Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

from all lands growing under the
arches OF glass, and who has an aquarium
all asqulrm with trout and goldfish, and
there are trees bearing oranges and ba-
nanas-if want to go there, ! could. |
am free TO go. If | want 20 90 over to
Hoboken and leap into a furnace Of an
OIL factory, if ! want to Jump from the
platform of the Philadelphia express
tram, If | want to leap from Brooklyn
bridge. | may. But suppose | should go
tomorrow and leap into the furnace at
Hoboken who would be to blame? That
Is all there is about sovereignty and free
agency. God rules and reigns, and He
las Conservatives and He has blast
furnaces. If you want TO walk in the
gardens walk there. If you want to leap
IN the furnaces you may.
suppose now a man had acbarmed key
with which he could open all the jails.
and he should open Raymond street Jail
and the New York tombs and all the
prisons on the continent. In three
weeks what kind Of u country would this
be- all the inmates turned out of those
prisons and p%enitentiaries. Suppose all
the reprobates, the bad spirits, the out
rageous 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 out Of
the chariot wheels, the house Of many
mansions would be burglarized. As
saul and battery, arson. libertinism and
assassination would reside in the capital
OF the skies. Angels of God would be
lnsulted on the streets. Heaven would
be q dead failure if there were no great
lnTkpn I oil von,n1. xytthn,,t ropavd T.,
their character when they leave this
world go right into glory, ] wonder if in
the temple Of the skies Charles Guiteau
and John Wilkes Booth occupy the same
pew! Your common sense demands two
destinies! And then as TO the Prcsby.
terrain church believing there are infants
in perdition, if you will bring me a
Presbyterian of good morals and sound
mind who will say that he believes there
ever was a baby in the lost world, or ever
will be. | will make him a deed to the
house ] live in. and he can take posses
sion tomorrow.
SO the Episcopslian church is mis-
represented by the enemies Of evangelism
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and ii
is all a matter of liturgy and genutieXion.
False again. All E~piscopalians will tell
yeu that the forms and creeds Of their
church are worse than nothing unless the
heart 90 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 a man accept
the Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved.
whether he be baptized by one drop Of
water on the forehead, or be plunged into
the Ohio or Susquchanna, 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
say the Methodist church believes that IA
man can convert himself, and that con
version in that church is a temporary
emotion, and that all a man has to do is
10 kneel down at the altar and feel bad
and then the minister pats him on the
back and SAYS. 1T is all right, and
that is all there is Of il. 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 a sunbIrst
OF pardon. And as 10 mere temporary
emotion ! wish We all had more OF the
Z" Temporary emotion which lasted
James and 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 misrcprcsentcd. And then those
enemies Of evangelism 90 on and hold up
the great doctrines Of Christian churches
IA absurd dry, and ineXpiicablc technic-
%alitie3. There is your doctrine Of the
Trinity, they say. Absurd beyond all
bounds. The idea that there is a God III
three persons. Impossible. If it 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-tbcy with us-acknowl-
edge t~rinities all around us. Trinity III
u own make 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 air
light, heat, moisture-yet one atmosphere.
Trinities in the court roOm-three Judges
on the bench, but n court. Trlnitiet
all around about us, IN earthly govern
ment and in nature. OF course, all the
illustrations are defective for the reason
that the natural cannot fully illustrate
the s%piritusl. But suppose an ignorant
man should come up TO a chemist and say
Il deny what you say about the waite
and about the air; they are not made 81
differ ent parts. The air is one, breathe
1t every day. The water is one; drink
it every day. You can't deceive m'
about the elements that go to make W
the air and the water" The chemis
would say you come UP into my lab
oratory 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 il
one and the air is one, but they are made
| up of different parts. So here is a man
who says: II cannot understand the
doctrine of the Trinity" God says
you come up here into the laboratory
after your death, and you will sse-yor
will see it explained, you vii! see it dem
onstrated. The ignorant man cannot
understand the chemistry of tie water
and the air until he goes INTO the labora
atory, and we will never understand the
Trinity until we go into heaven. The ig
norance Of the man who cannot under
| stand the chemistry Of the air and wateI
| does not change the fact in regard TO tn,
~cOmDOsitiOu of air and water. BpcauSC