Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17
WHAT MUST 1 DO
 ID BE SAVED? The Divine Plan of Salva- tion Was Explained to Johnnie" at the Chris tian Church Last Night.
N GODS FAMILY
Impossible to Become Christian by Reading the Old Testament-Man Net Recognized as Married Man Because He Felt Like He Was.

What must dO 10 De SaVed. This is the question that was troubling Johnnie" more than any thing else, and so on Thursday evening the old Farmer explained to him the divine plan of salvation He said that when man asks the question, what must l do to p4 saved, he is not asking what he must do to inherit eternal life. Ii he is sinner he may comply with the terms and conditions of the plan and have his past sins re- mitted; then he has to start out and live the Christian life until death, and if he does so he has eternal salvation, but the individual may accept the terms of salvation and then.be lost. To illustrate this, he said that on a certain ocean yes sel fifteen hundred people came to the United States seeking admission to the laws of our government and to become American citizens. When they landed in New York all were desirous of being born again; that is. the Irishman to die and the American to be born. How is that to be done? The great government nnder which we live has laid down simple law by which every man in Ireland, England, Italy, or other places, by complying with that law, may become an American citizen. The guest of our government pe- comes an adopted child; 8 child o1 America by adoption, and has rights as an American citizen. This law is very simple and easy to un- derstand: so easily understood that the commonest people can compre- bend it and are admitted. But after they have compiled with thls easy thing they have a life to live. If they fail to be worthy citizens Uncle Sam will jerk them up ana break their necks; will kill them. It has been done many times. why? Because they were born and reared is Ireland, or England or Italy? No When a man comes to New York and complies with the law, that is never brought against him any more; he is full-f1edged American citizen, but when this IS done his life and responsibility is before him. Uncle Sam says, "NoW if you will live right there will never be another thing placed against you, but if you don't do right. I will break your neck" And so it is with the man who desires to become Christian. The smallest part of the Christian life is becom- ing a Christian. It is an easy mat ter for a man to be adopted into the family of God. Jesus is the only literal Son of God. Every other person that comes into that family comes there by adoption;
 just as Uncle Sam has given these people a law of adoption, so has God. our Father, given us land of adoption with which every man can coply and become one of Gods children. Then. 1t is that the life of Christ is held up before him.
 Now Johnnie" wanted to know how he was to determine when he
 had been adopted into the family of God, so the old Farmer points out to him that God has made 1t
 so plain and simple that all may come in. He said that some people
 say they know they are in the
 kingdom of God because they feel like they are saved, but that God never said any such thing, and that
 such evidence would not be ac-
 cepted in regard to anything else; that is. a man would not be accept ed into the K. of P. or the Masons
 simply on his statement that he felt
 like he was Mason or a Knight;
 neither would a man be recognized
 as a married man simply because
 he felt like he was married. There is something to be done in each
 instance, and until he complies with
 certain law he will not be a
 Mason or Knight of Pythlas
 neither will he be married, no mat
 ter how he feels about it. The ole
 man then reminds Johnnie that nc
 has shown him that it is impossible
 to find out how to become Chris
 tiaa by reading the Old Testament