...margin here, Matt, xvii, 2 : Mark ix, 2. Ver. 34, 35. It is declared, here, by an Apostle of Christ, that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. But some will say, ' It is impossible for those who Lave not the Gospel to work righteousness...

...who were all nnder the gracious dispensation which St. Heter describes in these words, " In EVEÍIV NATION he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." — 4. If, because St. Paul decries the absolute ceremonies of Moses's law, it follows that the taonil...

...the Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." " In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." But the difficulty is, that, widely extended as the gates of salvation are, and simple as is the entrance,...

...also ; that he is " rich in mercy to all that call upon him," according to the light they have ; and that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." 4. But to return. This is the nature of that love, whereof the apostle is here speaking. But what are...

...Light, which coming into the world, lighteth every man" (John i: 9). We are assured with St. Peter that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him" (Acts x: 35). How can Christianity be the universal religion unless it recognizes, with St....

...no respecter of persons ; and, as St. Peter learned with such difficulty two thousand years later, that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.1 IV All this for the older children, the high school or college boys and girls. For children of...

...children of wrath." We are naturally from beneath. What St. Peter says indeed is not to be forgotten, that in every nation "he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." But that is no more than to say that God may have other ways of dispensing His grace than...

...made him heir, seeking to be at home with the powers above him, to which he was akin. And in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. But do I quite mean what I say, when I call religion a family matter, a matter between child and Father?...

...can not believe God will be so hard a master as to reject him. Nay, the Apostle declares expressly that in every nation "he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." We are judged according to our light and opportunities. God accepts us according to that we have and not...

...Christianity" , . . ) which 1 pause to answer, as I am led to believe, from reason, what is set forth in Scripture, that "In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him," in whatever form of worship he may have been taught to glorify God. Nevertheless I presume...