Say not then, O sinner, “I have not the power to believe, repent and obey the Gospel.”  You have the power.  God is giving you now, this very moment, all the power you need to reach hither your hand and take the gift of his grace.  He has already opened your eyes to see the light of his truth; and were I to say to you this night that you are too dead to feel your duty; too blind to see the path; and too grossly ignorant to know your right hand from your left hand in spiritual things, you would feel yourself grossly insulted by me.  But I do not say so; I do not believe so; and in this connection—­and I beg you to think seriously upon it, to read the Bible and pray over it—­I must repeat the language of Jeremiah:  “What wilt thou SAY, when he shall punish thee?”

SUNDAY, November 1.  Meeting and love feast at Bowman’s meetinghouse.  This was Brother Kline’s last meeting with the Tennessee Brethren on this visit among them.  I must extend the outlines of his discourse as it was his last among them for some years.

A Short Discourse by Elder John Kline.

    TEXT.—­He died for all, that they which live should no longer live
    unto themselves, but unto him, who, for their sakes, died and rose
    again.

This was Christ.  Our natural feelings and desires are selfish.  Jesus has given us the clearest example of unselfish love the universe has ever witnessed.  “For God commendeth his love to us”—­that is, he shows the exceeding greatness of it—­“in that, when we were enemies, Christ died for us.”  I do not believe that we ever, in this world, can fully understand the merits of our Savior’s life, death and resurrection.  Enough for us to know that he has opened a “new and living way” by which we may come back to our heavenly Father and be his children again.

Do you know that Adam was a son of God?  Luke calls him so.  But he, like Esau after him, sold his birthright, lost the divine image in which God had created him, and fell from his sonship.  But now we read:  “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not, with him also, freely give us all things?” The phrase, “all things,” as here used, includes a restoration to our former sonship with God.  We, as the children of God, are exhorted to follow in the steps of our blessed Lord.  This not only means that we are to shun evils and bear reproach, but it also means that we are not to live unto ourselves and for ourselves alone, but unto him and his people; for “He went about doing good.”

John says:  “We love him because he first loved us.”  We, who are here assembled in his name, can truthfully repeat this language.  But how do we prove to ourselves and the world that we DO love him?  It is by letting our light shine.  Men do not light a candle and put it under a bushel.  A city on a hill cannot be hid.  Brethren, I hope we have all made clean “the INSIDE of the cup and the platter;” for this is the only way in