The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-03-08

Give MS for treatment moderate sinners, |
velvet coated sinners and sinners with |
q gloss on. II Is es though man had
farm Of 5000 acres and put all his |
work ON one acre. He may raise never
10 large ears of corn, mover so big heads
If wheat, he would remain poor. The
church OF God has bestowed its chief |
f,re on ono moro aud has rrised splendid |
men and woven in that small tnclo- |
sure, but the iiell il the world That |
iaeans North and South America, Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa and all tho Is.
lands of the sea,
Something to Know.
1t is as though after great battle
there were left 80, 900 wounded and dy-
'Sg on tho field aud three surgeons gave
81 their time to three patients under
their charge. The major general comes
in and says to the doctors, "Come out
here and look at the nearly 30, 600 dy-
ing for lack of surgical attendance, "
NO." say the three doctors, standing
there and tanning their patients, 1--WE
have three important cases here, aud
we aro attending them, and when we
are not positively busy with their
wounds 1t takes all our time to keep the
flies off," In this awful battle Of sin
and sorrow, where millions have fallen
ON millions, do not let us spend all cur
time in taking care of a few people, and
when the command comes "Go into the
world" say practically: mo; l cannot
60 ! have here few choice cases, and
am busy keeping off tho flies. +" There
are inultitudes today who have never
had any Christian worker look them in
the eye, and with earnestness in the 40
centuation say, "Comel" or they would
long ago have been in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is either sham or a
tremendous reality. If it DO sham, let
us cease to have anything to do with
Christian association. If it be reality,
then great populations are ON thoir way
TO the bar of God untitled for the Or
deal, and what are we doing?
In order to teach the multitude of out
siders we must drop all technicalitics
out of our religion. When we talk to
people about the hypostatic union and
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anism and complutensianism we are as
impolitic and little understood as if
physician should talk to an ordinary
patient about the pericardium and in
tercostal muscle and scorbutic symp-
toms. Many of US come out of the theo-
logical seminaries so loaded up that we
take the first ten years to show our peo-
pie how much we know, and the next
ten years get our people to know rs
much as we know, and at the end find
that neither of us knows anything as we
ought to know. Here are hundreds of
thousands of shining, struggling and dy-
ing people who need to realize just one
thing-that Jesus Christ came to save
them and will save them now. But we
go into profound and elaborate defini-
ton of what justification is, and after
all the work there are not outside of the
learned professions 5000 people in the
United States who can tell what justifi-
cation is, Twill read you the definition:
Justification is purely forensic act,
the act of judge sitting in the forum,
in which the Supreme Ruler and Judge,
who is accountable to none, and who
| alone knows the manner in which the
ends OF his universal government can
| best be attained, reokons that which
was done by the substitute, and not on
account of anything done by them, bus
purely upon account of this gracious
method of reckoning, grants them the
full remission of their sins. /"
The Multitude OF skeptics.
| Now, what is justification? Twill tell
| you what Justification is. When sim
ner believes, God lets him off. One sum-
mer in Connecticut went to large
factory, and l saw over the door writ
ten the words, "No admittance. /
entered and saw over the next door,
mo admittance " OF course l en-
tered got inside and found it a
/ pin factory, and they were making
pins. very serviceable, fine and useful
pins. So the spirit of exclusiveness has
4 practically written over the outside door
CT many church, "No admittance -
And if the stranger enter he finds prac-
tically written over the second door,
"No admittance," and if he goes in
over all the pew doors seems written,
mo adniittance, while the minister
stands in the pulpit, hammering out his
little niceties of belief, pounding out the
technicalities of religion, making pins.
/ In tho most practical, common sense
| way, and laying aside the nonessentials
and the hard definitions of religion, go
4 ont on the God given mission, telling
the people what they need and when
and how they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has
been made to save that large class of
persons in our midst called skeptics, and
he who goes to work here will not be
building upon another mans founda-
ton. There is great multitude of
them. They are afraid Of us and our
churches, 'or the reason we do not
I know how to treat them. One of this
class met Christ, and hear with what
tenderness and pathos and beauty and
success Christ dealt with him: '"Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart. and with all thy soul, and with
oil thy mind, and with all thy strength.
This is the first commandment, and the
second is like to this-namely, thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
There is no other commandment greater
than this.' And the scribe said to him,
We'll, master, thou hast said the truth,
for there is one God and to love him
with all ths heart and all the under
standing, and all the soul, and all the
strength, is more than whole burnt Of
ferings and sacrifices - And when
Jesus saw chat he answered discreetly
he said unto him, Thou art not far
from tho kingdom of God" So a skep-
tic was saved in ono interview. But few
Christian people treat the skeptic in
that way. Instead of taking hold of him
with tho gentle hand of love, we arc apt
to take him with the iron pinchers of &C.
clesiastici9.Gl.
You would not be so rough OH that
man if yoa knew by what process he
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