The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-07

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world, or ever will be, will make him a
deed to the house Tive In, and he car
take possession tomorrow.
50 the Episcopalian church Is misrepre.
scented by the enemies Of evangelism.
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and n
Is all matter Of liturgy and genuhe xion.
False again. All Episcopalians will tell
you that the forms and creeds Of theft
church are worse than nothing unless the
heart GO with them.
So, also, the Baptist church has beer
misrepresented. The enemies of evan
gelism say the Baptist chm CHI believes
that unless man Is immersed he will
enever get into Heaven. False again. All
the Baptists, close communion aud open
Communion, believe that IL 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 Ina
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 q
man can convert himself, and that con-
version In that church Is temporary
emotion. and all that man has to do Is
10 kneel down at the altar and feel bad,
and then the minister pats him on the
back and says, 'Itis all right" and that
is all there Is OF II. 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 a sunburst Of pardon.
And as to mere temporary emotion" I
wish we all had more of the 'tempdrafy
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 and hold up
the great doctrines of Christian churches
as absurd, dry and inexplicable technic-
alities. There is your doctrine Of the
Trinity. they say; 'absurd beyond all
bounds. The idea that there is God In
three persons. Impossible. II it is one
God He can't be three. and il 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 -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 illus trations are defective, for the rea.
son that the natural can not fully illis-
trate the spiritual But suppose an ig-
norant man should come up to a chemist
and say: ~ 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 1t
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 I
will demonstrate this whole thing to
you" The ignorant man goes into the
chemists laboratory, and sees for himself,
He learns that the water L. one and the all
is one, but they are made up Of different
parts. So here is man who SAYS: ~
can't understand the doctrine of the Trim
ity." God says: "You come up here into
the laboratory after death, aud You will
see-you will see it explain ed, you will see
1t demonstrated" The ignorant mon eaft
not understand the chemistry Of the water
and the air until he goes into the labora.
tory and he will never understand the
Trinity until we go into Heaven. The
ignorance Of the man who can not UNDER
stand the chemistry of the air and water
does not change the fact in regard to the
competition of air and water. Because
we can not understand the Trinity, does
that change the fact;"
And there Is your absurd doctrine
about justification by faith, say these an
tagonists who have chewed up the little
book Of evangelism, and have the cOnse-
quent embittered stomach-"justificatio
by faith; yOu can't explain it," I can ex-
plain it. 1t is simply this: When man
takes the Lord Jesus Christ a. his Saviour
from SIN, God let's the offender off. Just
as you have a difference with some one,
he has injured you, he apologies, or he
makes reparatiOn, you say: Now, that's
all right, that's all right" Justification
by faith is this; A man takes Jesus Christ
as his Saviour, and God says to the man:
"Now, II was all Wrong before, bat 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 con-
quer all nations.
A man came into this church one night
and he was intoxicated, and at an utter
ance OF the pulpit he said in sublued
tone: That's lie" An officer OF tho
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 God, lie
was in the liquor business. The next day
he sent hack the samples that had lust
been sent him. He began to love that
which he hated. l baptized him by i'm.
mersion in the baptistry under this plat.
form. A large salary was offered him II
he would return to his former business
| He declined IL. He would rather suffer
with Jesus Christ than be prospered In
the world. He wrote home a letter to his
Christian mother. The Christian mother
wrote back congratulating him, and said
| 'lf In the change of your business you
have lack OF means, come home; you are
always welcome home" He told OF
his version to dissolute campanion
The dissolute companion said: "WeH, il
| you have become a Christian, you had
better go over and talk to that dying girl
She is dying with quick consumption in
that house." The new convert went there.
All the surroundings were dissolute. He
told the dying girl that Jesus would save
her. "Oh," said she, "that can't be, thai
can't be. What makes you think soyr "l
have 1t here in a book in my pocket" he
replied. He pulled out a New Testament
She said: "Show it to me, If can be
saved. show 1t to me in that book. He
said: IL have neglected this book as vou
have neglected it for many years, and
don't know where to find 1t, but know