The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-03-05

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not believe in tho ctcvnal Oh % atlon of
the Son. He nond not believe In ever
lasting punisam NJ. lie need not be-
lievc in infant In ,tism. lie med NOT
believe In nj osry fnsn,ras.on. Fpitl,
in Christ is tie sri Ion. N tia test, is
the pivot, is lno inaiipsnsable. But
there are those wb,iwould add unto the
tests rather thln subtract from them.
There are thousau IS who wonld not ac-
cept persons intot,trah membership II
they drank wine or IL they smoke
cigars or IL they play cards or IL they
drive fast horse. Now do not drink
wine or smoke or attend the theater,
never played game Of cards, and
do not drive a fast horse, although
would If / owned one But do not
substitute tests which the Bible
does not establish. There Is one pas
sage Of Scripture wide enough to let in
all who ought to enter and TO keep out
all wbo or,oht to he kent ont. ssRelieve
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| DO saved Get mans heart right and
his life Will be right But now that the
old creeds have been put under public
scrutiny, something radical must be
done. Some would split them, some
would carve them, some would elongate
them, some would abbreviate them. At
the present moment and In the present
shape they are hindrance. Lazarus is
alive, but hampered with the old grave
clothes. II you want one glorious
church free and unincumbered take of
the cerements OF old ecclesiastical vo-
cabulary. Loose her, and let her gol
Again, there are Christians who are
under sepulchral shadows and hindered
and hoppled by doubts and fears and
sins long ago repented OF. What they
need is to understand the liberty OF the
sons Of God. They spend more time
under the shadow OF Sinai than at the
base of Calvary. They have been sing
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Do love the Lord or no,
AMI His or am not
Long to know, do you? Why do you
not find out? Go TO work for God and
you will very soon find out. The man
who is all the time feeling Of his pulse
and looking at his tongue to see whether
1t is coated is morbid and can not be
physically we'll. The doctor will say:
go out into the fresh air and into active
you will get we'll and strong" So there
are people who are watching their spir-
itual symptoms, and they call 1t self
examination and they get wVker and
sicklier in their faith all the time. Go
out and do something nobly Christian.
Take holy exercise and then examine
yourself, and, instead Of Newton's satur-
nine and bilious hymn that / first
quoted, you will sing Newton's other
hymn:
Amazing grace now sweet @ the sound
,onoa ' oas ,os, ,avvn hr, uo,u nau ae, se,,,,.
was blind but now see.
What many OF you Christians most
need Is TO get your grave clothes of. /
rejoice that you have been brought from
the death OF sin to the life of the Cos
pei, but you need to get your hands
loose and your feet loose and your
tongue loose and your soul loose. There
Is no sin that the Bible so arraigns and
punctures and flagellates as the sin
of unbelief, and that Is what Is the
matter with YOU. 80" you saw, IL
you knew what | once was and
how many times have grieyous-
ly strayed you would understand why
| do not come out brighter" Then /
think YOU would call Yourself the chief
of SINNERS. | am glad you hit upon that
term, for have promise that fits into
your case as the cogs OF one wheel
between the cogs OF another wheel or as
the KEY fits into the labyrinths of lock.
A man who was once called Saul but
afterwards Paul declared: "This is a
faithful saying and worthy Of all accept
alton that Christ Jesus came into the
world TO save sinners, Of whom I am
chief" Mark that-''of whom am chief"
'Put down your overcoats and hats and
| will take care Of them while you kill
Stephen"-so Saul said TO the stoners OF
the first martyr-'T do not care TO exert
myself much, but will guard your sur.
Mus apparel while YOU do the murdern -
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