New-York tribune., 1904-08-08

oh it wqnt i i w4n % s q broagR out out Tgh
right. but you. gripping Coo and ISy1FS ynFS TJ II5 us
can bring things out all right the Things that
wav II was when our parents used To discuss it.
They used to say Of us not not & &0 & MIMI ibly w used W5
to spend trying to bring US out all rlght ana IL
rgbt 'HTr Te mo5t beswtchin arguments they
TO use most delightful palmistry hat 1sed 10 be
while doa't you it all with that confidence
loses IS faith in him but Gcd pity the son whose
father believes in him so mgch that he Just lets
him to extent OF purposing 10 bring him out in
sbo9t WhcA does not at ali believe that things
are they ought to be- and doeS not be oeSye eve @ {naI
believe that the best thnS man can do Is TO 5'y
ought to be- that is Christian optimism and it
saves the blind folly of supposing that evils evils
when we say of certain evil: "Oh, well we nave
always GOT to get along with that" We say that
cities right along We cannot get r'd Of SALOONS:
places. We have always got to have those. II IS
where you will have them; oh, no. no Evil does
have to be got along with; evil has TO be fought
a finish. and we are going to always have
hopeiess attitude I that of You are gong to
have to have that kind Of evil he is going to have
hopefulness goes; that is sure.
note of salvation in all this preaching in the
Acts That is what they were doing; they were
rot preaching 20 men about being better than they
about being saved and they believed that men
could be saved. all of them heard q minister
taken TO task once for saying in his pulpit Every
man here in this church can can be S SAVED & @ if only he
no right to say that; y3u do not know whether he
for 1 didn't hear any more after that: but if
couldn't say what think | would not want to
salvation us He to have it if we
He has anything to say 1t isn't Improvement that
talking about. it's salvation. 1t is getting
is implied in it and l have been told q good many
times that there is missing M note 2 In the pFeachnE hing
men are not preaching much about sin. do
i am bound to say|and / want to say it FOR my
brethren of the ministry whom hear occasionally
i wish could hear them ten times often
do, but whom hear occasionally-that Is not the
be GSse sTe so%ndns the note Of Sim they are not
afraid to- and piercing. pungent notes are being
sounded about sin and men are being told that they
lost
Now. the thing that is constantly put in here Is
ing We haven't any concern to show men they are
sinners. There is no interest in that particularly.
unless we can show that God means to save SIN
ners; and when have found myself cracking
Whip my Ps0pe{s {oIG heads s9oT ther 3Sng S
pretty sharply with the needle OF the law about
so a2U whd they 9isn Re wb
could n not S snE out eheery word of, OF sSYa9n 0Id
soul with the needle Of the law, be sure you have
go 0 rFht into to the the some hole Now that is the
weak point perhaps, In the preaching Of some OF
us. ] cannot say OF some OF you, but or some or
Us. We say q good deal about sin; do. 1 am
bound TO say that DC not believe that that Is a
missing note IN my own preaching. partly because
oh, my brethren. how any doubt the
be incredible. l do not suppose any pastor does
doubt 1t. don't how he can. That Is the thing
that is wrong Things awry and twisted, and
that is sin All that Is now but what want to
feel IN my preaching Is that preaching 70 sin
ners They are sinners. This man over here that
has his money and this here who has nauEht;
and this woman here who has pretty much all she
wants except the things that are most important
to her and this over here that hasn't any
thing at all-they all sinners, but, thank God.
every one OF them be saved. II only he Will.
that Is the way in which they preached here. There
isn't very much the book OF the Acts OF eNplana-
ton OF the Gospel. l am surprised at that; sup
posed there would be. honestly; as | remembered II
I thought there would be good deal OF explain
ing In II about the Gospel There IS not there may
have been originally. I Will tell you one curious
thing brethren: there arc ten sermons given in the
book OF the Acts ten sermons In such outline that
we know in general what they were about. Nine
OF them arc preached 10 unbelevers; one OF them
TO believers. Now, / know the conditions are 80
different. You must not suppose ought TO preach
nine sermons unbelevers and one to believers;
not that because the conditions very different
we have now a church that trying to cult
ure Gs well propagate and they were propagat-
ing eNpecallv. But that has impressed me good
deal as a rather important fact. that nine out OF
ten sermons whose content we really know are ad-
dressed 20 unbelievers that is. people who did not
believe in Christ, and the note all the way through
Is that there IL TO be salvation offered to them