NOT AN AX OBSOLETE DOCTRINE Tho St Louis Times speaking of total depravity pronounces it an obsolete doctrine The theory of or total dc de depravity Is out of date and we hope in time timo to find It quite extinct says Bays our contemporary contain And so we hope If I by b total do de dep p It is meant that every man and woman Is so thoroughly bad that thero there theroh Is h nothing good in them And this idea was once preached by zealots with but little understanding of or human nature I But nut If by b total depravity is i meant that every man and woman has been affected 1 somo some more and some Bomo less by sin and by the sinful conditions existing In the world account for the origin of o osIn sin how you may if by total de depravity depravity further Is meant that every faculty of ot human beings has ha been af aC affected affected In some way wa or other by b ovll evIl so bo that to do right requires require a 0 greater effort than to do wrong then lien wo we fear the doctrine must be bo accepted as ns true Our experience testifies to the pe peculiar peculiar culiar collar fact that human nature nattie has hns been so deranged that mans Inclinations are contrary to the law of ot God This condition Is general There Is no exception Without regeneration no ono one can see seo the kingdom of or heaven n or en enter enter enter ter its portals It Is 15 true that no one Is totally to Il bad b d as little as ai ai anyone ir yo o Is titto to tally good 1 Tho The Image of ot tho the Creator has hns not been entirely blotted out of ot tho the soul of or any ny human being bring Even the tho d has 1138 good traits anti ami many a man and woman pronounced bad bod by human society is not half halt as wicked as others who arc are honored and feted Human nature Is 18 of a L very com corn composite composite Character This Is Js true but that dots does tl not modify the lie doctrine of total depravity as a set forth In n the Scriptures which Is 15 this oils that man Is in such a 0 condition that he cannot bo be saved I ved ex cx except except through the aid of ot the Spirit of or God operating within for tor regeneration I and sanctificatIon This doctrine can never noyer become obsolete