's teaching about election. "This is the Father's
will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should
lose _nothing_; but should raise it up again at the last day." He
will do his work, you may depend upon it. Then in the next verse we
read: "And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that _every one_
which seeth the Son, and _believeth_ on Him, may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him up at the last day." That is the part I
am to take: and when I have done so I shall know the Father's will
concerning me.

Mr. M.--What do you mean by the New Birth?

Mr. R.--I judge it by what I know of the Old Birth. I was born of
human parents into the human family; so I belong to Adam's race by
nature and by generation, and I inherit Adam's sin and curse
accordingly. The new birth is from my union by faith with the second
Adam; but this is by _grace_, not nature: and when I receive the
Lord Jesus Christ I am born of God--not by generation, but by
regeneration. As I am united to the first Adam by nature and
generation, so I am united by faith through grace and regeneration
to the second Adam, and inherit all His fullness accordingly.

Mr. M.--What is the meaning of being "saved by the Blood?"

Mr. R.--A gentleman asked me that in the inquiry-room; "What do you
mean by the shed Blood?" It is the poured-out life of the Son of God
forfeited as the atonement for sinners' sins.

Mr. M.--Is it available now?

Mr. R.--Yes; as much as ever it was.

Mr. M.--You mean it is just as powerful to-day as it was eighteen
hundred years ago when He shed it?

Mr. R.--If the blood of Abel cried out for vengeance against his
slayer, how much more does the blood of Christ cry out for pardon
for all who plead it! "It cleanseth (present tense) from all sin."

Mr. M.--How do you get faith?

Mr. R.--By hearing God's Word. "Faith cometh by hearing; and hearing
by the Word of God."

Mr. M.--How do you get the Holy Ghost?

Mr. R.--In the same way as you get faith. The Holy Ghost uses the
Word as the chariot by which He enters the believer's soul. The
Gospel is called "the ministration of the Spirit."

Mr. M.--Is the Word of God addressed to all here?

Mr. R.--"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to
the Churches" (Rev. iii 22).

Mr. M.--What is the Gospel?

Mr. R.--"Good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."
If our Gospel, proclaiming life, pardon, and peace, is not as
applicable for sa