J. Crosby_

III.--MR. MOODY AND MR. RADSTOCK.

WHAT IT IS TO BE CONVERTED.

MR. MOODY: Christ says, "Except ye be converted, and become as
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
What is it to be converted?

Mr. Radstock: To be "converted" is to turn to God, who is the only
one that can save. We cannot save ourselves even by our religion.
Therefore, in order to salvation we must turn to God, who alone has
the grace, the wisdom, and the power to save.

Mr. M.--What is it to be born of the Spirit?

Mr. R.--Man, by nature, cannot enter into the thoughts of God. He
cannot hold communion with God until he has a new nature. The
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: he has no
capacity until he has the new life which God will give him by the
power of the Holy Ghost.

Mr. M.--Can he get that to-day if he repents?

Mr. R.--Yes. Repentance means a change of mind--a turning away from
his own thoughts to hear the voice and the message of God. If we
listen to the voice of God and confess our sins, God is "faithful
and just to forgive us our sins."

Mr. M.--To whom are we to confess our sins?

Mr. R.--When the light of God comes in, we see that we are guilty
before him; then we are constrained to go and lay our case before
Him. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us.

Mr. M.--There is a passage that says the Lord Jesus Christ bear our
sins. In what sense did He bear our sins.

Mr. R.--The Lord Jesus Christ had really laid to His charge sins
which He had never committed. He was punished as if He had been the
sinner. Therefore on the cross He cried out, "My God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken me?" God was dealing with Jesus as if He had
really been the guilty one.

Mr. M.--Do we get any help by believing that?

Mr. R.--When I believe God's testimony, God's witness about Jesus, I
then can trust myself to God, Giving myself to God, God becomes my
Saviour.

Mr. M.--Have these friends the power to believe?

Mr. R.--They are commanded to believe. They can believe it just as
well as they can believe any other fact, if they only listen to
God's voice. But they must get rid of their own thoughts, and listen
to God: Hearing His voice they will believe. "Faith cometh by
hearing: and hearing by the Word of God."

Mr. M.--All the sinner has to do is to repose in the promises of
God?

Mr. R.--Simply to trust Himself to God.

Mr. M.--What would yo