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(loea by such an admission, utterly vitiate
all his claim to have any part or
lot in the matter of saving piety."
How is it then with you ? Are you
wholly given up to the Lord ? Do you
count all things loss for Christ's sake ?
Can you take joyfiilly the spoiling of
your goods, knowing that you have in
Heaven, a better and an enduring substance
? Is it your delight to do the
will of the Lord 1 If so, thank God,
and press on. If not, hesitate no longer.
Do not occupy, another hour, the
dangerous position you are in. Take
a decided stand at once. Come out
from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing, and I will receive you, and
will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith
tbe Lord Almighty.
THE eiOSPEL OF CHBIST.
BF KEV. GBOBGE W. COLEMAN.
THB GOSPEL OE CHBIST. 39
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
the soul; the testimony of the
Lord is sure, making •wise the simple."
There is no room for improvement.—
The works of man are constantly open
to a change for the better. God's never.
' It were as wise for man to tinker with
the rolling of the spheres, that they
may move more harmoniously, or seek
to increase the brilliancy ofthe sim, as
to try to better God's plan of salvation.
It meets exactly the end designed. In
the sight of human wisdom and human
philosophy, it always has been, and
ever will be, a stumbling-block and
foolishness, but to those that believe, it
is the power of God unto salvation.—
All the schemes of men to save themselves,—morality,
benevolence, selfrighteousness,
religious ceremonies,
works without faith, and faith without
works,—have all proved signal failures.
Whoever tries them, like the woman
in the gospel, is nothing bettered, but
rather grows worse—The great Physician
works a perfect cure. "Ye are
complete in him."
This plan is unchangeable. The
laws, conditions, and principles, of this
salvation, have never varied. They
have been the same, all along the ages.
They have their origin in God's holiness,
and man's depravity. They will
remain the same, while God remains
holy, and man fallen. They are the
result of necessity, and not of prerogative.
When Jesus said, "Whosoever
he be of you, that forsaketh not all that
he hath, he cannot be my disciple," it
was true ; not because he had the right
to say it, but because there was a moral
THE Gospel of Christ is God's way
of saving men. If not the only way
that could be devised, it certainly is the
only way that has been given to save
men. "There is none other name under
heaven, given amongmen, whereby we
must be saved." Whoever is saved,
must be saved according to this plan.
There will be one universal song, among
the ranks of the redeemed, without a
discordant note,—"Unto Him that impossibility in the way. The foundation
stone of thegreat Christian system,
hath loved us, and washed us from our
sins in his own blood." Every genuine
Christian experience, through all a Christian, will feel this transfused
is moral principle. Whoever becomes
time, in all places, among all classes, through his nature, and become a part
colors, conditions, is the same, in all of his being.
its essential parts. It is a weU defined What was right once, is eternally
plan. It has its laws, and conditions, right. Unsaved man is a creature of
as definite, and more permanent, than circumstances; but when the gospel
those which govern the material universe.
Holy Ghost, and in much assurance,
comes to him, in power, and in the
This plan is a perfect one. Infinite he has something that raises him above
Wisdom devised it. God, who never times and places, and men, and things.
makes any mistakes, is its author.— He feels a kind of omnipotence within