CHAPTER XH 



HOW CAN A CHILD BE SAVED ? 



SOME years ago the writer was attending a preach- 

 ers ' meeting in a Western city. The popular pas- 

 tor of the largest Church in the city came into 

 the room just as some brother was announcing 

 with great confidence the opinion that no one 

 could get into the Kingdom of God, or get to 

 heaven, without being converted. Our friend 

 heard the statement, and as he swung into his 

 seat, called out, "That 's my sentiment." The 

 discussion drifted on for half an hour, and then 

 this pastor arose, very subdued, and said with 

 much feeling that he had lost two children some 

 years before, and he always thought that they 

 had gone to heaven. "But if what is said here 

 to-day be true, then I do not know where they 

 have gone." This seemed to put a new face on 

 the matter. If conversion is the only door that 

 admits people to heaven, then only those who 

 can exercise personal faith in Jesus Christ can be 

 saved. The question is not so serious in regard 

 to those who live to mature years and have the 

 chance of complying with the conditions admitting 

 to conversion. But it was formerly said that one- 



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