of worthiness. But I tell you, if we are all killed
before we reach home, I have no fear or question
whatever, about my salvation. It was eternally settled
by the death of Jesus.” .
“Ah,” he said, “ it seems to me a poor thing to
hang one’s salvation on.”
“What is? Is Christ a poor thing to trust? Is
God’s word a"poo/thing to trust ?”_
V Oh I no, I mean it is a poor thing to hang on
faith. To think that if you have faith you will be
saved, let you sin and do as you like.”
“ Ah 1 my dear sir, but the man that has real faith
in Christ, does not want to sin. He hates it and
longs for and delights in holiness; and he is the only
one that gets delivered from sin. But now you try,
from this day, in your way, never to sin again.
“ I have tried, said he, “ many a time ; but still I
sin in thought, word, and deed. I think I now see
that to believe in Christ is the only way both to get
saved, and give up sinning.”
Reader, wnat as to your aying noun luuuimui
help the thought crossing your mind at times,can you
now ? You* dying hour may be very near—yes, very
near! N ow are you prepared for that hour f What,
are you going on carelessly in sin ? Well may you
tremble at the thought ofyour dying hour. Are you
trusting in forms and ceremonies of human religion ?
Ah 1 these will utterly fail you in your dying hour.
But mark the blessed condition cf c^ery saved
sinner: “ Therefore being justified by faith, we have
peace with God, through our Ix>rd Jesus Christ.
Is this your condition/1 Are you justified ? Have
you neace with God? Then, my reader, if you
should fall asleep before Jesus comes again, yours
will be a happy dying hour. C. S
Any Christian widhin* to dii*ributa tfceM teaote, will k» nppiial Boa
w ■iMrnwtnff R. Daefc, 71 King ttt. W-, Toronto