The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-03-29

Sirs. what must do 20 be saved Acts 16..
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This ia by far the most important question
that can be propounded. People ask specua-
tive questions. What is the nature OF Future
Punishment? What and where is Heaven?
What do We understand by the Bible term
Satan? But If you are saved, these questions
need not trouble YOU. If YOU are saved, future
punishment need give You but little trouble.
Ifyou are saved you need not be unduly exercised
as to the nature OF heaven. IL you ale saved
all these matters viii be found to be all right.
This is personal question. 1t is not what
shall my neighbor, my friend. my enemy do to
be saved. but what must do? This person is
thinking OF his own spiritual condition; he is
thinking that perhaps there IS duty for him
to perform.
This question implies that some danger is
threatened II one Is saved, he must be saved
from something. Eere is man threatened
with consumption; securing medical treatment
he Is cured. lie says Il am saved" What
does he mean Why. saved from consumption.
II he had not supposed himself IN danger there
ls mo- sense in bis statement II there is no
danger threatening the sIuner, the question:
what shall l do to be saved, is meaningless.
What then. are we to be saved from? Not
from tho sorrows OF this life Il saw the
righteous cast down" Not from poverty
" / saw the wicked was rich and the righteous
beg bread Not IRON temtation: Christ him
se.f was tempted; not from death. 1T is APP
pointed unto all men once to die Not from
the judgment We must all appear before
the Judgment seat OF Christ.
But we are to be saved from our past sins
John prepared the way for the Lamb OF God
that taketh away the SIN OF the world. To
Joseph and Mary 1t was SAID: Thou shalt
call his n1me Jesus, for he shall save his peo
pie from their sins.' You have felt this load
OF sin upon your own soul and wished that it
might be removed Paul, feeling this burden,
exclaims. "Oh. wretched man that am. who
shall deliver me from the body Of this death ? 7"
Reference is here made to an ancient mode
OF punishment. corpse was chained to the
oriminsl-!rom this strange companion there
was no escape. To this be must cling until
the stencil arising from Its decomposition
brought death to his relief So sin appeared
to Paul like lotbesome corpse that was drag
gDg him down to death.
Men dispute about the nature o. HELM
what shall the punishment consist? Shall
birthstone play part there or is this figure :!
BE this as 1t may, there Is one kind OF hell that
you will not deny. OF this hell we all have
some foretsste in this life, and 1 see no reason
why il should not be thousand fold intensified
in tue world 10 come. refer to the remorse
OF conscience. Some enc thus pictures this
heI,
sat alone with my conscience.
Ia place where time had ceased
And we talked OF my former living
Ia the land where the years increased
And felt / should have to answer
The question it put to me,
And to face the answer and question
Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts OF forgotten actions
Came fioating'before my sight
And things that thought were dead things
Were alive with terrible might.
And the vision OF my past life
Was an awful thing to face.
Alone with my conscience sitting
La that solemuly silent place.
And thought OF my former tremblipgs,
OF the judgment day to be.
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed judgment enough for me-
And 1 wondered if there was future
To this land beyond the grave
But no one gave me an answer.
And no one came to same.
Then felt that the future was present.
Aud the present would never go by.
For it was but the thought OF my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then l woke from my timely dreaming.
Ard the vision passed away
And / knew the far-away warning
Was warning OF yesterday.
And pray that may not forget 1t.
In this land before the grave.
That may not cry in the future
Ana no one come to save.
80 l cit alone with my conscience
In the place where the years increase.
Aud try to remember the future
In the land where time will cease
And know OF the future judgment,
How dreadful so eer it be.
That TO sit alone with my conscience
VIII be judgment enough for me.
1t Is from this burden Of SID. so repulslve.
that we are 10 be saved. There Is now there
fore no condemnation to them that are in
Christ Jesus He will sublue our iniquities
and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths
OF the sea- What is los; sight OF sooner than |
any heavy substance thrown into the sea In |
an instant the waves swallow it and you see it
no more So God blots on. our transgressions. |
He remembers them no more.
To what part OF the Bible are we to go for
an answer to this question. Some one replies.
"Oh Il makes no difference i. IS all Gods