The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-02-13


when they leare this world 60 right into
glory, wonder if in the temple Of the skies
Char.es Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth oc-
cupy the same pew! Your common sense
demands two destinies! And then as to the
Presbyterian Church believing there are in
fants in perdition, if you will bring me a
Presbyterian of good morals and sound
mind who will say that he believes there
ever was baby in the lost world, or ever
will be, will make him deed to the house
live in, and he can take possession to-mor-
row.
So the Episcopal Church is misrepresented
by the enemies of evangelism. They say
that church substitutes forms and cere-
monies for heart religion, and it is all mat
ter of liturgy aud genuaexion. False again.
All Epscopalians will tell you that the forms
and creeds Of their church are worse than
nothing unles the heart go with them.
So also the Baptist ChGlch las 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 again. All the Baptists.
close communion and open communion. be-
l;eve that if q man accept the Lord Jesus
Christ he will be saved, whether be be
baptized by one drop Of water on the fore
head, or be plunged into the Ohio or Susque-
hanna. although immersion is the only gate
by which one entera their e..rthly COM
munion.
The enemies of evangelism also miSrepre-
sent the Methodist Church. They say the
Methodist Church believes that man can
convert himself, and that conversion in that
church is temporary emotion. and that all
q 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: "lt is all
right" and that is all there is Of 1t.
False again. The Method ist Church believes
that the Holy Ghost alone can convert
heart, and in that church conversion is an
earthquake of conviction and a sunburst OF
pardon. And as to mere temporary emo
ton" wish we all had more of the TEN
porary emotion" which lasted Bishop James
aad Matthew Simpson for half century,
keeping them on tire for God until their holy
enthusiasm consumed their bodies.
So all the evangelical denominations are
nisrep1esented. And then these enemies
of evauGel;. II go on and hold up the great
doctrines Of Christian churches as absurd,
dry and lncxplicable techricalties. 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 II
there are three, they can't be one." At the
same time all of us-thay with us-acknowl-
edge trinities all around US. Trinity in our
own nake-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 alright, heat. mois-
ture-yet one atmo. .phece. Trinity in the
court room-three judges on the bench, but
one court Trinities all around about US, in
earthly government and in nature. OF
course, all of the illustrations are defective
for the reason that the natural can not fully
illustrate the spiritual But suppose an
ignorant man should come up to chemist
and say: II deny what YOU say about the
water and about the air; they are not made
of different parts. The air is ore: breathe
it every day. The water is one; drink it
every day.
ssYou can't deceive me about the elements
that 20 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" 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 parts. So here is a man who says:
II can't understand the doctrine OF the
Trinity" God says: "You come up here
into the laboratory after your death and ycu
will see-you will see it explained, you will
see it demonstrated The ignorant man
can not understand the chemistry of the
water and the air until he goes into the lab
oratory, and we will never understand the
Trinity until we 60 into heaven. The igno-
rance Of the man who ccn not understand
the chemistry Of the air and water does not
change the fac: in regard to the composition
of air and water Because we can not un-
derstand the Trinity, does that change the
facti
"And there is your absurd doctrine about
justification by faith" say these antago-
nists who have chewed up the little book Of
evangelism, and have the consequent embit-
tered stomach: justification by faith: you
can't explain it." / can explain it. 1t is
simply this: When man takes the Lord
Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sin, God
lets the offender Off. Just as you have
difference with some one, he has injured
YOU, ne apologies or he makes reparatlon,
you say: Now, that's all right; that's all
right" Justification by faith is this: aman
takes Jesus Christ as his saviour. and God
saws to the man: "Eow. it was all wrong
before. but it is all right now; it is al!
right" That was what made Martin Luther
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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 is reconstruction. Anybody can
understand that. Have you not seen people
who are all made over a1ein by some Won
derful infuence2 III other words they are
lust 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 Stted up, and though
it had been carrying gunpowder and bullets
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 furnishing nation on
the other side the sea- That is regener-
alton. A man loaded up with sin and death
loaded up with life. Reftted. Your obser-
walton has been very small indeed II you
have not seen changes in character as radi-
cal as that
A man came into this church one night,
and he was intoxicated. and ct an utterance
of the pulpit he said in q sub3ued tore:
That's 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 Cos He was in the liquor busi-
ness. He resigned the business. The next