It is the faith of faiths, and fills human life. that disbelieveth shall be condemned." "He You must face this responsibility. "He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." Faith and life, disobedience and the wrath of God-here they are set before you: choose you to-night which you will do-live by faith in Jesus Christ, or judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life. "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" Do you believe on Him as your Saviour, your Teacher, your Lord? In your heart right now, as the Spirit of truth teaches and draws you, is there a real, living faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? Then, according to the old, simple, clear Apostolic Gospel, express your faith, prove your faith, perfect your faith. Do not hesitate. Do not delay. Do not be misled. If in your heart you believe the Word of the truth, the Gospel of your salvation, it is a saving faith; the precious blood of the Lamb of God is there, redeeming and sanctifying you.. Promptly, gladly, in the power and precept of the Gospel, let your faith express itself, prove itself, perfect itself in obedience. In the faith of your heart, confess the name of Christ. Oh! according to those plain Apostolic examples, in the faith of your heart confess the name of Christ: according to those plain Apostolic examples, in the faith of your heart be baptized into the name of Christ. Let the living and saving faith of your heart save you to-day and forever in a life of obedience. It is all so real. It is a real faith. It is a real salvation. It is a real life. It is salvation from sin and death, and salvation for a life in union and commu nion with the life of the Son of God. We not only believe who He is, and what He has done, but in our faith we live in Him, and He lives in us. We not only believe on Him and in Him, but in our faith He becomes our life, the light and life of all our living. Whatever our life, as we live in loving obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, we find Him present in it all. "Christ liveth in me "-there is the secret of life in the power of faith. "Christ liveth in me"-so can we overcome sin, and grow pure in heart and character. "Christ liveth in me"-so must we meet trial, and become wise and strong. "Christ liveth in me "so are we to live every day in lowly rounds and humble tasks. "Christ liveth in me"-here is the life of prayer and doing good. "Christ liveth in me "—it is the light for all objects of all thought, the light in which we shall see God, and read man, and mark the travail and course of all the world. A personal faith, a living faith, felt in all our mind and life, Christ become so real to us as we love and obey Him, it may confess day by day in strong joy and hope, “I know him whom I have believed”—“We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is"-" When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall we also with him be manifested in glory." V. THE GOOD CONFESSION. "And didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses."-I. Tim. vi, 12. Could there be a finer thrill of memory! Paul appeals to the past while exhorting Timothy in the pursuit of eternal life. He bids Timothy to look back, and recall a scene and rehear a voice. There in Lystra, a city lying on a dreary plain at the foot of a volcanic mountain, the population generally idolators, there in the very first days of Paul's and Barnabas's preaching, a Jewish boy was modestly standing in the sight of many witnesses, a grandmother's kindly eye resting upon him, and a mother's heart throbbing with joy. He is but a little way in his teens; yet, in the hushed assembly, bravely and beautifully he speaks aloud the faith of his youthful heart-"I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.' It was the good confession, as Paul definitely and preeminently calls it. Not a good profession, as it appears in the old version, but as it is accurately translated in the Revised Version, the good confession. Paul stirringly appeals to that, as he incites Timothy in the spiritual conflict. For Timothy there was, in the thought of it, all the tenderness of a sweet human memory-his boyhood days, the devoted care of him by his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, his learn |