The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-07
A SERMON ON FAITH.
DR.. PEARSON EXPLAINS SOME
THINGS ABOUT FAITH.

|
tance, Its Philosophy, and It's Utility
The Only Condition OF Salvation and
the Only Escape From an Eternal
He'll.
| Rev. Dr. Pearson's sermon at Wesley
Monumental church last night was upon the
subject of Faith, the Condition OF Saliva
tion."
The church was crowded as usual, the
| people beginning to come in as early as g
O'Clock, and many leaving unable to obtain
seats,
Rev. E. P. Jones, of the Duffy Street Bap-
list church, conducted the opening services.
DR.. Pearson's text was Acts xvi, 81:
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved"
This text DIR. Pearson said, comprised
| the epitome of the gospel faith in Jesus
Christ as the condition Of salvation. He
divided his text under five heads:
What is faith!
What is the object of faithi
What is the Importance of faiths
What is the philosophy Of faiths
What is the utility OF faiths
Faith and confidence, he said, are synony-
nous terms, confidence being the scriptural
definition Of faith.
ONE OBJECT IN VIEW.
There is but one object, he said, upon
| which faith could rest and secure salvation,
| Jesus Christ. "For 1 know whom have
! believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which have committed unto
him against that day" l. Timothy l., 10.
This, DR.. Pearson said, constituted the
substance OF faith, first, knowledge Of the
| thing believed in second, the truth Of 1t, and
third, a committal to it. Without a com-
initial TO the thing believed in, he said. the
| belief In it was of no avail.
| 1.-THE trouble with half the sinners here
| tonight" he said, sis that they have not
committed themselves to Christ"
Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen," he
said.
The Lord Jesus Christ Is the foundation
upon which this support or substance Of
faith rests, he said.
WHAT FAITH 49,
Faith is the evidence of things not seen,
because it makes unseen things conscious,
| blessed, experimental realities to the human
soul.
Il have never seen God, but 1 have en-
joyed that experimental consciousness and
know that my redeemer liveth," he said.
The object OF faith. It's foundation, he
said. was the person of Jesus Christ. "As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness 30 shall the Sol of Man
| be lifted up :" "For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son" etc.
your faith, he said as not TO rest in or
on your faith. Put your faith not In your
faith, but in Jesus" For some shall be
| lieve lie and be damned"
He illustrated faith as the coupling that
connected the car with the locomotive.
Faith was the LAX between God and man,
he said, between things seen aud things un-
seen.
THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH.
The Importance OF faith. DR.. Pearson
said, is, first, your sins cannot be
forgiven without 1t, second, it is the only
way by which you can be justified; third,
| it is the only way you can he saved.
THE Importance of faith, he said, sis
exactly this, and | want to emphasize it,
you cannot miss an eternal hell without it."
| go preach my gospel to every creature.
| He that believeth shall be saved, but he
| that belieyeth not shall be damned"
On the philosophy of faith he said that
there was no elevation in anything that per-
tained to human affairs without faith. 1t
| entered into all the departments Of life,
| science, business, commerce A truck
farmer, be said, would not plant his crop
without faith that seed time and harvest
would continue. You can't run the business
world without faith, you can't
carry on the commerce Of
nations without it, he said. The Barring
Bros. failure in England inade everything
shaky financially. There was a lack of
confidence everywhere. Tinker with the
tariff aud you produce the Same result and
the same way with this political heresy of
| free coinage.
THE ONLY BASIS OF HAPPINESS.
| The only basis of absolute happiness be-
| tween man and wife, he said, is confidence.
| Destroy confidence between them and hap
piness is impossible.
On the utility Of faith, he said, that as q
condition Of salvation, it 10 the grasp Of
every human being.
| 1t is not money qualification, not an in
tellectual qualification. not literary quail
| ficatioD, and it Is not on a scientific or pbio-
s1phical basis. Gods condition is, believe
IN the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved. 1t is open TO the bootblack, the out
cast, the poor, the rich, the ignorant, the
learned. the black the white, the bond. the
free-all can be saved. 1t is like the system
Of universal gravitation, adapted to all the
| earth.
Services will be held tonight and to-
morrow night. There will be no service
Saturday mig IT. DR.. Pearson will preach
his last sermon during his stay on Sunday
night. The whole church will be thrown
open to men aud women alike Tonight.
That Tired Feeling