Arizona republican., 1909-06-21
THE GIFT ALONE
 IS NOI THE END
EACH MUST WORK OUT HIS OWN
 SALVATION.
Sermon by Rev. Henry Martyr Camp
 beyy Yesterday.

Rev. Henry M. Campbell. pastor of
 the First Presbyterian church. preach
 ed yesterday morning on the theme,
 Working out our own salvation" us
 ing as his text the following words from the twelfth and thirteenth verses
 of the second chapter of Philippians:
 Work out your own salvation with
 fear and trembling: for it is God
 which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure" The following quotations give an outline of the discourse:
 There is one thought which should stimulate us to diligence and activity every moment of our lives; it is the thought that every one of us is to leave
 the world feeling that he has failed to accomplish life's truest and noblest purpose. Many of the greatest men
 in the world have been compelled to leave it feeling that they have failed to make the most and the best out of their lives. That masterpiece, The Transfiguration,' was only a fragment of what was in the mind and heart of the painter. and man after man has left his life-work but half done and been called away with expressions of regret falling from his lips. Of only one Man who has ever lived could it be rightly said, It is finished and that was the Man Christ Jesus. 1 think the apostle had this incompleteness of life's work in mind when he wrote to the Philippians to work out their own salvation.
 Let us. in the consideration of this thought, observe the personal obliga- ton in the words of the text. the work, the warning and the encouragement.
 First, then, let us consider the per sonal obligation. Work out your own salvation Paul had been for some time with the Philippians and some of them had come to the place where they believed that they could substitute the righteousness of Paul for their own righteousness Paul sends back the word to them to work out their own salvation. There is in this age of the world tendency among men to think that they can get into heaven by proxy. man may feel that in some way he will be admitted to heaven be- cause he has a good wife, good sons
 
 and good daughters. It is impossible. Each must work out his own saliva tion. Our responsibility is personal. We must work out our salvation ac- cording to Gods plan, not our own. Too many of us are like the African chief who came to the missionary for the good medicine that his bad heart might be made clean The missionary T l.. s1-- Testament. but the old man went away with the exclamation, I will not take the words you speak; I will have the good medicine Gods plan for us is that we shall each work out his own salvation.
 Let us look at the work of the | text. l think hear you say, Isn't sal | vation a gift?' Was Paul, then, incon- | sistent? Paul does not mean that we | are to work out our own salvation in | the sense of meriting it. There is not | | line in the Bible that would teach | IS SO. These words were written to hose who were already Christians We | <now that we are not saved by our l works in the sense that we purchase salvation By grace are ye saved. We Ire to do the thing that God wants IS to do taking the salvation that He gives us and working it out as it is. Salvation means deliverance from sin. We can not deliver ourselves from sin. But salvation means also deliverance rom the power of sin. I dare say hat this is the thought of the Apostle n large measure. Go on doing the york of God and struggle to overcome he temptations that are in the world. t is God that justifies; it is man that akes the gift that God bestows and works it out. Education is a gift in he sense that the students expenses Ire all paid by the father. but he at