To the Editor of the *"Nogrü-CHixa Dairy News"
Sm,—Your correspondent Chuo Kuna says, "If you really want to how wae Jehovah is, you wil totally different for without which no man shall See the they shall and "holiness,
Lord." Here is a principle which I should love to carry {0 its logical conclusion.
I cannot claim for myself either holiness or purity of heart, and, for that matter, who is there who can? There has been but one solitary person im the whole of history who ould publicly ask the question, Which of you convince th re of sin?"—a challenge which after many centuries remains unanswered and will Fémain so throughout the eternal ages. Of those who lived sufficiently near to Him to know, one could say, "in Him is no sin," while another declares that he "did no sin." Purthermore there are millions of. people on this earth today who would readily admit that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to them stands for holiness and purity. This being ihe case, we must needs listen to what He has to say on the subject before us.
Let us, for example, listen to him in prayer to his God—Holy Ground indeed, CmAo Kuno, and hear Him saying, "And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" Lei it be noted that in these words the Lord Jesus mot only presumes an intimate pêrsonal knowledge of a personal God, Whom He addresses as "Father" but He couples his own name with the Deity on terms of absolute equality and also claims for certain others the privilege of enjoying like precious intimacy with the Father. If we would know who these favoured persons are we need not seek far, for it is made perfectly clear in the same prayer that these are the disciples who trusted and followed Him in His days on this earth, and, glorious thought, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their This last utterance embraces millions who have chosen simple trust in Him who is Lord of the Universe, rather than be deceived either by "philosophy arid vain deceit, "science falsely so called" and all these not only know the one true God but they know that they know him, Do not imagine, Chuo KUNG, that because you are blind and in darkness that everyone else is in the same case. Jesus Christ offered His pure and spotless life upon the cross Xo put away the sin of mankind and (o bring ren {o a personal knowledge of the one true God, a knowledge that He' alone merited by "His unsullied holiness but which He has purchased for others by His vicarious sacrifice. That {herê will be some who will (refer to remain in darkness is solemnly declared when He said, "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light be-Cause their deeds were evil"
I feel that I ought not to close this letter without two quotations from Saint Paul, the man who knew, "Whom he had believed" "Becaüse that which may be known God is manifest in them; for God wath shewed it unto them. For the visible things of Him from. the Creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things even His eternal and Godhead; so that they are without excuse," and "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from: heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction fróm the presence of the Lord-and from the glory of his power." x
HAMARTLOS.
Shanghai, Oct. 7.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.