Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-21
ELoauEur DIR. pENrEoosT.

ELOQUENT DIR. PENTECOST.
 He Expounds the New Life Whiehsss
 Horn into ehe Christian Heart-Paf-
 Scientists and Naturalists-FafaiAe
 from she Scriptures.
 Large congregations attended the morning and evening services at the Church of the Redeemer yesterday, and listened with marked interest to the discourses of Rev. Dr. Pentecost His evening sermon wasse mas- terly one. Predestination was his topic. By series of convincing facts and arguments he drew striking and convincing application of the general laws of all life to the spiritual or eternal life of man.
 "Many are called, but few are ohosen,' were the words of his text.
 The doctrine of election has been widely misunderstood by Christians, said he. Many confound the doctrine of election with that of predestination. Predestination is referred to but few times in the New Testament. It means something predestined to be done. We find mention of it ir Acts, iv.; Corin- thians ii., 7, and Ephesians i. Again, it is not who is predestinated, but what men are predestinated to. It is not 50 much of persons as of things. The eruci6xion was the object of predestination. We want to rid our minds of the thought that God has predestiaed this or that man to salvation. and this or that man to something else. It has reference to the glory to come, and not to this man or to that man. In this matter there is great.deal of unpardonable ignor- ancs among intelligent people. In pew and pulpit, the great mistake is that, instead of studying the scriptures about these things. we look to tho ideas of men.
 What is evolutiona Perhaps this could be answered more exactly by more Christians to-day than could tbe-Question of predesttna tion. We are more familiar with scientific terms than we are with those of religion. There is not in the whole range of scientific research one single evidence that life was spontaneous. No scientist has ever been able to see life emerging out of dead matter nor, in the second place, has any scientist ever seen life transforming from one type tc another. These hypotheses of evolution are without any possible scientific evidence. The great part of life is not mere result of scien- ti6c or mathematical evolution. What ie basis, as seen is connection with matter. More than that,it is impossible to distinguish between the life-cell of plant fish or bird. It shows nc difference. You might plant a million acorns and not one would ever come up an elm tree. You might place the biaplasm oi dog and it would never mature bird or Q | fish. There are no mistakes of this kind in nature "Everythirg after it's kind. is the doctrine of conformative fact. We have all l sorts of varieties in certain group, but nc distinct order ever passes over into. another order. We can get hyblides but these dc not produce after their kind, for it is in di rect violation of the great law of nature. You take several varieties of pigeons and put them on an island by themselves and in time they will all become slate colored, common pigeons. That is, they all return te their kind.
 Does not the Bible speak in this way Does not Genesis say that God commanded | everything that hath life to bring forth aftel its kinda "You shall know them by theil | fruit" The grape does not bring fortt l thorns, TOT the fruit tree missiles, nor tn, | wheat tares. Here we have the law of typ | life developing itself according to it's type ! and 1t never makea 8 mistake.
 Christ has taken this ss 8 parallel for | higher life. There is another life that doel not come out of plants or animals. It i 1 world by Jesus Christ. It ia life whicl you have not unless you got it from Jesu' | Christ. ''That which is from the flesh i fesh,n eays Christ. "That which is borI o the spirit is spirit" Except ye be born iron l above, except the spirit of Gcd is born il | you with & new life, you can neve- inheri 1 the kingdom. Flesh and blood cannot ente l above. If any man enters here there is
 new creation, lot one type entering into new type.
 We find the same law of predestinatio
 here. Christ's is the spirit of the new life
 God has determined that tke grape sha ] always produce a grape, and oak trees al
 ways Gn oak tree. man always man. Fl
 has predestined that the outcome of Chris tian life shall be spirit like that of Chriss's It shall be eternal life. 1t follows closely th
 law of nstural life A natural man may ez
 perience religion and be baptized twent
 times if he wants to, but unless the new If } of Jesns Christ has been born in him you' 1 find the old man there still, if you skin hiI1 I He may give contributions, go to churc
 and talk pious as much as he wants to. b0
 unless he has the new life he will sink bac ,o the primeval man if left alone b
 himself, just like the slate col
 ored pigeons. The first man is c | is after the God of heaven. There are tw
 types of man-frst the Adam and then tn
 Christ. We shall not all sleep, but we shal | all be changed ''in moment, in the twink
 ling of an eye." The man who has receive
 Jesus Christ in his heart has leaped q chasm
 He has leaped from the feshy born man |
 the spirit man. The naturalist or scients
 tells us that life develops according to CT
 vironment. A dog cannot make 8 man itself
 it is argued. How can sinner make @ sair
 of himselfi Modern orthology in New Have
 and out of New Haven accepts hi
 with the proviso that a man may talk l what Christian goodness there is in him an develop it to the eternal kingdom. The natr ral man carries corruption and he'll with hin
 The spiritual man is one in whom Christ ht
 been born. The difference between man an
 the lower orders is that man can see u ] ideal, and God has given him power to chooi | 1t The moment We choose Jesus Chris
 that moment he sets himself in our hear
 and minds. Old things pass away, and b
 hold we have been born anew. We choo | our type, which is Jesus Christ, and then or
 growth depends upon our environment.