NOTES OF AN ADDRESS TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
DID you ever think that you carry about with you a precious soul? God values it at such a high price that His dear Son could say, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
These are serious words, dear young friends, spoken seriously. Pray do not treat them lightly, but think over them, and may you not rest till you can say, "My soul is saved.”
Said one of old time, "O God,... my sins are not hid from Thee." Yes, God knows them, every oneשevery sin that you have committed, in thought, word, or deed. But David also said, "Hide Thy face from my sins." Can God, who is so holy, "of purer eyes than to behold evil," hide His face from the sinner's sins? Yes, because the blood of Jesus is of such value that He can look on that blood instead of our sins. God has before Him the great love of His Son in coming to this dark world of sin, and in suffering on Calvary for sins, in the sinner's stead; and those who act in obedience to His Word and believe on Him can say, "He (Jesus) bore my sins in His own body on the tree.”
“The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."
Rest not until you can sing, "Unto Him that loved us, and washed" (or loosed) "us from our sins in His own blood ... to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever."
This is the privileged language of every believer in Jesus. We can all rejoice in Him as our own personal Savior for time and all through the eternal ages. How blessed for those who thus know Him as their Deliverer from danger—that awful danger that is facing those who reject His love and despise His great salvation.
“Savior and Lord, I own
The riches of Thy grace,
For I can call Thy God my God,
Can bow before His face.”