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CHRIST'S DISCIPLE."If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take uphis cross daily, and follow me." (Luke 9:23.)R741 : page 3Would ye be My disciple? Consider again;Can ye follow My footsteps through trial and pain?Can ye throw away pleasure, and glory, and fame,And live but to honor My cause and My name?Can ye turn from the glitter of fashion and mirth,And dwell like a pilgrim and stranger on earth,Despising earth's riches, and living to bless?Can you follow the feet of the shelterless?Can ye ask from your heart the forgiveness of men?Can ye list to reproaches, nor answer again?Can ye pray that repentance in life may be theirsWho've watched for your falling, who've set for yousnares?When you hear I am come, then, can you arise,The joy of your heart springing up in your eyes?Can ye come out to meet Me where'er I may be,Though ye come on the waves of the storm-crested sea?When I call, can ye turn and in gladness "come out"From the heart of your childhood, the friends of your heart?With naught but My promise on which to rely,Afar from your loved--can ye lie down and die?Can ye take up the cross that was heavy for Me,The scoffing and scorn, My disciple to be?Blest Saviour, Thou knowest the weakness of man;With strength that Thou givest, we answer, We can.====================--Sel.THE TWO SALVATIONS.A failure to clearly discern the distinction between--first: thesacrifice which Jesus gave for our sins, on account of which wehave been granted repentance and remission of sins, and second, thesacrifice we have been called to make with Christ as sharers of hissufferings and to fit us to share his glory, has been the source ofmuch confusion of thought. In consequence, some preach: It is ALLgrace, we can do nothing; God through Christ does all. Thesewould quote in proof, "By grace are ye saved through faith and that[grace] not [because of any merit] of yourselves--it is the gift ofGod,"--"not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:9.)Others declare: It is grace truly, but unless you do works in
harmony with it, you never will be saved. It is written, "Presentyour bodies a living sacrifice," and "WORK OUT your ownsalvation." (Rom. 12:1, and Phil. 2:12.)The party which mixes works and faith gradually comes to regardfaith as of little value, and works as all important, and detracts fromthe value of the sacrifice which Jesus gave, while adding to theimportance of the sacrifice of the sinner, or as they term it thesinner's death to sin, as the means or cost of his own salvation.The party which depends wholly on faith, generally inclines to anopposite extreme and ignores the possibility of any fallen beingdoing works acceptable to God. In their endeavor to show that Jesusfully and amply "paid it all," these frequently assert that the penaltyof sin was eternal torture, and that Jesus endured as muchSUFFERING in a few hours in Gethsemane's garden as all mankindwould have suffered in an eternity of torture.Each of these parties is without argument when confronted with theScriptures of the opposite party, and without denying or disprovingthe texts in opposition, each quotes the texts and teaches the viewwhich seems most approved to itself; while the infidel sneers--"Your Bible contradicts itself."There is a difficulty somewhere-- what is it?It is this: As we saw when examining the doctrines of Election andFree-grace, both are true; both are supported by Scripture, and thedifficulty has been a failure to note the two ages to which the twodoctrines apply--an election according to favor during the Gospelage, and Free and complete favor to all during the Millennial age.So also the doctrines of Faith and Works--Belief as a ground ofsalvation, and Sacrifice as a ground of salvation. Both are true: Wemust merely rightly divide the word of truth and its beauty andharmony will be manifested. As in the doctrine of Election, theharmony was seen by observing the two ages, so with this doctrine,the beauty and force can only be distinguished by recognizing twosalvations.Does some one hastily say: I cannot believe that; the Scripturesteach of but one salvation? We reply: How do you know? Have yousearched the Scriptures with that in view, to see? If you had said thecatechism, etc., which I studied when a child, taught that there isbut one kind of salvation, then we should have agreed with you.Perhaps that is what you meant: at all events we can show clearlythat the Bible does teach two kinds of salvation and two totallydifferent classes of saved.First, then: There is a general salvation common to all the Adamicrace. Adam, the representative of the race, through sin lost theperfection of manhood with all its privileges; the result being death--extinction--not only for himself but for all springing from him andrepresented by him--"and so death passed upon all men." Jesuscame to seek and to SAVE that which was LOST. If his mission
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CHRIST'S DISCIPLE."If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take uphis cross daily, and follow me." (Luke 9:23.)R741 : page 3Would ye be My disciple? Consider again;Can ye follow My footsteps through trial and pain?Can ye throw away pleasure, and glory, and fame,And live but to honor My cause and My name?Can ye turn from the glitter of fashion and mirth,And dwell like a pilgrim and stranger on earth,Despising earth's riches, and living to bless?Can you follow the feet of the shelterless?Can ye ask from your heart the f<strong>org</strong>iveness of men?Can ye list to reproaches, nor answer again?Can ye pray that repentance in life may be theirsWho've watched for your falling, who've set for yousnares?When you hear I am come, then, can you arise,The joy of your heart springing up in your eyes?Can ye come out to meet Me where'er I may be,Though ye come on the waves of the storm-crested sea?When I call, can ye turn and in gladness "come out"From the heart of your childhood, the friends of your heart?With naught but My promise on which to rely,Afar from your loved--can ye lie down and die?Can ye take up the cross that was heavy for Me,The scoffing and scorn, My disciple to be?Blest Saviour, Thou knowest the weakness of man;With strength that Thou givest, we answer, We can.====================--Sel.THE TWO SALVATIONS.A failure to clearly discern the distinction between--first: thesacrifice which Jesus gave for our sins, on account of which wehave been granted repentance and remission of sins, and second, thesacrifice we have been called to make with Christ as sharers of hissufferings and to fit us to share his glory, has been the source ofmuch confusion of thought. In consequence, some preach: It is ALLgrace, we can do nothing; God through Christ does all. Thesewould quote in proof, "By grace are ye saved through faith and that[grace] not [because of any merit] of yourselves--it is the gift ofGod,"--"not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:9.)Others declare: It is grace truly, but unless you do works in
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