Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — Who Are the Elect? [ARTICLE]

Who Are the Elect?

Two modern statements of the doctrine of "election,” neither of which would quit* satisfy John Calvin or Jonathan Edwards, are given in the Congregationalism

One wa* Henry Ward Beecher’s epigrammatic and convincing phrase: "The elect are whosoever wHI; the non-elect are whosoever won’t.” Good as this is, there i* another explanation that is a star of equal magnitude. It wa* made by a colored divine, who said: “Brethren, it is thia way. The Lord, He is always voting for a man; and the devil, he is always" voting again at man. Then the man himself votes, and that break* the tie!"