Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07


! Christ he will be saved, whether he be ban.
tiled by one drop of water on the forehead
or be plunged into the Ohio or Susouehanna
although immersion is the only gate nv
which one enters their earthly communion
The enemies of evangelism also misrepre-
sent the Methodist Church. They say the
Methodist Church believes that man can
convert himself. and that conversion ia that
church is a temporary emotion, and that ali
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.n 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 con-
viction and a 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 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 ard hold up the great doc
trines OF Christian churches as absurd, dry
and inexplicable technicalities sThere l.
your doctrine OF the Trinity" they say.
absurd beyond all bounds The idea that
there is Gsd in three persons Impossible
III 1t is one God He can't be three, and il there
are three, there can't be one.n 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
nght heat, moisture-yet one atmosphere
Trinity in the court room-three judges on
the bench. but one court Trinities all around
about US, in earthly government and in
nature or course, all the Illustrations ara
directive, for the reason that the natural
cannot fully illustrate the spiritual But
suppose an ignorant man should come up to
the 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
one; l breathe it every day. The water
IS one; l 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
thing to YOU" The ignorant man goes into
the chemists laboratory and secs for him
self. He learns that the water is one and
the air Is one, Int they are made up Of
different parts. So here is q 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
You will see-you will see it explained, you
viii 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 factl
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
rfaf anla- fff1ak -.
explain it !" / can explain it II is simply
this When man takes the Lord Jesus
Christ as his Saviour from sin, God let's the
offender Oft. Just as you have a difference
with some one; he has injured you. he apollo
glzes, or ne makes reparatton. you say:
Now, that's ell right, that's all right" Jus
LITIGATION by faith is this: A man 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
4" 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 influence 2 In other words
they are just as different now from
what they used TO be as possible. The old
Constellation, man-ofwar, Jay down here
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came
to Ireland. The old Constellation was fitted
up, and though it had been carrying gum
powder and bullets it took bread TO Ireland.
You remember the enthusiasm as the old
Constellation went out of our harbor, and
with what Joy il was greeted by the famish-
ing nation on the other side the sea. That is
regeneration. A man loaded up with sin
and death loaded up with life. Refitted.
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deed il you have not seen changes in charac-
ter as radical as that
man came into this church one night,
aud lie was intoxicated, and at an utterance
of the pulpit he said in subdued tone:
That's lie.n An officer of the church
tapped him on the shoulder and said: You
must be silent. or yea must 20 out.n The
next night that stranger came and he was
converted TO God He was in the liquor
business He resigned the business The
next day he sent back the samples that had
lust been sent TO him. He began to love that
which he hated. baptized him by INNER
sion in the baptistry under this platform.
A large salary was offered him if
he would return to his former bust
ness. He declined il. He would rather
suffer with Jesus Christ than be pros
pered in the world. He wrote home letter
to his Christian mother, The Christian 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.n He told OF his conversion /
to a dissoluts companion. The dlssolute (
said: well, if you have become /
a Christian, you had better 80 over and talk /
to thst dying girl She is dying with quick
in that house he new con- /
vert went the. All the surroundings were |
absolute. H. told tine dying girl 4
that Jesus would save he. 'Oh," said |
she, that can't be, that can't be. What /
makes you think sof' Il have it here IN a
book in my pocket he replied. He pulled
ont a New Tests tent She said "Show it
to me; if / can be saved. show 1T to me in
that book" He said: II have neglected this
book as you have neglected it for many
wears. and don't know where TO find 1t. Du5
7 know 1t is somewhere between the Ids
Then he began to turn over the leaves. aud
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