1024 tween the wicked and the righteous? What is it separates one from the other? What is it so transforms the man in the camp of the wicked that he passes over into the church of the righteous! What is the bridge that spans this dividing gulf? If all great Neptune’s waters will not wash the sin from the soul,- what will? If man is powerless to effect his own salvation, who can do it for him? Why; they tell me down in the Unitarian church you do not need a divine Saviour. Well what in the world do you need then? Who is going to do this? Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? And how? The question is thousands of years old, “ How can mortal man be just before -God?” By Jesus Christ! I am al ways glad in my heart when I hear, as I sometimes do, the criticism, “ He knows nothing but Jesus Christ.” I wish it were true. I am trying hard to make it true. But just now it is true. There is the wicked, and it is ill with him God says. There is the righteous, and it is well with him, God says. Now how can I get over from that side to this? Mr. Unitarian, how are you going to do it? And fool Christian Scientist, how are you going to do it? And speculator talking of salvation by character, where are you going to get the character from? You can do without the Christ? It does not look like it. You have outgrown the cross? Who has? Speak for your self. Now then let God say another word ere we stop. “ Though your sins be as scarlet They shall be as snow, Though they be red like crimson, They shall be as wool.” How? The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” So you see once more how as moving water rushes up against a dividing boulder, so you come to Christ’s cross and it sep arates the audience. And he that be-
THE K I N G ’ S BUSINESS lieveth on the Son hath life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. A word, and I stop. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power, and been washed in the blood of the Lamb? Hear the affirmation of God. “ It shall be well with you.” But you are poor. “ It shall be well with you.” But you are sick. “ It shall be well with you.” But you are growing old. “ It shall be well with you.” But you feel that your power is declining. “ It shall be well with you.” But you have nothing laid up for the rainy day. “ It shall be well with you.” But you may be overtaken and prostrated by some illness. “ It shall be well with you.” But——Listen! God is our -refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth be re moved, and the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.” And why should we not fear? Because God is in the midst of us. Jehovah Jesus, Emmanuel, the Saviour, Christ the Lord. But you have got .to die. “ It shall be well with you.” You have got to face judgment. “ It shall be well With you.” You have gojt to appear before God. Why then, it certainly must be well with .you. Oh hear Him again as He says, “ Say ye to the righteous, It shall be well with him.” But I am compelled to add ere I close, the same God says, “ To the wicked, it shall be ill.” You said the other day, we have got rid of hell. Who has? The Bible has not. Jesus Christ has not ceased to mention it. I am preaching for a long day that will never know noon, daylight, nor dark, the endless day of eternity; and by the help of God there shall be no one of you say to me in the day we stand before the throne, “ You sup pressed part of the truth.” I set be-
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