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THE HEATHEN LOST, WITHOUT
THE GOSPEL.
Substance of a Discourse by Robert H. Harris,
Pastor First Baptist Church, Columbus, (la.,
Delivered at tho •'Centennial Missionary
Meetins" of Mt. Zion Church, Muscogee
County, July 16. 1802.
Continued from last week.
I think the passages quoted in
this connection do teach the doc
trine of “degrees of punishment,”
but there can be no question that
they also emphasize the doctrine
that all who cannot pass the test of
judgment by the gospel of Christ
will be certainly ami impartially pun
ished.
The former doctrine just alluded
to, is not a doctrine of grades. I
think the Scriptures indicate degrees
of happiness in heaven, as well as
degrees of misery, in hell, the differ
ence in experience of one or the
other depending rather on capacity
than position. A homely figure may
illustrate this point. A row of jugs,
different sizes, arc placed upon a
shelf—one holding ten gallons, one
holding five, one two and so on, down
through quarts, pints and gills, to
one that can hold only a thimbleful.
When filled, they are. all full, the
thimble jug as full as the ten gallon
jug -every one as full as it can be
and all standing on the same level
or grade—and yet tho largest jug
contains many times more than the
smallest. The difference is one of
capacity, altogether. 'That old saint
who has “spent and been spent,” in
the service of God, for the * dear
Lord’s sake, has buried all her loved
ones and now, widowed and alone,
is dying in poverty, upon a pallet of
straw, starved to death for the want
of both food and friendship, and yet
who has been devoted and faithful
in ail things, will possess a larger
capacity for happiness, in heaven,
than many an orderly Christian who
has been merely “correct in his walk”
and has suffered little or none, for
Jesus'sake. Just so, capacities will
differ, in the nether world, and, thus,
there may be a difference in the
number ot “stripes”; but there can
be “no difference” in the character
of the penalty, nor in tho period of
its duration—if the Scriptures are
true.
Tho Bible teaches salvation by
“repentance and faith.” “In those
♦ days, came John the, Baptist,preach-
J ingin the wilderness of Judea and
' saying, Repent ye, for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand,” Matt., iii., 1-2.
“The time is fullfilled and the king
dom of God is at hand—repent, ye
and believe the gospel,” Mark, i., 15.
“Now, God coinmandeth all men
everywhere, to repent,’’Acts, xvii. 30.
“Except ye repent, ye shall all per
ish," Luke xiii., 13. “John did bap
tize in the wilderness, and preach
baptism of repentance, for the re
mission of sins,” Mark, 1., 4. “Tes
tifying, both to the Jews and also to
the Greeks, repentance toward God
and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ,” Acts, xx., 21. (Now, every
Mell-informed person knows that the
terms, Gentiles, Greeks, etc., as used
by New Testament writers, in con
tradistinction t<> the Jews, mean the
heathen. For example, “The gospel
of Christ is the power of God, unto
salvation, to every one that believeth
—to the Jew, first, and also, to the
Greek,” Rom., i., IG.) “Then to
continue: “Repent and be baptized,
every one of you, in the name of
Jesus Christ, for tho remission of
sins.” Acts, ii., 38. (And many
different nationalities of heathens
had just before this, heard and heed
ed the same exhortation, from all the
apostles). “Repent ye, therefore,
and be converted, that your sins may
be blotted out,” Acts, iii., 19. “Thus
it behooved that repentance and re
mission of sins should be preached
in His name, among all nations, be
ginning at Jerusalem,” Luke, xxiv.,
47. 1 dare any man to deny these
Bible declarations that the same
“gospel of repentance and faith” was
odained to be proclaimed to all peo
ple alike—“beginning at Jerusalem,”
because a beginning had to be made
somewhere and God, in His absolute
sovereignty, had seen tit to “elect”
the Jews as the first recipients
of His divine message of salva
tion.
Now, “tho gospel of ignorance,” as
Dr. Gibson calls it, is thus combatted
and disposed of by the Scriptures.
“For therein is the righteousness of
God revealed, from faith to faith ; as
it is written, The just shall live by
faith. For the wrath of God is re
vealed from heaven, against all un
godliness and unrighteousness of
men, who hold the truth in unright
eousness; l>ecause that which may be
known of God is manifest in them—
for God hath showed it unto them.
For the invisible things of Him, from
tho creation of the world, are clearly
seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse. Because that, when
they knew God, they glorified Him
not * * * arid changed the
glory of the incorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible
man and to birds and four-footed
beasts and creeping things. Where
fore, God also gave them up to un
cleanness and even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate
mind.” Rom., i., 17-28. “For we
have, before, proved, both Jews and
Gentiles, that they are all under sin.
* * * There is none thatseeketh
after God * * * there is no
fear of God before their eyes. *
* * Now we know that what
things soever the law saith, it saith
to them who are under the law, that
every mouth may be stopped and all
the world may become guilty before
God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in His
sight. * * * r pj le righteousness
of God is by faith of Jesus Christ,
unto all and upon all that believe—
for there is no difference—for all
have sinned and come short of the
glory of God,” Rom., iii., 9-23. “For
with the heart, man believeth, unto
righteousness, and with the mouth,
confession is made unto salvation ;
* * * for there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek. *
* * So, then, faith cometh by
hearing and hearing by the word of
God,” Rom., x., 10-17. “If any man
sin, wo have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous;
and He is the propitiation for our
sins—and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the whole world,” 1
J no., ii., 1-2. Jesus answered “Ver
ily, verily, I say unto thee, except a
man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God. * * * That
which is born of tho flesh, is flesh,
and that which is born of the Spirit,
is spirit. Marvel not, that I said
unto thee, Yo must be born again,”
1 Jno., iii., 3-7. “Whosoever boliev
cth that Jesus is the Christ, is born
of God,” 1 Jno., v., 1. “Ho that
hath the Son, hath life; and he that
hath not the Son of God, hath not
life,” 1 Jno., v., 12. “Because Ho
hath appointed a day, in the which,
He will judge the world, in right
eousness, by that man whom Hq
. hath ordained; whereof, He hath giv-*
on assurance unto all men, in that
He hath raised Him from tho dead,”
Acts, xvii., 31.
How can any man stand before
this tidal wave of Scripture, declar
ing with all the empasis of Divine
inspiration, the essentiality to salva
tion, of repentance and faith in
Christ, and the necessity of a “new
birth,” ami still maintain that tho
heathen are saved by virtue of ig
norance?
I have been challenged to prove
the aflirmative of the proposition be
fore ns, by the Bible. 1 have given
yon the Scriptures, by which Paul
declares that it is proved. Is there
an incorrigible before me? I dare
yon to deny the teaching of God’s
word. There is no dearth of proof
texts. The question, with me, has
been and still is, How little, out of
the abundance, to content myself
with. I find no pleasure in contem
plating the woful condition of the
benighted heathen; but I must accept
the declarations of God, howsoever
saddening to my soul. And, then,
in the midst of the gloom, 1 turn
and scan the heavens, for a ray of
light. Nor do I look in vain. “Arise!
shine! for thy light is come, and the
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
The Gentiles shall come to thy light
and kings to the brightness of thy
rising. Thy sons shall come from
far and thy daughters shall be
nursed at thy side.”—lsa., 60: 1, 3,4.'
Into the “gross darkness,” light is
streaming, from the glorious person
ality of the promised Messiah. A
Saviour who, although a Jew, felt
the blood of Gentiles coursing
through His veins and through His
Moabite ancestress, Ruth, was liter
ally akin to the heathen world. Re
demption is provided and tho mort
gage of Satan may be lifted. An
arrangement is perfected for our
rescue “out of the snare of tho devil,
who arc taken captive by him, at his
will,” 2 Tim., ii: 26, and although all
men, in common with tho Apostle
Paul, arc “carnal (and by nature)
sold under sin,” Rom., vii., 14, we
anticipate freedom, in the assurance
of Him who spoke in tho prophecy:
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon
me, because tho Lord hath anointed
mo to preach good tidings unto the
meek, Ho hath sent mo to bind up
tho broken-hearted, to proclaim liber
ty to the captives and the opening of
the prison to thorn that are bound,”
Isa., Ixi., 1.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. 1892.
But are we concerned in this mat
ter, any further than in our own
emancipation? If it is true that “we
are workers together with God,” 2
Cor., vi., 1., we are. The heathens
are lost. There is do way “unto the
Father, but by (Christ).” Jno., xiv.,
15. “Without faith (in Christ), it is
impossible to please (God),” Heb.,
xi., G. “How shall they (the unre
generate of the world) call on Him,
in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in Him,
of whom they have not heard? and
how shall they hear without a
preacher? and how shall they preach,
except they be sent? * * * So,
then, faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God. Rom.,
x., 14, 17. This is God’s plan of re
demption. If we have the Truth, it
is our duty “to make known the
mystery of the gospel,” Eph.,vi., 19.,
for, “according to the commandment
of the everlasting God (this mystery
Rom., xvi., 25, must be) made known
to all nations, for the obedience of
faith.” Hom., xvi., 2G. The parable
of “The Good Samaritan,” Luke x.,
29, 31, shows us who is our neighbor
and our duty to him. According to
that, “I am debtor, both to the
Greeks and to the Barbarians—both
to the wise and to the unwise. So,
as much as in me is, I (should be)
ready to preach the gospel to you
that are in (heathen) Romo also,”
Rom., i., 14-15. If I cannot “go,” I
must “send.” This is the Spirit of
Christ, and “if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ he is none of
His,” Rom.’ viii., 9. God says to
His people, “Ye are not your own—
for ye are bought with a price; there
fore, glorify God, in your body and
in your spirit, which are God’s,” 1
Cor., vi., 19, 20. “Whereunto, He
called you, by our gospel, to the ob
taining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ,” 2 Thcss., ii., 14. The
question of our fidelity is raised in
this issue. “Ye are my friends, if
ye do whatsoever I command you,”
Jno. 15: 14. “If ye love me,
keep my commandments,” Jno., xiv.,
15. “If a man love me, he will keep
my words,” Jno., xiv., 23. What is
His parting commandment? “Go,
ye, therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of tho
Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost,” Matt., xxviii., 19. As
this is the test of our friendship, so
it- is thb upon which is
based the assurance' of his continual
presence with us: “And, lo 1 lam
with you, alway, even unto the end
of the world. Amen.” Matt.,
xxviii., 20. “Go, bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the ends
of the earth. Let all the nations be
gathered. * * * And they shall
bring all your brethren, for an offer
ing unto the Lord, out of all na
tions,” Isa., xliii., 6,9, 20. “And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world, for a wit
ness unto all nations,” Matt., xiv., 14;
“For after, that in the wisdom of
God, the world, by (its) wisdom,
knew not God, it pleased God, by
the foolishness of preaching, to save
them that believe,” 1 Cor., i., 21.
But “how shall (the heathen) hear,
without a preacher ? and how shall
they preach except they be sent?”
Rom., x., 14, 15.
Wo have been listening to ming
led promises and warnings, but now
tho warnings deepen: “Not every
one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kigdom of
heaven ; but ho that doeth the will
of my Father which is in heaven,”
Matt., vii., 21. “For whosoever shall
do the will of my Father which is in
heai on, the same is my brother and
sister,” Matt., xii., 50. “Verily, 1
say unto you, inasmuch, as ye did it
not (my will) unto one of tho least
(most obscure) of these, (tho needy),
ye did it not unto me,” Matt., xxv.,
45. “To him that knoweth to do
good and doeth it not, to him, it is
sin,” James iv., 17. “If tho watch
man see the sword come, and blow
not the trumpet and the people bo
not warned, if the sword come ami
take any person from among them,
ho is taken away in his iniquity—
but his blood will bo required at tho
w atchman’s hand. When I say unto
the wicked, O wicked man, thou
shalt surely die ! if thou doss, not
speak, to warn tho wicked from his
way, that wicked man shall die iu
his iniquity—but his blood will I re
quire at thine hand,” Ezek., xxxiii.,
6, 8.
The heathen, like all other men,
by nature, arc lost—according to tho
Scriptures. If there be ono person
present, who is not convinced of
this, stand up, now, and declare it-
The gospel offers the only means of
salvation provided for any man—ac
cording to tho Scriptures. We have
received “the unspeakable gift,” 2
Cor., ix., 15, and we can refuse to
offer its provisions to our benighted
neighbor, only at our own peril—ac
cording to the Scriptures. What
should we do? “This gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the
world.” If we will not carry it, or
send it, we shall be removed out of
the way and others will accept the
mission. The - avalanche is coming
and if we oppose it, or merely stand
still, in the way, we shall be swept
from the face of the earth. The
Lord “will work and who shall hin
der it?” Isa., xliii., 13.
But the doctrine has been taught,
in this community that “the commis
sion expired with the last one of the
eleven disciples” who witnessed the
Lord’s ascension! That is the last
dodge of impotent heterodoxy. If
that be true, why did “the eleven”
immediately elect Matthias to the
vacancy left by Judas Iscariot? And
why did Paul go out as a missionary
to the heathen twenty years later?
Why, too, did Barnabas and Silas
and others engage in similar under
takings? Above all, why did Jesus
promise to be with those to whom
the commission was given, “alway,
even unto the end of the world?”
Were “the eleven” to live in the
world until the end of it? If so,
where are they now ? The expres
sion, literally translated, reads,
“through all the days,” etc. Where
are “the eleven,” in these days? I
denounce the heresy! and I warn
you against any man, no matter
whence he hails, who will warp the
Scriptures and endeavor to deceive
the people.
It has been falsely said that it
costs ten dollars to convey ten cents
to the heathen, and a great complaint
has been made against “so much ma
chinery,” in our missionary enter
prises. Our boards correspond to
directorates in railroads, banks and
other legitimate enterprises, our sec
retaries, correspond to their secreta
ries, cashiers, etc., and no large busi
ness, of any kind can be successfully
conducted without such officials.
Our officials are Christian gentleman.
I dare any man to charge them with
dishonesty, or a misappropriation of
funds. The expense of the “ma
chinery” is comparatively small and
the difference (in our favor) in value
between domestic currency and for
eign exchange is sometimes sufficient
to pay all expenses and still leave a
contribution. I noticed this differ
ence in money values, particularly,
on two different visits to Mexico,
six or seven years apart. On one
of those visits, I found that a United
States dollar was worth one dollar,
twelve a half cents in Mexican
money, of purer silver. At that time
you might have rolled your mission
ory dollar toward Mexico and after
paying all commissions, it would
have entered tho country of the
Montezumas, worth seven or eight
or, possibly, nine cents more than it
was when it left your hand! And,
to-day, as I am informed the prem
ium is from thirty-five to thirty-nine
per cent!
But suppose it should cost one
half the money contributed, to make
the other half available, in sustaining
missionaries and providing the
heathen with the printed gospel—it
would be money well spent. Statis
tics show that souls are thus saved
—and who can estimate the value of
a human soul?
Now, in conclusion, let us hoar the
testimony of Dr. Graves, whoso resi
dence of over thirty years among the
heathen renders valuable his evi
dence, upon the question we have
discussed. “What,” ho asks, “is tho
condition of tho heathen? Where
will you find tho men ‘who do the
best they know how? Heathen
sages deny that there are any such
men, The heat hen admit {that their
sins far outweigh their morality. If
men .Ire saved on account of their
morality, the whole gospel system is
a mistake and wq aro saved by
works, and not by grace. While
God has ‘included all under sin,’ lie
has also provided a remedy for all.
Yet its application is made depen
dent upon human agency. The Bi
ble clearly teaches that tho salvation
of all men depends on their ‘hearing’
and ‘believing’ tho gospel. How
great the responsibility, resting upon
us! What is the doom of the heath
on? Lost! lost! without tho gospel.
What will bo our doom, if we with
hold it from them?”
A WHOLESALE GROOERYMAN
Mr. T. I). Meador, of the firm of
Oglesby & Meador, thinks it is just
as important to fortify against the
sudden attacks of tho bowels, as
against tho robber that invades
tho household. He says Dr. Biggers’
Hucklebrrey Cordial is a weapon, a
dead shot to bowel troubles.
A ROAD SYSTEM.
A FERFECTED AND THE CHEAPEST SYSTEM OF
ROADS.—THE WHOLE SOUTH WILL APPROVE.
ROAD-WORKING NO MORE.- THE WORLD’S
METROPOLIS IN ALABAMA.—THE COUNTRY’S
COMMERCIAL MAP UPSIDE DOWN.
BY LOUIS J. DUPKE.
Continued from last week.
All “dirt roads” will be short and
each used by very few farmers, will
be therefore, always good. Counties
will only be required to build bridges
that a neighborhood, here and there,
may cross a river or a creek to reach
the nearest dummy line. A “station”
is anywhere on a dummy line. Un
til the rOads are paid for moderate
rates of freight and travel will be in
stituted and enforced and after that
only enough money will be collected
to maintain in absolute perfection,
these little but universally expanded
roads. Each county must build an
average in length, of 80 miles of
dummy lines at an average seeming
cost of say about $300,000 to be
paid in twenty years, or, in rich
counties, in five or ten years. The
average annual payment of the poor
er counties will be about 815,500
(sinking fund and interest) a sum
always growing practically less for
each tax payer with the annual rap
id increment of wealth and popula
tion and necessary diversification of
industries.
PALPABLE RESULTS.
If the poor of the U. S. may trav
el and ship and buy at untarriffed
prime cost, tramps will be no more,
capitol instead of labor will bear
burdens of pensions and of govern
ments, then reduced in cost from
maxima to minima. Industry, stim
ulated by proper rewards, instead of
being robbed, by law as to-day, to
destitution, will specially make this
the richest and most prosperous of
the nations.
OPPOSITION.
Not long ago, Mr. Jno. Inman,
the Magnus Apollo of the Richmond
and Danville Terminal (intermina
ble) system of railways, was saying
that tho South has too many rail
ways and that none should be built-
He was talking as the owner of mil
lions of railway stocks and bonds and
telling tho truth from his Pon Sto.
More and cheap roads would lessen
the cost of getting the cotton crop to
Europe by twenty millions a year,
saved to farmers now paid to rail
ways. It doesn’t signify aught to
our Phoebus Apollo that farmers
must maintain teams, wagons and
drivers to haul cotton bales an aver
age of forty miles, over dreadful
corduroy and worse dirt roads. It
signifies nothing to these railway
speculators that unless the universal
dummy or electric system be institu
ted there can be no diversification of
Southern farming industries and
productions. Vegetables, eggs, to
matoes, chickens will bear wagon
transportation, five miles to a
Chicago or New York car “switch
ed” off on a dummy line and freigted
and returned in a few hours from
the inter-country to the great inter
state railway. It is only the long,
and never short dirt roads that be
come impassable. Only a few teams
and wagons use the short roads and
there will be a highway from every
neighborhood to every dummy or
electric car station and these may be
every few hundred yards. The
dummy roads are for the people;
the watered stock roads are for Wall
Street and Mr. Inman may tell the
truth when he says that no more
“railways” should bo built in the
South. Very certainly we want no
more based on watered stocks on
which freight and passengers and
toil must pay watered freight and
passenger rates.
But the South does badly need
cheap roads, built for and owned by
tho people. Mr. Inman manages
his great watered stock roads in the
interest and for tho aggrandizement
of the stock and bond-holders; coun
ty courts, representing the people,
will levy the least possible rates of
toll as Inman does the highest possi
ble and it is greatly to be feared that
all the Inmans and all their employ
ers and engineering authorities will
oppose the perfection of the univer
sal steam or electric car dummy line.
Each county will build first that
line, within its own borders that
gives it connection with the cheap
road of tho adjacent county. In
debtedness for the whole number of
miles to be buiit by each county
does not accrue at once. It may be
distributed, as the perfection of the
system progresses through a series
of years.
ALREADY BEGUN.
Dummy lines project from Bir
mingham, Alabama, in every direc
tion to neighboring towns and villa
ges. It only remains for the steel
rail works of that city to begin the
manufacture of highest and cheapest
steel rails, and, perhaps, of cross-tics
of steel or iron as well, that the de
struction of forests and occurrence
of floods may be prevented. There
is no possible means of preventing
the speedy universality of adoption
and use by the people of the only
description of highways that we can
build and hold down thus prevent
ing their consolidation and perver
sion to uses of terrible trusts and
more ravenous corporations. Each
of these roads, ministering to the
profitableness of every other, is self
sustaining. The success of the
whole scheme is more certain, as it
becomes more expanded. The
farms of each county becomes
practically equally near great inter
state highways leading to great
“foreign” cities and every farmer,
whether far from or near the inter
state railway will pay on the dum
my lines the same rates of travel and
transportation. For all distances,
within the county, passenger rates
will never exceed ten or twenty
cents or freight rates a penny a ton
a mile.
THE AUGMENTED PRODUCTION.
Augmented production will dou
ble and quadruple volumes of freight
and numbers of travellers. Whether
these seek exit from the county on
the old or new system of roads, must
depend on freight and passenger
rates of the two systems and I can’t
help thinking that the Gould-Inman
long lines iqust reduce rates of trans
portation. If the dummy roads
take cotton to Mobile for fifty cents,
nobody will pay $5 to have a bale
taken to New York. The reason
this becomes indistinctly visible,
why the great trusts and corpora
tions and their managers want no
more railways in the South, and
equally palpable is the reason why
the people of the South must have
a perfect universal system of the
cheapest possible dummy lines.
THE SCHEME IS INAUGURATED.
Already do dummy lines extend
outwardly, in all directions to coun
try and mining towns, from Bir
mingham, Alabama, the source of
cheapest steel rail and other
road-building supplies. The mills
and furnaces of this place are now
assured of a market for all the steel
they can produce for the next ten
years and everybody sees how these
cheap roads will invert the commer
cial map of the United States and
that the South will save from thirty
to fifty millions annually in the cost
of exporting its cotton crop alone.
And then behold results of the
construction of these dummy lines
when the Florida Ship channel con
verts that paradise into a Calypso’s
island and Senators Morgan of Ala
bama and . Stanford of California
have compelled the construction of
the Nicaraugua canal uniting the
Ship channel across Florida at Mo
bile Bay! That floods in the valley
of the Mississippi may be shorn of
destructiveness, the Arkansas and
Red and other Western rivers may
be diverted into the Sabine as was
done by the mound-builders and the
Tennessee will discharge its super
abundant floods through another
Ship channel, into Mobile Bay.
Where these three canals meet, there
will be found the cheapest coal, iron,
steel, cotton, wheat, rice, sugar, ba
con and beef in the world. When
the nations come to London to buy,
they are not compelled to pay duties
on the goods with which they would
pay for other goods purchased, j
They buy and sell or barter in a free
market and therefore all the world
goes to London. It is a Free Trade
City as this must be, at the head of
.Mobile Bay made forty feet deep.
We will undersell London in all
staple commodities even as Birming
ham iron will soon drive that of En
gland and Scotland out of Glasgow
and Liverpool. All tho nations will
come to buy where they can buy
most for the least money and the
“people” of tho United Stases, with
cheapened internal transportation,
can undersell all tho nations and
still grow rich. Wo only ask to be
given an equal chance with London
ers. Don't put a Chinese wall about
us. Tax capital, instead of toil and
myriads are living who will see the
Banks of England and France trans
ferred to the World’s commercial Me
tropolis, built by the universaldum
my line system and tho three great
canals that must revolutionize routes
of the world, trade and invert the
commercial map of the United
States.
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superb book, full sheet size, heavy paper
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