The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-08
NO CHANCES AS
TO SALVATION
Laws of Salvation Are The
Same for Everyone.
NOTED UNIvERSALIsT DIVINE
breaches IMPRESSIVE SER
MON TO PENSACOLA AUDIENCE
size OF DENOMINATION is
NOT A DETERMINING FACTOR
IN SALVATION OF SOULS.

There are no such things as
chances in soul salvation any more
than there are in intellectual develop
ment," said Rev. William II. McGlauf-
lin, ID. D., Of Chicago, general super
intendent of the Universalist churches
in America, in his sermon at the First
Universalist church yesterday morn
ing. Whether you are immersed as
Baptist, sprinkled as a Methodist, or
avoid both as Quaker, the laws OF
salvation are the same for you and
must be complied with If salvation is
ever attained. The size of a denomi
nation does not at all determine that
the true doctrines as taught by Jesus
are In its midst. The Methodfsts are
more numerous than the Universalists,
but the Roman Catholics outnumber
the Methodists and all put together
do not equal the millions of the pagan
world. IL numbers are to determine
the truth, we should all turn pagans.
"A doctrine may be old and also
true, but no teaching Is proven be-
cause it Is old. Judaism is older than
Christianity, but heathenism antedates
both.
Whoever attempts to rise in the
business or the social scale by false
professions of faith, joining and sup
porting church whose creed he does
not at all believe, finds always that it
does not assist. Business success and
social enjoyments and prerogatives
rest back on certain qualities and fit
nesses that are in no sense acquired
by hypocritical pretenses in religion.
At the center of the business world,
as Of the social, there is an admira-
ton for honesty, a love for courage
and a solid contempt for shams inside
the church as out Of it."
One God.
The discourse was based on the
text. ITO us there is one God, the
Father Cor. 8:6.
'One God! These two words sharp
ly distinguish Christianity from that
polytheism of old which believed in
many gods, and from the atheism OF
today which affirms no god. The
contrast is equally great from the easy
agnosticism which attests there may
be God, but man has no satisfactory
witnesses in that direction.
The Athenians had an altar to the
unknown god Herbert Spencer says
God is unknowable; but the Master
teaches that knowledge of God is both
possible and necessary. This is eter-
nal life to know Thee
There is no necessary conflict be-
tween the Scientist and the Christ.
Most things are known in part and in
part are unknowable. We know space
in part; We wall 1t about, we roof it
over, we UNDERTOOK it. In it we live,
move and have our being. But whether
space as a whole is limited or unlimit-
ed no man knows.
we measure time by the help of
the sun and of the seasons. The
growing tree tells the time by the
rings around the heart. The develop
ing child is marking time. No man
can tell whether time always has been,
always will be, or whether eternity is
time unlimited or ended in its oppo-
site, as the river ends in the sands or
in the sea. We know our most init
mate friends in part and in part only.
The body which reveals them also
conceals them and no one ever saw
his real friend who resides in the body
OF flesh.
Like deserted house is the body
when the soul has fed. The light has
gone out and 1t is dark. Laughter and
song have departed and it is silent.
Ashes are on the hearthstone, frost
Is on the window pane and it is cold.
Yet the eyes of affection did not see
the friend as he moved away. So God
Is at once revealed and concealed in
the universe about us. He is re-
vealed as God of power and of pen
atty, of law and of order. of life and
OF love, OF work and of wisdom. We
know Him by what He has done and
is doing in nature and in human ma
ture. by the fall and the ruin of the
sinful, bv the rising and glory of the
Christlike. Yet in his fullness no one
by searching hath found out God.
The Father
The Father! Not merely creator.
lawgtver or Judge. All of these He is.
but fatherhood adds kindness to the
Creator. love to law, and. mercy to JUS
tlce. In a single sermon Jesus speaks
fourteen times of God as Father The
earthly father is bound to his children
by community of interests: the fam
lily name, the joys, the sympathies. the
sorrows, the purposes. So is God at
tached to His children and has impart-
ed TO mankind of His own wisdom
power and love. For these, in the in
III.
the same in essence as they are in
God. Therefore every man endowed
with mind to think, with heart to feel,
with will to determine, is a divine
being.
The devil is not the father of man
whether the man is good, bad or in
olnerent For IL We affirm that the
deVli is the father of the wicked, even
those who are totally depraved in
heart and mind, If such there are, then
these men are not lost. They are at
nome where they legitimately belong,
they are true to their father and true
to their own nature in carving on
wickedness.
Add the letter d to the word evil
and it spells devil, thus personifying
and making vivid and convenient for
the orator and the writer to express
the iniquities which prevail so widely
In this world. When Jesus speaks OF