Today God is being denied on every hand. We are in the rapids, soon the falls will be reached, and what then? We beseech you, reader, we entreat you by all that you hold dear, to believe the Gospel of the grace of God. It is your only hope. It is still “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth” (Rom 1:1616For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16)). The Gospel is the only power that can deliver from the thraldom of sin. Millions have tried it and have found that it works. Many a drunkard, many a debauchee, aye, many a Christless religionist, has found out that this mighty power resides in the Gospel.
A relative of the writer, who is interested in a home for inebriate women, testified that over a long stretch of years it was seen that only one power could really deliver the victim of drink. The pledge was tried, expensive drugs, change of environment, strengthening of will-power and self-respect, and they found that all these things were insufficient, that only one thing sufficed to meet the power of sin, and that was the Gospel of God; only one Person, the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary’s cross, could enter the strong man’s house and spoil his goods.
Reader, if unsaved, you need this Gospel badly. You cannot live aright without it. and you cannot die aright without it, and you cannot arrive at heaven without it.
If you are in earnest the following verses of Scripture will suffice to show you how you may be saved, and saved now and know it now.
Light obeyed increaseth Light;
Light rejected bringeth Night.
Who shall give me power to choose
If the love of Light I lose?