The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-28

Pres bVterlan OF goOd morals anu soul.u
mind who will say that he believes there
ever was baby in the lost world or ever
will be, l will make him a deed to the house
| live in and he can take possession to-
morrow.
So the Episcopalan church is misrepre-
sented by the enemies of evangelism. Ihey
saw that church substitutes forms and cere-
monies for heart religion, and 1t IS al
matter of liturgy and genuiiexlOn. False
again All Eplscopsliaus Will tell you hat
the forms and creeds of their church are
worse than nothing unless the heart go with
them.
So also the Baptist church has been mis-
represented. The enemies of evangeilsm
say the Baptist church believes that unless
man is immersed he will never get into
heaven. False again. All the B3ptis's,
close communion and open communion, be-
leve that if a meu accept the Lord Jesus
Christ he will be saved, whether he be bap-
tiled by one drop of water on the forehead,
or be plunged into the ONO or Susque-
hanna. although immersion is toe only gate
BY which one enters their earthly commun-
ion.
The enemies of evangelism also misrepre-
sent the Methodist church. They say ths
Methods church believes that q man can
convert himself, and that conversion III
that church is a temporary emotion, and
that all a man has to DO is to kneel down at
the dttdr ana Ie6l DHQ anu bueH bLe ftllutsteI
pats him on the back and says: lit Is all
right and that is all there is Of 1T. False
again. The Methodist church believes that
the Holy Ghost alone can convert heart,
and in that church conversion Is an earth
quake of conviction and sunburst OF par
don And as to mere Temporary emotion"
| wish we all had more of the Temporary
emotion which lasted Bishop james and
Matthew Simpson for a half century, keep
ing them on fire for God until their holy
enthusiasm consumed their bodies.
81 AL the evangelical denominations are
rnisrepresented And then these enemies Of
evangelism 90 on and hold up the great
doctrines Of christi churches as absurd,
drv, and inexplicable technicalitles.
There is your doctrine of the Trinity"
they say. Absurd beyond all bounds.
The idea that there is God in three per
sons. Impossible. If it is one God he can't
be three, and if there are three, they can't
be onen At the same time all of us-they
with us-acknowledge urlnltles all around
US. Trinity in our own make-up-body,
mind, soul Body with which W. 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 III the court
room-three Judges on the bench, but one
court Trinites all around about us, in
earthly government and in nature. OF
for the reason that the natural cannot fully
illustrate the spiritual But suppose an ig-
norant man should come up to a chemist
and say: Il 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; | drink it every day. You
can't deceive me about the elements that
60 to make up the air and the water The
chemist would say: You come up into my
laboratory and / will demonstrate this
whole thing to you.n The ignorant man
goes into the chemists laboratory and sees
for himself. He learns that the water is
one and the air is one but they are made
up Of different paris. SO here is a man
who says: 81 can't understand the doctrine
of the Trinity God says: "YOu come up
here INTO the laboratory after your death
ard you will see-you will see 1t explained,
you will see it demonstrated" Tee ignor-
ant man cannot understand the chemistry
of the water and the air until he goes into
the laboratory, and we will never under
stand the Trinity until we so into heaven
The ignorance of the man who cannot un-
derstand the chemistry of the air and
water does not change the fact in regard tc
the composition of air and water Because
we cannov understand 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
stomach justification by faith; you CANT
explain it," | can explain it. 1t is simply
this: Whom a man takes the Lord Jesus
Christ as his Saviour from sin, God le.s the
offender off. just as you have difference
with some one, he has mi ured you, he apol-
ogiZes, or he makes reparGtion, you say;
Now, that's all right, that's all right. -
Justification by faith is this: A man akes
Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and God says to
the man: Now, 1t was eli wrong before,
but 1t 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
~ here is your absurd doctrine about re-
generation these antagonists of evan
gelism say. What is regeneration Why,
regeneration is reconstruction. ANY BODY
can understand that. Have you not seen
people who are all made over again hy
some wonderful influence In Other words.
they are just as different now from VIII 1t
they used TO be as possible. The old Con
stellation man-of-war, lay dowd 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 as the old
with what joy it was greeted by the fam
ishing nation on the other side the sea.
That is regeneration. A man loaded up
with sin and death loaded up with life.
Refitted. Your obervatlon has been very
small indeed if you have not seen changes
In character 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 Ia q su dued tone,
That's g lie" An officer of the church
tapped him on the shoulder and said: "You
must be silent, or you must go OUT The
next night that stranger came and he was
converted to God. He was in the hquor
business. He resignel the business. The next
day he sent back the samples that had just
been sent him. He began to love that which
he hated. / baptized him by immersion in
the baptistry under this platform. A large
salary was offered him ii he would returr
TO his former business He declined it, liz
would rather suffer with Jesus Christ thar
be prospered in the world. lie wrote horne
a letter 70 his christian mother The chris
tan mother wrote back congratulating him
ard said: "If in the change of your BUSINESS
you have lack Of means come homo
you are always welcome home" He TOLD
of his conversion TO a dissolute companion
The dis olute companion said: well, il
you have become a christian, you had bet
Ter go over and talk TO that dying girl
She IS dying Of quick consumption ia that
house The new convert went there. All
the surroundings were dissolute. he told
the dying girl that Jesus would save her