The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-07

bring me Presbyterian of good morals and sound mind who will say that he be- lisves there ever was baby in the lost wosid, or ever will be, 1 will make him a deed to the house 1 live in, and he can take possession tomorrow.
 So the Episcopalian church is misrepre- sented by the enemies of evangelism. They say that church substitutes forms and ceremonies for heart religion, and it is all matter of liturgy and genuflexion. False again. All Episcopalians will tell you that tho forms and creeds of their church are worse than nothing unless the heart go with them.
 So, also, the Baptist church has been misrepresented. The enemies of evan gelism say the Baptist church believes that unless man is immersed he will never get into Heaven. False again. All the Baptists, close communion and open communion, believe that if man accept the Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved whether ho be baptized by one drop of water on the forehead, or be plunged into the Ohio or Susquehanna, although inn mersion is the only gate by which one enters their earthly communion.
 The enemies of evangelism also mis- represent the Methodist church. They
  man can convert himself, and that con- version in that church is a temporary emotion, and all that man has to do is to kneel down at the altar and feel bad, and then the minister pats him on the back and says, "Itis all right" and that is all there is of it. False again. The Methodist church believes that the Holy Ghost alone can convert a heart, and in that church conversion is au earthquake of conviction and a sunburst of pardon. And as to mere temporary emotion," wish we all had more of the temporary emotionn which lasted Bishop Janesand Matthew Simpson for a half century, keeping them on fire for God until their holy enthusiasm consumed their bodies.
 So all the evangelical denominations are misrepresented. And then these enemies of evangelism go on and hold mp the great doctFiues of Christian churches as absurd, dry and inexpleable technic- alities. ''There is your doctrine of the Trinity" they say; absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that there is God in three personsl Impossible. If 1t is one God He can't be three. and if there are three they can't be one" At the same time all of us--they, with us--acknowl edge trinities all around us. Trinity in our own make -up-body, mind, soul. Body with which we move, mind with which we think, soul with which we love. Three, yet one maAl. Trinity in the air light, heat, moisture-yet one atmos- phere. Trinity in the eourt-room- three judges of the bench, but one court. Trinities all around about us, in earthly government and in nature. Of course, all the illustrations are defective, for the req son that the natural can not fully illus trate the spiritual But suppose an ig- norant man should come up to 6 chemist and say: II deny what you say about the water and the air; they are not made of different parts. The air is one; 1 breathe it every day. The water is one; drink it every day You can't deceive me about the elements that go to make up the air and the water" The chemist would say: "You come up into my laboratory and will demonstrate this whole thing to you" The ignorant man goes into the chemists laboratory, and sees for himself. He learns that the water is one and the afr is one, but they are made up of different parts. So here is a man who says: ''I can't understand the doctrine of the Trim ity." God says: "You come up here into the laboratory after death, and you will see--you will see it explained, you will see it demonstrated The ignorant man can not understand the chemistry of the water and the air until he goes into the labora- tory, and he will never understand the Trinity until we go into Heaven. The ignorance of the man who can not under stand the chemistry of the air and water does not change the fact ill regard to the composition of air and water. Because we can not understand the Trinity, does that change the factE"
 And there is your absurd doctrine about justification by faith, " say these an- tagonists who have chewed up the little book of evangelism, and have the conse- quent embittered stomach-"justlfcat by faith; you can't explain it" l can ex- plain it. 1t is simply this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sIn, God lets the offender off. Just as you have difference with some one, he has injured you, he apologies, or he makes feparation, you say; "Now, that's all right, that's all right" Justification by faith is this. A man takes Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and God says to the man 'Now, 1t was all wrong before, but it is all right now; 1t Is all right" That was what made Martin Luther what he was. Justification by faith, it is going to con- quer all nations.
 A man came into this church one night and he was intoxicated and at an utter ance of the pulpit he said in subdued tone: That's a lie" An officer of the church tapped him on the shoulder and said: "You must be silent or you must go out" The next night that stranger came and he was converted to God. He was in tile liquor business. The next day he sent back the samples that had just been sent him. He began to love that which he hated. I baptized him by im- mersion in the baptistry under this plat form. A large salary was offered him If he would return to his former business. He declined 1t. He would rather suffer with Jesus Christ than be prospered in the world, He wrote home a letter to hts Christian mother. The Christian mother wrote back congratlating him, and said: sIf in the change of your business you have lack of means, come home; you are always welcome home" He told of his conversion to dissolute companion. The dissoiute companion said; Well, if you have become Christian, You had better go over and talk to that dying girl. She is dying with quick consumption in that house." The new convert went there. All the surroundings were dissolute. he told the dying girl that Jesus would save her. "Oh," said she, "that can't be, that can't be. What makes you think sO;" "l have 1t here in book in my pocket" he replied He pulled out a New Testament. She said "Show it to me, If cau bs saved, show 1t to me in that book. He said: "I have neglected this book as you have neglected it for many years, and don't know where to find if, but know it is somewhere between the lids" Then he began to turn over the leaves, and strange and beautiful to say, his eye struck upon this passage 'Neither do l condemn thee; go aud sin no more." She said "It isn't possible that is there" '" "Yes," he said, "that is there.n He held it up before her dying eyes, and she said; "Oh, yes, 1 see it for myself; accept the promise; neither do