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I have not now to ask for one, or wish I had a ticket; I have it— that is a certainty. Just so; also, I have salvation. I do not hoi)e I may be saved ; I have not to ask now to be saved — ^I have salvation. Through God's unspeakable mercy I am saved." The young man looked with astonish- ment, and said, " Well, this is verv strange; I could have got to Birmingham for about half the fare by the other line ; but, somehow. I could not book that way. ^^ hi Something said I must come by this train, and I felt I must get into this eaiTiage. Now, I'll tell you: there k a man works in the same shop with me, and he says the same thing you say. Ho says he has eternal life; and, mind you, he not only says so, but everything he does shows he has. Bless you ! he has no fear of death at all ; and when he has any trouble, this having eternal life makes him so quiet and happy that I cannot help feeling that he has got something that I have not, do you see ? And no matter how we chaif him at the shop, we cannot touch him, for he has eternal life. He tells us he has found eternal life bv reading; and believing the Bible. For myself, I must tell you, I used to read Tom Paine and Voltaire ; but, somehow, when I got reading at niixht I said, ' Tom Paine, thou canst not nve mo eternal life;' and I felt so miser- h able J banged the book on the floor," r ^ 3 As he said these words, he suited the words by action, with gi'eat earnestnesh, and then, j^utting his hand in his bide pocket, he brought out a beautiful edi- tion of a pocket Bible, and said, *' I have now irot the book that makes known eternal life, but I cannot say that I have eternal life. 1 want to feel that I have it." I said to him, '^When the ck>rk laid your ticket on the window board, this mornin«:, did you say I must tirst FEET, that T have it before I take it, or did you first take it, and then feel that you had it?" ^' Oh," he said, -^^I see how simj^le it is. I must first receive salvation, and then I sliall feel that I have it." 1 dare say many a reader of this papej' has the very same difficulty that this person had. Instead of believing the Word of God, in His glad tidings of pardon and life througli Jesus Christ, you look and look within, wishful to find some unknown amount of feelings, in which you may rest, or, at least, on which you may base a hope of being saved. Thus you stand at the window, waiting for feeling, and all the w^hile refusing the grace of Grod, Now, what do you want to feel ? " Why,'^ perhaps you say '' I must feel very sorrj^ for my sins, and I must feel that I have forsaken them, and I must feel that now^ I love God. I have often tried to feel all this; but I have always failed. And yet I must feel all this before I can be saved—must I not ?" No, my friend, if these feel- ings were God^s conditions of salvation, not one soul would be saved. Now, let us look in the New Testament, and see, I cannot fiud one place Avhere it says. If you feel sony for your sins you shali! be saved. The answer to the jailer's question, ^' What must I do to be saved ?" w^as not, ^^Ee or feel sorry for thy siias, and thou shalt bo ' aved/^ Nothing of il the kind. They pointed him to a very dif- ferent object than himself or hiw feelings -~even to Jesus. They said, '' Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved »^' And that same hour ^^ He rejoic- ed, believing in God with all his house. ^^ (Acts xvi). On another occasion, (Acts viii.), as Philip preached Jesus to the Eunuch, and set forth the great sacri- fice for sins, the Eunuch said, '' See, here is Avater; what doth hinder me to be baptized?" Did he reply, ^^f thou feeU est sufficiently sorry for thy sins ?'^ Was this the condition? Were his feelings needed to add to the atoning value of the blood of Jesus? Oh, no. Kothing but faith was needed to connect him with Jesus, or to warrant his showing forth that connection in death and resur- rection, by baptism* ^' If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest ; and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God/' He was at 6 once baptized, and he wcnL on liis way REJOICING.'^ The apostle Paul does not say, ^' The gospel which I preach unto you, ^by which also ye ai*e saved/ was that you should feel this or that.'' No, he says, " How that Christ died for our sins ac- cording to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he i^ose again the third day, according to the Scriptures,'' (1 Cor. XV. 1-4). Now, my reader, if there were no barriers then to exclude the sinner fi'oni Christ, why should you put your feelings now as a perpetual hindrance to your receiving Christ as your entire Saviour? Then Jesus and the resurrection was preached — never human feeling — never amendment, resolutions, or sorrow for sin, as conditions of God's free gift— ETERNAL LIFE. The gospel tinds man blind as to God's character of love, and morally dead in sin. It reveals God in the blessed Jesus. God is love. The cross — ah ! there the sinner sees the goodness of God. The infinite love of God — what a sight ! This, and this alone, leads to repentance, or, as the word in Greek always means, a change of mind. When Jesus, saving from the curse of sin by the death of the cross, is revealed to the soiil, there is then that change of mind toward God — that knowing God which is eternal life. Then there is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and then there is repentance to- wards God. It is only as I gaze on the cross of Jesus that I can either learn or feel what sin is. Blessed Jesus ! Thy precious blood both cleanseth me from the guilt, and delivers me from the power of sin ! If I look back at my feelings or my doings, all is failure and sin ; and hence, if these have ought to do with my salvation, all is darkness and uncertainty. But look- ing at the cross of Jesus, mv Lord, I find no failure. '' It is finished.'^ AVith all my coldness and unworthiness, and sin, I do believe, and hence I can say, I am saved. '' Ihe blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." My reader, if you have been brought to give up all dependence on self, your feelings, your sorrows, or your tears, then hear the words of Jesus. He says, '^ Verily, verilv, T sav unto you. He that hep.reth ^ 8 my word, and Lelievolh on Ilim that sent me, IIATll cverlastin<jj life, aiid SHALL NOT coire into condemnation; but is ])assed from douth unto life." Again, lie says, " My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give unto them eternal life;' and they shall never perish, neither shall any ])luck them out of my hand/' (John V. 24, X. 28.) Think of those words — ^^ eternal life," ^' hath everlasting life/' " shall never pciish," ^'neither shall any pluck them out of my hand." Is this youi* present and eternal por- tion ? Then can }'ou say, " Worthy is the Lamb;" and " 1 have eternal life." Do not rest satisfied with a mere hope of being saved. It will not do to tell the collector you hoj)e you have a ticket. The believer has i*edemption through the blood of Christ, and his hope is the coming of the Lord. C.S, •t/3 — Montreal Free Tr'vct Depot : Hart & Son, Printers, 230 St. JAHse StReiT. 42 THE MASTERV OF METALS if: ■ I m ; I nickel and other metals with astonishing gains in its best properties of toughness and strength. Hence the unending competition between shot and armour-plate, the one no sooner advancing to a new power of penetration than the other rises to a new resistance. Shot is now made capable of piercing 37 inches of wrought-iron, the point of the shot remaining intact, although the striking velocity is nearly 2800 feet a second. Certain nickel-steels studied by Guillaume seem to contravene all the rules one is accus- tomed to associate with metals or alloys : some of them do not expand with heat ; others contract with heat and expand with cold. The magnetic susceptibility of both iron and steel disappears on the addition of either manganese or palladium — a fact of high importance to men as far apart as the ship-builder and the watchmaker. When the dream of the aeronaut is fulfilled and he reigns in the sky at last, it will be largely through steel, or one of its compounds, providing him with a structure which unites the utmost tensile strength with the least possible weight. On its commercial side the expansion of the iron industry is one of the wonders of our era. A furnace at Pittsburg swallows 250 tons of ironstone at a single charge. From Lake Superior ports were shipped, in 1899, cargoes of iron ore amounting in the aggregate to 17,901,358 tons. The United States now leads the world in its production •of iron and .steel. In Alabama, rich veins of iron ore and of coal for its reduction lie so close together that three pounds of pig-iron were, in 1897, sold for one cent. " Startling as the statement may seem," says Sir William Roberts- Austen, " the destinies of England throughout the nineteenth century, and especially during the latter half of it, have been mainly influenced by the use of steel. Her steel rails seldom contain more than one-half per cent, of car- bon. Her ship-plates, on which her strength as a maritime power depends, contain less than half that amount. . . .