ath
appeared." Thank God for that! Salvation by grace is for all men. If
we are lost, it will not be because God has not provided a Saviour,
but because we spurn the gift of God--because we dash the cup of
salvation from us.

What says Christ? You remember that when He was on earth, they came
to Him and asked what they should do to work the works of God. He
had been telling them to labor not for the bread that perisheth, but
for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life. Then they asked
Him, "What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" What did
Jesus tell them to do? Did He tell them to go and feed the hungry,
to clothe the naked, to visit the widow and the fatherless in their
affliction? Perhaps you may say that, according to Scripture, is
"pure and undefiled religion." Granted; but something comes before
that. That is all right and necessary in its place. But when these
men wanted to know what they had to do to inherit eternal life,
Jesus said: "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He
hath sent."

YOU CAN BELIEVE.

A friend lately called my attention to the fact that God has put the
offer of salvation in such a way that the whole world can lay hold
of it. All men can believe. A lame man might not perhaps be able to
visit the sick; but he can believe. A blind man by reason of his
infirmity cannot do many things; but he can believe. A deaf man can
believe. A dying man can believe. God has put salvation so simply
that the young and the old, the wise and the foolish, the rich and
the poor, can all believe if they will.

Do you think that Christ would have come down from heaven, would
have gone to Gethsemane and to Golgotha, would have suffered as He
did, if man could have worked his way up to heaven?--if he could
have merited salvation by his own efforts? I think if you give five
minutes' consideration to this question you will see, that if man
could have saved himself Christ need not have suffered at all.
Remember, too, what Christ says: "He that climbeth up some other
way, the same is a thief and a robber." He has marked out the way to
God. He has opened up a new and shining way, and He wants us to take
_His_ way. Certainly the attempt to work our way up to heaven is
"climbing up some other way," is it not? If ever a man did succeed
in working his way into heaven we should never hear the last of it!
I have got so terribly sick of these so-called "self-made men."
There are some men wh