The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-02-14

would be gone out of the chariot wheels,
the house OF many mansions would be
burglariZed. Assault and battery, arson,
libertinism, and assassination would re-
side in the capital of the skies Angels
of God would be insulted on the streets.
Heaven would be dead failure if there
were no great lookup. If all people with
out regard TO Cheir character when they
leave this world go right into glory, /
wonder If In the temple of the skies
Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth
occupy the same pew? And then as TO
the Presbyterian Church believing there
are infants in perdition, if you will bring
me a Presbyterian of good morals and
sound mind who will say that he believes
there ever was baby in the lost worti,
or ever will be, l will make him deed to
the house ! live in, ana he can take pos
| session tomorrow morning. Assembled
Charles Hodge, and Archibald Alexander,
and John Knox come down and rebuke
! the slanderers of your denomination
so the Episcopal Church Is misrepre-
scented by the enemies of evangelism.
They say that church substitutes forms
and ceremonials for heart religion, and
il Is all a matter of liturgy and Genn-
! fleXiou. False again. All Episcopallans
/ will tell you that the forms and creeds of
! their church are verse than nothing I'M
/ less the heart go with them. Assembled
( Bishop Macilvane, and Canon Melville,
and Stephen II. Tying, sr., come down ana
! rebuke the slanderers of your denomina-
! tiopi
so also the Baptist Church has been
| misrepresented. The enemies OF eVangel-
/ ism say the Baptist Church believes That
/ unless a man Is immersed he will never
! get into heaven. False again All the
] BaptiSts, close communion ana open COM
I muncn, believe that II man accept me
! Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved,
! whether he be baptized by one drop OF
water OH the forehead or be plunged INTO
/ the Ohio or Susduehanna. although I'M
mersion is the only gate 10 their eafthly
J communion Assembled Missionary Cary
/ and Robert Hall and Adoniram JudSon,
! come down and rebuke the slanderers or
/ your denomination!
The enemies Of evangelism also misrep
resent the Methodist Church. They say
the Methodist Church believes that man
can convert himself. and that conversion
in that church is a temporary emotion,
and that all a man has 10 do IS to kneel
down at the altar and feel bad, and then
the minister pats him on the back ana
says. IT is all right and that is all there
is OF IL False again. The Methodist
Church believes that the Holy Ghost
alone can convert heart. and in that
church conversion is an earthquake OF
conviction and a sunDurst OF pardon. And
as 10 mere temporary emotion, / wish
we all had more of the temporary emo
ton which lasted Bishop James and
Matthew Simpson for half century, and
nv glorious friend. Alfred Goodman,
keeping them on IRE for Goa until their
holy enthusiasm cons Irned their bodies
So all the evangelical dehomlhauohs are
misrepresented.
Dae;rine Of the Trinity,
And then these enemies of evangelism
h. Ira1sy fy,aS ~
Christian Churches as absurd, dry, and
inaxslicable technicalities. There is your
doctrine of the Trinity they say Alb
surd bevond all bounds. The idea that
there IL a God in three persons. Impos-
sible, II il is one Go1. He can't be three.
and II there are three they can't be one
Al the same time ali OF Us-they with us
acknowledge trtnities all around us. Trim
i,v in our own make-up-body. mind
soul Rodv with which We move. mind
with which We think. soul with which We
love Three. vet one man. Trinity in the
sir-light heat. mcisture-yet one atmos-
nhere Trinity in the court-room-ihree
Judges on The bench. but one court TIN
i,,es All arouod Us. in earthly government
and I'm nature.
e0f course all the illustrations are de-
fscriye To- the reason that the natural
cannot fully illustrate the spiritual But
suppose an ignorant man should come up
IN chemist and say; 4 deny what you
say about the water and about the arr
they are not made Of different parts. The
air is one: / breathe IL every day. Ihe
water is one; / drink IL every day. fou
can't deceive me about the elements That
go 10 make up the air and the wafer
The chemis; would say; You come up
into nv laboratory and will demonstrate
this whole thing 20 you The Ignorant
man goes into the chemists laboratory
ard sees for himself. The chemist an
aIvzes the air and the water aud shows
the man their component parts. at