{"id":8043,"date":"2022-01-27T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:05","slug":"there-is-the-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/01\/there-is-the-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is The Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"drop-cap\">The late Mr. Hatton related the following, stating that the circumstance was well known to him: Many years ago the late Mr. Gadsby was going into the country to preach, and, as was his wont in his younger days, was walking; when he was joined by a \u201csimple faith\u201d professor: Religion soon became the subject of conversation. Mr. G. maintained that true faith was not man&#8217;s work but the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of his people, and that without this there can be no real satisfaction for a quickened soul, hungering and thirsting after an assurance of his salvation; while his companion maintained that it was the duty of every man to believe. \u201cThere is the Word,\u201d said he, \u201cand we ought to take it, and take comfort from it.\u201d After walking some miles, they came to a roadside house, swinging over the door of which was a sign: \u201cRefreshments may be had here.\u201d \u201cI am very tired,\u201d said the stranger. \u201cLet us go in here and have some refreshment.\u201d \u201cO no;\u201d said Mr. G. \u201cThere is the sign (the Word). Let us read it and pass on; for, according to your doctrine, that is sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"8043\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Mr. Hatton related the following, stating that the circumstance was well known to him: Many years ago the late Mr. Gadsby was going into the country to preach, and, as was his wont in his younger days, was walking; when he was joined by a \u201csimple faith\u201d professor: Religion soon became the subject of conversation. Mr. G. maintained that true faith was not man&#8217;s work but the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of his people, and that without this there can be no real satisfaction for a quickened soul, hungering and thirsting after an assurance of his salvation; while his companion maintained that it was the duty of every man to believe. \u201cThere is the Word,\u201d said he, \u201cand we ought to take it, and take comfort from it.\u201d After walking some miles, they came to a roadside house, swinging over the door of which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[1232,1224,1226,1208],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-gadsbys-fragments-complete","tag-baptist-history","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel-preachers","tag-religions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/15836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}