Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-28

as to the PresbJ terian church believing
there are infants in perdilioD, if you will
bring me Presby Of good morals
and soand Mid who viii ray that he
believes there ever was a baby in the
lost world, or ever will be, | will make
him deed to the house live in and he
can take possession tomorrow.
THE CHURCHES ARE NnsREPREsENTED.
So the Episcopalian church is misrep-
resented by the enemies Of evangelism.
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and it is
all matter Of liturgy AID genuArxion.
False again. All EpiscOpalisns will tell
you 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 mis-
represented. The enemies Of evangelism
say the Baptist Church believes that unless
a man is immersed he will never get into
heaven. False sgain. All the Baptists,
close communion, believe that if man
accept the Lord Jesus Clrist he will be
saved, whether he he baptized by one
drop Of wafer on the forehead, or plugged
into the Ohio or Susquebanna, although
immersion Is the only gate by which one
enters their earthly communion.
The enemies OF evange ism also misrep-
resent the Methodist CkaTch. They say
that the Methodist Church believes that a
man can convert himself, md that cOnver-
sion in that church is a temporary
emotion, and that all man has to do is TO
knsel down at the altar and feel bad and
then the minister pats him on the back and
says, ut is all right" and that is all there
is Of it. False again. The Methodist
Church believes that the Holy Ghost alone
can convert heart, and in that church
conversion is an earthquake of conviction
and q sunburst of pardon. And as to mere
Temporary emotion" l wish we all had
more Of the temporary emotion" which
lasted Bishop James and Matthew Simpson
for a half century, keeping them on fire for
God until their holy enthusiasm consumed
tleir bodies.
THEIR ILLUSTRATIONS DEFECTIVE.
So all the evangelical denominations are
misrepresented. And then these enemies
Of evangelism 60 on and hold up the great
doctrines of Christian churches as absurd,
dry, and insxplicsble technicalities
There is your doctrine Of the Trinity"
they say. "Absnrd beyont all bounds. The
dea that there is a God IN three persons
Impossible. If it is one God He can't be
three, and il there are three, they can't be
one. At the sjme time all Of us--they
with us-scknOwledge trnities all arouud
Us. Trinity in our 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 man.
Trinity in the alright, heat. moisture
yet one atmosphere. Trinity in the court
rOom-three judges on tie bench, but one
court. Trinities all around, about us, in
earthly government and in nature OF
course all the Illustrations are defective
for the reasOn that the natural cannot
fully illustrate the spiritual. But suppose
an Ignorant man should come up TO chem
ist and say: 81 deay what you say about
the water and about the air; they are not
made of different parts. The air is one;
l breathe il every day. The water is
one; drink it every day. You
can't deceive me about the elements that
go to make up tine air aud the watern
The chemist would say ''YOu come up
into my laboratory and ] will demonstrate
this whole thing 10 youp The ignorant
man goes into the che list's laboratory,
and sees for himself Z learns that the
wster is one and the ar is one, but thay
are made up of different. sarts. SO here is
a non who ass: "fetes uaie-ntand the
doctrine OF the Trinity" God Gays: "You
come up here into the laboratory after
your oath, and you will see-you will see
It explained, you will see it demonstra-
ted" The ignorant man canrot under
stand the chemistry of thu wafer and the
ar until he goes into the laboratory, and
we will never understand the Trinity until
We 20 into heaven. TIE ignorance of the
man who cannot understand the chemistry
of the air and water doe5 no! change the
fact in regard to the composition of air
and water Because we cannot under
stand the Trinity, does that charge the
fact?
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
"Aud there is your absurd doctrine
about justification by faith, " say these an
tagonisis who have ohewed up the little
book OF evangelism, and have the cOnse
quent embittered stomach justification
by faith; you can't explain it. / can eS-
nIain il. II ia simply this. when man
;al,, q Jespa Christ as his Saviour from sin,
Goa Io.s Gne offender of. Just as You
have difference with some one, he has
injured you, he apologies, OF he makes
repaIatiOn. You ssy: Now, that all |
right, that's all right" Justification by
faith is this: man takes Jesus Christ as
his Saviour, and God Gays TO the man: |
''Now, it was all wrong before but it is |
all right nov; it ID all right" That was |
what made Martin Luther what he was |
Justification by faith, 1t Is going to conquer |
all nations.
There is your absurd doctrine about re-
generation these antagonists OF evangel- |
ism say. What is Regeneration? Why, re-
generation il reconstruction. Anybody |
can understand that. Have you not seen
people who are allmade over sgsiu by some
wonderful inhuenc? 10 other words, they
are inst as different now from what they
used TO he as possible. The old C0nstiIu-
ton (man-of-war) Icy down here at the
B,ooklyn navy yard. Famine came to
Ireland. TIE cid Constitution was fitted
up. aud though it had been carrying gun
powder aud bullets, it took bread to Ire
land. You remember the enthusiasm as
the old Constitution went out Of our har-
bor. and with what Joy it was greeted By
the fanishing nation on the other side the
sea. That is regeneration. A man loaded
ND with sin and death loaded up with life
Refitted. Your observation has been very
small. indeed, ifyou have net been CHANGED
in characte. Gs radical ns that.
HE SENT BACK THE SAMPLES.
man came into this church one night,
and he was intoxicated, and at an utter
ance of the pulpit he said in subdued
tone. "Thats a lie.n An officer Of the
church tapped him on the shoulder and
said. lyon must be silent, or you must
o, out" The next night that stranger
came. and he was converted to God. He
,ges in the liquor business. He resigned
the business. The next day he sent b'ek
the samples that had just been sent MN.
He began to love that which he hated.
baptized him by immersion 10 the baptis-
trI under this platform. A large sslsfy
was offered him il he would return to his
former business. He declined it. He
would rather suffer with Jesus Christ than
he nrosDered in the world. He wrote home
~ his Christian mother. The Christian
mother wrote back congratulating him,
and said at in the change Of your bust
ness you have lack OF means, come nome;
you are always welcome home" He told
of bis conversion to dissoiute companion.
The dissolute companion said; "Weli, II
" 1.,,,e a Christian Won had