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the commercial world. I see no reason why the 

 term, saved, should not be applied scripturally to 

 the subjects to which the Scriptures refer, the 

 same as when it relates to man physically, men- 

 tally, or financially. 



The calamity that menaces the human family, 

 and the environments, state and condition that 

 the Lord regards as undesirable, that surround 

 every man and every woman, is sin. Jesus 

 Christ may be an intelligencer: Jesus Christ may 

 be a reformer. Where His religion is received 

 and the theories He taught are practiced, it evi- 

 dently will produce a higher moral and social 

 condition. But the main feature of the religion 

 that Jesus Christ taught is that that religion 

 claims to be able to save its subjects from their 

 ;sins. Sin is a calamity. I fear the world looks 

 upon sin with too much complacency; yet it is a 

 fearful calamity. The whole world lies under 

 sin. The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is de- 

 signed to save the human family from that 

 ■calamity. We are not dealing with th« proba- 

 bility that God can do this through Jesus Christ. 

 We come to the Word of God, and we accept it 

 .as a fact that it can be done. And when we have 

 made this concession, we open the way for you 

 to bring in any sin that you may select, and allow 

 you to demonstrate the truthfulness, or the 

 fallacy of the words, "His name shall be called 



