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Show U ni tarianism in Utah often free. people do not believe the theory, and therefore they feel no deep interest in revivals. Revivals have to be carefully organized and industriously their training is The worked up. An advance agent must go ahead and prepare for it just as for a great show. Then the tent arrives and the good pastors combine and wield the so effectually that people, if think they anything unfavorable, say it in whispers. Storekeepers fear a boycott if they do not close when asked to do so, and an unbelieving mayor issues a proclamation recommending the closing, and we guess he does it to be popular. By such means a revival is worked up; nothing spontaneous or heartfelt in it, because the people do not believe in the theory that would make it a necessity. The people generally understand that if a man wishes to begin a religious life he can begin at home as well as in a tent, and The advertising begins. influence of their congregations that if he does is desire not persuaded into it, And this brings so to live of his The miraculous and is motion, and the attempt will not amount to anything. up the most injurious teaching of the revival, that concerning conversion, it is called. own teaching wrought by is or coming that this the change Spirit of Christ, to is in as part God and that it effaces all past sins, regenerates the soul so that temptations [the] future have no power, or less power. Men should be taught that turning away from a wrong life is to be wholly in through their own in their nature initiate, and weakened or efforts. That if there is their life, accomplish delusion. it. they be any change themselves must plan, to To believe otherwise is to be depend upon yourself and to try is to succeed. Jesus told the people to repent, but said nothing about God's spirit changing their hearts. by a To The natural, self-reliant life is the noble life, and 182 be just as true, righteous, and good one may without any conversion |
