“I mean, deliverance from evil tendencies, thoughts, habits, purposes, and all of their long train of results. This is a _perfect_ salvation. It can be only partially enjoyed in this world, at best; it will require the grace, light and wisdom of eternity to perfect the work. It may be commenced here, but cannot be consummated in this lower world. And this is what the New Testament means by salvation. ‘Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their _sins_.’ Matt. i. 21. ‘Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the _sin_ of the world.’ John i. 28. ‘Unto you first, God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning every one of you from his _iniquities_.’ Acts iii. 25. ‘There shall come out of Zion the deliverer, who shall turn away _ungodliness_ from Jacob; for this is the covenant unto them, when I shall take away their _sins_.’ Rom. xi. 27. ‘There is no _condemnation_ to them that are in Christ Jesus.’ Rom. viii. 1. ‘Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all _iniquity_, and purify unto himself a people zealous of good works.’ Titus ii. 14. ‘Because the creature [meaning mankind] shall be delivered from the _bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty_ of the children of God.’ Rom. viii. 21. These scriptures clearly teach what is gospel salvation. The recipients of it are liberated from the bondage of sin and error; the ‘chains of darkness’ are broken, and they enjoy a glorious liberty, a glorious deliveration, a glorious salvation.” “True, that is salvation; but the Bible also speaks of salvation from _hell_.” “The only passage in the Bible where deliverance from hell is spoken of reads thus:--‘For great is thy mercy towards me; and thou hast _delivered my soul from the lowest hell_.’ Psalms lxvi. 13. Here is hell, the _lowest hell_, and the writer speaks of salvation from it; but this hell is on earth, and the deliverance is a _present_ deliverance. David had sinned, and he expressed his sins and their consequences by the term, hell; but he repented, reformed, obtained forgiveness, and was delivered from the lowest hell into which he had been plunged. And it was the mission of Jesus to save the world from just such a hell, and from no other.” “But the Bible speaks of salvation from hell in the future world--an endless hell.”