The Penn's Grove record., 1889-02-16

the inmates turned out of those prisons
and penitentiaties. Suppose all the
repro6ates, the bad spirits, the outrage
Gus spirits, should be turned into the
New Jerusalem, Why, the next morn,
ing the gates Of pearl would be found
Off hinge, the linchpin would be gone
Il OF the chariot wheels, the mouse
OF many mansions'' would be burglar.
lied. Assault and battery, arson. liber-
tiniSm, and assassination would reside
in the capital of the skies. Angels OF
God would lie iDsulted on the streets.
Heaven would be a dead failure II
there were no great lookup. If all
people without regard to their charac-
ter when they lesc'e this world go right
into glory, 1 wolNler it in the temple of
the skies Charles Guiteau and JOHN
Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew!
Your ommon sense demands two des-
tiniesl And then as to the Presbyterian
Church believing there are infants In
perdition, If youiwill bring me a Pres
byterian of gold morals and sound
mind who will say that he believes
there ever was d, baby in the lost world.
or ever will be, II will make him a deed
to the house l live in, and he can take
possession Tomorrow,
So the Episcopal Church is misrepre-
sented by the lenemies of evangelism.
They say that Church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and
1t is all a matte r of liturgy and genu-
fexion. False again. ALI Episcopal
ians will tell ydu that the forms and
creeds of their Church are worse than
nothing unless dhe heart 60 with them.
So also the Bdpt,st Church has been
misrepresented.I
THE ENEMIES OF EVANGELISM
say the Baptist Church believes that
unless a man is Immersed he will never
get into heaven, False again. All the
Baptists, close Communion and open
communion, believe that If a man ac-
cept the Lord JESUS Christ he will be
saved, whether he be baptized by n
drop of water on the forehead, or be
plunged into the Ohio or Susquehanna,
although immersion is the only gate 10
their earthly cofnmunion.
The enemies nj evangelism also mis-
represent the Methodist Church. They
say tile Methodist Church believes that
a man can coAvefU himself, and that
conversion in thpt church is a temper
AIRY emotion, and that all a man has 10
Edo Is to kneel clown at the altar and
feel bad, and then the minister pats
Fhim on the ba9k and says, lit is all
right" and thht is all there is Of it.
False again. 1}he Methodist Church
believes that the Holy Ghost alone can
convert a heart, and IN that Church
conversion is am earthquake Of c0nvic-
ton and a'sunb1rst Of pardon. And as
to mere "tempotary emotion,p wish
we all had mdre of the Temporary
emotion which lasted Bishops James
and Matthew Sjippson for a half CELL
tury, keeping tkkm on fire for God until
their holy e~nthdfiasm consumed their
bodies.
So all the evangelical denominations
are misrepresented. And then these
enemies of evangelism 20 on and hold
up the great doctrines OF Christian
Churches as absurd, dry, and inexpli-
cable tecnnicalil les. There is your
DOCTRINE or THE TRINITY"
they say. absurd beyond all bounds.
The idea that There is a God in three
persOnsl 1mpossiblel II it is one God,
He can't be three, and il there are
three, they CAN'T be one.' At the
same time all OF us-they with us-ac-
knowledge trtnities all around us.
Trinity in ourlown makeup body,
mind, soul. S&dy with which W.
move, mind wiz which We think. soul
With winch we love. Three, yet one
IMAM. Trinity IN the alright, heat,
mOlsture-yet Ole atmosphere. Trinity
il the court r~ooip--three judges on the
bench, but one court. Trinities all
around about Us, in earthly govern
ment, and in nature. OF course, all
the Illustrations are defective for the
reason that thu natural cannot fully
illustrate the spiritual. But suppose
an ignorant mai should come up TO a
chemist and say: IT deny what you
say about the Water, and about the air;
they are not made Of different parts.
The air is one; breathe it every day.
The water is on4; | drink II every day.
You can't deceive me
ABOUT THE ELEMENTS
that go 10 make up the air and the
water" The chemist would say:
~ gu come up into my laboratory and
l will demonstrate this whole thing to
you." The ign3rant man goes into the
chemists labora tory, and sees for him.
sell. He learns, that the water is one,
and the air IS one, but they are made
up OF different PARTS. So here is a man
who says, Il cah't understand the doc
triDe OF the trinity" God says, "You
come up here into the laboratory after
your death, and you will see-you will
see it explained, you will see it demon
strated." Thel ignorant man cannot
understand the chemistry of the water
and the air until he goes into the labor
atory, and we will never understand
the Trinity untlt we go to heaven. The
ignorance OF tile man who cannot un-
derstand the CHEMISTRY Of the air and
water does not change the fact. Be-
cause we eannot understand the Trim
ity, does that CHI ange the fact2
And there lis your absurd doctrine
about justification by faith, say these
antagonists who have chewed up the
little book OF evangelism, and have the
consequent embtttered stomach-s.jusli-
ficatlon by faith; you can't explain It."
| can explain 1t. 1t Is simply this:
when a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ
as his Saviour from sin, God lets the
offender on. Just as you have a diff
ference with soIhe one, he has injured
YOU, he apologies, or he makes repara-
ton. you say: NOW, that's all right.
that's all right" Justification by
faith is this; u Imam takes Jesus Christ
as his Saviour, and God says to the
man: Now It was all wrong before,
but it is all right now; it is all right"
That was what made Martin Luther
what he was. Justification by faith, it
is going to conquer all nations.
''There is your absurd dot about
regeneration" these antak of
evangelism say
WHAT is REeENERATIe
Why, regeneras ON Is recons.rn u.
Anybody can ~t.iderstand that. Nave
you not seen people who are al made
over again by some wonderful influencep
In other words they are just as differ
ont now from W. al thav mead 10 Ia no