"But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."--Heb. 11: 6.

AITH, and how to get it, is one of the questions of the day. When we make faith a condition of salvation it is because God has made it so. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." "Without faith it is impossible to please Him." Faith, abstractly considered, is conviction, or credit given to testimony, or, in other words, the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another; for faith and the Bible are to the Christian what a light and a compass are to the mariner. Without the compass and light to see the direction to which the needle points, the mariner can not know how to guide the vessel.

      We come to the subject of faith, and the first question that arises is, What is faith? Faith, as described by the apostle, is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

      You certainly can at once get the definition that is thus given in the Book of God. Books have been written upon the subject, preachers have preached about it, persons have been told what it is again and again from a theological standpoint, just as though the Book of God was silent respecting the great question of faith and what it is. So we take up our Bible as its own interpreter, and find that God does make it plain. And when we come to the question, in the next place, of how to get faith, we are compelled to go to the Bible again, and we turn to the tenth chapter of Romans and the seventeenth verse, and we read, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God "--just as nicely explained as it is possible [11] given to us in the word of God in order to have a Christian faith. And so faith is based upon the testimony that we have, and every man's faith must be measured in accordance with the testimony that he has examined, and so far as he is capable of examining evidence and deciding the question. You take a jury in a court, and you know that the jury is to decide the question as the testimony is produced. They listen to the testimony, and listening to this testimony they decide the case afterwards, and, of course, have their faith established by the testimony presented. When it comes to the religion of Jesus Christ we make the same plea; if you want faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, you must have the testimony that will produce that faith. You can't get faith in Jesus Christ simply by praying for it. You can't any more get faith by praying for faith than you can get muscle by praying for muscle. I don't object to your praying, in accordance with the Word of God, for anything and everything that God Almighty has promised; but faith is not something promised for which we are required to pray, and we haven't anything in the Word of God to give us an example to pray God to have faith in the Son of the living God.

      If faith is a direct gift from God, and a man is damned for not believing, and God does not give you faith, then no one in the universe is to blame for not having faith except God. We want God to stand out clear, and stand out in all His attributes, so you may understand Him and understand the conditions of salvation. Then faith is not something that you and I can get simply by praying for it.

      Before we leave this question I want to explain one passage, because it is so often quoted by people, honestly, too, to give the idea that we are to pray for an increase of faith, and so they say to me: "Didn't the disciples pray, 'Lord increase our faith?'" Yes, they did. "Didn't they believe what they were praying for?" I believe they did. "Well, then, did [12] Jesus increase their faith? I don't know whether He did or not; it does not say that He did. But when we understand the circumstances we will know how they happened to ask the Lord to increase their faith. You remember that Jesus taught His disciples that if a brother trespass against you and ask your forgiveness, you are to forgive him. "If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day says 'I repent,' you must forgive him," says Jesus. Seven times in a day! When the disciples heard that it stirred them up wonderfully. To illustrate that, here is Brother Hall: he sins against me this morning before breakfast, does a wrong, and then says, "I'm sorry, Brother Updike; I'm sorry; I repent; forgive me." I say, "Yes, I will forgive you." A little while after breakfast he sins against me again, does me a wrong, and then says, "I'm sorry, Updike; I'm sorry; I repent." And I forgive him. Then the third time, along about dinner time, he does another mean trick, and then turns to me and says, "Updike, I want you to forgive me; I repent." That is the third time, at dinner time. And then four times before I go to bed that same night he does some awfully mean thing, and repents every time, and every time I must forgive him. So I say, "Lord, increase my faith in Hall." The disciples did not say, "Lord, increase our faith in you, increase our faith in the Bible or in the conditions of salvation," or anything of that kind; but "increase our faith in that fellow that treated us that way." I tell you we need to pray for that kind of faith, for I don't know how else we will get it.

      No place in the Bible are we told to pray for God give us faith. It is not there. We get the wrong idea sometimes of the conditions of salvation. Might just as well ask God to be baptized, or make you be baptized, as to ask Him to give you faith. It is the same principle. Faith comes from the investigation of testimony, and we examine the evidences and measure your faith, as we have stated, in accordance [13] with that; and when you have examined the evidences of the Word of God you find how the Bible is written. We read here in John, the twentieth chapter and the thirtieth and thirty-first verses: "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples which are not written in this Book, but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name." Here we have the declaration of what we are to believe. We are to believe that Jesus is the Christ. "These are written that ye might believe;" and the thing for you and me to do is to go to the Book of God and find out the evidences, and when we have the testimony, as given in the the Word of God, then to believe that testimony, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. That is faith--faith in Christ, not faith in some theory; and yet, my friends, that has very much to do with us so far as theory is concerned. If a man's faith is wrong, his theory will be wrong. If his theory is wrong, his practice is wrong; and if his practice is wrong, he is ruined at last. So it is a fearful thing for a man to make a mistake in regard to faith.

      Believing in Christ is the thing required of us, commanded of Christ; and after he has given such an abundance of testimony respecting the divinity of the Son of God, are you and I still to look up to God and say, "Lord give me faith"? It just simply implies that you think God lies. If you ask God to give you faith after he has given you all this evidence, you simply imply that God has not told all the truth. For instance, I should say something to my brother here, and after I had related everything, all the facts, he turns around and says, "Is that so? Oh, help me to believe that, Updike! Help me to believe that." It simply implies that he thinks I am lying, doesn't it? So after God has given us so much testimony respecting the divinity of his Son Jesus Christ, then for us to get on our knees and say, "Lord, help me to believe that you are telling the truth!" Now, the simplest thing [14] in the world is just to believe the testimony as stated by the Spirit of the living God and the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when people understand what faith is, and how to get it, don't you know they are going to quit acting as they do oftentimes, respecting this great question, and there will be a coming to the Lord Jesus Christ such as our country has never known before--getting out of the dark and into the light; walking away from darkness and doubt and despair, and coming to the light and life of God and of Christ, and having something for which we can give a reason, standing upon it, and so upon the promises of God, saying, "I believe." For "he that believes not shall be damned." First, he must hear the gospel, and second, he must believe the gospel--the sinner must.

      And is there very much difference between faith and belief? We have the words faith and belief in this text used interchangeably, and they mean one and the same thing. We have "He that cometh to God must believe that he is," and we have in the same text, "Without faith it is impossible to please him." So, then, we say that faith is the same as belief. Why, of course. The idea of asking for faith to believe! Did you ever hear tell of the like? "Lord, give me faith to believe!" Just as much sense in saying, Lord, help me to walk down to the tabernacle afoot! Faith is belief, belief of testimony. It is that, and belief is faith, or else it would be inconsistent. If faith is greater than belief then people can be saved without belief, for Christ says, "He that believes and is baptized shall be saved." And then he turns round and says, "Without faith it is impossible to please him." Paul said when preaching, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." All the way through the Book of God we find that the words "faith" and "belief" are to be used in the same sense--believing in Christ in the sense of accepting all the conditions of salvation, and trusting in him and his merit for salvation. That's what we understand by "genuine saving faith." [15]

      So when we take up our Bible we find the illustration of faith so simple. First the nobleman. Do you remember how the nobleman came to Jesus, and when he told Jesus he was not worthy that he should come under his roof, Jesus answered and said, "Thy son liveth," and the nobleman believed the words of Jesus, and his son lived from that hour; began to get well from that point of time, through the faith of that nobleman? When we come to the building of the ark, Noah built the ark by "faith." We have the word occurring some twenty-four times in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. "And Noah built the ark by faith." Do you think he drove the nails by faith, and that all the work that was done upon the ark was simply done by faith? No, but he believed that God would destroy the earth with the flood; he believed that he must obey God if he would be saved, and he went to work and built the ark out of the wood that God told him to build it out of, and showed his faith by his works. "By faith Abraham sojourned in a strange country," and hence Abraham showed his faith by doing what God commanded him to do, without asking any questions, and that, indeed, is about the sum of it. A little girl in Sunday School was asked "What is faith?" And she said, "Believing what God says without asking any questions," and I think that is about the simplest definition in the world. Take God at his word! That is the short of it, without asking any questions about it, and the little girl's idea is certainly very simple. Believe what God says without asking any questions; that is accepting by faith, and then doing what God commands us to do, and that's the thing. Take God at his word and show your faith by doing just what God tells you to do. Take the colored preacher's definition of it. He was preaching, and he said: "To illustrate, suppose there is a stone wall fifteen feet high and ten feet thick, and suppose the Lord says to me, 'Sam, jump through that wall.' It is my business to jump, and let the Lord make the hole." It is his business to jump, and let the Lord take care of the rest. That is faith; believing what God [16] says, and showing that you believe it by doing just what God commands you to do; that is what we call "saving faith." Faith that saves is the faith that does what God requires. That is saving faith; I don't believe in any other kind as far as I am concerned; I don't preach any kind but a living, saving faith. A living faith is that faith that works by love.

      We have here in the second chapter of James, you know (some of you know, and some of you possibly do not know)--I want to read a little of it here to-night: "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." Individuals may have faith; but if they have not works, after all that faith is of no consequence. "Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe and tremble." The devil has faith, and if man is saved by faith alone, the devil would stand a good chance, would he not? Suppose now some one says, if the devil should happen to be in this congregation, and he should come forward here and I would ask him. the question, "Do you believe with all your heart that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God?" the devil would say, "Yes, I believe it," and I say to the devil, "Do you believe with all your heart that Christ died to save you?"

      No, he didn't!" Don't you see that the devil never can believe that Christ died for him, for he never did; he died for man, God bless you! I have that faith in Christ to-night that He is able to save me, but the devil cannot believe that; he would not accept of the gospel upon the terms of the gospel, because it is for men and women, Adam's race. "You see how by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." (Jas. 2: 24.) No man can be justified by faith only in accordance with God's word, "Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out by another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." That is the reason why I urge [17] immediate obedience on your part, to believe in Christ and show your faith in Him by obedience to Him; that's what we want, and that's what we call "saving faith;" that's what the Bible teaches is saving faith, and we want you to have the faith that saves.

      You take up the Testament, and all the way through you have illustrations. Take the case of that poor woman who was a Gentile, who said to her friends about her, "I am going to Jesus to see if he can help me any." She heard of Jesus first, and from what she heard she had faith in Jesus. She had spent all of her living with doctors; she had sacrificed everything in the world; she may have been living with her son-in-law, a widow. But I imagine that one morning this woman, having heard of Jesus, and that he was coming through that part of the country, said to her daughter or her friends, whoever they may have been, "I am going to see that great Physician; I am going!" And they said to her, "Why, mother, you have spent all your living now with these doctors; why will you trouble yourself any more? you had better make up your mind to die as you are." But the woman said, "It can not harm me to go, and it may do me good;

It is a grand thing to have the resolution. She puts on her sun-bonnet, and she starts out tying her apron as she goes. She gets to the crowd; the crowd is pressing about him, and she never says a word to a soul about her, but pushes first one aside and then another. Some men see her coming, and they say, "Give way to that poor old woman." She keeps crowding, and the nearer she gets to him the more she trembles, and yet her faith seems to be strengthened, and by and by she gets close enough that she can touch the hem of his garment. She says to herself, in her own heart, "If I but touch the hem of his garment I shall be made whole." Isn't that faith in the virtue of the Son of God? She raises her hand; tremblingly she touches the hem of his garment; and immediately she is made whole. And [18] Jesus, feeling the virtue going out of him, turns about and asks, "Who touched me?" and the disciples wonder that he asks that, because so many are crowding about him; and the women tremblingly confessed it. What faith! Jesus was her benefactor. She was healed by faith, but not faith without works. She acted, acted as best as she could, and received the blessing.

      The blind man hears Jesus' voice; he desires his sight, and he cries out, "Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me." And Jesus says, "Bring him to me." The blind man is brought. "What wilt thou that I shouldst do to thee?" "Lord, that I might receive my sight!" He received his sight.

      Here comes another blind man, and he wants his sight. Jesus says to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam." And he immediately obeyed the command and went to the pool of Siloam, and he washed in the pool. He was made whole by faith. Do you believe he would have received his sight if he had not complied with the conditions? He never could have received his sight if he had not washed.

      Naaman, the leper, is required to wash himself seven times in the Jordan. Do you believe he would have been healed of this leprosy if he had not obeyed? Never! He must meet the requirements.

      So far as the feelings are concerned, faith and feeling, I want to say to you to-night that all the good feeling that you have on the great question of religion is the result of what you believe. You may believe a lie and feel good over it, just as well as to believe the truth and feel bad over it. It is the thing we believe that makes us feel good. If I could make you believe that you could be saved without obeying God, would not you feel just as good as a man who believes that he would have to obey God? I want to say to you that feelings are very deceptive sometimes. Poor old Jacob believed with all his heart that Joseph was dead; he believed it, and wept and was sorrowful for years. By and by the news came to him that Joseph was yet [19] alive, and the old gentleman's faith was changed, and oh, what joy! He had felt bad all these years because he believed a lie all the time. It made him feel bad because he believed a lie. When he received the evidence that his son was alive, didn't Jacob feel good? He wanted to go and see his boy right away. During the late war I remember how the feelings of certain persons were reversed. In the north west county of the State of Ohio, the news came after a certain battle that a certain man was killed in the battle, and time passed on, and the people finally settled that they should have a funeral service at home; he was a member of the church commonly called the Church of God, and the preacher of that church was called to preach the funeral sermon, and the sermon was like most of those preached during the war, especially for those who were killed on the battle field. All the arrangements were made and the believed widow (I don't know how else to put it--the women thought she was a widow) and the children thought they were fatherless, and all the friends gathered together for the services, and don't you think that while the services were going on the man that they were having the funeral for came in! Now how do you think they felt? Would not that change the feelings wonderfully? They felt very bad when the news came that he was dead and that he could not be accounted for, and so settled in the conviction that he was not alive. You know they believed it sufficiently strong to have funeral services, but it proved to be a mistake, and how good they felt when they found out they had believed a lie. Felt bad when they believed one side of the story, felt good when they found out their mistake. So, my friends, a man may believe a lie and feel bad, and may believe the truth and feel glad, or believe a lie and feel glad, believe the truth and feel bad.

      Feeling is the result of what we believe. To illustrate again In the year '76 I was conducting a series of meetings in Findlay, Ohio, during the Hayes and Tilden campaign. We were having grand meetings. I [20] was going down the street next day after the election, and a large crowd was gathered around the telegraph office clear out into the middle of the main street, and I heard them hallooing with all their might; and as I came farther down the main street toward the crowd there was a man coming up the middle of the street who had on a white plug hat, and he was hallooing at the top of his voice. He would throw his white plug hat up into the air as high as he could throw it, and when it would come down he would kick it. When I came up to him I saw the tears were rolling down his cheeks, and he was yelling "Hurrah for Hayes! Hurrah for Hayes!" And the Republicans were hallooing for Hayes until they were hoarse, and you know they hallooed for Hayes, and they cried over it, and it made me feel like crying. Just think of the effect it would have on me, as peculiar as I am, to hear them rejoicing. It made me feel good. I had to push through the crowd to keep from hallooing too. I went on into North Findlay, and returned an hour or two after, and when I returned the board was changed, don't you think! They had received a dispatch that it was a mistake, and that Hayes was not elected, and that Tilden was, and the Republicans' faces were as long as government mules, and the Democrats were yelling and hallooing with all their might and power. It made me feel like hallooing on that side. So it went. You remember what a time they had in deciding that question in regard to who was President, and you remember the news would make the Republicans feel good when the news came to them that Hayes was elected and they believed it. And it made the Democrats feel good when the news came that Tilden was elected. So one would feel good awhile, and then the other, and they kept feeling good that way for a long time--good, bad, up and down. It reminded me a good deal of some people's religion, sometimes up and sometimes down; sometimes feeling good, and sometimes their faith fails, and they get to doubting, and they feel bad.

      Faith is the entire safety. You let a wife lose faith [21] in her husband, and that wife can not be happy. It is impossible to be happy without faith in her companion. So we have it in the religion of Jesus Christ. You talk about your feelings. I feel as good as anybody, but I don't believe that I am saved just because I feel like it. I don't believe it and I don't preach it. You may believe a lie, and if the lie suits you, and it is a good lie, you feel just as much that way as though it was true. So the news might come to me to-night that my house was burned and part of my family burned up in it. Suppose a despatch was brought me now that my family was killed, and I take up that dispatch and I read it. Do you suppose I would continue the sermon? Not if I believed the dispatch. They say my house is all burned down and my family burned up in it! That dispatch would certainly take me to my home in the East as soon as a train could take me there. I should go toward that family, or where they say they were destroyed. I am going along, and the more I think about it the worse I feel. Oh, how badly I feel! When I near the city where I live I meet a friend who is a neighbor, and that man asks me what the trouble is, and I tell him the news I have received. He says, "Why, it is a mistake. I just came from your house this morning; your house is all right and your family is all right: somebody has made a mistake and sent that dispatch just to deceive you, to see what the effect would be." I believed the dispatch in the first place, and that made me feel very badly; and now I don't know how good I do feel. You see the reverse. A man who has been there telling me he knows it is a lie; that my home is all right and my family safe and sound. Oh, how good I feel! Now, I haven't been home yet, you know. It is all a matter of faith. I believed a lie one time, and the other is the truth; I believed a lie and felt bad, and I believe the truth and feel good. Suppose the truth had been bad news and the lie had been good news? Well, right the reverse. You see that feelings are the result of what people believe, whether it's in religion or anything else. [22]

      I have had people say to me, "When you were preaching I had such peculiar feelings come over me; I felt the chills running over me; I felt like I ought to act right away; I could hardly wait till you quit preaching, I wanted so to confess my faith in Christ. What made me feel that way? "Because you believed what I preached." Turn to the tenth chapter of Romans, and you will find: "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is to bring Christ down froni above.)" Don't pray for Christ to come down from above to save you. He has come once. He has died upon the cross. He has gone back to heaven, and he is going to stay there until he comes the second time. So we are not to ask Jesus to come down and save us. We have the gospel, the Word of God, that we are to receive in our hearts, believe with our minds, and confess with our mouths.

      My name, they say, is "Updike." I believe it. I don't say "I'm Updike" because I feel so. You come around and ask me my name, and I say, "My name is Updike." "How do you know it?" "Oh, I feel like it!" No, that don't make me Updike because I feel that way. There isn't any feeling about it. It is a matter of fact that I am. It matters not how much I may dislike the name, or dislike to be what I am. I am, I am, I am! I can't help it, and it is in accordance with the law. So in regard to this matter of Christianity. You are a Christian when you have obeyed that law that brings you into the family of God, where the heart is purified by faith. So in Acts, the fifteenth chapter and ninth verse, God says, "And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith." It is that which purifies the heart, and I know, as I have stated before, from the Word of God that I am a child of God, and that settles the question. [23]

      You ask me, "Are you a mason?" and I say, "I am." "Well, how do you know you are a mason?" "I feel like one." How do I know how any other mason in the world feels! I don't know whether I am or not, from that? "Are you married?" another asks. "I am." "How do you know?" "I feel like it." Feel like you're married! Talk about such nonsense. A man being a conductor on a railroad because he feels like it! A man being a railroad engineer because he feels like it. There isn't any profession, there isn't anything that you can belong to, that you are simply that because you feel like it. A man a school-teacher because he feels like one. "Are you a lawyer? "Yes." "How do you know you are?" "Oh, well, I feel like it." It isn't reasonable.

      What is it that is peculiar to Christianity to make it the only thing in all the world that a person would know about simply from his feelings, when the Bible doesn't say a single word about how a man should feel in order to know he is a child of God? It is as plain as A, B, C. It tells what faith is, and how to get it. it tells us how to act. It tells all about that. It settles the entire question. There can not be any trouble in regard to the joy that comes from faith in God. There is joy in it. That is genuine joy which comes from genuine faith, faith that is built upon the Word of God. That is the only faith that can be genuine; therefore it is important that you and I examine the faith we have. If my faith be wrong, my acts will be wrong, my conscience will be wrong, and I am liable to be lost at last. How is your faith? No wonder that Jesus asks the question, "Will I find faith upon the earth?" Does he say a word about feeling good? No. "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near." "Turn away with all your heart from your sins," because God commands it and God is the only hope and only Saviour of a lost and ruined world.

      My brother, the question comes to-night to every man and woman here, "Have you faith in the Son of [24] the living God?" Do you believe, and believe with all your heart, upon the testimony of the Holy Scripture, that Jesus is the Christ, and the Son of the living God? and are you willing to accept of him upon the easy and equitable terms of the gospel? The effect of faith in any truth of importance which concerns us will excite motion and produce action. This is a general rule. We have it all the way through. We look for people to act in accordance with their faith, and the reason why more people are not acting to-day is because they have not faith. The reason generally that more people have not faith is because of a wrong idea in regard to what Christianity is, and what faith is, and how to get faith; that is the greatest difficulty. A gentleman down in Bowling Green, Ohio, took hold of my arm one night after I had been preaching, and said, "Updike, I do wish the Lord would get hold of me." "What do you want him to do with you?" "I want him to convert me. I want him to knock me down like he did Saul." I said, "Do you he would go to so much trouble to bother with such a little thing as you are? He wanted God to stop all his business to knock him down! Why, no, God does not do that. After saying this to call his attention to the foolish remark he had made, knowing he was sincere, I said, "Why do you want him to knock you down?" "Because he knocked Saul down." "Do you understand that God Almighty knocked Saul of Tarsus down to convert him?" "Why, didn't he?" "How do you know that God knocked Saul down at all?" "Why, I have heard it preached." "Yes, but you have heard a good many things preached that did not occur. God never knocked Saul of Tarsus down." "Yes, he did." "Well, he didn't, now!" "Well, how was Saul converted?" "Well, the light shone round about him and he fell to the ground." "Oh, yes, he fell?" "Oh, yes, and if you would believe the Word of God as you ought, you would fall too; but you don't believe it. The light is shining, but it does not feaze you. Saul fell, and after [25] he fell he said, 'Lord, what, wilt thou have me to do?' He has faith in the Lord now." And when I explained the matter to that man he became a Christian and entered into the Christian life.

      The people are waiting to have some, mysterious, miraculous visitation from somewhere that will so control them that they can not help themselves, and that will convert them even against their own will. God will never do that. If you become a Christian at all it will be by your first hearing the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then by believing the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, by repenting sincerely of all your sins and transgressions, by confessing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and by obeying in baptism, which brings you into the church of the living God, the condition which makes you the heir of God and joint-heir with Jesus Christ, thus bringing you into God's family. The heart is changed by faith, and the conduct is changed by repentance, and the relation is changed by baptism when we enter into the church of the living God.

      We have the "Word of God" as a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path." Will you believe the Word of God? Will you believe it? Some time ago when I went home to Cleveland, Ohio (I had been gone out through the West here quite a while, and I went home unexpectedly), and as I came up the street and came in the driveway and into the gate, I found my little boy there playing, and I hid behind one of the large trees growing on either side of the driveway in the yard. And as I hid there I called out, "Fay!" And you ought to have seen him look up and say, "Papa!" He knew the voice. "Papa, where are you? I said, "I am here, my boy," and as soon as I looked to one side he saw me. How he rushed with outstretched arms! So if it were not for the Son of the living God, who came from the shining courts of the eternal world to teach us of the Father and reach out his arms to receive poor wayward sinners; and if it were not that we could by faith go [26] to his outstretched arms, we would be lost and ruined indeed. Cry out, and He will receive you with open arms, and save you forever! Young man, don't wander and stagger on in doubt and despair. Give up all your doubts! Have genuine faith in God, and heaven will be your eternal home.

      May God move upon you to-night and act upon your hearts, and bring you to Jesus as your only hope and Saviour. Don't hesitate! [27]

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