Produced by Tom Roch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE WAY OF SALVATION IN THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. BY REV. G.H. GERBERDING, A.M., PASTOR OF ST. MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, FARGO, DAKOTA. ____________ WRITTEN FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE. ____________ WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. M. RHODES, D.D. ____________ PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. ____________ ELEVENTH THOUSAND. REVISED AND IMPROVED LUTHERAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ____________ COPYRIGHTED, 1887, BY G.H. GERBERDING. ____________ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ____________ TO THE UNITED ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE FUTURE; JOINED TOGETHER IN THE BONDS OF ONE FAITH, ACTUATED BY ONE SPIRIT, WORKING HAND IN HAND AND HEART WITH HEART IN ONE GENERAL BODY, THIS BOOK IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR ____________ CONTENTS. ____________ PAGE INTRODUCTION ................................................... 9 PREFATORY SCRIPTURE PASSAGES ................................... 11 CHAPTER I. All are Sinners ................................................ 13 CHAPTER II. All that is Born of the Flesh must be Born of the Spirit ....... 19 CHAPTER III. The Present, a Dispensation of Means ........................... 26 CHAPTER IV. Baptism, a Divinely Instituted Means of Grace .................. 33 CHAPTER V. The Baptismal Covenant can be kept unbroken--Aim and Responsibility of Parents .................................... 41 CHAPTER VI. Home Influence and Training in their Relation to the Keeping of the Baptismal Covenant ....................................... 48 CHAPTER VII.