Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-15

LQelr bodies.
SO all the evangelical denominations are
misrepresented. And then these enemies Of
evangelism go on and hold up the great doc
rines OF Christian churches as absurd, dry
and inexplicable technicalities There is
your doctrine of the Trinity they say.
absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that
there is God in three persons Impossible.
If it is one God He can't be three, and il there
are thrive, there can't be onen At the same
time all Of us-they with us-acknowledge
trinities all around 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. Trinity in the air
light, heat, moisture-yet one atmosphere
Trinity in the court room-three judges Cd
the Dench, but one court Trinites all around
about u.s. in earthly government and IN
nature. OF course, all the illustrations are
detective, for the reason that the natural
cannot fully Illustrate the spiritual But
suppose an ignorant man should come up to
the chemist and say: 81 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
go TO make up the air and the water" The
chemist would say; "You come up into my
laboratory and will demonstrate this whole
otAhE w JOu- ITO lSuOEdLb uldI SOeb luIO
the chemists laboratory and sees for him
self. He learns that the water is one and
the air is one, but they are made up Of
different parts. So here ia 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, and
you will see-you will see it explained, you
will see it demonstrated. >" The ignorant
man cannot understand the chemistry of the
water and the air until he goes into the La
boratory, and We will never understand the
Trinity until we go into heaven. The igno-
rance OF the man who cannot understand the
chemistry Of the air and water does not
change the fact in regard to the composition
of air and water. Because we cannot under.
stand the Trinity, does that change the fact2
and there is your absurd doctrine about
justification by faith" say these antagonists
who have chewed up the little book of evan
geism, and have the consequent embittered
justification by faith; you can't
explain it." I can explain it. 1t is simply
this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus
Christ as his Saviour from sin, God let's the
offender OFF. Just as you have difference
with some one; he has injured you, he apollo
Ezes, or he makes reparation, you say:
NOW, that's all right that's all right" JUS
LITIGATION by faith is this; A fpen 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-o war, lay down here
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came
to Ireland, The old Constellation was fitted
up, and though 1t had been carrying gun
powder and outlets it took bread to Ireland
You remember the enthusiasm as the old
| Constellation went out Of our harbor, and
with what joy it was greeted by the fanish-
| ing nation on the other side the sea. That is
regeneration. A man loaded up with sin
and death loaded up with life. Reftted
| Your observation has been very small iu-I
| deed il you have not seen changes in charac-
ter as radical as that
A man came into this church one nightl
and he was intoxicated, and at an utteranceI
of the pulpit he said in a subduad tone /
"Thats a 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 wasI
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 THAI
which he hated baptized him by immer1
sion in the baptistry under this platforms
A large salary was offered him id
he would return to his former BUSH
ness. He declined it. He would rather
suffer with Jesus Christ than be pros
pered in the world. He wrote home letter
| 10 bia Christian rnOthar, The Chretian 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 absolute companion. The dissolute
companion said: "Well, if you have become
to that dying girl. She is dying with quick
consumption in that house" The new con.
vert went there. All the surroundings were
absolute. He told the dying girl
that Jesus would save her. "Oh," said
she, "that can't be, that can't bel What
makes you think sol" II have it here in a
book in my pocket" he replied. He pulled
out New Teste lent. She said "Show il
to me; If l can be saved, show 1t to me in
that book" He said: II have neglected this
book as you have neglected it for many
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
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upon this passage: Neither do I condemn
thee; go and sin no more" She SAID: II
isn't possible that is theren Eyes,
he said, "that is there" He held it W
before her dying eyes, and she said
"Oh, yes, l see it for myself;
thee go and sin no more.'" In a few hour
her spirit sped away to the Lord that CAV
it. and the new convert preached the funera
ermon. The man who few days Deror.
had been blasphemer and drunkard and
hater OF all that was good, he preached the
sermon. That is regeneration, that is re
generationl II there are any dry husks o!
technicality in that, where are they9 AL
made over again by the power of the grace
of God.
A few 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
for prayer, and as he was more than six feet
nigh, when he arose for prayer no one
DOUBTED that he arosel That hour he be-
came Christian. He went out and told the
ship owners and the ship commanders what q
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-
longed fog, and they were at their wits ends
and knew not what to do, the ship drifting
about hither and thither, and they lost their
bearings; and the converted sea 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 Ger.
tain hour, only little way OFF, the fog would
lift; and the converted sea captain came
out on the deck and told how God heard his
prayers. He said: 'It is all right, boys, very
soon now the fog will lift," mentioning the
hour. A man who stood there laughed
aloud in derision at the idea that God would
answer prayer; but at just the hour when
T0u nau assured tne captain the fog woulu
iift there came flash Of lightning through
the fog, and the man who had ieerad and