ish me for my sins, but he won't punish me forever, not forever." Let us reduce your theory to a proposition: Whoever in this life repents of sin and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. There is salvation by Christ. Whoever in this life remains impenitent and unbelieving and suffers for, say a thousand years in hell, shall be saved. Things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. Therefore, a thousand years in hell equals Christ. How may you avoid that logic? It is a monstrous and iniquitous thought. There is no saving power in penalty. What then is the other condition? The other condition is that you do from your heart accept the Saviour.

See an island surrounded with water, and liable to be overflowed at high tide. The tide is rising. How shall a man on it escape? I say that if the man will be convinced of his dangerous situation and will get into the boat sent out to him, he shall escape. But cannot he be saved from this position by believing that it is all right where he is? Can't he be saved from this position unless he gets into the boat? Certainly not. You die there, no matter what you think. Your thoughts will not affect facts. It is death to you. There are some of you in this house so situated, and your island is getting smaller every day. Its boundaries are not as broad now as they were last year. The tide is rising; the ocean is coming; its surf is beating on the shore that narrows every day. It is rising and coming closer to you and

there is but one way of escape. God provides no other. It is by Jesus Christ. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, a Saviour, because he will save his people from their sins. Will you take him?

Now, as I said in the beginning, I don't know who of you are going to be touched by these services today. I just know this, that the man here, anywhere; the woman here, anywhere; the boy or girl here, anywhere, who will repent of sin and accept the Lord Jesus Christ will to-day pass from under the condemnation of God forever, forever. And whoever you are, God being my judge, I welcome you. And if I had a brother who stayed away, and if I had an enemy who came, I would welcome the enemy. God is no respecter of persons. I confess that in the beginning of this meeting my soul turned to certain persons and classes, and I was deeply disappointed that they were not interested, but today I say to the Lord God, "Do thou designate, and as thou art my helper I will work for the salvation of the one in whom is the sign of penitence and faith."

And all I ask you to do, so far as an external motion is concerned, is just this: That while we sing a hymn you stand up for a moment. When you see that I recognize you you may sit down. What do I mean by that? It is not an idle request. I mean that you thereby admit that you are a sinner. You admit that you need a Saviour. You intend by it that in your heart, not out loud with your mouth,

but that in your heart to-day you will simply think this prayer, "God be merciful to me a sinner." I do not ask your lips to move. While there must be a confession you may confess by an act. You stand up to-day under this invitation and it says to God, "I do confess I am a sinner. I confess it to-day that I need a Saviour. I am to-day, from my heart, a supplicant for divine grace, and I say in my heart, 'God be merciful to me a sinner.'"

Now, if you stand up I want you to mean all this. And then I ask that when we all kneel down to pray you will turn the eyes of your mind, of your soul, to the One whom God hath sent forth to be the Saviour, Jesus, and that you will honor him in your mind, look at him and ask him to save you. "Lord Jesus, save me, save me. I accept salvation in Christ." Will you do it? The standing up will reveal what God has been doing. I don't know who will stand; I don't know positively that there will be anybody, but I ask for a demonstration of what God's work has been, what he has wrought in this congregation to-day while I have been preaching. If one of you sitting up here in the choir have discovered that your soul is a lost soul and feel it, stand up to-day and confess it. Let there be a quietness here to-day that can be felt. Let a home feeling come over this audience—a feeling of domesticity, that this is a family of men and women akin to each other, and that we are here on a momentous matter. God is not in the whirlwind nor in the earthquake, but he is in the still,

small voice. Now sing, and now let convicted sinners stand up before God in confession of sin and as supplicants for life. Ah! there you stand! What hath God wrought!

III

THE NATURE AND PERSON OF OUR LORD

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EFORE reading a scripture or announcing the

theme, a helpful bit of geography and history

is submitted. The southwestern part of the continent of Asia is a peninsula, bounded on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by the Ægean Sea, the Hellespont, or Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosphorus, on the north by the Black Sea. Its general name is Asia Minor, or lesser Asia. It has furnished more of the world's history than all the rest of the continent of which it is but a fragment.

A Bible student is sometimes baffled by the varied and overlapping names of its several divisions on the maps of different periods—some ethnological, some geographical, and some political-the last modifying the others as sovereignty passes from one empire to another. For ages its population has been a conglomeration of blended nationalities; Oriental, Occidental, Septentrional and Austral-Gaul, Persian, Greek, Jew and Roman, commingled with earlier peoples in one heterogeneous mass.

The peninsula has been the battle ground and prey