lass with which we have to
deal. It is composed of those who are convinced of sin and from whom
the cry comes as from the Philippian jailer, "What must I do to be
saved?" To those who utter this penitential cry there is no necessity
to administer the law. It is well to bring them straight to the
Scripture: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved." (Acts xvi. 31). Many will meet you with a scowl and say, "I
don't know what it is to believe;" and though it is the law of heaven
that they must believe, in order to be saved--yet they ask for
something besides that. We are to tell them what, and where, and how,
to believe.

In John iii. 35 and 36 we read: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath
given all things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see
life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

Now this looks reasonable. Man lost life by unbelief--by not
believing God's word; and we got life back again by believing--by
taking God at His word. In other words we get up where Adam fell
down. He stumbled and fell over the stone of unbelief; and we are
lifted up and stand upright by believing. When people say they cannot
believe, show them chapter and verse, and hold them right to this one
thing: "Has God ever broken His promise for these six thousand
years?" The devil and men have been trying all the time and have not
succeeded in showing that He has broken a single promise; and there
would be a jubilee in hell to-day if one word that He has spoken
could be broken. If a man says that he cannot believe it is well to
press him on that one thing.

I can believe God better to-day than I can my own heart. "The heart
is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know
it?" (Jer. xxii. 9). I can believe God better than I can myself. If
you want to know the way of Life, believe that Jesus Christ is a
personal Saviour; cut away from all doctrines and creeds, and come
right to the heart of the Son of God. If you have been feeding on dry
doctrine there is not much growth on that kind of food. Doctrines are
to the soul what the streets which lead to the house of a friend who
has invited me to dinner are to the body. They will lead me there if
I take the right one; but if I remain in the streets my hunger will
never be satisfied. Feeding on doctrines is like trying to live on
dry husks; and lean indeed must the soul remain which part