"If you do your part as well as I do mine, you’ll be all right,” I was the careless remark of a man
in a hotel lately, as to the matter of salvation. But how stands this matter, when brought to the
test of God’s holy word?

Have you ever learned what your part is in the matter of your salvation? According to God’s
testimony, that business as well as the judgment of all men, is committed unto the Son of God
alone. He bears the name of Saviour by divine right, and that, reader, does not mean helping us
to save ourselves. No, he cannot give His glory to another, nor can He divide this glory with you,
the Creator with the creature, the Redeemer with the redeemed, the Saviour of lost sinners with
the sinners that a lost need Him to save them.

But do you say, what! is there nothing to do in order to be saved? No, reader, for the work that
saves has already been done. The work that saves the soul was too great for any creature to do;
the archangel Michael could not do it, and therefore you, nor any other, plainly could not do it
either.

The work that saves has been done by the only One in heaven or earth competent to do it, and to
add to it on the part of any creature, is to insult Him who did it. "When He had by Himself
purged our sins, He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Heb. l).

Because no creature ever could do it, and the only One in heaven or earth that could do it, has
done it, God now offers salvation on the only terms that we could ever have it on viz., that He
gives it and we take it.

Then if we understand the matter aright, reader, your only part in this divine matter was the sins
that made you need it, and now the repentance that owns your need of it, and the faith that takes
it as God’s free gift because we need it, and yet cannot buy it, could not pay for it, cannot earn or
deserve it, but blessed be God, can receive it now, and to our eternal blessing. Reader! do your
part then, now, and,

"Take with rejoicing from Jesus at once,
The life everlasting He gives;
And know with assurance thou never canst die,
Since Jesus thy righteousness lives."