The Sunday School’s True Evangelism 63 direction of the Holy Spirit, “My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin,” he meant just that. When our Lord Jesus Himself said, first, “Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin” ; and then, instead of leaving us hopelessly there, went on to say : “If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed,” He was trying to tell us what His whole salvation is. The victorious life is not a life made sinless, hut it is a life kept from sinning. I t is not, as has well been said, that the sinner is made perfect here in this life, but that the sinner even in this life has a perfect Saviour. And that Saviour is more than equal, while we are still in this life, to overcoming all the power of our sin. The Keswick Convention in England has for forty years been blessedly used of God in spreading abroad the Good News of the Gospel of victory over sin. The life that is sur rendered unconditionally to the mastery of Jesus Christ and that then believes unconditionally in the faithfulness of that Saviour Lord to make His promises true, begins to realize the meaning of the unspeakable riches of God’s grace. There are Sunday School teachers who are rejoicing today in thé privilege of telling their classes the whole message of true evangelism. May God mightily increase the numbers of those who shall bear witness, by their victorious lives and by their eager glad message, to the whole evangelism of the Word: the saving and the keeping power of our wonderful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Then, “If He shall be mani fested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.”
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