Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-02-03

of body, mind and soul / am free
man. So, you see, it is possible that
the two doctrines go side by side, and
there is common sense way Of pre-
senting il, and there is a way that is
repulsive. II you have the two doc
trines in worldly direction, why not
in religious directonf II / choose
tomorrow morning TO walk into
the Mercantile library and i'm
prove my mind, or TO 60 through the
conservatory of my friend at Jamaica,
who has flowers from all hands grow
ing under the arches Of glass, and
who has an aquarium all asqu;rm with
trout and gold fish, and there are trees
bearing oranges and bananas-if want
TO go there, could. / am free to 60
II want to go over TO Hoboken and
leap into a furnace OF an oil factory,
if want 10 jump from the platform
of the Philadelphia express train, if
want TO leap from Brooklyn
bridge, / may. But suppose i should
go tomorrow and leap into the
furnace at Hoboken. who would be TO
blame! That is all there is about SOW
ereignty and free agency. God rules
and reigns, and he has conservatories
and he has blast furnaces. If you
want TO walk in the gardens, walk
there. II you want to leap in the
furnaces you may.
SOME MISCONCEPTIONS THAT FILL MEMS
MINDS
Suppose now a man had a charmed
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 a country
would this bel all the immass turned
out of those prisons and penitentiaries.
Suppose all the reprobates, the bad
spirits, the outrageous spirits, should
be turned into the New Jerusalem.
Why, the next morning 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 burg
larized. Assault and battery, arson,
hbertinism and assassination would
reside in the capital of the skies.
Angels of God would be insulted on
the streets. Heaven would be dead
failure if there were no great lock up.
II all people without regard TO their
character when they leave this world
60 right into glory-I wonder il in the
temple of the skies Charles Guiteau
and John Wilkes Booth occupy the
same pewl Your common sense de-
mands two destiniesl And then as to
the Presbyterian church believing
there are infants in perdition, il you
will bring me q Presbyterian Of good
morals and sound mind who will say
that be believes there ever was baby
in the lost world, or ever will be,
will make him a deed TO the house ]
live in and he can take possession TO.
morrow.
So the Episcopalian church is mis-
represented by the enemies of evangel-
ism. They say that church substi-
tutes forms and ceremonies for heart
religion, and it is all a matter OF Lit
urgy and genufexion. False again.
All Episcopalians will tell you that
the forms and creeds Of .l,eir 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 o mar is immersed he will
never get into heaven. False again.
All the Baptists, close communion and
open communion, believe that II q man
accept the Lord Jesus Christ he will
be saved, whether he be baptized by
ons lrop Of water on the forehead, On
be plunged into the Ohio or Susque-
hanna, although immersion is ths
only gate by which one enters then
earthly communion.
The enemies Of evangelism also mis-
represent the Methodist church. They
say the Methodist church believes thai
q man can convert himself, and thai
conversion in that church is O tempo
rary emotion, and that all q man has b
do Is 10 kneel down at the altar and
feel bad and then the minister patl
him on the back and says: 1T is al
right" and that 10 all there is Of It.
False again. The Methodist church
believes that the Holy Ghost alone
can convert O heart, and in thei
church conversion Is an earthquake
Of conviction and q sunburst Of par
don. And ~ 30 mere Temporary
emotion" / wish we all had
more Of the Temporary emo
ton" which lasted Bishop James
and Matthew Simpson for a half cen.
tury, keeping them ON fire for God
until their holy enthusiasm consumed
their bodies. -.y
n m THE IGNORANT NAN WHO DisBE-
So all the evangelical denominations
% misrepesented- And then these
enemies Of evangelism 60 ON and hold
nm the great doctrines Of Christian
churches as absurd, dry and inexplica-
BILE technicaliticx There Is your
doctrine Of the Trinity they say.
"Ahn,rd beyond Ill bounds. The
a. thst there d Q God in three per
uusI Imposiblei II e Is one God he
unu4 b thres and II there are thrce
they csn't b ons" Al the n1ne TINA
vi q us--they With us- acknowledge
, rinitiss I'll around "a Trinity In our
own maks up body. mind, soul.
Boiy. with which We move. mind
Win which we think, soul with which
" low. Three, yetone man. Trinity
IN the sirIligiF, heat, moisture c-yct
ons utmosphere. Trinity In the court
poom-three Judges on Che bench, but
one court Trinities all around about
u4 In earthly government and In M
tnre OF course, all the illustrationa
ase detective for tbe pason that
tbs natural cannot fully fllus<rafe IN