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diff --git a/30449-h/30449-h.htm b/30449-h/30449-h.htm index e5857b5..d0c3fca 100644 --- a/30449-h/30449-h.htm +++ b/30449-h/30449-h.htm @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> -<html> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= -"text/html; charset=UTF-8"> +<meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>The Way To God And How To Find It</title> -<style type="text/css"> +<style> body {font-family:'Bookman Old Style','Book Antiqua','Garamond';text-align:justify;margin-left:3em;margin-right:3em} p.pnn {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0} p.ps {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:1em} @@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ </style> </head> <body> -<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30449 ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 8492 ***</div> <p class="pnn"><a href="#Reader">To The Reader</a></p> <p class="pnn"><a href="#Contents">Contents</a></p> @@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.</p> <hr style="margin-top:22em;margin-bottom:9em"> <p style= "text-align:center;font-size:138%;letter-spacing:0.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> -<a name="Reader" id="Reader">TO THE READER</a></p> +<a id="Reader">TO THE READER</a></p> <hr style="width:5em;margin-top:1.7em;margin-bottom:1.3em"> <div style="font-size:96%;line-height:2em"> <p class="pn">I<span class="sc">n</span> this small volume I have @@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ established and settled in the faith of Christ,</p> <hr style="margin-top:21em;margin-bottom:10em"> <p style= "text-align:center;font-size:133%;letter-spacing:0.12em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:1.4em"> -<a name="Contents" id="Contents">CONTENTS.</a></p> +<a id="Contents">CONTENTS.</a></p> <hr style="width:3.5em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:1.3em"> <div style="font-size:96%;line-height:2em"> <p class="ps"><a href="#I">C<span class="sc">hapter</span> I. @@ -112,9 +111,9 @@ B<span class="sc">acksliding</span></a></p> <hr style="margin-top:9em;margin-bottom:5em"> <p style= "text-align:center;font-size:183%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0.8em"> -<a name="Text" id="Text">THE WAY TO GOD.</a></p> +<a id="Text">THE WAY TO GOD.</a></p> <hr style="width:7.5em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> -<h1><a name="I" id="I">CHAPTER I.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="I">CHAPTER I.</a></h1> <p class="pt1">“<i>LOVE THAT PASSETH KNOWLEDGE</i>.”</p> <p class="pt2">“To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.”<br> @@ -538,7 +537,7 @@ that little girl went to Abraham Lincoln. It may be possible that you have a dark story to tell. Tell it all out; keep nothing back. If Abraham Lincoln had compassion on that little girl, heard her petition and answered it, do you think the Lord Jesus -will not hear your prayer? Do, you think that Abraham Lincoln, or +will not hear your prayer? Do you think that Abraham Lincoln, or any man that ever lived on earth, had as much compassion as Christ? No! He will be touched when no one else will; He will have mercy when no one else will; He will have pity when no one @@ -581,7 +580,7 @@ it.</p> <p class="pn">“He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love. . . . His left hand is under my head, and His right hand doth embrace me” (Song Sol. ii. 4, 6). Thank -God we can come under the banner to-day if we will. Any, poor +God we can come under the banner to-day if we will. Any poor sinner can come under that banner to-day. His banner of love is over us. Blessed Gospel; blessed, precious, news. Believe it to-day; receive it into your heart; and enter into a new life. @@ -589,7 +588,7 @@ Let the love of God be shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost to-day: it will drive away darkness; it will drive away gloom; it will drive away sin; and peace and joy shall be yours.</p> -<h1><a name="II" id="II">CHAPTER II.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="II">CHAPTER II.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>THE GATEWAY INTO THE KINGDOM</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“Except a man be born again he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”<br> @@ -1016,7 +1015,7 @@ moment.” And the young man dies in consequence of his own unbelief.</p> <p class="pn">God provided a remedy for this bitten Israelite—“Look and live!” And there is eternal life for every -poor sinner, Look, and you can be saved, my reader, this very +poor sinner. Look, and you can be saved, my reader, this very hour. God has provided a remedy; and it is offered to all. The trouble is, a great many people are looking at the pole. Do not look at the pole; that is the church. You need not look at the @@ -1151,7 +1150,7 @@ He is calling you to heaven. Let us turn our backs upon the world. Let us give a deaf ear to the world. Let us look to Jesus on the Cross and be saved. Then we shall one day see the King in His beauty, and we shall go no more out.</p> -<h1><a name="III" id="III">CHAPTER III.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="III">CHAPTER III.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>THE TWO CLASSES</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“Two men went up into the temple to pray.”—L<span class="sc">uke</span> xvii. 10.</p> @@ -1523,7 +1522,7 @@ a steamer to cross the Atlantic, so we must take Christ and make a commitment of our souls to Him; and He has promised to keep all who put their trust in Him. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, is simply to take Him at His word.</p> -<h1><a name="IV" id="IV">CHAPTER IV.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="IV">CHAPTER IV.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>WORDS OF COUNSEL</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“A bruised reed shall He not break.”—I<span class= "sc">saiah</span> xlii. 3; M<span class="sc">att</span>. xii. @@ -1736,7 +1735,7 @@ around Christ to entangle Him in His talk. They come into our meetings to hold a discussion. To all such I would commend Paul’s advice to Timothy: “But foolish and unlearned questions avoid; knowing that they do gender strifes.” (2 Tim. ii. 23.) Unlearned -questions: Many young converts make a woful mistake. They think +questions! Many young converts make a woful mistake. They think they are to defend the whole Bible. I knew very little of the Bible when I was first converted; and I thought that I had to defend it from beginning to end against all comers; but a Boston @@ -1761,9 +1760,9 @@ if they want to eat fish, commence by picking the bones. I leave such things till I have light on them. I am not bound to explain what I do not comprehend. “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and -to our children, for ever” (Deut. xxii. 29); and these I take, +to our children, for ever” (Deut. xxix. 29); and these I take, and eat, and feed upon, in order to get spiritual strength.</p> -<p class="pn">Than there is a little sound advice in Titus iii. +<p class="pn">Then there is a little sound advice in Titus iii. 9. “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”</p> @@ -1826,7 +1825,7 @@ come in a teachable spirit. But the moment a man comes in a receptive spirit he is blessed; for “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James i. 5).</p> -<h1><a name="V" id="V">CHAPTER V.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="V">CHAPTER V.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>A DIVINE SAVIOUR</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“Thou art <span class="sc">the Christ</span>, the Son of the living God.”<br> @@ -1971,7 +1970,7 @@ power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth!”</p> <p class="pn">Then again in Matthew xxviii. 20. “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” If He were mere -man, how could He be with us? Yet He says, “I am with you away, +man, how could He be with us? Yet He says, “I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world!”</p> <p class="pn">Then again in Mark ii. 7. “Why doth this Man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? And @@ -1984,7 +1983,7 @@ thy bed and walk?”</p> also raise the dead?” Notice that in the rare instances in which men have raised the dead, they did it by the power of God. They called on God to do it. But when Christ was on earth He did not -call upon the Father to bring the dead to life, When He went to +call upon the Father to bring the dead to life. When He went to the house of Jairus He said, “Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise.” (Mark v. 41.)</p> <p class="pn">He had power to impart life. When they were @@ -2049,7 +2048,7 @@ great sin in worshipping Him.</p> well-beloved Son of God, let us yield to His claims upon us; let us rest on His all-atoning work, and go forth to serve Him all the days of our life.</p> -<h1><a name="VI" id="VI">CHAPTER VI.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="VI">CHAPTER VI.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>REPENTANCE AND RESTITUTION</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“God commandeth all men everywhere to repent.”—A<span class="sc">cts</span> xvii. 30.</p> @@ -2302,7 +2301,7 @@ of all confidence in himself and with trust in the only Saviour of sinners. Saving repentance and saving faith always go together; and you need not be worried about repentance if you will believe.”</p> -<p class="pn">“Some people are no sure that they have ‘repented +<p class="pn">“Some people are not sure that they have ‘repented enough.’ If you mean by this that you must repent in order to incline God to be merciful to you, the sooner you give over such repentance the better. God is already merciful, as He has fully @@ -2449,10 +2448,10 @@ pardoned him then and there.</p> <p class="pn">When God finds that beautiful flower of true repentance springing up in a man’s heart, then salvation comes to that man.</p> -<h1><a name="VII" id="VII">CHAPTER VII.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="VII">CHAPTER VII.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>ASSURANCE OF SALVATION</i>.</p> <p class="pn f11">“These things have I written unto you that -believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may knew that ye +believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”</p> <p class="pt2">(1 J<span class="sc">ohn</span> v. 13. )</p> @@ -2521,7 +2520,7 @@ exactly suits him; and he springs upon it.</p> <p class="pn">“Yet, though these dumb creatures know the provision of their God, the sinner does not recognize the provision of his Saviour. He quibbles and questions, ‘May I?’ and -am ‘I am afraid it is not for me;’ and ‘I think it cannot be +‘I am afraid it is not for me;’ and ‘I think it cannot be meant for me;’ and ‘I am afraid it is too good to be true.’</p> <p class="pn">“And yet nobody ever said to the stork, ‘Whosoever buildeth on this fir tree shall never have his nest pulled down.’ @@ -2699,7 +2698,7 @@ and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall -neither be barron nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord +neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” So that we are to add grace to grace. A tree may be perfect in its first year of growth; but it does not attain its maturity. So with the Christian: he may be a true child of @@ -2935,7 +2934,7 @@ dust, covered with sores, and saying, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth;’ ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him’” (Job xix. 25; xiii. 15).</p> <p class="pn">“Faith is Peter’s drowning cry, as he began to -sink, ‘Lord, save me!’ (Matt. xxiv. 30). Assurance is that same +sink, ‘Lord, save me!’ (Matt. xiv. 30). Assurance is that same Peter declaring before the Council, in after-times, ‘This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner: neither is there salvation in any other; @@ -2998,7 +2997,7 @@ up, all that hang on Him hang safely.</p> <p class="pn">I once read these words on a tombstone: “Born, died, kept.” Let us pray God to keep us in perfect peace, and assured of salvation.</p> -<h1><a name="VIII" id="VIII">CHAPTER VIII.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="VIII">CHAPTER VIII.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>CHRIST ALL AND IN ALL</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">C<span class="sc">olossians</span> iii. 11.)</p> <p class="pn">C<span class="sc">hrist</span> is <i>all</i> to us @@ -3019,7 +3018,7 @@ from sin</span>? He did not come to save us <i>in</i> our sins, but <i>from</i> our sins. Now, there are three ways of knowing a man. Some men you know only by hearsay; others you merely know by having been once introduced to them, you know them very slightly; -other again you know by having been acquainted with them for +others again you know by having been acquainted with them for years, you know them intimately. So I believe there are three classes of people to-day in the Christian Church and out of it: those who know Christ only by reading or by hearsay, those who @@ -3204,7 +3203,7 @@ by and by he will call us home to our reward.</p> <p class="pn">I remember hearing of a blind man who sat by the wayside with a lantern near him. When he was asked what he had a lantern for, as he could not see the light, he said it was that -people should not stumble ever him. I believe more people stumble +people should not stumble over him. I believe more people stumble over the inconsistencies of professed Christians than from any other cause. What is doing more harm to the cause of Christ than all the scepticism in the world is this cold, dead formalism, @@ -3382,7 +3381,7 @@ people; and never suffer the steadfastness and confidence of my faith to abate—that so at all times I may be enabled from the heart to say. ‘Jesus needs me, and I Him; and so we suit each other.’”</p> -<h1><a name="IX" id="IX">CHAPTER IX.</a></h1> +<h1><a id="IX">CHAPTER IX.</a></h1> <p class="pt1"><i>BACKSLIDING</i>.</p> <p class="pt2">“I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away.”—H<span class= @@ -3484,7 +3483,7 @@ done that you should have forsaken Me?”</p> <p class="pn">The most tender and loving words to be found in the whole of the Bible are from Jehovah to those who have left Him without a cause. Jer. ii. 19.</p> -<p class="pn">Hear how He argues with such: (Jer. xi. 19.) +<p class="pn">Hear how He argues with such: (Jer. ii. 19.) “Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know, therefore, and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and @@ -3546,7 +3545,7 @@ forgot the God who brought them out of Egypt, and who led them through the desert into the promised land. In their prosperity they forget Him and turned away. The Lord had told them what would happen. (Deut. xxviii.) And see what did happen. The king -who make light of the word of God was taken captive by +who made light of the word of God was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, and his children brought up in front of him and every one slain: his eyes were put out of his head; and he was bound in fetters of brass and cast into a dungeon in Babylon. (2 @@ -3604,7 +3603,7 @@ Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord (He puts words into your mouth): say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips . . . I will heal their -backsliding, I will love them freely, for Mine auger is turned +backsliding, I will love them freely, for Mine anger is turned away from him.” Just observe that, Turn! <i>Turn!!</i> T<span class="sc">urn</span>!!! rings all through these passages.</p> @@ -3648,7 +3647,7 @@ and do the first works: or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” I want to guard you against a mistake which some people make with regard to “doing the first works.” Many think that they -are to have the same experience over again, That has kept +are to have the same experience over again. That has kept thousands for months without peace; because they have been waiting for a renewal of their first experience. You will never have the same experience as when you first came to the Lord. God @@ -3703,7 +3702,7 @@ to the outer world will be his daily life and conversation. Some people talk of how humble they are; but if they have true humility there will be no necessity for them to publish it. It is not needful. A lighthouse does not have a drum beaten or a -trumpet-blown in order to proclaim the proximity of a lighthouse: +trumpet blown in order to proclaim the proximity of a lighthouse: it is its own witness. And so if we have the true light in us it will show itself. It is not those who make the most noise who have the most piety. There is a brook, or a little “burn” as the @@ -3725,7 +3724,7 @@ offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended.” (Matt. xxvi. 23.) “James and John, and the others, may leave You; but You can count on me!” But the Lord warned him: “I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt -thrice deny that thou knowest Me.” (Luke xxii. 24.)</p> +thrice deny that thou knowest Me.” (Luke xxii. 34.)</p> <p class="pn">Though the Lord rebuked him, Peter said he was ready to follow Him to death. That boasting is too often a forerunner of downfall. Let us walk humbly and softly. We have a @@ -3803,6 +3802,6 @@ backslider.</p> thousand times more used for His glory than they ever were before.</p> -<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30449 ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 8492 ***</div> </body> </html> |