one
8 Court Trinities all around Us in nature and
in earthly government. Why not trinity in
God-head. OF course
ALL ILLUSTRATIONS ARE DEFECTIVE,
because the natural can not fully illustrate
e the spiritual. But suppose an ignorant man
should meet q chemist and say: You tell
5 me that the air is composed of different eIe
: mepts, and that water is composed of differ
! ent elements. know better; the air is one,
for sm constantly breathing it, and the
3 water is one, for every day drink it," The
0 chemist would say to the ignorant msn:
''Come into my laboratory and l will demon
+ strate all these subjects" The objector goes
in and comes forth from the laboratory con-
. WINGED. A man says: This Trinity is be-
yond my comprehension" God says: Come
n up into my heavens after your death and In
I a second you will see for yourself under
I stand 1t ALL" AS the one man coul0 not
. understand the composition of the stmos.
Y phere and the water outside the chemist 8
L laboratory, we can not understand the Trim
ity outside of Heaven.
] classification by faith" they say, is an
other dry and inexplicable tech nicality. But
| that means as soon as man conhdes In Je.
sus Christ as the Savior from sin, God lets
/. the offender of. Anything mysterious about
y that? degeneration" they say, is another
' mex plicable word. Well, regeneration is
r only being made over again. 1t Is another
d name for reconstruction. The old Constel-
q lstion. man of-war, lay at the Brooklyn
a Navy Yard. Famine ca ne in Ireland, and
!. the old Constellation, that formerly car
q risd bollets and cannon balls and gun
powder, carried bread to Ireland. So sin
/ ner loaded down with sin, is redtted and
a loaded up with the bread of life He hauled
o down one flag and he put up another.
!? He came into this church three weeks ago
"a drunk and sat back by the door and replied
,. in subdued tone to the preacher THAT is a
3 ie." But a chu rch usher heard him and
= told him to be silent or go out. He came the
!. next night sober and was regenerated- Be-
;, ing in the liquor trade he sent back all the
Il samples of rum sent him the day before be
! resigned that business and loves the reli gion
Is he once hated. 1 baptized him last Sunday
. morning Large salary mas been offered him
, If he would 60 back to his old business No;
e ne will never go back. Writing home the
n news of his conversion TO his Christian
a mother, she writes back in q congrstulatory
letter and says: IF through giving up your
business you get out of means. come home.
" You " Ill al ways find me ready to rescue
Il you" He told one Of his absolute com
n panions the story OF his conversion. "Oh,
10 said his dissolute companion, IF you have
d become Christian you ought to go and
il speak to dying girl in yonder house abon'
of her soul. She is dying of quick consump
az tion." He was led to her bedside. She Wa.
ID dying in a room where all around we're dis
n solute.. He told her that Christ would save
Do her. What makes you think that2' saiC
Id the dying girl. The new convert took ou
of his New Testament and said: 1T is in thi,
n. book " Show it to me-" said the dyin.
4 girl. The new convert said: Il have neg
ID iected this book myself all my life until
81 few days ago and can not find the place
. but know it is somewhere between the lid
an of this book" Then he began to leaf owe
er the book, and strange and beautiful to say
If his eye fell upon the words of Christ
An Neither do l condemn theo Go and ST
that that is there Let me see it for myself.
The New Testament was handed her and sh
said: Yes, yes; | see it for myself, and
accept the promise: Neither do
condemn thee; go and sun no more
ne In a few hours her spirit had fed
On new convert who only few days before has
et been blssphemer and q drunkard batin
be God I'D all that is good. That was regener
alton. If you can find any dry husks o
re tschnlcality in that show them to me. Re
ne generationl By the pardoning grace of Go,
q all made over again.
Ill A ship Captain two or three years ag
In came and sat in yonder gallery. He did no
at believe ia chuIc hes, and no had special di;
De like for Talmage. The Gospel arrow STRUCK
q him in the heart de arose for pray er
es Over six feet in height. when he arose Their
,n was no doubt about the fact that he ha
III risen. Before he left the mouse he was
I'd Christian. he went out among ship owner
as and ship Captains and told them wha
In change had been wrought. When on tn
An sea and OFT Cape Hatteras in q long-contin
an ued fog and he and the crew were at thei
wis end. he went to his room and prsye
~ for the salvation of his ship and all on boarc
ns and came out saying, "All right, boys; q
is such an hour the fog will lift. God to ID
is. so in prayer" A man on deck laughed I
III scorn such an idea. At the time he said th
OF fog would lift
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING
an struck through the fog fash that sent th
)r scoffer stunned to the deck. The Cape Ha
ic, teras light house suddenly appeared and th
X, ship was put on her course into safety. o
en- the land the Captain spends much Of b
n time among the sick, and he kneels by thos
ir- who have, by their illness, been on the
nd beds for months, and they rise up restored
dy Aud he kneels by the side OF those long d
hy crepit and they walk without clutches. an
us in answer to his supplicstions blind eye
IN that for ten years have not been able to reat
'ur read the Scriptures. Physical agonies th
In sight of which was appalling have left the
ig sufferers to speedy convalescence. No Sc
ond-hand evidence about this. have see
az the restored patients aud heard the test
to mony from their own lips. The scoffing De
lse captain who came here with heart full
opt hatred a. coutempt for the Gospel now
me voting all his time TO evangelical labor
OF That is regeneration No far off story abol
CD msn in some other land. They are both
he them here this morning. Subjects of +,
in generation.
se Then the doctrine of yicarious suffering
IN said TO be q dry and absurd and useless tee
the lnicslity-Christ suffering Tor others. VIII
ice my hearers, you don't scott at il when VI
ND see IL in other directions. You can see j
the beauty when q mother suffers for her CHI
er- dren, when q patriot suffers for his countr
when friend gives up everything for