The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-24


 was received for baptism. two having been received the night before. Saturday night the subject of the ! Evangelist will be. Where the Lights | Go Out on the Road to He'll" The text last night was from Acts | xvi 30, 31, ''BirA what must I do to be saved? and they said. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved"
 MT. Martin said in part:
 why should any one go to hell when God has made this message so simple and plain and sure7 One trouble Is that the superstition and tradition Of the ages has obscured both the question of the text and the answer
 Let's strip everything tonight away from the question and the answer. The jailer did not ask what must I do to be rewarded. That depends not on be- iieving on Christ but upon your works. on the way you live after you are saved Every man shall receive his own reward according to his labor But salvations and rewards are two en- tirely different things. Christ saves us, and our reward. Heaven, depends on the way we serve God after we are saved Nor did the 1ailer ask what must do to Joe happy. It is not q question of happiness, but of heaven and hell.
 But the simple. question is, What must I do to be saved? Notice, now, the answer, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved The Catholic tradition says the same thing, Believe in the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved It does not say, Be- lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and join the church and thou shalt be saved Yet a majority of the protesting Chris tians in the world believe that even if we believe on Christ we will not be saved unless we join the church. It is nothing but superstition and tradition. But, further, the Bible does not say Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be baptized and thou shalt be saved. Yet here again a, majority of the pro- fessing Christians of the world believe that even, five believe on Christ we will not be saved unless we are bap- tized. It is only the superstition and tradition of the ages.
 But again, the text does not say, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and eat the Lords Supper or the mass and thou shalt be saved Yet q majority of the protesting Christians of the world believe that though you believe on the Lord Jesus Christi trust Him to save you, you will be lost unless you eat the Lords Supper, or the mass, you will not be saved. It Is only the
 
 But once more, the text does not say, Believe on the Lord Jesus, Christ and live good life, and thou shalt be saved
 "Oh.' exclaims some one, don't we have to live a good life in order to be saved?' Not one particle more than we have to join the church, or be bap- tized or eat the Lords Supper, or the mass in order to be saved, for God means the text, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
 Doesn't God wish us to join the church, be baptized, live goed lives? Most surely He does. Then why do these things? From love to the Sa- vior, but not in order to be saved. Oh, that people would see and believe the | simplicity of Gods way of salvation l and be saved and then serve God from earnest, tender love and not from fear | of hell.
 "God pity the poor. blinded people | who are going on down to death and | ruin serving God in order to be saved. l or to escape he'll"