SERMON PREACHED AT OPENING OF HOPE MISSION. 



'♦111' HEREFORE he is able to save them to 

 %-V the uttermost that come unto God by 

 him.** — Heb. 7:25. 



The word, save, has a concise and definite mean- 

 ing. It scnns to be eminently befitting that it 

 should be used in this connection. Whatever 

 imaginary failures the enemies of the Gospel of 

 Christ may attribute to the system of Christian- 

 ity, it remains for some one yet to prove that 

 Jesus Christ cannot save a man: and when we 

 use thf word save, we mean save in its broadest 

 and most absolute sense. Whenever the term 

 salvation is applied to any physical, mental, or 

 financial calamity, we understand that word in its 

 relation to those ideas. If a man is saved from 

 physical calamity, we mean that he is rescued 

 from the danger or environment that menaces 

 his life. If a man is saved from a mental calam- 

 ity, we mean that he is delivered from those 

 thoughts and those conditions of the mind that 

 are about to launch him into insanity, or some 

 other abnormal condition of the mind. When 

 a man is saved from financial rnin. we mean that 

 that man is delivered from the embarrassments of 



