The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-08


q deed to the house live in and he can
take possession tomorrow.
So the Episcopaiian Church II mis-.
represented by the enemies Of evangelism.
| They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and It
10 all . matter of liturgy and genuhexiou.
False again. Ali Episcopalians will tell
you that tho forms and cresds Of their
church are worse than nothing unless the
heart 60 with them.
30 also the Baptist Church has been mis-.
represented. The enemies Of evangelism
say the Baptist Church believes that IN.
less Q man Is immersed he will never
get into Heaven. False again. All the
Baptists, close communion and open com.
munion, believe that il . man accept the
Lord Jesus Christ he will b saved, wheth.
or he be baptized by one drop Of water on
the forehead. or be plunged into the Ohio
or Susquehanna, although immersion 10
the only gate by which one cutters their
| earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also misrep-
resent the Methodist Church. They say
the Methodist Church believes that q man
can convert himself, and that conversion
in that church is . temporary emotion,
down at the altar and feel bad and then
the minister pats him on the back and
says: 1T is all right" and that 10 all
there Is Of 1t. False again. The Meth
odist Church believes that the Holy Ghost
alone can convert a heart, and in the
| church conversion is an earthquake OF con-
| viction and sunburst Of pardon. And as
| to mere Temporary emotion" wish we
Inll had ,<xfx tnvpO
| which lasted Bishop James and Matthew
Simp on for a half century, keeping them
on fire for God until their holy enthusi-
asm consumed their bodies. So all the
evangelical denominations are misrepre.
sented.
And then these enemies of evangelism
| go on and hold up the great doctrines OF
Christian churches as absurd, dry and in.
| applicable technicalities. There is your
doctrine of the Trinity" they say. cab
| surd beyond all bounds. The idea that
there is a God in three persons. Impossi-
ble. If 1t is one God He can't be three.
| and if there are three they can't he one"
At the same time all OF us-they with us
| acknowledge trinities all around US. Trim.
| ity in our own makeup-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 air
light, heat, mosture-yet one atmos-
phere. TT nifty in the court room-three
ju iges on the bench, but one court. Trim.
titles all around about us, in earthly gov
| eminent and in nature. OF course all the
| illustrations are defective for the reason
that the natural can no. fully illustrate
the spiritual But suppose an ignor-
ant man should come up to
chemist and say: 81 deny what you
say about the water and about the
| air; thew are not made of different
parts. The air is one; breathe it every
day. The water is one; drink it every
day. You can't deceive me about the ele-
| ments that go to make up the air and
water" The chemist would say: "You
come up into by laboratory and I will
| demonstrate the whole thing to you"
The ignorant man goes into the chemists
laboratory and sees for himself. He learns
hat the water is one and the air Is one,
but they are made up of different parts.
So hear is a man who says: 81 can't I'M
derstand the doctrine of the Trinity"
God says: 'You come up here into the
| laboratory after your death and you will
see-you will see 1t explained, you will see
il demonstrated" The ignorant man can
| not 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 go into Heaven. The
ignorance of the man who can not under
stand the chemistry of the air AMI water
does not change the fact in regard to the
composition of air and water. Because
We do not understand the Triuity, does
that chan the fact?
And there is your absurd doctrine
about justification by faith. "say these an
taGonists who have chewed up the little
book of evange ism, and have the conse-
quent embttered stomach-"justificatio
by faith; you can't explain it." lean ex-
plain it. 1t is simply this: When man
takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour
from sin, God lets the offender of. Just
as you have a difference with some one
he has injured you, he apologies, or he
makes reparation, you say: Snow, that's
all right, that's all right Justification by
faith Is this: A man takes Jesus Christ as
his Saviour. and Col says to the man:
Now, it was all wrong before. but it is all
right now; 1t is ali righG" That was
what made Martin Luther what he was.
Justification by faith-it is going to con-
quer all nations. ..
"There is your absurd doctrine about
regeneration" these antagonists of evan.
gelism say. What is regeneration: Why
regeneration is reconstruction. Anybody
can understand 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, mah-of-war. lay down here
at the Brooklyn navy yard. Famine came
to Ireland. The old Constellation was
fitted up, and though it had been carrying
gunpowder and bullets it took bread to
Ireland. You remember the enthusiasm
as the old Constellation went out Of our
harbor, and with what joy it was greeted
by the furnishing nation on the other side
Of the sea. That is regeneration. A man
loaded up with sin and death loaded up
with life. Reftted. Your observation
has been very small indeed if you have
not seen changes in character as radical
as that.
A mau came into this church one night
and he was intoxicated, and at an utter
ance of the pulpit he said in a 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 60
out" The next night that stranger came,
and he was converted to God. He was in
the liquor business. He resigned the bust.
ness. The next day he sent back the
samples that had just been sent him. He
began to love that which he hated. II
baptized him by immersion in the baptistry
under this platform. A large salary was
offered him il he would return to his fov.
mer business. He declined it. He would
rather suffer with Jesus Christ than be
prospered in the world. He wrote home a