News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-07

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Trinity until we go into heaven. The igno
rance OF the man who cannot understand the
chemistry of the air and water does moi
change the fact in regard to the composition
OF air and water. Because we cannot under
stand the Trinity, does that change the fact
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 consequent embittered
justification by faith; you can't
explain it" can explain it. 1t is simply
this; When a man takes the Lord Jesus
| Christ as his Saviour from sin, God lets the
/ offender off. just as you have a difference
with some one; he has injured you, he apollo
glzes, or ne makes reparatton. you say:
Now, that's all right, that's all right" JUS
! LITIGATION 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
is all right now; it is all right" 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
say. What is regeneration Why, regener
alton is reconstruction. Anybody can under
stand that. Have you not seen people
who are all made over again by some
wonderful influences In other words,
they are just as different now from
what they used to be as possible The old
| Constellation, man-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 gun
! powder and bullets it took bread to Ireland.
| You remember the enthusiasm the old
| Constellation went out of our harbor, and
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. Reitted.
Your observation has been very small in
deed if you have not seen changes in charac-
| .er 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 a lie.n An officer of the church
tapped him on the shoulder and said: ''You
must be silent, or you must go out,n 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. 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
suffer with Jesus Christ than be pros
pered in the world. He wrote home 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 are always
welcome home" He told of his conversion
to dissoluts companion. The dissolute
companion said: well, if you have become
a Christian, you hal better 20 over and talk
TO that dying girl. She is dying with quick
consumption in that house, The new con.
vert went there. All the surroundings were
dissolute. II. told the dying grl
that Jesus would save her. oh" said
she that can't be. that can't be! What
makes you think SOP Il have it here in a
book in my pocket he replied He pulled
out a New Tests lent. She said: ''Show it
to me; if / can be saved, show 1t to me in
that book" He said: II have neglected this
years, and don't know where to find It, but
I know it is somewhere between the lids"
Then he began to turn over the leaves. and
strange and beautiful to say, his eve struck
upon this passage: Neither do 1 condemn
thee; go and sin no more" She SAID: 1T
isn't possible that is there" "Yes,"
he said, 'that is there" He held it up
before her dying eyes, and she said:
"Ch, Yes, L see it for myself; l
accept the promise: Neither do condemn
thee; go and sin no more'1 In few hours
her spirit sped away to the Lord that gave
1t. and the new convert prsached the funeral
ermon. The man who a few days before
had been blasphemer and drunkard and
hater OF all that was good, he preached the
sermon That is regeneration. that re-
generationi If there are any dry husks Of
technicality in that where are they! All
made over again by the power of the grace
of God.
A fewy years ago ship captain came in here
and sat yonder under the gallery. He came
III with contempt for the Church of God
and with an especial dislike for Talmage.
When an opportunity was given he arose
Tor prayer, and as he was more than six feet
high, when he arose for prayer no one
doubted that he arosei That hour he be-
came Christian. he went out and told the
ship owners and the ship commanders what a
great change had been wrought in him, and
scores and scores have been brought to God
through his instrumentality
a little while after his conversion he was
on ship off Cape Hatteras in thick and pro-
and knew not what to do, the ship driftirg
about hitber andthither, and they lost their
bearings; and the converted captain
went TO his room and asked God for the sal
walton of his ship, and God revealed it to
him while he was on his knees that at a GER
tan hour, only little way off, the fog would
lift; and the converted sea captain came
out on the deck and tod how God heard his
prayers. He said: ''it is all right, boys, very
soon now thu fog will lift" mentioning the
hour. A man who stood there laughed
aloud i'll derision at the idea that God would
answer prayer; but at just thu hour When
dod nad assured the captain the fog wo1Id
lift there came flash of lightning through
the fog. and the man who had jeerei and
laughed was stunned and fell to the deck.
AAO Ivy OuueT was CaD5 h2JteraS
Lighthouse. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor of safety
w hen in seaport the captain spends most
OF his time in evangelical work. Re kneels
down by one who has been helpless in the
bed for many months and the next day she
walks forth in the streets we'll He kneels
beside one who has long been decrepit, and
he resigns the crutches. He kneels beside
one who had not seen enough to be able to
read for ten years, and she reads the Bible that
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had diseases that were appalling to behold
come up to rapid convalescence and to com
piete health. / am not telling you ANYTHING
second-handed. l have had the story from
the hps OF ths patients in this very house.
those who were brought to health of bodv
whIe at the same time brought to
God. No secondhand story this. / have
heard the testimony from men and
women who have been cured.
1ou may call it faith-cure, or you may call
1t the power of God coming down in ans xer
to prayer; do not care what you call it; it
IS fact The soothing sea captain. his heart
full of hatred for Christianity now becomes
a follower of the meek and Iowly Jesus Civ
ing all tue time to evangelical labors, or all
the time he can spare from other occupations.
That IS regeneration, that is regeneration.
Man all made over again.
There is your absurd doctrine of vicari-
Gus sacrifice" say these men who have
chewed up the little book of creeds and have
the consequent embittered stomach. ''Vicari-
Gus sacrifice Let every man suffer for him
self Why do / want Christ to suffer for ma
III suffer for myself and carry my own bur
dens." They scott at the idea of vicarious
sacrifice, while they admire it everywhere
else except In Christ. People see its beauty
when mother suffers for her child. People
see Its beauty when a patriot suffers for his
country People see its beauty when man
denies himself for friend. They can sea
haantv n rio in
but Christ.
A young lady in one OF the literary insti-
tutions was teacher She was very reti-
cert and retired in her habits and she formed
no companionships in the position sac
occupied, and her dress was very plain
sometimes it was very shabby After q
while she was discharged from the place for
that reason, but no reason was given. In
answer to the letter discharging her from
the position, she said: "Wen. if ] have
failed to please, l suppose it is NV own
fault" She went here and there for employ
ment, and foCnd none, and in desperation
and in dementla she ended her life by suicide
Investigation was made and it was found
that out OF her small means she had supported
her father. eighty years of age and was pay
ing the way for her brother in Yale College
on his way to the ministry L.
was found that she had no blanket OIL
the bed that winter, and she had no fro
on the very coolest day OF all the
season. People found it out, and there was
a large gathering at the funeral, the largest
ever at any funeral in that place. and the
very people who had scoffed came and looked
upon the pale face OF the martyr. and all
honor was done her; but it was too late.
Vicarious sacrifice. Ali are thrilled with
such instances as that But many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His pow
erty for our riches, His self-abnegation for
cur enthronement, and knelt on the sharp
edges OF humiliation that we might CLIMB
over His lacerated shoulder into peace and
heaven