sidered ourselves responsible for cher- ishing? By taking the simple and im- mediate way pointed out in I John 1:9. "If we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all righteousness.-' Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher ¿j of faith. There are times in the life of God's separated one when it seems as if all the forces of the devil were con- tending against our simply believing God, and with "faithful Abraham count- ing the things that is not as though it were." The devil so weaves a veil of reality about us that we can see nothing but his counterfeits of the real and the ca- lamity, and the symptoms, and the dis- tance at which he puts God, and the re- ality and the present distress so real that we fall into the sin of unbelief. Where then is our refuge, and how can we lay aside the sin of unbelief? Simply look to Jesus. "Impossible for God to lie." "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation make a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it." Therefore, dear child of God, turn in simple trust to Jesus and talk it over with Him, "and a little talk with Jesus sets it right." He, the author, will surely care for the weak faith, and He, the finisher of faith, will finish a work begun in us if we but yield wholly. The only hin- drance to God is an unyielded will. There is no power in heaven able to work out God's plan to save and sancti- fy and perfect and fill with all the ful- ness of Jesus, in one in whom the will is not yielded to Him in the minutest particular. There is no power in the X? realm of the adversary, the devil, that can withstand God in the perfecting of His will concerning us, in the will that is yielded to God in its inmost depths. of the Spirit in a masterful manner. He answered every question w'iith a verse of Scripture. He kept good natured but maintained absolute control of his audi- ence. Nigger Sam proved that it is pos- sibel to know and preach the clean-cut Word of God, and that men will listen, and that God will bless His own Word. He handled perhaps fifty or sixty differ- ent passages and always to the point. May the Lord raise up some more preachers after this kind.
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substance of the object of our faith and on another side the evidence that "we have the petition we have desired of Him." A vivid commentary on Mark 11:24. In chapter 12 he begins, "Wherefore seeing we also are com- passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that gy ^
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