The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-22

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Third-Salvation, then, cannot be OBJ
tanned by acquiesence in any creed or
dogma. There is no connection between
creed and conduct necessarily. Ger
tainly conduct is not the result Of creed.
If the two bear the relation Of cause and
effect it Is just the reverse. Greed is
the result of conduct. / believe what /
do believe because am what am. /
believe what love. What l love makes
my creed. heard man say recently
that he did not believe in the virtue of
woman. Where did he get his creed2
He got it out of the depths of his own
black heart and life. His creed was the
result of his character.
| sUMMUM BoNUM.
If could only show you Jesus as he
is. If could only make you to love
him. If could only show him to you
| the fairest of ten thousand, the one alto
gether lovely, you would believe all
things. "Love belioveth all things"
We believe in what we love. On the
other hand man may intellectually be-
lieve all things and yet not believe unto
life, not believe unto salvation. The
devils believe. / may believe oil things
and yet not be saved. "Though have
the gift Of prophecy, and know all mys-
teries and all knowledge, and il have
all faith so as to remove mountains and
have not lore, am nothing" Love-
| why lover Because loue is the supreme
expression of life.
"With the heart man believeth."
Out of the heart are the issues of life.
HEART VERSUS HORSEPOWER.
This world is run by heart power, not
horsepower. 1t is heart power that
drives the tireless wheels of life. Here
and here only do we find the secret Of
all progress and all success. stand be-
fore the great Brooklyn bridge and look
up at its network of wire and steel grid
ers, and ask how it was made, by what
power. 1t was made by the heart power
! of the master mind that conceived it.
Those hundreds of wires-they are the
heartstrings of the master engineer who
died while it was being built. The
statue of Liberty that rises in the har-
Dor and lifts up her cleaning lantern in
the darkened sky-how was this master
piece built7 1t was built in the heart
throb of Bartholdi. Here it was born.
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race that on o certain day one of the
racers refused to go on. He had made
great record. His trainer was disgusted.
He stormed and scolded and persuaded,
but it was of no use. He was met by
sullen refusal of the racer to proceed.
AT last the racer turned to his trainer
and said, sit is no use to talk; / can't go
on; have lost heart" That settled it.
That was the end Of it. 1t was heart
power, Lot horsepower, that drove those
wheels around that circle from day to
day, and when heart power was lost
there was no power to take its place.
The fight was over with him. With the
heart man believeth unto life. Not with
his head can he believe unto life, for the
heart is the center of the issues of life
and the power of life.
GETTING RELIGION.
Fourth-Salvation then, cannot be
the bestowment of an external, judicial
reward by and by, but it is the imparta-
tio1l Of It life here and notU. "He that
hath the Son hath life." He that believ-
eth on the Son hath eternal life. He
has it 'otc-not going to get it by and
by. 1t is present possession. "Work
out your own salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to work for his
pleasure"-that is, it is divine life
throbbing within you, working and will
ing. Thus is character wrought out
through life. Thus does God accom-
plish through life what omnipotence
cannot do by creative fat. Thus does
God build character.
Some of us had an Experience" forty
years ago. We went through certain
emotional transition and were thrilled
with certain feelings. This we called
"getting religion" We had this ex-
perience forty years ago, and had moth
ing since. l tell you, my brother, If you
had an experience forty years ago and
have had nothing since you are in bad
fix. Your experience is just forty years
out of date. Salvation is in the present
tense. Eternity is now. "He that hath
the Son hath life"-here, now. Time is
a fiction. Time is an imaginary seq
ment cut from the circle of eternity by
the tick of clock. 1t has no real ex
istence. Eternity compasses time and
includes time. When clocks shall cease
to tick there will be as much time left
as when they began.
TIDELESS SEA.
When eternal silence broods over the
still and pulseless world, and the last
man lies down to die on the shores of a
tideless sea, there will be just as much
time left as when time began. Eternity
is noaC.
To test tho question of salvation,
tbnrafDrp do lnnlr f,,f
chism, but in life. We knew that we
have passed from death unto life-how2
Because we have been willing to swal-
low the Westminster confession of faith
without any salt2 No. We have passed
from death unto life because we have
always maintained that the heathen were
damned, without hope, and we have al
ways opposed the pestilential heresy of
second probation? No. Weknow we have
passed from death unto life, because we
have always kept the traditions of tho
elders2 No. We know that we have
passed from death unto life. because we
have always been willing to believe that
the whale swallowed Jonah and we
have been perfectly willing to swallow
both tho whale and Jonah if we might
have life? No. But listen: "Wo know
that we have passed from death unto
life, because we love the BRETHREN"
Here in life we find the test Of salvation,
the test Of the assurance of salvation.
VILLAGE IN BRITTANY.
In village in Brittany there lived a
Frenehman, the heir of an estate. He
left his native town and settled in tho
New World in Canada. Years after lie
went back to his old homestead. shook
hands with Lis neighbors and spent
many days with them in joyful reunion.
lie was man much beloved by all who
knew him. Tho income OF his estate
was collected by an agent and forwarded