Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

King, the Lord Jesus Christ, was
personally present and had full pow
er and authority to say to the peni-
tent (who asked him to remember |
him when he should come into his |
Kingdom) ''this day shalt thou be
with me in Paradise" From thence |
forward no one has ever suspended |
the law of pardon by Divine author
ity and if the New Testament be true !
the vengeance of God will rest on
the heads of all men who add to or
take from the law of the Kingdom
of Christ. One of the last injunc-
tions of the Holy Spirit as it illumin- |
ated the mind of John on the lonely |
isle of Patmos was ''Let this book |
alone He that adds to it shall have !
its plaques added to him, and he that |
take from it shall have his part taken
out of the book of life We take
it, then, that the law of pardon con-
tanned in the commission and promul-
gated on Pentccost and enforced by
the Apostles on many occasions re-
mains in full force to this day. This
being true can it be said that any
man is in the Kingdom who has not
rendered a willing obedience to this
law? If it can he done then the law
is of no effect. If it cannot, then
every man who has honestly complied
with the law is IN the Kingdom and
all who have not are aliens.
To illustrate this thought, j.
Schmidt, native of Holland, hears
of the freedom people enjoy in
America, resolves to become citizen
and packs his goods aud travels to a
port where there are packets bound
for tnls country. This we will call
his first step, and we will call it faith.
| In the next place he crosses the
| Atlantic ocean and wends his way to
this city Of Mexico. Call this his
repentance because it contains the
thought of turning from Holland and
turning TO America. He is now
here in Mexico, but he is not citizen.
He can't claim the rights of a citizen
yet. Something else has to be done.
He must take the oath of allegiance
as demanded by our laws and in con
formity with them, and this by anal
ogy We will say is his third step and
corresponds to the act of baptism in
the economy of Christ. Having done
this the aforesaid Schmidt is a full
fedged, enfranchised citizen of the
United States. If Schmidt had
stopped at the first step he would
be beyond the seas. Had he stopped
at the end of the second he would
have been an alien to cur government,
though living among US just like
, there are tens of thousands of the
rankest hypocrltes with their names
. or some church book. But when he
took tie third step he says take me,
tax me, protect me, command me,
conscript me for military duty, but
. let me by all means remain among
you" and the court says, SO mote it he
, It is plain that the three steps had to
be taken by Schmidt. He took them.
= By the Divine record it is also cleal
that the sinner in order to admission
, into the Kingdom of Christ must take
the three steps of faith, repentance
t and baptism. If there are three
: steps leading into house no mar
t when he has only taken the first steI
can be said to he in the house. Hence
e we say that faith alone can't save s
t man. Nor can it be said when the
] second step has been taken that he
r is in the house, and hence it follows
that both faith and repentance cant
save him But when he takes The
l. third and last step no man of an,
sense or reason can say that he is no
n IN the house. Now it takes all three
: Of the steps to put him id the house
8 just so in coming into the Kingdom
e of Christ; all the prerequisites mus
4 be complied with as conditions pre-
Il cedent to full entry into the King
|. dom established by Jesus.
# At this point DR.. Policy comes ul
n and says: By this re- you exclude (
4 large number of the est people ol
O earth from any participation ii
!. Christ's Kingdom, because they sa
it that faith is right and repentance i
q right but baptism is non-essential.
el But We say to DR.. Policy, who, b
Il the by, is graduate of popula
g college controlled by the Christla
l. church, that we have no controvers
Il with him Or with his large class {
d pious people, for the best reason @
earth we did not make the Law
d Christ made it, and he and they ca
at settle it among themselves. Tie
N have a constitutional right to disb'
t. lieve Christ and to set up for then
y selves. One thing is certain, life
a too short to spend moments tin
Ill in attempting to convince a class I
al people who claim to love Jesus ar
who will not obey His plain and sin
ly pie commands. He says if ye lo'
er me keep my commandments.
to DIR. Policy. Do you claim that l
IL one is in the kingdom except tho
i. who have taken the three steps