Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-02-25

put them in prison unto the next
day. Howbeit many of them
which heard the pord believed, and
the number Of the men was about
five thousand. Read all the 3rd
chapter and to 9th verse of the 4th
chapter. Heard the word, believed
the word, oheyed the word in every
particular. Now this book called
Acts tells you just what you must do
to become child of God-a Chris
tian. Yet there are people who have
no better sense than to 60 back to
the Old Testament to find how to be-
come Christian. Now go on
through all the book of Acts and you
will see the full development of all
the Lord requires of you in order to
citizenship in his Kingdom. He has
not left you to guess at it nsr imag-
inc it, nor to pretend that you feel
anything. You don't feel your way
through this wcrld unless you are
blind. But we take it for granted
that you know the way into the
Kingdom now and that you have
learned it not from me hut from the
Gospels and the Acts of Apostles.
Now then being in the Kingdom you
need to know your duty as citizen.
Then your next step is to give your
earnest attention to all the letters
addressed to Christians, for you must
not forget that the Roman letter, the
Corinthian letters, the Ephesian. Col
losian, and, in short, all the Epistles
were written, not to sinners, but to
Christians, and in those letters you
will find every duty required of you
from your duty to yourself, you
wife, your children, your neighbor
your country and your God. Now
rightly dividing the word of trutl
consists according to the foregoing
in this. Preach Jesus and his mar
veleus life as set forth in Matthew
Mark, Luke and John, to sinners il
order to produce faith in their minds
When you would show them int,
the Kingdom on earth teach then
the book of Acts, and as Christian
teach them their duties as containe,
in the Epis,les and you will right
divide the WORT of truth. Thus vol
will give to saint and sinner each hi
lportion i'll due reason.
Any man who is not swollen u
with orthodoxy, nor siiffened wit
that unfortunate disease called big
head, can see how the most unlettere
man or woman who wants to kno
The truth can, in a short time, gathe
his or her whole duty, become a b,
lever in Jesus. Confess his hol
name, repent of his past sins. as
/ God for Chrlst's sake to accept hi
. when he obeys his commands an
! gong down into the water be in
) mersed into Chrlst's death, rise
2 walk new life. Thus we arrive
D the statement that the Gospel col
5 sists of facts to be believed, con
/. mands 10 be obeyed, and promise
{, glorious promises, to be enjoyed.
., Sinner, let me exhort you to he'
/ the gospel, believe the gospel, ob'
s the gospel, and if you will contin'
!; faithful unto death Jesus will pla,
t upon your head an unfading crow
g He is no longer poor; all the power
e he had in this world he left behii
> him, and this you may know by t
e vast retinue of angels that came
II escort him to heaven.
n They brought his chariot from above,
s To bear him to his throne,
And with u shout exulting cried
The glorious work is done.
q Thus seated on his mediator
: throne his loving heart ever goes Q
in sympathy for fallen, sinful mt
:, Cold and hunger and destitute IN
. be your portion in this world, but
" you are only faithful to Jesus in
" few more days or years at most,
+ will say to the sorrowing ones "CoI
" up where am 4; in my Fathers hor
are many mansions prepared
YOU" M. Y. DUNCAN.