I presume that we are perfectly agreed as to the Scriptural truth,—that our salvation in Christ Jesus is to be ascribed entirely to the Father’s electing love. We know that it was not our fallen, ruined, sin-corrupted will which chose Him, but His own boundless grace which chose us to life. In other words, we know that salvation is the result of God’s election, and we believe in the words of our Lord,—“No man can come to Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him.” But we have all probably felt, at some time or other, the difficulty of reconciling such a fact with the free offer of life to all. It is not unnatural that men should argue, that if the elect alone are saved, to them alone must the salvation be offered. I am not prepared to find any fault with the logical process which leads to this conclusion, for I fully admit that to my own mind the logic seems correct; but God’s eternal counsels rise high above all human logic, and there are deep mysteries in His infinite mind, which we finite thinkers are utterly unable to unravel. So it is in this instance. Our logic breaks down, but His Word stands fast; and that Word teaches us that God’s election does not neutralize the free offer, any more than the Godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ neutralized His Manhood. How it is we cannot explain, any more than we can the union of two natures in the one Person of our Blessed Saviour. But, thanks be to God, we find in Scripture the universal offer side by side with electing love; so that, accepting Scripture as we find it, we learn that election does not narrow the breadth of the offer, or take away its universality. It does not blot out the “whosoever” from the words of our Saviour. It does not contract the glad tidings; but it leaves the Gospel perfectly open to every man, without qualification, without limitation, and without the necessity of any evidence of election to precede a trust in the Lord Jesus for pardon, life, and immortality. * * * * *