We are a Salvation people. This is our specialty — getting saved and keeping saved, and then getting somebody else saved, and then getting saved ourselves more and more, until full salvation on earth makes the heaven within, which is finally perfected by the full salvation without, on the other side of the River.
We believe in Salvation! We believe in the old- fashioned salvation. Ours is just the same salvation taught in the Bible, proclaimed by Prophets and Apostles, preached by Luther and Wesley and Whitefield, sealed by the blood of martyrs — the very same salvation which was purchased by the sufferings and agony and Blood of the Son of God.
We believe the world needs it; this and this alone will set the world right. We want no other nostrum, nothing new. We are on the track of the old Apostles. The worst man that ever walked will go to Heaven if he obtains it, and the best man that ever lived will go to Hell if he misses it.
There is a Hell! A Hell as dark and terrible as is the description given of it by the lips of Jesus Christ, the Truthful. And into that Hell men are departing hour by hour.
Perhaps the most appalling aspect of mankind is its bondage. How devils and devilish habits rule it, and oh, what an iron yoke. Can these captives, be delivered? Saved from sinning, saved into holy living, and triumphant dying?
Ask the Salvationist, and the answer will be both from theory and experience, that the vilest and worst can be saved to the uttermost, for all things are possible to him that believeth. Our Redeemer is mighty to save.
We have salvation. We need it, and we have it. There are think-so Christians, and there are hope-so Christians, and there are know-so Christians; thank God we belong to the know-so people — we know we are saved. And we know in whom we have believed, and the Spirit answers to our faith, and testifies in our hearts that we are the children of God.
Our work is salvation. Soul saving is our avocation, the great purpose of our lives.
What is the business of your life? Not merely to make yourself ready for Paradise. Rescue the perishing. There are all around you everywhere, crowds upon crowds, multitudes. Be skilful. Be self-sacrificing. Remember the Master. What you lose for His sake, and for the sake of the poor souls for whom He died, you shall find again. Stick to it. Having put your hand to the salvation plough don’t look behind you.
”How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?” Hebrews 2:3
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