West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-02-07

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evangelism go on and hold up the great doc.
trines OF Christian churches rs absurd, drv
and inexplcablo technicalities. There (,
your doctrine OF the Trinity they say
ABSURD beyond ell bounds. The idea that
there Is a GQd in three persons. impossible
III ~ Is one God He can't be three. and IN phere
are three, there can't be one" AT the same
.lme All q us-they with u~s-acknowledge
trInIties al around uS Trinity in our own
mhks.up-body, mind. soul Body with
wnich We move, mind with which we
think, soul with which we love. Three,
YET one man. Trinity I'm the air
mgnt, heat, mofsture-yet one atmosphere.
Arihlty IN the court room-three judges on
the bench, but one court. Trinities all around
ABOUT US. ia earthly government and in
nasure VI course, all the Illustrations are
detective, for the reason that the natural
cannot fully illustrate the spiritual. But
suppose al ignorant man should come up TO
tine chemist and say: 81 deny what YOU say
ABOUT the water and about the air; they are
not made OF different parts. Toe air is
que, 4 breathe it every day. The water
Is one; L drink IL every day. You
rant deceive me about the elements that
go TO make up the air and the water.n The
chemist would say; You come up into my
thing 20 YOU The ignorant man goes into
the CHEMISTS laboratory and sees for him
self. He learns that the water is one and
me air Is one, but they are made nm OF
uImcrent partS 80 here Is a man who
says: II can7t~ understand the doctrine or
the Trinity" God says: You come no here
INTO the laboratory after your death. and
you Will see-you will see IL explained. Won
VIII see ~ demonstrated The Ignorant
man cannot understand the chemistry OF the
water and the air until he goes into the la
boratory, and we will never understand the
trinity until we go into heaven. The igno-
rance OF the man who cannot understand thu
chemistry OF the air and water does not
cnange the fact In regard to the composition
OF air and water. Because we cannot under
stant the Trinity, does that change the factl
And there Is your absurd doctrine about
Justification by faith" say these antagonists
who have chewed up the little book of evan
gelism, and have the c~onsequent embittered
Observation-Disclosures by faith: you can't
explain It." l can explain it. 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 ave a difference
with some one; he has injured you. he apollo
gizes, or he makes PREPARATION, you say:
NOW, that's all right, that's all right" Jus
tltication by faith is this: A man takes Jesus
Christ as his Saviour. and God says TO the
man; Now, it was all wrong before, but it
10 all RICH now; it is all righkn That was
what made Martin Luther what he was.
justification by faith, it Is going to conquer
all nations.
There is your absurd doctrine about re-
generation these antagonists of evangelism
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alton is reconstruction Anybody can under
stand that Have you not seen people
who are all made over again by some
wonderful influence In other words,
they are just as different now from
what they used to be as possible. The old
constellation, man-of-war, lay dow here
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came
TO Ireland. The old Constellation was fitted
up, aud though it had been carrying gun
powder and bullets it took bread to Ireland.
You remember the enthusiasm as the old
Constellation went out of our harbor, aud
with what Joy it was greeted by the famish-
ing nation on the other side the sea. That is
regeneration. A man loaded up with sin
and death loaded up with life. Reftted.
Your observation has been very small in
deed IL you have not seen changes in characo
ter as radical as that
A man came into this church one night.
and he was intoxicated, and at an utterance
of the pulpit he said in a subdued tone:
That's . lie.n An officer of the church
tapped him on the shoulder and said: You
must be silent, or you must 40 out" The
next night that stranger came and he was
converted to God. He was In the LIQUOR
business. He resigned the business. The
next day he sent back the samples that had
Just been sent TO him. He began to love that
which he hated. l baptized him by INNER
sion in the baptistry under this platform.
A large salary was offered him if
he would return TO his former bust
ness. He declined IL. He would rather
suffer with Jesus Christ than be pros
pered in the world. He wrote home a letter
to his Christian mother. The Christian mother
wrote back congratulating him, and said:
IF in the change of your business you have
lack OF means, come home: You ara alWava
welcome home" He told OF his conversion
10 a dissolute companion. The dissolute
companion said: "Well, il you have become
a Christian, you had better 90 over and talk
to that dying girl She is dying with quick
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vert went there. All the surroundings were
dissolute. He told the dying girl
that Jesus would save her. "Oh,h said
she, that can't be, that can't bel What
a you think sof' 81 have it here in a
book in my pocket he replied. He pulled
out a New Testament She said: "Show it
to me; IL / can DO saved. show It to me I'M
that book" He said: II have neglected this
book as you have neglected it for many
years, and / don't know where 10 find 1t, 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 / condemn
thee; go and sin no more.n She said: ut
he said, 'thnt is there" He held IL up
before her dying eyes, and she said:
"Oh, yes, i see il for myself; ]
accept the promise: Neither do / condemn
thee; 60 and sin no MORE" In n few hours
her spirit sped away TO tho Lord that gave
1t, and the new convert preached the funeral
ermon. The man who n few DAYS befor,
had been a blasphemer and a drunkard ant
q hater OK all that was good. he preached TN
sermon That IS regeneration. that is re
generatioul II there arc any dry husks o
tchnictlity IN that, where are they4 AL
made over again by the power Of tho grac,
a few years ago n ship captain came in her,
and sat yonder under the gallery. He carr,
IA with a contempt for the Church Of God
Whfn an opportunity was given he sroea
Tor Irtyer, and rs he was more than six Zee:
nigh, when be arose for prayer no one
doubted that he arosei That hour he he.
came a Christian. He went out aud told the
snip owners and the ship commanders what a
great change had teen wrought in him. and
scores and sores have ben brought TO God
through his iLstrumentalitY.
a little while after his conversion no was
ON snip OF Cape Hatteras in a thick and pro.
ionged foy, and they we're at their Wits ends
ana knew not what 70 do, the ship drifting
ABOUT hlther and thitheF. and they lost theft
heaFlug1i ana tho converted sen cnptain
went 10 his room and asked Col for the sal.
Yatton Of his ship. and God revealed IL "a
him while be was on his knees that NJ n cor.
tam hour, only little way of, the fog would
Itt; and the converted sea capfa M cams
out on the deck and tod how God heard bfs
prayerA lie said ut Is ali right. bows. very
soon now tho fog will lift mentioning tie
hour. a man who stood there la1ghed
aloud i'm derision &C the idea that God yould
answer prayer, bus az just the hour when
200 nad assured tie caDtain the foy vyooti
~ thef7 came "a Dash Of Hxhfpinr fhfougt