The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22

A CONTROVE RsY.
LIGHTFOOT.'


clone Tramp" and .sU. Pirates" Do Not
Agree About Book.
To U. PHRATEs-How the doctors will
diller. Some time ago l borrowed NAT
ural Law in the Spirit World" but unlike
you | was not much edited by pernsing it,
In fact / agree pretty we'll with the min
lister from whom 1 got it. He said /;
Reading it is like thrsshine a big stack
OF straw to get wheat enough to make a
biscuit" Only / didn't get the biscuit
In Tact / 20. tired threshing the straw
over and over. and gave up the
lob. To me 1t appeared that
he assumed the thing he proposed to
prove-the necessity of regeneration by
the Holy Spirit. Now think it is well
enough for Lone Tramp" to climb over
obstacles and Jump the brooks he comes.tO,
but man who assumes to build a high
way for everyone to travel ought 10 have
no gaps or distractions or unbridged
streams in his road. In the record oil the
creation of man it is said that "God
breathed in his nostrils the breath of life
end man became living soul" Then the
lie oil Adam and his pOHterity was derived
from God. There might be two kinds of
lie from the same source, but the bur-
den of proof that there must he is with
him that asserts it. Admitting the i'm
possibility of spontaneous generation of
vegetable or animal life, which cannot be
proven, or the spontaneous transfer VA
ton OF vegetable into animal life, which
think is not generally believed, what
evidence have we that man requires \
new germ of life TO become christian.
a member of the kingdom of heaven?
think the dogma of the necessity Of n
second birth is predicated on the false
translation OF the Greek word rendered
again" in John iii, 81. Christ saidlye must
be born from above, which | understand
to be OF like import TO the q adage "a
poet must be born" One might say "a
man that is not born with the faculty of
sight cannot see or comprrh nd Il
rainbow" OF course a man VINO has none
OF the instincts of higher manhood, who
only cares for his own selfish pleasure
cannot comprehend that there can be
such a thing as disinterested beneyolence.
Ii the man have the nature of brute he
cannot believe that any one would suffer
and die for the benefit of others. Christ
told NlcOdemus he must be born with
the higher faculties If he could compre-
hend Christ's mission. The person spoken
OF in verse . is assumed 10 be out of the
kingdom of heaven, but the language
does not imply that he had never been
within. He told the pharisees, who asked
him when the kingdom OF heaven should
come, that the kingdom OF heaven was
within them. They were ungrateiul and
disloyal subjects, but had the ability, if
thew would. to become faithful members
of the kingdom.
Christ SAID again. Luke xviii. Is: "Sufer
the little chi dren to come unto me, for of
such Is the kingdom of the God" Man,
then. is by nature in the kingdom. And
Christ declared that the things he had
told NicOdemus were but earthly John
saws, He that believeth is not Judged, !"
and in verse Is they are promised
everlasting life. Ii Dhrenoloqy be true a
man is.incapable of developing any faculty
of mind that is Independent OF the organs
of the brain, and if a radical change ia
made in the mind of man. if an entirely
new function j. given him, new organ
should be added To the brain.
The Greek word ginomoi has too many
meanings to predicate a dogma upon. a
certain rendering being the right one. 1t
means born. begotten, grow, come, be-
come. appoint, etc. LONE TRAMP.
Region, Ind, March II.