St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-01
HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY.

Evangelist Munhan Addresses the
Largest Crowd Ever Assembled
in the First Baptist Church.
The grand and spacious First Baptist
church was not large enough to contain
the thousands that went there last even
ing to hear DR.. Munhall, consequently
many were turned away. Gallery, Or
gan loft and aisleS were utilized, but
the people kept coming and the room
necessarily gave out. After number
of hymns had been rendered by the
choir, led by Prof. and Mrs. Tourner,
and a prayer had been offered
by Dr.. Christie, DR.. Munhall
came forward and announced his text,
John, xvi. s: And when He is come
He will reprove the world of sin, of
righteousness and of Judgment" He
said: ''These words were uttered by
our Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples.
The "Ilc" referred to i'll the text is the
third person in the blessed trinity, the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the only
one of the persons remaining on earth.
God, the Father, occupies the throne,
and God, the Son, we know, came on
earth, died on the cross. was buried, and
afterwards assembled into heaven, and
will remain there until the end of time,
when he shall come d second time. God,
the Spirit, is in the world to convert
derful that God should be so mind
full of us as to send the di-
vine spirit into the world that we
might know what God has done for us
and knowing this, that we might lay
hold of Christ. He is here to night de-
veloped in the hearts of those who are
saved to Christ. If you are properly
disposed He Will convince you of sin, of
righteousness and of Judgment, but if
your heart is closed against Him He
cannot. l trust you Sentient be-
ings, you travellers to eternity,
will submit yourselves to the truth
and honestly inquire into yourselves.
We are not left in ignorance as to what
sin the Holy Spirit will reprove us of.
The Holy Spirit has not come for the
purpose of convincing US of sins our
conscience tells us we are guilty of,
but of one particular, specific sin; and
that sin is the rejectment of
Christ. You can readily see
how necessary it is that we have the as
Sistance OF the divine spirit to assist us
in this respect. | look into your faces,
and i see before me intelligent and
refined people, men of noble lives
and goodly sentiments. Yet you're
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any heinous crime, it's true,
but you need the Holy Spirit to convert
you. st. Paul certainly was better
man than any in Ramsey county, and
yet he confessed himself the chief of
sinners. You've been going to church
all your lives, and you've known
didn't accept 1t it is be- be-.
cause YOU did not know the
greatness of the sin of not accepting
Christ. There's not Il poor polluted
sinner that God does not love, and after
He gave His son to die the ignominious
for whom He suffered turn their
backs on Him, that brings the
condemnation of God on them.
You unsaved ones by your action
spurn Christ from your doors and from
your lives. May the Holy Ghost re-
prove you of the greatest of all sins,
the sin of not accepting Christ.
We're not left in ignorance of what
God meant by righteousness. He'll
convict the world of righteous
ness because II go to my Father"
Said man, can believe in
Jesus Christ as It perfect man and can
love him and initiate him as a man. but
/ can not understand that He is God.
Iyou can understand Him as a man,
you certainly can understand Him as a
God; for never lived man as He lived.
The fact that He was is proof
conclusive of His divinity. If lie
was only a man, He was the
basest of impostors, but He was what
He claimed himself-God, equal to the
Father. When He ascended on high,
He was no longer able to manifest his
righteousness, but He sent the Holy