St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-20
SALVATION is FREE,
But There Is No Use in the Wander
bits Or Goulds Trying to Corner

bits Or Goulds Trying to Corner
it.
If the size of the audience at Central
Park church each evening can be taken
as criterion, DR.. Munhall is growing
in popularity every day. Last evening
the spacious and beautiful church was
crowded to the doors, and people were
standing up in the aiSles and in the lob
bies leading to the auditorium. The
congregations that gather to hear DR..
Munhall each evening are not assem-
bled for the purpose of hearing some
thing new, OF in anticipation that rich
treat, in the way of magnificent word
painting is to be served them. A glance
at the faces of those present last even
ing revealed in each instance deep ear
nestness, and manifest disposition to
profit by the words of the revivalist.
The exercises opened with the singing
of the hymn, Are You Washed in the
Blood of the Lamb?" After prayer,
DIR. Munhall began his discourse, taking
the same text as he did on Wednesday
evening, "How shall we escape if we
neglect such salvation?" He said:
There is great disposition among
men to defy the flesh. Man is unwill-
through His power obtain salvation.
And so he is going about content to es-
tablish his own righteousness. lie
thinks there are two ways TO obtain
salvation, his own way and Gods, and
foolishly he chooses the former. Pm
glad we are effectually prevented from
obtaining salvation any other way than
through God. 1t is the simplest and
easiest way. One man thinks that all
that is necessary for salvation is to be
educated and refined and cultured.
Pm glad God has estopped salvation in
that direction. There is but one way to
saIvation-belief in Christ and freedom
from sin. The natural eye cannot see
these things, and such doctrine may
seem foolish to the natural man,
but we can see and understand every
thing if we are docile and possessed OF
the proper spirit. Another man pro-
poses to be saved by his good works:
Pm glad to say man cannot be saved
in that way. Man is justified by faith
not by works alone. Another man is
possessed of money with all its power
and influence and he says L propose to
buy my way into the kingdom of
heaven | thank Good that salvation
in that direction is effectually estopped.
We are not redeemed by corruItible
things, but by the blood of Christ"
Another says: | propose to be saved
by becoming very good. He starts in
with this intention about Jan. /, and he
lops off about March IL Pm very
glad there is no salvation by such
means. Another says: 81 propose to be
saved by the goodness Of my friends, by
the piety of my relations" Pm glad
he cannot he saved in that way.
mo man can redeem his brother"
Here's man with large development
of brain. he has natural likening for
learning, and his parents, being wealthy,
have gratified his desire i'll that direc-
ton to the full by giving him all the
advantage of superior schooling.
Here's another without large
brain. He has a Axe brain, of poor
quality Of fiber. His parents are
his opportunities for learning are
meager. AS they say down on the
Wabash, He don't know nothin'."
Now, you see, the first man has every
advantage over the second, but God is
no respecter Of persons. Again, there is
the good and kindly man. or philan-
thropiSt by nature: here's another man
as stingy as the devil can make him, in
fact he's ''built that way" but their
chances for salvation are equally as
good, as well as the probabilities of
damnation.
Some people are always making a
merit of everything they do, but that
counts as nothing for salvation; and
though you might be able to build an
orphan asylum and endow it, and put
100000 into Y. M. G. A. building, and
build churches, and you give yourself
up to every beneficence for your fellow
man; still, at the same time, you may
be on the way to hell, for nothing can
save from the guilt of sin. Money will
buy you a place in society, where
brains and decency won't; for NAM
mon is the biggest thing in this
world, and | just feel like shouting
aloud the glory of God when the knOwl-
edge comes to me that you cannot buy
salvation. This is good thing, for
salvation purchasable, Jay Gould and
Vanderbilt and Keene and Stanford
would get corner on it and shut out
their less wealthy brethren. Thank
God jay Gould is no better in the eyes
of God than the meaneSt, lowest, poy
erty-Stricken tramp that walks the
earth, for Jesus Christ died for all, rich
and poor alike. No man can be saved
by the goodness of his friends or
relatives. 1t is sad to think how
many households are divided; mothers
and children going one way and the
father going the other. It's good thing
to have Christian mother, Cody
father, but that can't save you if you
won't save yourself. Don't think be-
cause you go to church and imagine
yourself its brother-in-law that you're
going into heaven. Don't imagine your
company will bring you into heaven"
Many of the congregation professed
conversion at the close of Dr.. MunhalFs
address,