Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-28

in the furnaces, you may.
Suppose now a man had a charmed key
with which he could open all the iails
and he should open Raymond street jail
and the New York tombs and all the pris-
ons on the continent In three weeks
what kind of country would this be? all
the inmates turned out of those prisons
and penitentiaries. Suppose all the rep
rebates, the bad spirits, the outrageous
spirits should be turned into the New Je-
rusalem. Why, The next morning the
gates of pearl would be found of hinge,
the linchpin would be gone out OF the
chariot wheels, the ''house of many
mansions would be burglarized /.
Assault and battery, arson, nd
ertfnism and assassination would
reside in the capital of the skies. Angels
OF God would be insulted on the streets =.
Heaven would be dead failure II there
were no great lookup. II all people
without regard to their character when
they leave this world go right into glory Z,
I wonder if in the temple of the skies
Charles Guiteau and James Wilkes
Booth occupy the same pew! Your com
mon sense demands two destinies! And
then as TO the Presbyterian church be-
Iieving there are infants in perdition, if
you will bring me Presbyterian OF
GOOD MORALS AND SOUND MIND
who will say that he believes there ever
was baby in the lost world, or ever
will be, viii make him a deed TO the
house 1 live in and he can take possession
tomorrow.
So the Episcopolian church is misrep-
resented by the enemies of evangelism.
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and 1t
is all matter of liturgy and genutiexion.
False again. All Episcopalians VIII tell
you that the 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 a 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 he be baptised by one drop of
water on the forehead Or be plunged into
the Ohio or Susquehanna, although inl-
merson is the only gate by which one en-
tiers their earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also mis-
represent Illb hSlIOulSL CuuICH. 1LCJ
say the Methodist church believes that a
man can convert himself, and that con-
version in that church is a temporary
emotion, and that all 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: at is 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 an
earthquake of conviction and sunburst
of pardon And as to mere Temporary
emotion, - I wish we all had more of the
Temporary EMOTION which lasted
Bishop James and Matthew Simpson for
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 up the
great doctrines of Christian churches as
absurd, dry, and
INEXPLICABLE TECHNICALITIEs.
''There is your doctrine of the Trim
ity, - they say "Absurd beyond all
bounds. The idea that there is God in
three persons. Impossible. If it is one
0t)u ne cdl DS three anu IL LuSlG
are three, they can't be one" At
the same time all of us-they with us
acknowledge trinities all around us.
Trinity i'll our own e-up-body, mind,
soul. Body with which we move, mind
with which we think, soul with which we
love. Three, yet one man. Trinity in
the alright, heat, moisture-yet one
atmosphere. Trinity in the courtroom
three judges on the bench, yet one court
Trinities all around about us in earthly
government and in nature. OF course all
the illustrations are defective for the rea-
son that the natural cannot fully illus
trate the spiritual. But suppose an lgno-
rant man should come up to a chemist
and say: 81 deny what you say about
the water and about the air; they are not
made of different parts. The air is one;
l breathe it every day. The water is
one; I drink it every day. You
can I deceive me about the elements that
go to make up the air and the water. -
The chemist wouldlsay; "You come up
into my laboratory and 1 will demon
stTate this whole thing to you. The
ignorant man goes into the chemist IS
laboratory, and sees for himself. He
learns that the water is one and the air is
one, but they are made up of different
parts. So here is man who says: 81
can't understand the doctrine of the
Trinity. - God says: ''You come up
here into the laboratory after your death,
and y0u viii see-you will see it ex-
planned, you will see it demonstrated -
The ignorant man cannot understand the
CHEMISTRY OF THE WATER
and the air until he goes into the labora-
tory and we will never understand the
Trinity until we 20 into heaven. The
ignorance of the man who cannot under
stand the chemistry of the air and water
does not change the fact in regard to the
composition of air and water. Because
we cannot understand the Trinity, does
that change the fact?
land there is your absurd doctrine
about Justification by faith" say these
who have chewed up the lit
tie book of evangelism, and have the
consequent embittered stomach justi-
fcatiou by faith; you can't explain it -
l can explain it. 1t is simply this:
When man takes the Lord Jesus Christ
as his SaviOus from sin, God lets the of
fender off. Just rs you have difference
with some one, he has injured you, he
apologies, or he makes reparation, you
say: "Now, that's all right, that's all
right. - Justification by faith is this: