The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-06

the soul in these words: And you hath no
qu:ckened who were dead in trcspasses and
sins lie likens the Spi:it-hir;h OF the soul
to a resurrection. in that God hath raised
US UP together and made us sit together in
heavenly places.
Another important thought is that saliva
saved through faith. and that not of Your
selves: ii IS the gift OF God" This is one Of
The most difficult doctrines OF the gospel to
understand and receive. The natural i'm
pulse of the unregenerate heart is TO in
some way putchace or merit salvation. Just
as The young man who came 10 Christ anu
said; Coco master. what good thing must
1 do to inherit eternal !tfe"' But the apes
te here gives us TO understand that sal
Nation Is a free gift. \ writer in the New
York Evangelist puts the case thus:
The very heart of Apostolic preaching is
mat men and women who are dead in tres
passes and sins can be and ought to be
alive in and unto God. In Ephesians IL. 5,
Paul. struck the keynote which Christ
struck in John ii. l6. Would you appreciate
their harmony. place them side by side.
GOD so loved the world that he gave his
only beSotten son. that whatsoever believ-
eth IN ham might not perish. but have ever
lasting life But God. being rich in mercy.
for his great love w%herewith he loved us,
even when we We're dead through our tres
passes. Quickened Us chat is. made US
aiisci. together with Christ Their barn
ms zeal has 10 dc. with dead perceptions,
not dead bodies. They would supilant the
natural order. Alive unto sin. but dead 10
God win the spiritual order. Dead unto
sin. hut alive unto Gcd.' They are deaG in
sin with whom the qualification Of passion
ontweighs. growth in and appreciation Of
purity and patience. Therefore. they sub
ordinate righteousness to riches. With
them men and women are victims for plum
der. not brothers and sisters TO love and
10 uplift. Call il sin. blindness, death. what
You will. We are not fighting, fer names.
but graphing With facts. emphasizing the
truth that he himself was the way. Christ
said: L am come to seek and to save that
which was lost It is this thing: by what
for the fact that thousands of men, with
beclouded and befuGdled brains. had rather
sit IN saloons. listening TO lewd jests and
rihald sonSs. than TO enjoy the prattle Of
those who would refine and uplift.
In the main men and women get that
Christ said. Blessed are they. who hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall
be filed blessed Is that mar whose sub
tainT aesi reds run rb aloR Was the the i trosb, ei w III
Eicodemus. He wanted a material king
dem. he needed a spiritual kingdom. There
born again. born from above That which
is born of the flesh is flesh. that which is
BORN of the spirit Is spirit Now as always,
For nineteen hundred years Christianity
has primarily concerned itself with, the
question of heredity. Have you been born.
not OF the flesh. nor of the will of man.
but of God?' Only that can come out of n
which has first been put into him
re must be born again. God puts OIL
vinity into a man. in order that he may
bring it out of him. But man is left TO
choose whether he Will be truly divine, or
baseiy human.
Guarded by the power of God. through
faith unto salvation. Hold fast that no
man take thy crown He that endureth
to the end shall be saved Wealth depends
not simply upon obtaining. but mainly in
retaining treasures. Had there never been
the strings of the new life in Judas. he
would not have entered the Apostolic
lNlnl Or being In would nor have remained |
SO long. Long before growth had abso-
ceased. decay had actually begun. |
Had he let God keep him, his life would not ,
have ended in unmatched tragedy.