you. Still, you
say, you are getting on. Well, so you are; but bear in mind, you are
getting on as fast as you can to hell, and there is not one man in ten
thousand who can hope to be saved after he has grown so hard-hearted.

Oh, my friends, say I will arise to-day! Let there be joy in heaven
to-day over your return. We read in Luke xv., "There is joy in heaven
over one sinner that repenteth." May many return now, and live.

I am lost, and yet I know,
Earth can never heal my woe
I will rise at once and go,
Jesus died for me.

THE RIGHT KIND OF FAITH

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"--Acts xvi. 30.

I do not know of any more important truth to bring out than the answer
to this question, because that is the beginning of everything with
regard to the divine life. A man must know he is saved before there is
any peace, or joy, or comfort. The answer to the question is, "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved"; and the question
that comes right after that from almost every one is, "What is it to
believe?" I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; I believe
that He came into the world to save sinners. Well, and so do the
devils. The devils not only believe, but they tremble. I can believe
intellectually that Jesus Christ is able and willing to save, and yet
be as far from the kingdom of God as any man who never heard about
Jesus Christ. To believe that He can and is willing to save you, won't
save you. I will now take up the word "faith," which means believing.

THE BIBLE DEFINITION OF FAITH.

People say, "What is faith?" Now the Bible definition of faith is
perhaps as good as any one that we know of. We are told in Hebrews
xi., "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen." Now faith is--what? The substance, or, as you have
it in the margin, "ground" or "confidence." In other words, faith is
dependence upon the veracity of another. Why, all business is carried
on on this principle of faith. Let men lose confidence one in another,
and see how quick business could cease here in London. Let men
withdraw their confidence, and see what would take place in the
commercial world to-morrow. It was faith that brought you here. If you
had not faith to believe that there would be a meeting in this hall,
you would not have come. Somebody said there are three things about
faith--knowledge, assent, and laying hold, and it is the last clause
that is