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Show ! miii in: uisTiiKioNsMna j Tilt llev. II. ny Mills, who s Hii! J' conducting ttio religious "revival" Bl Iffraa nieetlugt In this city, has been talin HlMl P i to tnik, In a lulllahed open lettir, ly fun i Mr. David Uttir. The ttrlctuns of B Im' i ""' '""" are directed toward a solitary BJlwi'l ' ixprcislon used by tho rovlvallst In Bfliml'F 1 one of his sermons. Tho statement to Bf Sllf 7 vrhlch t ct tlon was taliou cnu bo but Hj W. i j ilollluil by a quotstlou from Mr. Ut jhSil ' ter's letter, and wo hero present an I MM, ,,oj'rt' Hjill'I "I wrllo to protest a:lmt tlio socond HJ it I , point of jour sermon, which, as I under- Blli-r Ux"' H,attbsttliosowhodoiiotbollovo BflafsM thUJcusCbrltl4 Oml innnol Ihi puro BlfMiaH In heart. If ) ou ha 1 nrctild Ihstamnn'ii Bl Writ '"""' cullkl "ol lj0 rlht w,"l0ut '" 'm awlw" ? soimo neueitlng Chrlt ni a Halor 1 Bfl if $ iK eliould not snv n word, for In soino sciuo Bfllli jR ! 4 every rlfibt luarlcd muii of Iwlay Is n Haffii fih i J follower of Jcaus, and porlmps every Bflwl Ir ' I J lnlin 0WCH atult,tblng to Christ's Hi 2? , I teachings. Ha W w 1 " tl'ovo thoro ure rlgbtootis men of Hl4i i ' m cry name. Thoro oro Jos right hi IhU Hb3 i I , cllynhoso rlghtconsnesv un.l purlly of HbS J j I llfo ought to ahnnie you in this condom- Hall ly I iirulun. I may b a partial Judge, butl P.k-1 J- ' I cllevo that iho Unliarlaus of our roun. Hl V- I try aro In tho main u rljhtoout peo to " H'jA i1 It api ears to us that the mtunlngof '.V ft , Mr. Mills wns pirfictly clinr, and that H " .:, , It Is stretching far biyond his Intention B ')? k to taki; it that bo Intiudcd to convey Hi Y fi the Imprcttlou that It Is Impossible lor Hi v. men to be f(iu somo seme' righteous H ' l and yet not believe Christ to be (Jod HH ! It (on not bo that the gentleman lu- H j I tended tossy that men who do not be- H llevu In thu divine clinructir of Christ Hit,i, y tre nictssarlly bad thut Ihcy are Im Hi (if fj, j moral, dishonest and fraudulent. The H 'j jj j speaker was rpeaklng from a lllblo H j J i 1 atandpolnt, Including the clnims and HB M .1 t teachings of Christ Himself. I rom HI ' 3 1. this pUtform he must vcw an accept- HHtl Hi auceof Jesus of IsaiAritll as Uod as a HBi' Vil 1 art of rlghtcouni8ndliur hearted. WBi&i iBk. HffHlk.JHffHaHlHBHHHBHHl ui-ss, us a ujnscqurtce, tlinl II oki win. reject Illm In that cluractir nru to thu extent of that repudiation, not right or pure In heart. The scriptures nre clear on thoqucs tlon of ChiUl's own claim to divinity, and the ifflcacy of Ills blood as a sncrlflolil atonement for mankind. These claims are either true or false. Those who hold them tube untrue silk to place Illm In tho light of the most gigsnllo fraud that ever o pen red on the earth, Wn nru unable to under stand how any erson can accept Illm as being "lu somo tense a Havlor,"and at the same tlmo maintain that lie was a retendcr and that Ho thereforo belonged to Iho clsis to whom He nl-ministered nl-ministered lilt terrible rebukit the byiocrlltr. Accepting Illm merely In the same light as Bocratee, or any other mere moral jbllosophor, doet not alter the situation. No othir moral teachsrmada audi claims aa Ho did, and If It be held that Ho rereiented Hlmiclflun false light, tbme who assume as-sume such a position regarding Him plaro Him liotow the level or moral teachers who havo never ntserted that Ihey weru mora than ordinary men. Mr. Mills, In itatlng that the acceptation accept-ation of Christ, In the capacity In which Ho r'esented Hlmielf, was a part of ilf hteousncis, only re-auertcd what Jesus Himself lnslilod Ul-ori. it teems to bo strained Inference to irisumothat the gentleman meant It toboundrritood that In bis estimation there am no Jews who aro rlghtious In n worldly semi. Ho doubtless does claim that lu their non acceptance of the Havlor lu Ills dlvino character tin y failed In that rrsiect, In not conforming con-forming to whatever sincere Christian Chris-tian mult believe to o a put of righteousness, right-eousness, and therefore neceisary to absolute (urlty of heart, The lle-dei lle-dei mer was rsonslly rejected by tho fori fathers of the Hebrew race. Had they, on the contrary, received Him, they would not havo been under tho condemnation which, according to tho Hcrl tuns, Ho pronounced against them. It lorni to us that, from the standpoint stand-point of Christianity, at defined by the Illbli , the ignition of Mr. Mills has the quality of consistency, while that can hardly bo said of the altitude of people who repudiate the claims made by Jesus Hlmielr to being of dlvino character and yet profess to accej t of Him aa In soma senio a Havlor. |