face, you can look at death in the face, exclaiming with good old Simeon, 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation' (Luke 2:29). May we through rich, free and sovereign grace, meet in Heaven, and unite in exclaiming, 'worthy is the Lamb, for he was slain for us' (Rev. 5:12)." "Until I saw the blood 'twas Hell my soul was fearing; And dark and dreary in my eyes the future was appearing, While conscience told its tale of sin And caused a weight of woe within. "But when I saw the blood, and looked at Him who shed it, My right to peace was seen at once, and I with transport read it, I found myself to God brought nigh And 'Victory' became my cry. "My joy was in the blood, the news of which had told me, That spotless as the lamb of God, my Father could behold me. And all my boast was in His name Through whom this great salvation came." IX ETERNAL LIFE THE PRESENT POSSESSION OF THE BELIEVER "Ye are not under the law."--Rom. 6:14. "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."--Gal. 3:26. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God."--1 John 5:1. "By grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any one should boast."--Eph. 2:8, 9 (1911 Bible and R. V.) "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."--John 3:36. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life."--John 5:24. "God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath the life."--1 John 5:11, 12. It is an awe-inspiring thought, a wonderful, blessed reality, that every real believer on the Lord Jesus has, here and now, _eternal life_, not simply the promise of it, but the eternal life itself. The human mind cannot fully take it in, that every man, the moment he is redeemed from the curse of the law (Gal. 3:13), redeemed from all iniquity (Titus 2:14), redeemed from under the law (Rom. 6:14), and adopted as a child of God (Gal. 4:4-7), has then and there _everlasting life_ (John 5:24), a new life that is never, never to end; a life that will outlast the stars; a life that he will be consciously enjoying when all the stars shall have burnt out. And yet when such a life is offered as a gift ("I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish,"--John 10:28) many men will not repent and accept the gift. Religious prejudice, pride, secret sin, love of the world,--for what puny trifles do men turn from the greatest of all gifts, the greatest of all blessings, eternal life! Reader, will you be among the number who make this foolish, this fatal mistake?