St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-16

there be not somewhere a great lookup. If
all get to heaven without reference to what
their character was when they left the earth,
wonder If in the heavenly temple Charles
Guitsau and John Wilkes Booth occupy the
same pew.
The antagonists Of evangelical religion say
that the Episcopal church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and it is
all matter of liturgy and genufections.
False again. All genuine Episcopalians will
tell you that the forms and ceremonies of
their church are nothing unless the heart be
in them.
The antagonists of the Baptist church say
that they believe only those will get to heaven
who are baptized by immersion. False again,
They believe that all vino accept Christ wheth-
er they be baptized by one drop on the fore
head or oy plunge out Of sight, in Ohio, or
Susquehanna, will reach heaven, although
the latter mode is the only gate into their
particular society in this world. l have al
ready made arrangements Of communion
with the close communion Baptists on the
other side the Jordan and shall be glad if
the chalice passes TO me directly from the
lip and hand of my glorifed friend, John
Bowling, the king of Baptist ministers in q
former generation.
The antagonists of the Methodist church
say that they believe man can convert
himself and that conversion in that church is
matter OF temporary emotion, and that a
man kneels at the anxious bench and feels
bad and then the minister pats him on the
back Cand tells him he is all right aud
that Is all there is of 1t. False
again. They believe that the Holy Ghost
alone can convert man and conversion in
that church is by an earthquake of
conviction and
A SUNBCRST OF PARDON,
And as to temporary emotion, 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.
All the denominations are misrepresented
and beied as to their beliefs. The leading
doctrines of the evangelical churches are
misrepresented as dry and dull and impossi-
bic. The infdels and unconverted ministers
in pulpits have set up laugh at the Trinity,
one God but three persons. They say if He
is one God He cannot be three, and if three
they cannot be one. But we have trinity all
around us. Trinity in ourselves: body,
mind and soul. Body by which we walk,
mind by which we calculate, soul By which
we love, but all three one man. Trinity in
the air: heat, light and moisture, but one
atmosphere. Trinity in the court room (:
three ju 1ges on the bench making but one
court. Trinities all around US in nature and
in earthly government, why not trinity in
Godhead. OF course all illustrations are
defective because the natural cannot fully
illustrate the spiritual
Then the doctrine of vicarious suffering is
said to be a dry and absurd and useless
techuicality-Christ suffering for others.
Why, my hearers, you don't scoff at 1t when
you see it in other directions. You can see
its beauty
WHEN A MOTHER SUFFERS
for her children, when patriot suffers for
his country, when a friend gives up every
thing for friend. Why should you not ap-
preciate Christ's suffering for us as well as
the instances of vicarious suffering all about
us: Oh, how many spend their time carry
ing other peoples burdens and dying other
peoples deaths In one of the literary in
stitutions of this country young lady was
employed as teacher. She was q stranger,
and of such retired and retcent habits that
she formed no acquantan ceships. Her dress
was so plain md shabby that she was dis
missed from her position. and in reply 10
the letter dismssiDg her, she wrote that if
she failed TO give satisfaction, it was prob
ably her own fault. After being unable to
get any other employment, she
ENDED HER LIFE By SUICIDE.
Upon In vestigation 1t was found out that out
Of her small earnings she had supported a
father eighty years of age and was supporting
hrof In cn1lo0a hat bo
wore the shabby dress and had gone without
blankets on her bed and without any fire in
her room all winter When this was found
out, the people who had scorned her gathered
at one OF the largest funerals ever held in
that place and gazed with interest upon the
face of the martyr; but it was too late. vi
carious sacrifice!
Anybody who has heart is thrilled with
such story rs that, but they tell rs II is a
dry and absurd doctrine when Christ puts
forth his poverty TO purchase our eternal
riclies, and his self-abnegation to
SECURE OUR ENVIRONMENT,
and he kneels on the sharp edge of humilia-
ton to let us climb over his laeerated
shoulder into life and Heaven. Men admire
Emperor Traian because when mounted for
battle he got Off his horse to do justice to Il
poor woman by the wayside, hut cannot see
any beauty in the fact that the conuueror of
earth and Heaven dismounted from the white
horse Of heavenly triumph to appease our
spiritual beggary. They are thrilled at the
vaor of the HoraHi and the Curiatli who
went out. Three champions tor the Romans
and three cham pions for the Albans to decide
the fate of a nation, but have no quickened
pulse as they see our champion, Jesus, 90
orr oll gbo ali - l.
and hell TO battle for the emancipation OF the
human race. They can even appreciate the
spirit Of Bucephalus, Alexauder's war horse.
which after being gashed and fatally wounded
until all his arteries seemed opened, kept a
staggering on until he got
HIS IMPERIAL RIDER
clear out OF peril, and then with one groan
expired. More appreciation for the bravery
Of a brute In behalf of his master than for
him, the divinelr human, who flung himself
from the highest heaven into the raging seas
Of death to save oil those who would lay bold
OF bis right arm Of deliverauce. Be It ours
to admire and adore these magnificent doc
trines Of Christ, while others scof and jeer.
For all those who on infidel platforms, or
Ia uucon verted pulpits, deride evangelism |
have nothing but prayer for their recovery.
When during the last century the plague was
raging in London there was hotel near the
cemetery which excited much comment.
Tue nation was in agony Of fright and be
reavement. Wagons we're driven through
the streets and the bell rung, and the people
BROUGHT OFT THEIR DEAD.
Twenty or thirty corpses in cart would pass
By. Not in a grave, but IN great pits or
trenches they were buried; LILA we're buried
in one pit. Churches -were open day and
night for prayers and all England was in
woe. Bot al the wayside iun near by the
greatest burial place, writer says, a group
Of hardened men sat disappearing aud imi-
tating the grief Of the sad professions that
vent by aud when q man utterly demented
hE the death ni his erlira farni--