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Halifax: S. F, Huestis PRICE 1 CENT EACH ; 10 CT8. PER DOZ. ; 60 CT8. PER 100. <, [O^J ^ TO BECOME ACHILd OF GOD: ite these pages for three different persons le Christian. 2. The neglecter. 3. The Ir. !• Are'you now a Christian? ;mber then, that the Lord designs to use |n winning others. Have you ever won dy for Christ ? Have you sought to do Having found Christ, follow the example idrew and Philip ; tell it, and invite others, [God will bless you and make you a bless- [ohn i* 4C-46). [rust this tract may help you in directing rs, and also confirm you in the faith. re jou still Neglectiiig to Beceire Christ! \tt be possible^ after all the Lord has done >u, that you are not yet a Chri&tian, and still Hng to decide to become one ? me ask, '* Do you ever intend to be a [tian ? " You answer, " K?j." Will you be- rou sleep, seek to receive Christ P Da you "/ am not decided yet!^ Will you say this ^ CHILD erent persons : icter. 3. The Istian? designs to use you ever won I sought to do vthe example I invite others, :e you a bless- u in directing e faith. seiye ChristI lord has done l&tian, and still ? itend to be a Will you be- :ist ? ba you 11 you say this 8 to the Lord ? Imagine you saying, ** Lord^ ' is my purpose to accej/ft Thee ^some time^ but i dof^t intend to do so just nowP I know you would not say that. Let me assure you, that if you to-night rise from your knees without deciding to seek to receive Christ, or if you do not even " say your prayers," but treat the Lord with silent con- tempt, as Christ reads your heart, He hears you say to Him, ^^ I am for the present resolved not to receive TheeJ* Holy Spirit impress Uiis thought. Now as you would not say this to the Lord with your ItpSy will you continue to say it to Him with your heart ? Why will you longer delay ? Jesus loves you* He died for you. " How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" Hark, he calls you ! Sleep not, till you can say, ** Lord, I will, I do accept Thee now." 8. Are you desirous of becoming a Christian { I want particularly, to speak to you. If you will read aloud it will help you to make what I say personal. The passage of Scripture that I have found to help more sincere inquirers than any other I have used, is where the Lord says : ^^As many as received Him^ to them gave He power to be- come the children of God^ even to them that be- Iteve on His Name (John i. 12, R.V.). It would satisfy you to know that you are His child. How may you know this ? Look at the verse already quoted, and you will see that it is by receiving Cnrist as your present, personal Saviour from sin. How is this to be done ? There is no hindrance on the part of Christ, and there need be no hindrance with you. The only place that there can be a hindrance is in your Faith or your Will. Do you believe that Christ is aMedcoA willing to save you now? If so, there is no hindrance in your faith. Are you willing now to accept Christ as your Saviour from sin "^^ It is in the will where the hindrance usually lies. The impenitent are unwilling. Do you say, " I am willing } " Then there is no hindrance in your will^ and there being no hindrance in your faith, there Cannot be a hindrance any place else* I know the mistake you will be sure to make : you will try to feel that Christ is your Saviour before you receive Him. I did this, and ninety- nine out of a hundred do the same thing. Do you ask, " Is there no feeling about it, and will I not know when I am saved .? " Yes, you will feel and know when you receive Christy but not before. I feel that I have this tes- tament which I hold in my hand, in fact I know I have it ; but you do not feel that you have it, and you would not try to do so before you I \ 5 it, receive it. Now, just as you cannot feel and know that the book is yours before you receive it, so you cannot feel and know that Christ is your Saviour before you receive Him. There is one way to feel that the book is yours, namely, by receiving it ; so there is but One way to feel that Christ is your Sayionr, that is, by receiving Him. To try to feel that He is your Saviour bcfoio you receive Him, is as if I offered you the book, and, instead of re- ceiving it, you begin and continue to look in your hands and try to see and feel it there. You would not think of doing this. So do not for another moment try to feel that Christ is your Saviour before you receive Him. In a Western town, while thus speaking to Lawyer R — « he said, '* I see now that I have been making this mistake for the last ten years." I replied, " You might for the next ten years try to feel that you have this testament, but you cannot unless you receive it, so you might for the next twenty y^^x^ try to feel that Jesus is your Saviour, but Ton cannot Ibefore you receire Him." He answered, "Certainly I cannot." "But you can receive Him, can you not ?" " Yes, I believe I can." " Do you ? " He paused for a moment. 6 and then said, "I do now receive Him, I believe His Word, I am the child of God at last." I want to say with gratitude to God, that hun- dreds of others of all ages and characters, have received Christ, and so become the children of God, as I have, in homes and stores, on the street and in meetings, by the help of the Spirit, been thus explaining and enforcing the teach- ings of this verse. What, then, is to hinder you from being saved ? Remember, you cannot feel that Christ is your Saviour before you recqive Him, but you can receive Him. Do you now? Pause here a moment Now, as you think, not of self and feelings, but of Christ and His gracious promise, from the heart say, "I am willing to receive Thee ; I believe Thou art able and willing to save me now ; I willingly, trustingly receive Thee as my present Sav?our." Do you now receive Him ? If so, in view of the assurance of the Word of God, that those who receive Him are given the privilege of be- coming the children of God, Wonld it be Presumption, or too.Ynuch ifor you, confidently to say, ** I am the child of God?" Do you say, " 1 hope I am," or " I would like to say I am," or "It seems too much for me to say that I am?" If you receive Christy any IS such answer is dishonoring to God, as it im- plies a doubt of the truth of His Word. Do not be thinking about the experience you have imagined or heard others speak about. The transformation differs with persons ac- cording to their previous life and character. You cannot be saved from swearing, drink- ing, scepticism, or bitter enmity against God and the good, unless you have been guilty of these sins. With some who have been what people call " great sinners," it necessarily involves a great transformation, or change of heart and life, but with others the change is, certainly, not so marked, though just as real. At Belleville, one who had lived a pure, moral life, and had just received Christ, but hesitated to claim her privilege as a child of God, said, ^^I thought there would be a great change." I replied, "Is it not a great change to have the pardon and peace of God, and be changed from a servant of Satan to a child of God?" She answered, "It is indeed a great change, but I had been overlooking that." Remember, the great thing necessary foi you is to receive Christ as your Saviour^ and know the relationship of a child of God, and then* any other necessary change of heart and life will be affected. ^^11 ^eeins too much to claim. 99 So said a lady to me in Winnipeg. Believing that she was trusting the Lord^ but doubting herself^ I asked, " Is it too much to claim that you are Mrs. W. .?" With a smile, she replied, '* Certainly not." I said, **What right have you to claim that you are the wife of Mr. W. .^ Is it not (i) be- cause you know you received him ; (2) he said, * I take thee,' and you believed him, and (3) that you accepted as true when the minister, in the name of the Trinity, pronounced you man and wife. Now Jesus says concerning His own, * Ye are the bride, I am the Bridegroom.' You say that (i) you know you receive Christ as your Saviour ; then (2) He replies, ' I will in no wise cast out,* ' I will receive you j ' and (3) the inspired Word of God assures you, ' As many as received Him, to them gave He power, or privilege, to become the children of God.' Have you any more reason to believe, 01 right to call yourself Mrs. W. than you have to say, without a doubt, that you are the child of God, or, in other words, that you are a Christian?" Her face lighted up, as she replied, '* I do not know that I have» I wish I had heard it put that way twenty years ago, but I see it clearly now. I believe I am His child." Many church members and new converts, by this comparison, have been helped into clear out I waj sai( did light. Are you in a similar position to this lady? See that the grounds of your assurance are the consciousness of receiving Christ, and the sure Word oi God, Do you say, " I cannot tell the time when I received Christ." Do not think of that. The great question for you to cbnsider is, not when did I receive Christy but» do I trust Him now as my Saviour. If you know you da, claim your adoption as a child of God, and let it be known ; but if you have not hitherto received Him, you may do so now. How is it with you ? If you have not received Him, do not wait for any special meeting, or to still further spe^ to any person, biit now, as you sit or kneel, think of Christ and of receiving Him, and say from the heart: "I am willing to receive Christ as my Saviour. / cb now receive Him. I stand on promised ground, and so believing the word of the Lord, it would be presumptuous for me to doubt, I cannot doubt, but with full assurance o^ faith, though unworthy, by grace I claim I am the child of Cod/' Now, do not expect to hold this position with- lout your faith being assailed. Christ, as a man, was tempted to doubt His own divinity^ as Satan jsaid, " If Thou be the Son of God," etc. How lid He meet the temptation? He answered, I ' 10 " It is written," etc. Thus He met Satan's lie with God's truth, and thus Vanquished the tempter. So, when you may be tempted to doubt your adoption as a child of God, do not confound the temptation to doubt with doubt, but resist it with the sure Word of God, as you say, "It is written, *as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the children of God.' I know I receive Him, I believe His Word, I am His child." REMEMBER, this is a covenant you make with the Lord to be His for ever. Let no thought of an experiment for a few weeks or ' months enter your mind, but resolve, " God help- ing me^ this covenant shall be for time and eter- nity." If you ever do or say what you see to be , wrong, remember the covenant, ask forgiveness, take a fresh start, seek more grace ; so shall you be "Kept by the power of God through faith unto Sahatioii." * Your sincere Friend, H. T. CROSSLEY. St. Thomas, Ont., November Wthf 1891. : glHIHIillil|ll|ll|ll||||l|||||:i|ll|li9ii|ii|i|l||H|HIHIIIMIIIIII|ll|H|ll|lAuiNIII|IIIU|tllHIUII||lilll|.llUMIUIg 5 lie your ithe with itten, 5 He .' I I am make et no ks or 'help- eter- to be eness, shall I nnto >LEY. i S h 2 Z Z ID > < H t s u ft o to a o ^ o Q a u s =2 •5 !> c^ Si r^ ^ m ^ o J as o I 6 £^ u Q c tt a V J o o • •o O 2 M *' q .^ M t-A c c o ti <- C (A 8 ^ c o bo c c o > c I (A Z^ § s I d i . "? i ^T i ^ i id St •»< S o s • ^ (A 8 9 1 (A .M 9 •« « i S g 1 SiMiiiM«uiiiiiiMiiuiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii«iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitaittiniitiiiiHitiintt^ giiiiiilfiiiiniiiriiiininitiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiHiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu ,1 Remember 9 i I I WHAT CHRIST IS ABLE TO DO FOR YOU. I i 1. He is able to answer yonr prayers t | ** Unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above 1 all that we ask or tliink.'* — £ph. 3. 20. '| 2. He is able to fully save yont | " He is able also to save them to the nttermost that 1 I come unto God by Him." — Heb. 7. 25. 1 I 3. He is able to strengthen you when tempted t | I " For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is | I able to succor them that are tempted." — Heb. 2. 18. | I 4. He is able to hold yon np and establish you : I I *' He shall be holden up : for God is able to make him f I stand/*— Rom. 14. 4. | I 5. He is able to keep you to the end t § I '*I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I § 9 have committed unto Him against that day." — 2 Tim. i. 12. f I 6. He is able to make you a successful worker: | i ''God is able to make all grace abound^toward you, that 1 I ye . • • may abound to every good work." — 2 CoR. 9. 8. | I 7« He is able to brins: you to heaven s | I "Unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to ^ I present you faultless before the presence of His glory with | ^ exceeding joy."— Jude 24. -Tfiii«i!irii;i|: •ii|iiii iiiiiiiiiii'iiiii>i'iiiiiiiiiiitiit>ii'iii'|iiii'i'!iitiiiiiiiiiiniii|iiiiiiiriiiiiiiii|i:iiiii