The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-28

dawn of new light in her face, she said, in
substance:
"I do not see how am to separate one
thing from another. II believe that he
came into the world and died for sinners,
] must believe that he died for me as much
as for any one else, and that IL God raised
him for snybody's justification, he must
have raised him for mine as WE'LL" But
there was anxiety in her face still. She
was not abandoning herself to the glad
truth without reserve. So | went on
"Let US 60 over the ground of our in.
quiry bit, and see where we stand. You
began by saying that you were trying to
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ but that
you could not. Then, when we began to
take the difficulty apart, and look at it in
bits, you came to the conclusion that you
did believe % That Jesus Christ came
into the world some two Thousand years
ago that the story of his advent and
death is no myth, but real and blessed
fact. (2) That Jesus is indeed the Son
of God and not a mere man. (3) That
though we had all gone sstray like lost
sheep, yet God had laid on him the in
EQUITIES of us all, and had caused him to
be delivered up for our offenses, and had
raised him again for our justification.
| (4) And, finally, you agree that you be-
lieve that you are included in that blessed
saving work. That your sins, too. were
on him, and that he was raised for your
| Justification
"Yes l am agreed to that"
"Now let me ask you two questions,
first. If you believe these things, you
are not trying to believe them; for you
cannot at once be trying to believe and
yet believing them. In that case, y on
may give over trying, and begin trusting.
Is not this fair and true
Why, yes, sir that seems very plain
but l had never thought of it in that
light"
"Well, second. What is it about Christ
that you cannot believe 2"
She looked up into my face, thought.
fully and steadily, as though she were try
ing to think of something she did not
believe, and as if she feared to give up
her trying aud trust him whom she did
believe but as she unused and thought on
who Christ was, and what he had done for
her, her fears had to melt away. Another
moment she threw them all to the winds,
and with radiant face she said:
"Oh now see it. / am not to believe
that am saved, but that Jesus Christ
saves me by what he has done for me, and
by God raising him from the dead"
EYES," 1 said Salvation is not the
object of our faith, but Christ and his
finished work. Indeed, salvation is the
fruit or end of our faith. Further, we are
not to look within for salvation, but to
him who is our salvation. Behold, God
is my salvation l will trust and not be
afraid; for the Lord Jehovah (Jesus) is
my strength and my song; he also is be-
come my salvation This is the grand
secret. 1t is not what we are, what
we do, what we feel, or what we believe
but it is Jehovah-Jesus who is our saliva
tion."
May the Lord direct the eyes of all anx.
ious souls who may be "trying to believe
away from themselves to him who came
who was the Son of God, who was made
sin for us, who was delivered for our Of
lenses and raised again for our justifica
ton, and who is become our salvation
Rev. George +. Pentec0st, in Independent.