The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-04-04


gates of pearl would be found off the
hinge, the linchpin would be gone out of
the chariot wheels, the "house OF
many mansions" would be burglar
lied. Assault and battery, arson,
libertinism and assassination would
reside IN the capital of tie skies. Angels
of God would be insulged on the street.
Heaven would be dead failure if there
were no great lookup. If all people with
out regard 10 their character when they
leave this world go right into glory-I
wonder if in the temple of the skies
Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth
occupy the same pew? Your common
sense demands two destinies. And then
as to the Presbyterian church believing
there are infants in per dition, if you will
bring me Presbyterian of good morals
and sound mind who will say that he be-
lieves there ever was a baby in the lost
world, or ever will be, I will make him
deed to the house live in, and he can
take possession tomorrow.
| So the Episcopalian church is misrepre-
scented by the enemies of evangelism.
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and it
is all matter of liturgy and genu1exion.
False again. All Episcopalians will tell
| you that the forms and creeds of their
| church are worse than nothing unless the
heart go with them.
&c. also, the Baptist church has been
misrepresented. The enemies of evan
gelism say the Baptist church believes
| that unless a man is immersed he will
never get into Heaven. False again. All
| the Baptists, close communion and open
communion, believe that if q man accept
the Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved,
whether he be baptized by one drop of
water on the forehead, or be plunged into
the Ohio or Susquehanna, although i'm
mersion is the only gate by which one
enters their earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also mis-
represent the Methodist church. They
say the Methodist church believes that
man can convert himself, and that con-
version in that church is temporary
emotion, and all that a man has to do is
to kneel down at the altar and feel bad,
and then the minister pats him on the
back and says, SIT is all right" and that
is all there is of it. False again. The
Methodist church believes that the Holy
Ghost alone can convert a heart, and in
that church conversion is an earthquake
of conviction and sunburst of pardon.
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 their bodies.
So all the evangelical denominations
are misrepresented. And then these
enemies of evangelism go on and hold up
the great doctrines of Christian churches
| oh JTxr nd
alities. ''There is your doctrine of the
Trinity" they say; ''absurd beyond all
bounds. The idea that there is a God in
three persons! Impossible. If it is one
God He can't be three, and if there are
three they can't be one." At the same
time all of us-they, with us-acknowl-
edge trinities all around US. Trinity in
our own ke-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 atmos-
phere. Trinity in the courtroom
three judges of the bench, but one court.
Trinities all around about us, in earthly
government and in nature. OF course, all
the Illustrations are defective, for the rea-
son that the natural can not fully illus
trate the spiritual. But suppose an ig-
norant man should come up to chemist
: and say: 81 deny what you say about the
} water and the air; they are not made OF
different parts. The air is one; l breathe
it every day. The water is one; drink il
every day. You can't deceive me about
t the elements that go to make up the all
a and the water" The chemist would say
: "You come up into my laboratory and ]
will demonstrate this whole thing to
: YOU" The ignorant man goes into the
9 chemists laboratory, and for himself
? He learns that the water is one and the all
t is one, but they are made up of differen
n parts. SO hero is man who says: 60
L can't understand the doctrine of the Trim
Y ity." God says: "You come up here into
o the laboratory after death, and you vii
g see-you will see it explained youwill SCI
it demonstrated" The ignorant man cal
: not understand the chemistry of the waite
: and the air until he goes into the labora
d tory, and he will never understand til,
/, Trinity until we go into Heaven. TIL
n ignorance of the man who can not under
n stand the chemistry of the air and waite
: does not change the fact in regard to tn
!. composition of air and water. Becaus
t we can not understand the Trinity, doe
d that change the fact?"
b AHu lHeF6 Is your ABSURD dOctrIn
9 about justification by faith, " say these an
tagonists who have chewed up the it'll
: book of evangelism, and have the conse
g quent embittered stomach-'tjust
t by faith; you can't explain ito can ex
It plain it. 1t is simply this: When a MAJ
|. takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Sayiou
1 from SIN, God lets the offender off. Jus
J. as you have a difference with some one
!; he has injured You, he apologies, or h
Q makes reparation, you say: ''Now, that
j all right that's all right" Justification
I; by faith is this: A man takes Jesus Chris
t as his Saviour, and God says to the man
| snow. it was all wrong before, but it i
d all right now; it is all right" That was
d what made Martin Luther what he was
$ justification by faith, it is going to con
Y quer all nations.
t A man came into this church one nigh
s and he was intoxicated, and at an utter
$ anee of the pulpit he said in a subdueC
a tone: THAT'S a lie." An officer of tn
: church tapped him on the shoulder an,
Q said: "You must be silent or you mus
g go out" The next night that strange
9 came and he was converted to God. H
> was in the liquor business. The next da,