The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-18
EVANGELIST SPEAKS
PREGNANT WORDS
Or. II. o. BREEDEN DELIVERS
INTERESTING ADDRESS IN
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

4 few years ago visitors to large
eastern cities might have seen on
blllpoards this legend: What must l
do to be saved? Colonel Robert G..
Ingersoll will answer this question at
the -- theater tonight" But
Colonel Ingersoll did not answer it.
No man can. only God can and does
answer this greatest OF all ques-
tons.
II assumes that man is a lost sin
ncr. and that he cannot save himself.
He Is forced to appeal to n higher
mower. God sent His Son, Jesus
Christ. into the world to answer this
question. That men might know that
He knew what they must do to De
saved, He saved men and women from
their sins during His stay on earth.
When He left the earth. in order that
I7tan might continue to be saved, he
left tho law of salvation in the hands
of chosen and trained disciples. He
was the Great Physician who knew
thcsspecific Of tho leprosy of sin. The
law of sals alton that He left behind
Him was and Is His prescription for
sin.
After He had left the earth and gone
back t. heaven men We're saved by
this prescription in the hands OF HIS
disciples, as was Gttested ny the fact
that they received and enjoyed the
holy spirit The possession Of the
spirit of Christ is the unmistakable
assurance of salvation-of healing. The
consciousness of The fact that one has
kept the letter of the law is not the
assurance of salvation. 1t is more
vital thing. 1t is the actual possession
of the disposition Of tho Christ which
finds outward expression in His acts.
IF any man is in Christ Jesus. he is
q new creation" He will exhibit
transformed character and life.
The law of salvation as recorded in
the gospels, reduced to its simplest
elements. is this: faith, repentance
ard obedience. Faith, not iii institu-
tons. not i'm symbols. not i'm forms,
but in Christ-personal trust i'm liv-
ing and personal Christ who is life.
Salvation Is not mechanical, not COM
mcrcial. but vital. 1t in being in
Christ as the branch is in the vine
and the vine in the branch; as the
cloud is in the sunshine and the sun
shine in the cloud.
Repentance is not mere sorrow for
sin. but sincere turning away from
it--tho actual exclusion of ii from the
life and heart.
Obedience that finds expression in
surrender and service There Is just
one thing for a man to do to be saved.
and that II what Paul told the jailer
to do: Believe on, the Lord Jesus
Christ" But that faith must be a
full and living faith-a faith that Is
made Perfect by repentance and obedi.
cnce. Repentance Is that degree Of
faith that moves a man to break with
sin. Baptism is that degree of faith
that moves one to openly and formally
align himself on the side of Christ ms
disciple. A repentance that is not
an expire ssion of faith is of no value.
A baptism that Is not the manifesto
tation of a personal belief in a per-
sonal Savior Is an empty form. This
takes salvation out of The realm of
legalism and mechanics and makes it
vital thing Man is saved from sin
by coming into possession of the
Christ life. Many people think they
are saved, because they are I'm the
church, or because they believe in a
certain formula Of doctrines. or be-
cause they have gone through with
certain forms. None of these things
can save a sinner. Christ in you, the
hope of glory" A piece of wax can
he formed into the shape Of u grain
of corn. but il will not grow. There
is no life in il. The saved man is the
man who has the life of Christ i'm him.
Though not expressed In His words.
these are some of the great ld1as that
entered into the able sermon preached
by DR. II. o. Breeder in the Chris
tian church last night. At its close a
husband and wife came forward TO
take their staad IN the side of tho
Master. The solos by IL. S. Saxton
We're particularly beautiful. aprropr:-
ate and impressive.
There will b. no service tonight.
hut there will be three services on
Sunday. At IL a. m. DIR. Breeder will
preach at the church on 1.-The Shep-
herd Psalm" at $3.50 n. m. in the
'larnois theater in men only. and
again at the theater at 5 u. m. on
The Divinity of Christ"