r is calling.

I'll take another word. I have been speaking of "receive"; the next
word I want your attention to is,

TRUSTING.

Many get hold of that when they cannot get hold of "believe" or
"receive." You all know what it is to trust. If it were not for trust,
there would be a terrible commotion in this building to-night.

If you could not trust that the roof was firmly put up, you would get
out pretty quick; and if you could not trust these chairs to support
you, how long would you sit on them? Why, you wouldn't have come here
at all if you didn't trust our word that there would be an address.
Now, it is just the same trust that God wants. It is no miraculous
trust or faith, but just the same kind, only the object is different.
Instead of trusting in these earthly things, or in an arm of flesh,
you are asked to trust in the Son of God.

THE DUBLIN MERCHANT.

In Dublin I was speaking to a lady in the inquiry-room, when I noticed
a gentleman walking up and down before the door. I went forward and
said, "Are you a Christian?" He was very angry, and turned on his heel
and left me. The following Sunday night I was preaching about
"receiving," and I put the question, "Who'll receive Him now?" That
young man was present, and the question sank into his heart. The next
day he called upon me--he was a merchant in that city--and said, "Do
you remember me?" "No, I don't." "Do you remember the young man who
answered you so roughly the other night?" "Yes, I do." "Well, I've
come to tell you I am saved." "How did it happen?" "Why, I was
listening to your sermon last night, and when you asked, 'Who'll
receive Him now?' God put it into my heart to say, 'I will'; and He
has opened my eyes to see His Son now." I don't know why thousands
should not do that here to-night. If you are ever to be saved, why not
now?

But another point you must remember--

SALVATION IS A FREE GIFT,

and it is a free gift _for us_. Can you buy it? It is a free gift,
presented to "whosoever." Suppose I were to say, I will give this
Bible to "whosoever"; what have you got to do? Why, nothing but take
it. But a man comes forward, and says, "I'd like that Bible very
much." "Well, didn't I say 'whosoever'?" "Yes; but I'd like to have
you say my name." "Well, here it is." Still he keeps eyeing the Bible,
and saying, "I'd like to have that Bible; but I'd like to give you
something for it. I don't like to take it for nothing." "Well, I am
not here to se