Present-Day Evangelism

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...believing. If the dealing is particular and individuals deal with individuals, then make a free use of the Word of God, although of course this is not to be neglected in the general work. Such verses as John 5: 24, should be frequently used. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. And note especially in this verse Jesus states that if we believe on him we shall not come into judgment and we have the immediate possession of eternal life. The sixth chapter of John and the forty-seventh verse is also most useful, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. But perhaps there is nothing better than John 3: 16, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life. A distinguished minister told me that he lived when a child in a home, every member of the household being as he expressed it, a perfect battery of emotion. They insisted that he could only be saved in their way and he tried again and again without success to find Christ. At last he gave up in despair. One afternoon when a student he was sitting under a tree on the campus and he began to read this verse, in John the third chapter and the sixteenth verse, which Luther has called the gospel in a nut shell, and he said, Why this seems plain; 'for God so loved the world, ' then he must have loved me for I am part of it; 'that whosoever believeth/ that is a plain statement, and certainly does not pass me by for I am one of that company. If therefore this is his word and I accept it, then according to his ...